We've all heard of "Herculean task" and "Sisyphean task," but today I found two new terms:
- Icarian task: When you have a task that you know you're going to fail at anyway, so you decide to have some fun with it before the tenuous wax of ideas holding it together melts and the whole mess crashes back to Earth.
- Cassandrean task: When you have to deal with people who you know won't listen to you, despite your having accurate information on and/or extensive experience in the matter, and then having to watch them fumble around after you told them the solution from the start.
Huh. Useful terms.
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