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Jinks Dec 12, 2022

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My wife and our best friend are attempting to assemble a cat wheel. This is not going well because the instructions are vague and the cats are helping. I have physical therapy at 7am tomorrow so I am exempt from the festivities. You cannot imagine how happy this makes me...

Jinks Dec 11, 2022

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Stan Carey Dec 11, 2022

Trooper, trucker, sailor, fishwife: What we swear like

New for @stronglang, with thanks to the many Mastodonians who helped with #translation:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2022/12/11/trooper-trucker-sailor-fishwife-what-we-swear-like-when-we-swear-like-a-something/

#swearing #language #languages #linguistics #etymology #CorpusLinguistics #sociolinguistics

Trooper, trucker, sailor, fishwife: What we swear like

The expressions swear like a trooper and swear like a sailor are so common as to be cliché. But why do we swear ‘like a trooper’ or ‘like a sailor’? And what else do we swear like, idiomatically, i…

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Jinks Dec 11, 2022

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Martha Crawford Dec 11, 2022

Have some actual imagination about people for whom technology is not a fluent language.

It took ALL MY skills to get INTO this space, days of trying to figure out how to verify my website.

I have legitimate limits & whole swaths of expertise that you don’t know anything about, & real reasons for my choices based on my gifts, limits, age, disabilities & values

I’m not spending the epilogue of my life learning to code, setting up my own server or any of that

Jinks Dec 11, 2022

NeoFox Dec 11, 2022

EDIT: Sorry for the edits. Have a nice day, wherever you are :)

DID YOU KNOW?
Fennec foxes are stackable, making them easy to store.

(btw, there are more cute fox imgs at @HourlyFoxes)

#fox #fact

Jinks Dec 11, 2022

Your pal Al 🪴📝Dec 5, 2022

Trans people just want to fucking live. You know what I'm saying? We want to have a safe home, we want to eat in a restaurant on occasion, we want to hang out with friends, we want to fall in love and be loved back. We want to have fun and dress up sometimes and stay at home on our couches sometimes and have a life that is fulfilling and in which we aren't constantly in fear of murder or harassment. This is not new and it's not radical and it's not harming you or anyone else to ask for it.

Jinks Dec 11, 2022

Over easy = liquid yolks.
Over medium = yolks the consistency of jelly.
Over hard = yolks like those of hard-boiled eggs.
It's not fucking rocket science.
Especially for someone who fries things for a living.
Thanks for attending my TED talk.

Jinks Dec 11, 2022

If I am ever served the over-medium eggs I've ordered, I shall ask to be escorted to the kitchen, where I will bow down to the line cook who made them and humbly beg to bear their children.

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Jinks Nov 26, 2022

That was yesterday. Today she's going over and over the budget so we can cut down on needless expenses and pay the needfull bills.
Ok. But, my beloved silverware snob, I was willing to go buy plain old cheap b-flat stainless steel knives. I think that gives me a pass for the budget lecture.
Thank you for letting me vent. Carry on.

Jinks Nov 26, 2022

Fir sone reason, butter knives go missing in our house. We have 4 left out of an 8-place set. I suggested we go buy some servicable stainless steel knives, but nooo. My wife is a self-identified silverware snob. She wants knives that match the set of silver-plated flatware she inherited.
Found 2 from a company that specializes in that sort of thing. Then we checked ebay. Found a whole nother set. With 3 extra knives. Screaming deal. Not likely to see a set at this price again. So she bought it.

Jinks Nov 26, 2022

Dylan McCall Nov 24, 2022

I heard there’s finally a use for all of my moss pictures. #mosstodon