A request -

[MoonCat]

Could we please retire the expression "DIAF"?

Thank you.

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-regi...-says-20160219

[WishfulSpirit]

You prefer this: I don't see the wood chipper going anywhere.

[AnaKhouri]

The little girl is currently in My City receiving treatment. They interviewed her poor mother on the news, or tried to, she was a mess. I feel terrible for her and for her daughter.

[OneMoreTime]

I had trouble with the attachment. What is DIAF?

[MoonCat]

I had trouble with the attachment. What is DIAF?

Stands for "die in a fire."

It's an expression I never liked but I never said anything. The link is to a news story in my town. A man here died saving his family in a fire. He saved his fiancee, and two of their kids. His fiancee saved the third child, an 8 yr old girl who was burned over 90% of her body and has about a 20% chance of surviving. The little girl's father went back into the house to try to save another man who lived in the building. Both her father and the other resident died.

The father is being called a hero by many people here, and I couldn't agree more.

[Food Lady]

I never felt comfortable with that phrase in connection to a person. But I have used it in connection with an inanimate object. Still, it trivializes human life, even if we don't mean for that to happen. Someone pointed out the other day that using "crack" in that manner is unsavory, too, when you consider how hard it is for those abusing it to recover. (I sometimes joke about crack food--stuff that's "addictive". I'm stopping that.)

[OneMoreTime]

Thanks, now that I know what it means, I don't like it either

[Kristev]

May I suggest "DIAS" as in Die In A Snowstorm, or else, simply 13 (Death's number in the tarot.)

[MoonCat]

May I suggest "DIAS" as in Die In A Snowstorm, or else, simply 13 (Death's number in the tarot.)

We've had people die here in snowstorms. Had a few as recently as 2014.

I don't want to stop people from using every colorful expression there is. I guess I just don't like the "die" ones. But I understand that sometimes a person really needs to vent their rage.