There is a medical organization in the real world called "Phoenix House". Their line appears to be what used to be called drug and alcohol rehab. Apparently someone out there thinks that by naming a swanky hotel with booze on the room service menu after it, I was making some kind of cruel and derisive statement.

Hmm. Well, um, for the record, I wasn't. If I knew about the organization before, well, right now, it was long enough ago that it had slipped my mind entirely.

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Do people... NOT call it drug and alcohol rehabilitation anymore? Is there a different term now?

Also, I think you're in the clear on this one. If the Phoenix House had been, say, some sort of opium den, then it would be like "Yeaaahhhhh... maybe go back and change that." But, I mean, Phoenix imagery and use is pretty common, so...

(Having said that, 'Phoenix House' -would- have been a good name for whatever the Diqiu equivalent of the House of the Rising Sun is.)

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>Do people... NOT call it drug and alcohol rehabilitation anymore? Is
>there a different term now?

I believe the going jargon at the moment is "substance abuse and dependency treatment".

Anyway, I think it was the specific use of "House" that caused the issue. I suppose it probably does look deliberate from a certain point of view, though in the event, I was thinking of the now-obsolescent practice of naming grand hotels the Something House (Parker House, Porter House, et al.).

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Also, if you had made it just called The Phoenix, I would probably have made a reference to Peter Kay and then you would have been momentarily confused, and thereafter apathetic.

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In all honesty, I WORK with the Phoenix House Foundation occasionally, and didn't even make the connection. I think that it's a little...touchy...to accuse you of that.

>In all honesty, I WORK with the Phoenix House Foundation occasionally,
>and didn't even make the connection. I think that it's a
>little...touchy...to accuse you of that.

I don't believe it's an official communication (nor meant to seem like one). Just someone going "hey man, dick move."

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It's also the name of a REAL hotel in London, several Chinese restaurants, and a "punk house" in Olympia, WA.

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