Your statement /was/ to the point. that doesn't make it not a platitude.
I don't want to talk about this any further. We have misunderstood one another to the point that this isn't productive.
You can put lipstick on a pig...
and a painting is just some oil with some impurities on a cotton backing.
The fact that words sometimes convey practical meaning does not preclude them from also being art.
> You can put lipstick on a pig...
Was this comment the spoken word in disguise? It sounded a little poetic to me.
I need to start a website called "The cold-hearted comments of HN".
