The word vitriol has appeared in 124 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 28 in “Soledad O’Brien’s Painted Hardwood Floors Spark Debate on a New Trend” by Ronda Kaysen:
Ms. O’Brien chronicled the progress on Twitter, gushing over every room. A handful of followers, however, balked at the cardinal sin of painting wood. “Congratulations. You just ruined a beautiful hardwood floor with a linoleum looking floor from the 1980s,” wrote one, punctuated with a slapped forehead emoji.
“What a waste of hardwood. Looks like a day care center now. The next owner is going to have a lot of work to fix that,” wrote another.
Ms. O’Brien was baffled by the random bursts of vitriol. “If it makes you unhappy or stressed then don’t come over,” she told me. “I’ll be on my painted floor and on my white couch watching TV and drinking wine with my girlfriends.”
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