OxgardenZ · @OxgardenZ
369 followers · 2452 posts · Server mastodon.greenSilent Sunday? “It’s too quiet. Too damned quiet. I don’t like it, Carruthers!”
(you need to imagine that said in an upper-class English voice as if it’s quoting a book, play or film where “Carruthers” and his companion are, say, British Imperial Era army or naval officers, or the kinds of adventurer gentlemen who might be protagonists in a 19th Century or early 20th Century thriller or film of it. )
But who is “Carruthers”? (Ctd…)
#tropes #quotes #writers #sayings
Go Weapons Hot · @GoWeaponsHot
2 followers · 95 posts · Server mstdn.party#Afghanistan is what happens when a bunch of #incels take over a country.
#aphorisms #thoughts #ideas #sayings #observations #life #musings #inspiration
#afghanistan #incels #aphorisms #thoughts #ideas #sayings #observations #life #musings #inspiration
Fred Markle · @Fred
216 followers · 533 posts · Server allthingstech.socialWatching this video about Verbal Eggcorns. Like “Nip something in the Butt” vs “Nip something in the Bud” or "Damp Squid" vs "Damp Squib".
https://youtu.be/F12LSAbos7A
#language #eggcorns #sayings #yoursayingitwrong
#language #eggcorns #sayings #yoursayingitwrong
Negative12DollarBill · @negative12dollarbill
186 followers · 2039 posts · Server techhub.socialWhy do people say I'll have to take the gun from their "COLD dead hands"?
In this scenario haven't they very recently been killed?
Surely the saying should be, you'll have to take the gun from my pleasantly warm hands?
Brian Duggan · @BPDuggan
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surya · @surya
27 followers · 116 posts · Server hachyderm.ioOne small shift in the way we each conduct ourselves, and the crystal lattice structure of the world is already different. In this way, we are the #world, and when we take #responsibility for our small but not insignificant part of it, the whole is already different—the flowering we manifest emotionally and in every other way of some importance, potentially enormous.
- Search Inside Yourself by Chade-Meng
#little #change #quotes #books #sayings #peace #love
#world #responsibility #little #change #quotes #books #sayings #peace #love
Jennifer Jorgenson · @JenniferJorgenson
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#photo #photography #Photomonday #photos #photograph #photographie #photografie #pic #pics #picture #pictures #foto #Fotomontag #fotos #fotografie #fotograf #fotographie #summer #freaky #soul #sayings
#sayings #soul #freaky #Summer #fotographie #Fotograf #fotografie #fotos #Fotomontag #foto #pictures #picture #pics #Pic #photografie #Photographie #photograph #Photos #Photomonday #Photography #Photo
C. · @cazabon
148 followers · 3135 posts · Server mindly.socialIf it's janky but it works, it's still janky.
But it works.
Twiteryeanot · @Twiteryeanot
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This was up in a cafe in Queens Cross Maryhill Glasgow.
And never a truer word said by the Big Yin himself...
#comedy #scottish #sayings #BillyConnolly
Go Weapons Hot · @GoWeaponsHot
2 followers · 71 posts · Server mstdn.partyPeople are either too stupid to know they're too stupid or smart enough to know they're not smart enough.
Only the first have the confidence to act.
#aphorisms #thoughts #ideas #sayings #observations #life #musings #inspiration
#aphorisms #thoughts #ideas #sayings #observations #life #musings #inspiration
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