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

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? :slight_smile:

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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’).

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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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