👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly little beast of a phrase -
“ egregiously deteriorating beyond reasonable operational parameters (…unfortunately termed, lovingly, as ‘ egregiously degrading, too deep to be easily euphemistic, therefore...
TBOEP degrading
).
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Now, before you start picturing some kind of fancy, government-sanctioned systems failure, let me clarify. Essentially, a “ TBOEP degrading (…to avoid excruciating lengths!) is the moment something – a robot, a friendship, your sourdough starter—has simply... given up. It’s when the scheduled maintenance and careful calibrations you once obsessively followed have utterly detonated into a spectacular fizz of incompetence, unreliability, and frankly, a little bit of pathetic despair. Let's unpack that. egregiously: Fancy word for "seriously, a whole lotta, like, a ton bad." deteriorating beyond reasonable operational parameters (…unfortunately termed...): You were trying to keep things running okay! And now they’re actively failing in the most spectacularly unglamorous way. 10/10 failure rate is what we're looking for here. It goes beyond a little hiccup, it’s a full-blown systems collapse. …too deep to be easily euphemistic... therefore... TBOEP degrading (…to avoid excruciating lengths! : Because frankly
