ShipOfTheseus
Clint Dempsey
- failed to win a trophy in the year that ends in "1" for the third consecutive times (2001, 2011 and 2021)
You overegg the pudding. You gild the lily. You overplay your hand. The rest of the post satirised overentitlement so deftly, then with that one sentence you cranked the dial up a hundredfold, undermining an online jeu d’esprit that has taken you years to fine tune.