Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family
sleepy af
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@soph_sol @Betty lol i am also in the carrying tons of things in my backpack club!
i’ve got: single serve electrolyte powder packs, single serve otc pain med packs, my inhaler, a travel cutlery set (fork, spoon, & chopsticks), 3 new n95 masks, a mini umbrella, a folded up grocery bag, a pad of paper, a spare pen
@Rozzychan this is why word crawlers can’t be trusted 😂
@Rozzychan hmmm so you think its based on how often the words are used together?
Cats and preachers are both living creatures, which is quite a big similarity to have while winter is an inanimate social construct based on climate patterns
@Rozzychan i got Exactly Average (78) tho now I’m staring at their little grid chart of word distances like “how the hell are cat and winter more similar than cat and preacher???” lmao
@pixelcats lol yeah it feels very “we know we can’t put forward western artists for best song and have any chance of winning if they’re competing against kpop….”
@kiesa very seasonal!
@mythologybot might want to asterisk the kind of sleep a bit tho
@alis lol yes—I guess people are just too used to needing there to be a convenient gas station to account for that properly
@alis @fogsrollingin @kate interesting! glad its helping
@alis @fogsrollingin @kate yeah i soak my cartilage piercing in salt water which is what inspired the questions since typically in order to get the back of my piercing properly submerged the hair behind my ear needs to get pretty thoroughly soaked. salt can be a little drying on hair sometimes, but not nearly to the extent that i imagine bleach would be!
@alis @fogsrollingin how does one go about bathing ones ears in bleach without totally wrecking ones hair?
@bright_helpings your autocorrect is quite horny it seems!
@melodicake@hellsite.site if you’re willing to leave it expired for a month, DW does a sale in December (a lot of people also gift paid accounts as solstice/new years gifts as a result lol)
@twistylittlepassages @pagrus yes that seems like it would solve the issue fairly efficiently!
@pagrus @twistylittlepassages nitty gritty just stands like standard rhyming reduplication of an existing word to me (easy peasy, hodge podge, etc) but i did not follow up to check
@pagrus @twistylittlepassages have attempted some internet research and it looks like bad egg was the original invention, coming directly & uneuphamistically from how terrible rotten eggs are. There was apparently already an older term in British slang “curates egg” for when something is terrible, but politeness requires you to praise its good features anyway (wikipedia has extensive documentation on the history of this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curate%27s_egg ) and if the term has any precedent besides the actual rotten eggs it was likely that
However apparently in 2002 a British police officer claimed that political correctness had gone “too far” citing phrases he claimed the police force had been banned from using including nitty gritty & bad egg. The British police claimed they didn’t have a list of banned words at the time, and there’s no evidence that either of them would be on said list if there was, so it seems like a fair assumption that the dude just threw “bad egg” in there to try to prove how ridiculous his non-existent PC culture problem was and then it accidentally got circulated into internet lore without the context
sleepy af
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