User blog comment:Kefke Wren/Excuses, Excuses/@comment-7706473-20130615204350

Add another to the legendary 1-draft club. We slam down our tea, break our pens hustling words, and get that stuff done. Ooorah!

But more seriously - I've never understood this one. It's not as if people won't be making mistakes, whether it's their first pasta or their last (perish the thought). I think it's a sort of preventative armoring; people assuming the crowd won't like their work (which matters, why?), so they come pre-armed with a defense, so they don't need to actually work on it, which causes quality detorioration and people not to like their work, which... Etc etc, too many commas.

I don't think the idea itself is wrong - Flaky, I wouldn't worry about including - it's the way and how it is used by most people. Sort of like how I have no problem with drink, but most of the heavy drinkers I know have a modus operandi I'm not particularly fond of. Most people use the Excuse similarly - some people claim they need a drink in them to drive (?!) and other people claim that their first pasta prevents them from needing to take their time with it. Somehow.