Sometimes the English language irritates the bejeesus out of me. But other times I have so much fun with its rich collection of colourful idioms (like '... the bejeesus out of ...')!

I just told someone I have too many irons in the fire (busy with too many things). I'm constantly telling people that I don't like to 'blow my own trumpet' (praise my own work), or as a more historically recent example, that an extreme approach to a situation is 'the nuclear option'.

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afaict this reeks of being potentially just gen-ai-slop, but if not then at the very least the machine-generated voiceover & non-disable-able onscreen transcript were an unending misery for me to endure. yet, despite that, much of this was simply hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eYjd3B-VMQ

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It's my understanding that there's a secretly powerful Russian swear word (or phrase) that translates roughly into "Hello, F-word" but is used as specific recognition of events that are only possible in a dark and arbitrary universe.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

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strayans who say

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Huh.
#TIL: Some other persons pet peeve is that it is »have another think coming« not »have another thing coming« (if you think this).

Oddly, i seem to have read over the »k« in not-»thing«-after-all a few times in some books.

Also, the graphs are somewhat interesting: The phrase became common only recently, and in British English »think« is still clearly ahead of »thing«.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=another+think+coming%2Canother+thing+coming&year_start=1900&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=false

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