@stavvers Ooh, now I'm actually wondering about other kanji-like characters used in English! Off the top there's @ (at) and & (and) which are relatively commonly used in sentences as if they were the words they represent. Especially &.
@stavvers Very funny now I just have to inform you I opened this thread in need for context after reading your message and tried getting back to the first post, I was 16 then and am now retired, I never got to the first post
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@stavvers I read about a guy on a train talking real loud on his cellphone to his wife. Finally a woman nearby leaned close and said "Sweetheart, come back to bed."
Yes, I always have a few in my wallet for suitable occasions.
Help people on cellphones to shut up already
This is so long overdue it's crazy. The Society for HandHeld Hushing, aka Coudal.com, made up this PDF with special
notes you can print and hand out to...
@apicultor@stavvers my guess is it's something you put on your crotch if you have dysphoria about your bottom to make it look like there's something there. a transmasc thing. Feel like i've heard about them before
@stavvers reminds me of a joke: The six-year-old sits at dinner, grumpily speaking their first words ever: "Soup's cold." The family is thrilled: "OMG so you *can* talk? Why didn't you all the time??" - "Nothing to talk about."
@stavvers someone from Lower Bavaria once told this story to illustrate a certain tight-lipped grumpyness in their folk, so of course everybody actually speaks Bavarian. I guess if you can imagine that it will certainly add some flavour!
@stavvers True fact: Even though the text explicitly says that it's talking about an ad, it took me like two minutes to even notice that there was a banner there, let alone realize that it was relevant to the text.
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