# Actual things you actually said (or heard) in the last 24 hours

**URL:** <https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198>\
**Category:** Not Games\
**Created:** [4 February 2021 14:27 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198 "2021-02-04T14:27:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Griffster77](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/griffster77/32/1048_2.png) [@Griffster77](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Griffster77)\
**Post date:** [15 August 2025 21:24 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2484 "2025-08-15T21:24:45Z")

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> [@Acacia](#):
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> Sacagawea and Molly Pitcher

I remember learning a bit about the Lewis and Clark expedition. But can’t say I remember it!

Never heard of Molly Pitcher until I read about the Revolutionary War in my 20s

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**Author:** ![yashima](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/yashima/32/21481_2.png) [@yashima](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/yashima)\
**Post date:** [15 August 2025 22:23 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2485 "2025-08-15T22:23:20Z")

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I learned about her in Latin class … or history. Romans and their conquests generally featured a lot at my school. The teachers got really mad when I decided to quit Latin for the last 2 years.

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**Author:** ![raged\_norm](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/raged_norm/32/21570_2.png) [@raged\_norm](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/raged_norm)\
**Post date:** [16 August 2025 05:52 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2486 "2025-08-16T05:52:54Z")

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> [@Acacia](#):
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> Sacagawea

I learned most of what I know about her from the Your Dead To Me podcast and the book that was given to my daughter - Fantastically Great Women who changed the world, Volume 1

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**Author:** ![Whistle\_Pig](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/whistle_pig/32/1052_2.png) [@Whistle\_Pig](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Whistle_Pig)\
**Post date:** [16 August 2025 05:56 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2487 "2025-08-16T05:56:02Z")

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+100 for You’re Dead to Me!

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**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\
**Post date:** [16 August 2025 20:17 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2488 "2025-08-16T20:17:17Z")

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![IMG_20250816_205420](https://discussion.tekeli.li/uploads/default/original/3X/4/e/4e2e851a791848964cc622e90bb71fed83752b32.jpeg)  
“You realise my head is now filled by a Scandinavian male voice choir belting out ‘We’ll Find The Way’?”

(ETA: this should of course have been “We Know The Way”.)

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**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\
**Post date:** [17 August 2025 10:27 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2489 "2025-08-17T10:27:32Z")

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(Invading with the green empire in A War of Whispers)  
“We will paint the city walls with the… bile of our enemies.”  
“Sir, we didn’t pick first, did we?”

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**Author:** ![Lordof1](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/lordof1/32/5_2.png) [@Lordof1](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Lordof1)\
**Post date:** [17 August 2025 10:35 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2490 "2025-08-17T10:35:41Z")

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Be glad you’re not the brown empire.

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**Author:** ![Phil](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/phil/32/1508_2.png) [@Phil](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Phil)\
**Post date:** [18 August 2025 00:57 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2491 "2025-08-18T00:57:01Z")

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“It takes a lifetime to learn Emacs. The sooner you start, the longer it takes.”

(I read it rather than heard it, but it made me laugh and want to share it :).

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**Author:** ![BigJackBrass](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/bigjackbrass/32/4_2.png) [@BigJackBrass](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/BigJackBrass)\
**Post date:** [19 August 2025 11:36 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2492 "2025-08-19T11:36:28Z")

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“I can swim, but I am getting a lot of balls in the face.”

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**Author:** ![JGD](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/jgd/32/619_2.png) [@JGD](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/JGD)\
**Post date:** [19 August 2025 15:28 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2493 "2025-08-19T15:28:45Z")

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Me: “Allow me a moment to _hate_ Apple before I try to solve this problem.”

Sysadmin: “Where can I join the club?”

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**Author:** ![COMaestro](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/comaestro/32/1030_2.png) [@COMaestro](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/COMaestro)\
**Post date:** [19 August 2025 15:44 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2494 "2025-08-19T15:44:15Z")

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Can I join too?

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**Author:** ![dscheidt](https://discussion.tekeli.li/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@dscheidt](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/dscheidt)\
**Post date:** [22 August 2025 23:08 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2495 "2025-08-22T23:08:51Z")

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“How is that beer?”, me asking my wife about a beer we bought on vacation.  
“Tastes like Minnesota”, she said.  
“oh?”  
“Sort of bland and watery.”

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**Author:** ![Acacia](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/acacia/32/6915_2.png) [@Acacia](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Acacia)\
**Post date:** [23 August 2025 01:02 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2496 "2025-08-23T01:02:54Z")

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“What is lunch?”

“Baby don’t hurt me…”

“No. Stop.”

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**Author:** ![RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/rogerbw/32/3_2.png) [@RogerBW](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/RogerBW)\
**Post date:** [23 August 2025 14:43 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2497 "2025-08-23T14:43:27Z")

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“If _I_ were being fake police — not that I ever have — I would secret a key to my own handcuffs about my person. These guys are amateurs!”

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**Author:** ![BigJackBrass](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/bigjackbrass/32/4_2.png) [@BigJackBrass](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/BigJackBrass)\
**Post date:** [23 August 2025 16:25 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2498 "2025-08-23T16:25:05Z")

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“Ilkley Lido! £17 a ticket, and at that price I did not expect to get stung by a wasp!”

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**Author:** ![dscheidt](https://discussion.tekeli.li/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@dscheidt](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/dscheidt)\
**Post date:** [23 August 2025 17:00 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2499 "2025-08-23T17:00:46Z")

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Do they usually charge more for that?

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**Author:** ![Whistle\_Pig](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/whistle_pig/32/1052_2.png) [@Whistle\_Pig](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/Whistle_Pig)\
**Post date:** [23 August 2025 17:43 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2500 "2025-08-23T17:43:18Z")

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Why pay £17 to get into Ilkley Lido when you can walk for 5 minutes and take a dip in the totally-not-sewage-filled River Wharfe for free?

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**Author:** ![BigJackBrass](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/bigjackbrass/32/4_2.png) [@BigJackBrass](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/BigJackBrass)\
**Post date:** [23 August 2025 17:48 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2501 "2025-08-23T17:48:35Z")

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Hey, I just report what’s said. I don’t question people’s faecal avoidance preferences.

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**Author:** ![SteveB\_uk](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/steveb_uk/32/26030_2.png) [@SteveB\_uk](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/SteveB_uk)\
**Post date:** [24 August 2025 10:35 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2502 "2025-08-24T10:35:01Z")

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This one has polka-dots and BEES

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**Author:** ![JGD](https://discussion.tekeli.li/user_avatar/discussion.tekeli.li/jgd/32/619_2.png) [@JGD](https://discussion.tekeli.li/u/JGD)\
**Post date:** [24 August 2025 15:11 UTC](https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/actual-things-you-actually-said-or-heard-in-the-last-24-hours/2198/2503 "2025-08-24T15:11:11Z")

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> [@BigJackBrass](#):
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> “And just when you think things couldn’t get any more awesome the ninja nuns show up.”

Older than 24 hours ago, but still good:

“Hum … do we want to land the airship on the opera house? I’m not asking that question! _Of course_ we want to land the airship on the opera house!”

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