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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • You really took the bit between your teeth blaming the lycan there, didn’t you Mr Fox. The lab guys are pulling teeth to get the results, but we’ll soon know who’s bite marks are on that girl who bit the bullet. You wouldn’t be lying through your teeth now would you? Because I’ll sink my teeth into you and bring you down if it’s the last thing I do…

    …said some detective with a hyperfixation.




  • It does work, but it’s harder to pull off because you need to give a short, relatable reason along with a negative (if not immediately obviously).

    If you reply that you’re stressed but you leave it at that, the other person won’t know if they should ask you about it or not. If they do, they might be getting into a much harder, longer conversation than they were expecting to.
    But if they don’t ask, then they will feel like they’re being rude, because you’re supposed to help out other people if they’re not well, so either way it probably won’t be a pleasant experience for them.

    If you offer something like “stressed, finals are coming up”, then they can keep the conversation going by asking you about it, or they can just move on by wishing you luck or something to that effect and move on.


  • I think it’s more of a cultural thing, you grow up hearing that exchange and a neurotypical brain will just file it under “short, common greetings”.

    People don’t even think about the meaning of the words, they just grab something from the “common greeting replies” drawer without even looking.

    It’s the amount of possible variations after that that make it a huge mess.





  • Maybe the French word does have that origin, and other languages adapted it “differently”?

    In Italian for example, this is called cooking “al cartoccio”, where paper is “carta” and butterfly is something else entirely.

    I was trying to check Larousse but it keeps blocking me so meh. Perhaps both are true, as you said.






  • No, I’m in that boat too.

    I’ll pick up different songs as I hear them, but my brain after a while defaults to 4 non blonds - what’s up.

    I have no idea why, I don’t particularly like the music, I never listened to it much, and still it got imprinted into my brain somehow.

    Out of the blue, my brain just starts playing
    And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
    And I take a deep breath and I get real high
    And I scream from the top of my lungs, “What’s going on?”