Kiddo: please delete
Me: no baby boy, why?
Kiddo: because is ugly
Me: you are so beautiful
Kiddo: ugly
Me: you are not ugly. You are so absolutely gorgeous! You are so very beautiful.
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Well that’s heartbreaking…
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We just had a rare pub-based pathology meeting and an extra wrap was ordered by mistake. I volunteered, and just now back in the path room I said ‘I though I’d be all right having that extra wrap but now I falafel.’
You can imagine the hilarity.
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I think one has no option, really
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Well, you sort of have to imagine it as there was little evidence of it in the lab.
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Did everyone appreciate what a gyro you are?
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“I don’t want to touch them. They’re gross.”
My daughter, referring to buttons. The kind on clothes, not elevators.
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If they’re gross, who’s fault is that? 
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Yes, but… Let’s not forget about how gross elevator buttons are
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Koumpounophobia is a thing…
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Trypophobia? That would be sad because it kind of puts the person off crumpets, which is all kinds of wrong. Koumpounophobia is a little more specialised, and also a bugger to spell. But she may have inside knowledge about those particular buttons and their recent history…
(Easy to spot a smug so&so for whom all this is in the distant past; I recommend a hot wash)
I only read this, but I’m quoting it anyway:
English has two different terms for words that come into English from other languages. A ‘calque’ is translated from the source language. (E.g., flea market, beer garden, paper tiger) A ‘loanword’ is ported in its original form. (E.g., cafe, bazaar, kindergarten) Perhaps ironically, the word ‘calque’ is a loanword, while ‘loanword’ is a calque (from Ger. ‘lehnwort’).
– WesDym: "English has two different terms for words that co…" - Mastodon
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“My brother’s very good, don’t be put off by the fact that he’s a horse osteopath”.
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My partner’s going to contact him and ask “Can you heal me, yea or NEIGH?”
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2yo: “THE NAKED BABIES ARE PLAYING THE TAIKO DRUM”
(context, anyone without a shirt on or even a vaguely fleshtoned shirt is a “naked baby” and yes this means at the public pool they point at every stranger walking by and shout NAKED BABY at them.
Separately:
Wife: “How do I silence your phone?”
3 seconds later, Wife: [dials 911]
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“911; what is your emergency?”
“This phone is really loud.”
“…”
“…”
“…”
“Really loud.”
That story reminds me… I swear that a solid 10% of the times I go to unlock my phone it’s showing a screen saying something like “You do not have an Emergency Contact configured”, and I’ve often wondered just how bad I’d feel by now if I did have one, because my firm impression is that my phone would gleefully be calling them all the time.
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‘Everyone should have a facial every so often’
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“Hey, I know who you are… whatever your name is.”
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A bit like:
“I’ll never forget what’s’isname.”
(Something my Dad used to say/quote. I don’t remember if he said where that came from, but I see it’s the title of a 1967 film, so maybe it was that.)
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“When you get to the restaurant, ask if you can get into Night Train. It’s their underground secret speakeasy with a world class cocktail menu”.
My head and wallet have had better mornings!
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