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  • Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

    "The joy of simply faffing around" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2008.