I like that English and French have a similar thing going on with the sayings “He isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed” and “Il n’a pas inventé l’eau chaude” (he didn’t invent hot water). In both cases there are many established variants; some are quite normal (not the brightest bulb in the box / “il n’a pas inventé la poudre à canon”, he didn’t invent gunpowder), then you can make it a bit sillier, “he isn’t the crunchiest chip in the bag / quickest bunny in the forest”, “il n’a pas inventé le fil à couper le beurre / la machine à courber les bananes” (he didn’t invent the butter slicer wire / the banana-curving machine), and we also both enjoy making them absurd via crossbreeding (he isn’t the sharpest bunny in the box / il n’a pas inventé le fil à couper l’eau chaude – he didn’t invent the hot water slicer wire) and so on and so forth
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real argumate connoisseurs don’t follow argumate, they follow the idiots that follow argumate
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(I’ve heard that line about argumate connoisseurs before and tbh it seems about right) #(personally I’m fine with my current level of indirect argumate and feel no desire to actually follow him) #((just now I read one day’s worth of dash in a bit under forty minutes)) #((can *argumate followers* do that? I didn’t think so)) #((and being exposed to The Discourse without the protective layer of other people! *shakes head*)) #Tumblr: a User’s Guide
someone asked me what fifty shades of grey was the other day and I was stumped as to what answer I could give that definitely wouldn’t prompt further questions.
discreet footnote links appear for “BDSM”, “Twilight”, “fanfiction”,
“What’s 50 Shades of Grey?”
“Oh dear, that’s a very complicated question. Let me start at the beginning: in the 1820s, Joseph Smith started a new religion called Mormonism, which grew rapidly before…”
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The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Though no official boundary exists, the most common conception includes the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) and the U.S. states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Broader conceptions reach north into Southeast Alaska and Yukon, south into northern California, and east to the Continental Divide to include Western Montana and parts of Wyoming. Narrower conceptions may be limited to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains. The variety of definitions can be attributed to partially overlapping commonalities of the region’s history, culture, geography, society, and other factors.
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#Fifty Shades of Grey #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what
Brinens and Things 