• tetris11@feddit.uk
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    13 hours ago

    I asked that once to good colleague of mine because I was just so blown away by his attention to detail and ability to recall the smallest of facts at a drop of a hat.

    He went quiet, and I realised I’d goofed.

    I also once said “I need to rice this analysis” to an asian colleague of mine, without fully understanding what that word came from. Again, goofed.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 hours ago

      As an ASD and a wordnik, ricing is a form of food prep homogenization, reducing a lumpy medium to the consistency of rice or finer, e.g. potato ricing.

      Maybe I’m missing a key element.

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      Where in the world did rice this analysis come from? I have literally never heard that anywhere in the professional world or non-professional world. The only time I’ve heard the word rice being used in that instance is when they’re talking about Asian cars that are riced out example. I work in and out of a lot of professional places including laboratories and hospitals and I’ve never even heard a glimpse of that or anything.

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        5 hours ago

        I took it from “rice my config” to “yak-shaving my config” to “yak-shaving my analysis” to “rice my analysis”

        Essentially, I thought it meant “to finesse”. It instead means “form over function with racist undertones”. I am an idiot, yes