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Sorry, English is not my native language. I know I sometimes sound strange because most of my use of the language is around the internet and at work, not that much casual "normal" conversation.

English is my native language and I have no idea what that person was talking about. Your post is fine.

I think that person was talking about having had 4 out of 5 squares in a line on their bingo card already, and stumbling across "baby+bathwater" earned them bingo. The card is metaphorical though... more of a mental buffer that just overflowed.

That makes more sense than my solution.

As far as I’m concerned the baby and the bath water is just a normal expression.

I thought it was something about the use of “confirm,” haha.

Mine too, and I think the post is fine also, but I have some idea of what that person was talking about. For a while, in some corporate environments, it was a recurring phenomenon to hear someone dismiss an urge to be cautious by saying "You're throwing out the baby with the bathwater."

So I can see where someone might count it toward buzzword bingo. But this post also offered an alternate solution when saying "baby+bathwater", so the bingo caller should refuse to score this one.

Your English is fine. That person was violating HN rules about snark (“Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.”)

Learned that rule the hard way. It’s crucial to the success of HN and I am grateful dang corrected me.

I don't see a rule where joking is prohibited. People sure love their buzzwords though. Must bring them a feeling of synergy in these unprecedented times :)

Glad that at least a few people above got the joke

Did I mention joking?

In your list of prohibited items? No. That's my point.

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