I apologise for the pun …
“Hungry Scottish folk in Russia make a funny noise whilst eating a burger”
Noam Chomsky
Is that 3 down?
“Mediocrity defends itself brilliantly, trust me.” She knows all, notes all, knows all and, in fact, mimics all… "
Toma Caragiu in an interview by Eva Sîrbu
That can’t be right. The elephants would loose their footing and the turtle would get giddy.
Where are the grammar police?
“The state of emergency is always distinguished from anarchy and chaos and, in the legal sense, there is still order in it, even though it is not a legal order."
Carl Schmitt.
Reminds me of - ‘An optimist is someone who doesn’t know all the facts’!
The !ast 2 posts there are excellent/hilarious.
The Optimist - “The glass is half full”.
The Pessimist - “The glass is half empty”.
The Engineer - “The glass is twice as big as it needs to be”.
One does need to consider that the glass is re-fillable.
The opportunist - “Cheers, thanks for the drink”
The Homeopathist - “Congratulations, that glass contained the memory patterns of molecules with curative powers”
The conspiracy theorist - “congratulations, the water contains fluoride”
The nilhilist - “congratulations, it doesn’t really matter”
The fuckening.
When your day is going well and you know to don’t trust it and some sh!t finally goes down.
“Ah, there it is, the fuckening”. - unknown
They missed Barnet Fair and they have two versions of phone. Only ever heard dog and bone used.
A proper Cockney (I’m only a quarter to a half through me Mum, if that’s allowed!) once told me her “dogs were barking” meaning her feet hurt…
dogsmeat = feet.
‘Dogs barking’ also meaning feet getting whiffy…
Never heard of that meaning before.
Language is a wonderful thing.