idiomaddict

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idiomaddict ,

Sorry, native speaker and language teacher here and I disagree. This is dialect dependent, but in my dialect at least, it’s the glottal stop at the beginning of a vowel sound that triggers it. Saying “an European” for me is like saying “an yellow.”

idiomaddict ,

That’s because I read your comment wrong 😅

idiomaddict ,

I’m not trying to be a jerk here, but what’s an example of a warm blue? I can’t imagine it.

idiomaddict ,

That warm blue does look cozy, in that it looks like the color that your dad’s old too-short shorts were in the 70s.

idiomaddict ,

PBS/NPR?

idiomaddict ,

Bodily curiosity is good and penises are funny

idiomaddict ,

I also definitely would not eat there. I don’t know why it’s assumed that you would eat dinner there after being stood up. I’d be sad and I’d want to be alone, at absolute most I’d get takeout, but there’s probably a greasier takeout that I want, but have been restraining myself from. I’d very much prefer tacos/falafel to a date restaurant meal if I’ve just been stood up.

idiomaddict ,

I’m your age and I’ve done it several times, including with my husband.

The caveat is that you start with coffee or a drink (my husband and I arranged to play mtg and have a beer), then the conversation is so nice that you order food or move from a cafe to a restaurant.

Now that I think about it, all the good relationships I’ve been in that weren’t with friends of mine involved dinner tacked onto the first date. When I’ve dated friends, it’s a very different progression, but doesn’t really involve restaurant dates at the beginning.

idiomaddict ,

I think you’ve put more thought into his policies than he has

idiomaddict ,

What evidence do you have of that?

Joe Biden reportedly more open to calls for him to step aside as candidate ( www.theguardian.com )

Joe Biden has reportedly become more open in recent days to hearing arguments that he should step aside as the Democratic presidential candidate after the party’s two main congressional leaders told him they doubted his ability to beat Donald Trump. ...

idiomaddict ,

Trump proved that lip service is the only requirement

idiomaddict ,

Is that true regardless of her VP?

idiomaddict ,

I assumed it was a really dark joke about missing First Nations women

idiomaddict ,

Except how long could I really restrain myself from trying to skip the stone off of the nearest body of water?

idiomaddict ,

Sadly on brand.

As an example of the opposite, I recently got into a YouTube channel that does very involved videos about appliances (technology connections). It’s absolutely my bag, and I suspect that the audience is more neurodiverse than average.

I was super excited to see a video about fire alarms, but nearly didn’t watch it at all, because I did not want to hear one. I put it on mute with subtitles and the first thing the creator said was, “just so you know, I won’t be setting off any alarm sounds.” 🥰

idiomaddict ,

Turnabout is fair play. Remember when trump coughed on him in the 2020 debates?

idiomaddict ,

It’s cheaper

idiomaddict ,

Sometimes it’s just luck. I smoke weed and refuse to sleep normally and I still get carded for energy drinks (16+) at 33

No kids though… I don’t know how anyone can look young with kids.

idiomaddict ,

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This is fun!

idiomaddict ,

Last kiss, covered by Pearl Jam

idiomaddict ,

You have to cherry pick to post a meme like this

idiomaddict ,

So if we can sense everything under anesthesia, are we just traumatizing our subconscious?

idiomaddict ,

What about the can of glue?

idiomaddict ,

I used to work at an insurance company, and all of our workers compensation stuff was called Milwaukee coverage because it used to only be required in Wisconsin

idiomaddict ,

Nobody in that family would ever go near water again

idiomaddict ,

Just look at what happened to the European royal families …

idiomaddict ,

A reverend, a catholic, a bearded man, and a demon

idiomaddict ,

Like, polite? Maybe. He was certainly not kind.

idiomaddict ,

Ignored HIV, gutted school funding, illegally sold arms to Iran to fund the Sandinistas, fired 11k air traffic controllers, started the culture wars…

There’s much more, but that’s a start

idiomaddict ,

There is literally no way to reason these people out of the position they didn't reason themselves into.

Regarding this, I recently saw the counterpoint of Santa. Most people never reason themselves into believing in Santa, but they do reason themselves out of it. Obviously there’s cognitive development that happens in between in the Santa case, but a lot of people form their core political beliefs pretty young, so that may be true of politics as well.

idiomaddict ,

I come from a deep blue state, but haven’t lived in the US in years and every time I get an absentee ballot, it’s too late to send it in. I still apply, but we’ll see if it comes in time

idiomaddict ,

Honestly better than the giant metal fan greentext imo

idiomaddict ,

I put vegetables in my tomato sauce though

idiomaddict ,

The one on the right looks like how I feel when someone tells me some qanonsense

idiomaddict ,

I hope they’re planning something nice to celebrate

idiomaddict ,

To be fair, there’s a shocking number of made up words… that’s part of the fun?

idiomaddict ,

Neoliberal hubris

idiomaddict ,

Yeah, this is scary, but that’s literally the 2nd amendment

idiomaddict ,

They’re training them to protect federal infrastructure and they’re still subject to gun regulations. I think it will be a political tool used to oppress the citizenry, so not the spirit of the law, but the letter.

idiomaddict ,

No matter who's president? Because fighting off rebellions was a big part of what those militias were used for.

Ostensibly. They’re obviously lying, but that’s what they say.

It's WELL-regulated, not "barely regulated at all with little to no enforcement to speak of"

It’s my understanding that the extant gun laws are legally considered to fulfill this requirement, otherwise private gun ownership wouldn’t be possible. Personally I disagree, but I’m not sure what standard would otherwise be used.

I do hope you’re correct, but I don’t trust the US government to adhere to common sense anymore. I guess we’ll see what the court says, because someone’s going to challenge this.

Or maybe he’ll get voted out in November and this will be disbanded before anything happens with it. I think that’s probably the best option, because then it doesn’t get a chance to be approved by this SCOTUS and nobody has to have their civil rights violated by this group.

idiomaddict ,

Yeah, I was interpreting it under the lens of current legal application, not reality. In reality, it’s a group of people who want to violently oppress their fellow citizens through any means possible.

idiomaddict ,

I think they were responding to the “neither goes anywhere” part, not the support part

idiomaddict ,

Depends on how wrong it is. I’m unable to digest pork and will say something if there’s bacon on my food. I don’t like sun dried tomatoes and will happily pick them off.

idiomaddict ,

Do you think all people are exactly the same level of social or just dislike that it’s considered a binary?

idiomaddict ,

Winzig-weich took way too long for the payoff, but generally I chuckle a little. I do absolutely worry that I’m internalizing bad English linguistic interference though

Why aren't there adult only flights?

Honestly, I will never wrap my head around how people can happily bring infants on any flight where you can expect people to try and sleep, it's incredibly lucky if they don't spend some of it screaming their heads off—I would be mortified if my choices were preventing hundreds of people from sleeping. But I'm not going to ...

idiomaddict ,

To be fair, 99.999% of virgins don’t have kids, so that’s just true to brand

idiomaddict ,

I just read the fanfic. Though I absolutely don’t talk about it in public because the stuff I like is basically all pornographic. I definitely know all the trivia, but I don’t support jk Rowling financially (anymore, I did purchase the original series as it came out, but I haven’t otherwise paid for anything Harry Potter).

I just like the world and the fanfic possibilities of Draco Malfoy.

idiomaddict ,

It’s the only one* I talk about in public.

There’s also an erotic squid/castle fic that’s absolutely hilarious