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Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.

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I have been waiting for this post all my life.

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They are indeed purple, But one thing you’ve missed: The concept of “purple” Didn’t always exist.

Some cultures lack names For a color, you see. Hence good old Homer And his “wine-dark sea.”

A usage so quaint, A phrasing so old, For verses of romance Is sheer fucking gold.

So roses are red. Violets once were called blue. I’m hugely pedantic But what else is new?

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My friend you’re not wrong About Homer’s wine-ey sea! Colours are a matter Of cultural contingency;

Words are in flux And meanings they drift But the word purple You’ve given short shrift.

The concept of purple, My friends, is old And refers to a pigment once precious as gold.

By crushing up molluscs From the wine-dark sea You make a dye: Imperial decree

Meant that in Rome, to wear purpura was a privilege reserved

For only the emperor!

The word ‘purple’, for clothes so fancy, Entered English By the ninth century

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Why then are voilets Not purple in song? The dye from this mollusc, known for so long

Is almost magenta; More red than blue. The concept of purple is old, and yet new.

The dye is red, So this might be true: Roses are purple And violets are blue

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While this song makes me merry, Tyrian purple dyes many a hue From magenta to berry And a true purple too.

But fun as it is to watch this poetic race The answer is staring you right in the face: Roses are red and violets are blue Because nothing fucking rhymes with purple.

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Hirple - To limp or walk awkwardly

Cirple - An old Scots word for the hindquarters of a horse

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“Roses are red, violets are purple,

My boner for you has caused me to hirple.”

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My, how romantic!

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DYING. I AM DYING.

2000ish

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This picture is so holy and gentle to me

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he's such a dad

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My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency

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Moreover, everyone gathers around to be tremulously compassionate and discreetly admiring: all this time, you lacked the Vitamin? And yet you persevered?

cassie-darlin

those big translucent rabbit vibrators and those big douchebag vape rigs are a sexually dymorphic species

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like??

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tell me this does not look like a male cartoon animal charater and the girl romantic interest version with boobs

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ARE YOU FUCKING LISTENING TO ME

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Fun fact: I've taken both apart in a failed attempt to run Doom, and they are using basically the same processors. I'm not saying you could easily retrofit one into the other, but I'm not NOT saying that.