>>>>Hopeless.
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>>>What is?
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>>I would never call you hopeless, because I know you're not, but Dragan had a point. What he meant, I think, in his typically emphatic way, was don't consider yourself and your sphere of experience to be universal. Dragan has been around the block a couple of times so when he says something, I listen. Don't be annoyed at him. He's just trying to get your attention. There is a good heart beating under the gruff exterior.
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>Dragan ain't got no heart - there's just a swinging brick! :-)

As in "thick as a..."?