If there are twenty four blackbirds in a pie, are the black birds blackbirds? Or are they ravens? Or starlings? Grackles? Crows? Coots? Cormorants?
Furthermore, would that be a flock, a mob, a murder, a cover, a constable, a conspiracy, a dissimulation, a murmuration, or an unkindness of black birds in the pie?
If it's a murder, I fear for the king. They ate the maid's nose, after all.
I don’t think I’ve seen an answer to the question of how close or far apart the things happening today (”send her back”, detention centers etc) are to the nazis quite as good or thorough as this answer on quora
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, lough, and through?
Well done! And now you wish perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead - it's said like bed, not bead -
For goodness sake, don't call it 'deed'.
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt):
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose -
Just look them up - and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front, and word and sword,
And do and go, and thwart and cart -
Come! Come! I've hardly made a start!
~from the Manchester Guardian, 1954
Proof that English is as fickle as they say it is.
And for anyone unfamiliar with old-fashioned British phonetics, hiccough is pronounced like hiccup and lough is "lak." Thank you Merriam Webster.
A Roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers, and says ”Five beers, please.”
goyisch historians: jews did not put up any fight in WWII :) they just complacently marched off to camps
90% of yiddish folk music from WWII: i can and will kill hitler with my own two fists
Levi: Eren you piece of shit can't you do anything right, God I hate kids like you
Eren: Well I..........'heichou' ass too
Levi:
Eren:
Levi:
Eren: [muffled sounds of laughter]
Levi: Get the fuck out of my office
here’s to lesbians
here’s to gays
here’s to bisexual people
here’s to pansexual people
here’s to trans people
here’s to non binary people
here’s to asexual people
here’s to lgbt+ people that are in the closet
here’s to lgbt+ people that are afraid to come out to their homophobic family and friends
here’s to lgbt+ people that are out of the closet
here’s to lgbt+ people that are still not sure what is their sexuality or what is their gender
there’s nothing wrong about you! you are all loved! you are all important! you are all beautiful! you all matter!
three internet trends i will (regrettably) probably never grow out of:
• typing in a cresCENDO TO EXPRESS EXCITEMENT • …………..unnecessarily……. long……….. ellipsis’ • puttinfh a typo in eveyr other word to shwo u dont really give a fukc but u actually do
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