👉 Okay, letās tackle thisā¦
intriguing
little beast of a term ā frankly, I haven't personally inventoried it anywhere on my meticulously disorganized filing system (mostly just receipts and half-hoarded rubber ducks). So let's excavate the meaning of, you guessed it! 4Ā½, which I shall henceforth affectionately refer to as, for the sake of expedience, "hhs4.
What exactly is a hhs4? Now, there isnāt an officially-sanctioned governmental acronym for this, blessedly. Instead, in certainā¦ specialized circles (mostly involving late nights, obscure online forums and individuals who should probably have already retired to shuffleboards, that's what we see). 4Ā½ is a statistical measure of the residual, almost palpable... disappointment one feels after you realise you almost nailed something, but not quite. Itās the shadow of potential, the ghost of a good score, the lukewarm sip of regret after a perfectly acceptable, then ultimately underwhelming, experience. Here's how to unpack that, with my own generous estimations: 1) The original number is always 4Ā½. We round up if youāre feeling ambitious and down 0.5 if you are feeling very defeated. 2) It reflects the gap between a successful achievement and your actual outcome. Essentially, it's the quiet, awful awareness that you were on an upwards
