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iosagol · 6 months
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Honestly I don't know why I expected this from a distinctly London podcast, but when I listened to The Magnus Archives and heard a name that sounded like Jared Key I expected it to be spelled Jared Key, not the absolutely demonic canonical concoction that is Gerard Keay
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mataglap · 9 months
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I was today years old when I realized why police K9 units are called that way
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jhara-ivez · 5 months
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I like to read stuff in English and I've done it for years but up until now I just couldnt be arsed to look up what "gravy" is. At some point it even became quite fun to think about what it possibly could be.
It's feckin everywhere. All the time. Once food comes up you can bet the characters have gravy with it. So in my brain naturally it had to be something extremely extraordinary. But no! It's literally just sauce and that is somehow disappointing now that I know it.
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gundamthey17 · 1 year
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Has anyone ever heard the word squoze, or squozed? As in, a past tense of squeeze? I’ve never heard it before today, but I love it
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countesspetofi · 2 years
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In OFMD Episode 2, “A Damned Man,” Stede delivers the line, “I’m not sure what that has to do with the price of fish.” I was slightly surprised, since where I come from we say, “...with the price of beans,” or occasionally, “...with the price of rice.”
Once, I heard someone say, “...with the price of tea in China,” but at the time I assumed it was a deliberate portmanteau of “...with the price of [X]” and “I wouldn’t do [Y] for all the tea in China.” Now I’m not so sure.
So, imaginary Internet people, what commodity did you grow up not being sure what something had to do with the price of?
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Would you rather be torn asunder or cleft in twain?
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anxious-impala · 9 days
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Would the antonym of big fat Greek wedding be small skinny Turkish divorce and the synonym of big fat Greek wedding be enormous obese Macedonian nuptials 🤔
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appalachian-reptilian · 3 months
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Literature fun fact of the day:
Beatrice, despite being the great love and muse of Dante Alighieri, hardly knew Dante. The model for the titular character that spurred Dante through hell in his epic Dante's Inferno, met when he was nine. Dante claimed to have fallen in love immediately. At 12 he was engaged to Gemma Donati, they married when he was roughly 20 years old and had several children together. Beatrice however, only saw Dante at court.
*I love his writing, but could you imagine your husband's love letter (and condemnation of government and religion) to his emotional mistress becomes one of the single greatest pieces of literature, preserved for centuries and taught to newer generations. 😐🙃
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pickpocketwatch · 4 months
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English nursery rhymes are fucking wild sometimes.
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somnimagus · 2 months
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out of the frying pan and into the fire and into another frying pan that's also on fire
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hawyer-mota · 9 months
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If a number of ships is a fleet then one ship is a floot
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could only express this in green text format, bear with me
> be me
> in english class
> some guy delivers a meandering nihilistic monologue about how we're all just apes and our only purpose is reproducing, eating, dying and rotting (direct quote) that only vaguely pertains to the question he's being asked
> turn around to look at him
> see his laptop
> it's covered in southpark stickers
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5weekdays · 1 year
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one time i thought it would be funny to make a fakemon region based on a generic american suburb but i only got as far as american meowth
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this thing has me in stitches every time i look at it. i can never top this
🏳️‍⚧️ THIS POST HAS COME OUT AS TRANS! 🏳️‍⚧️
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rocktheholygrail · 6 months
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Princess Mononoke (1997) Hannibal (2013-2015)
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borzoilover69 · 6 months
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growing up is becoming increasingly interested in what the guardian counterparts of the kids says about them.
anyways im not a big fan of dave strider but alpha dave has me in a deathgrip
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amphibianaday · 6 months
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#uh just a heads up if you expand the tags to see all there's. a lot. very long#amphibian#frog#poison dart frog#based on my most popular frog to date (day 651)#inspired by everyone pointing out what they think it looks like#here's a fun secret fact the original guy is actually a phantasmal poison dart frog (Epipedobates tricolor)#(according to the original artists title of the drawing)#not Anthony's poison arrow frog (Epipedobates anthonyi)#i feel too awkward to really point it out though because they look the exact same. i cannot tell if there is a difference#im half convinced the same frog was just discovered and named twice#its very curious btw if you go on the (english) wikipedia page for either species it doesn't mention the other#while hereptiles.info (no idea if this is a trustworthy site) lists both names as common names for the same frog (incorrectly??)#while inaturalist lists them as two different frogs. curiously with tricolor having wayyyyy fewer photos#ok anyway that's my rant i went on a whole journey trying to figure out if these are the same frog or not and i have no answer#i did some more 'research' and i am more confused. some sources seem to imply they are now considered the same species ( e. tricolor)#i think my conclusion is i am willing to agree the drawing looks more like e. anthonyi. it seems like tricolor is generally less vibrant re#and the white is darker and more green?#i feel like thumblr should stop me from typing more in the tags at this point this is a whole essay#at this point i am failry convinced this is specifically the Santa Isabel frog. isthat the real subspecies or morph or whatever#or just the name pet sites are using to sell it??#i even found some sources (frog selling websites) refering to it as “Epipedobates Anthonyi 'Santa Isabel' Phantasmal Poison Dart Frog” lol#Anyways if you read this far hi. species are confusing. i am not a frog scientist#the first few tags are like an hour old now i just kept trying to figure it out and adding more tags
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