“Sic transit gloria” is Latin for “nice car, Gloria”
@lolennui I didn't know Gloria was sick
@lolennui Bullshit, it's "Great public transit infrastructure, Gloria"
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More expansive version is ‘Sic transit gloria mundi is Latin for “Don’t you hate commuting after the weekend, Gloria?”’
@lolennui Oh my god I laughed SO HARD at this. 😂
@lolennui thanks for my official First Actual Chortle here :)
@lolennui But "sic volvo" actually *is* Latin for "that's how I roll".

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Strictly speaking it means "Nice van Gloria"

Can I count that towards this month's manpslaining quota? I'm coming up short.

(For people not from UK, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Transit)

Ford Transit - Wikipedia

@alecthegeek @lolennui Your Latin is as bad as your knowledge of cars, it's obviously about someone's Nissan breaking down again. https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/HERITAGE/Cedric_Gloria.html
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I must have been sleeping in that classics class

@lolennui well... wouldn't it be more like "that's Gloria's ride"
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This is the kind of stuff they don't teach you in high school... but obviously should
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The birdman did send his automobile scrap into space to pollute it for eternity. Moon and Mars is already littered with abandoned space junk and it will get worse
@lolennui thank you but I assure you my car is a pos
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Caesar adsum iam forte / Brutus aderat / Caesar sic in omnibus Brutus sic inat
@lolennui Gloria Mundi has a great car
@lolennui I always heard "The van's broken, Gloria."