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Post by slowcoach on Jul 22, 2023 14:28:22 GMT 2
Smash it!
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Post by tzarine on Jul 23, 2023 1:30:42 GMT 2
again passing for dying
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Post by tzarine on Jul 24, 2023 18:47:36 GMT 2
bucket list
thats things i wanna do before i die
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Post by Baz Faz on Jul 26, 2023 10:59:27 GMT 2
^ LOL Wonderful! But deadly. Another reason to avoid LOL... I know someone who thought it meant Lots Of Love
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Post by tzarine on Aug 2, 2023 3:12:25 GMT 2
dh dd ds
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 2, 2023 9:38:03 GMT 2
^
Dear God!
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Post by tzarine on Aug 2, 2023 18:19:22 GMT 2
fomo
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Post by Baz Faz on Aug 13, 2023 13:35:58 GMT 2
skin in the game
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Post by tzarine on Aug 13, 2023 15:58:49 GMT 2
yes baz some idiot in admissions said that to us about tzarevich when he was applying to schools also hate: farm to table
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 13, 2023 16:42:47 GMT 2
Not sure what distinction that implies these days when even fish are farmed.
I do know what Table to Farm means
Picnic!
ETA: And once "Pig Bins"
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Post by tzarine on Aug 14, 2023 1:57:07 GMT 2
took a friend to the james beard "curated foodcourt" pretty empty are people realizing they dont have to pay more for curated food? or is there another curated space theyve been told they need to go to?
got to get my curated skincare!
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Post by Netsuke on Aug 14, 2023 13:05:43 GMT 2
Fat friendly. Not all venues have fat-friendly spaces!
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Post by tzarine on Aug 20, 2023 17:11:21 GMT 2
elevator pitch
oh please
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Post by trentt on Aug 22, 2023 23:06:37 GMT 2
I'm beginning to hate all phrases now.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 22, 2023 23:58:38 GMT 2
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Post by Baz Faz on Aug 23, 2023 11:05:58 GMT 2
literally
Today I read the description of a holiday rental that it was "literally two steps from the cathedral". Literally two steps? Imagine the racket from the bells, the crowds of worshippers peering in your window as they hurry past, the overwhelming smell of incense.
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Post by Netsuke on Aug 23, 2023 12:01:49 GMT 2
literally Today I read the description of a holiday rental that it was "literally two steps from the cathedral". Literally two steps? Imagine the racket from the bells, the crowds of worshippers peering in your window as they hurry past, the overwhelming smell of incense. Were the two steps ad orientem and how do we know it was a Cathedral and not a Chirch?
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 23, 2023 14:42:19 GMT 2
It's a catafalque.
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Post by Voy on Aug 23, 2023 15:43:49 GMT 2
slow --- is that ^ in common use? I have only heard it for state funerals.
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 23, 2023 16:30:56 GMT 2
They are in common use but perhaps the word isn't.
The box that a coffin rests on prior to cremation, or in a chapel of rest is, or can be referred to as a catafalque.
But I was merely conjuring a place of rest two steps from a cathedral, and failing to be funny.
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Post by Netsuke on Aug 23, 2023 18:34:41 GMT 2
The rich and famous and the important would have a catafalque, Mr and Mrs Average would have a bier.
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Post by trentt on Aug 23, 2023 20:31:53 GMT 2
For some years, "literally" has literally meant "figuratively".
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Post by tzarine on Aug 26, 2023 19:25:04 GMT 2
foodie
just say no
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Post by Voy on Aug 27, 2023 2:03:21 GMT 2
Netskie said : The rich and famous and the important would have a catafalque, Mr and Mrs Average would have a bier. this Ms will have a coffee can part way full of ashes !
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Post by Scrubb on Aug 27, 2023 2:23:53 GMT 2
My mother hates that, too.
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Post by Voy on Aug 27, 2023 14:16:56 GMT 2
I'm with Scrubb's mother and tzarine... still hate that ! you die - you're dead . Pass implies more : the test, the bar exam, the right turn you meant to make etc. What does this usage imply?
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 27, 2023 14:59:24 GMT 2
There is/was a marketing euphemism for loss of numbers in an aging membership/readership : Biological Leakage.
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Post by Baz Faz on Aug 27, 2023 19:58:30 GMT 2
Also you pass water.
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Post by Scrubb on Aug 29, 2023 7:04:05 GMT 2
I'm with Scrubb's mother and tzarine... still hate that ! you die - you're dead . Pass implies more : the test, the bar exam, the right turn you meant to make etc. What does this usage imply? Oh, I agree with you all. I use it only because there are people who prefer it and if they are grieving, I don't want to be insensitive. But I don't like it at all. I assume that the implication is that the dead person has passed over "to the other side", i.e., the afterlife. Since I don't believe in an afterlife, it makes no sense to say that.
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 29, 2023 11:21:57 GMT 2
There are so many euphemisms for death, many intentionally funny. It is expressions when not used euphemistically by intent, or understanding, e.g. said to a child, that I don't like.
As an epitaph I always fancy "Gone to meet his Unmakers".
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