#euphemisms

[a-book-of-creatures]

Miss Piggy's guide to etiquette:

From Miss Piggy's Guide to Life (Henry Beard, 1981).

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[prokopetz]

To be fair, a lot of goofy-sounding rocketry/aerospace terminology has a legitimate nomenclatural role beyond just being silly euphemisms.

"Unplanned rapid disassembly", for example, exists as the necessary counterpart to planned rapid disassembly: sometimes a rocket is legitimately supposed to fall apart or blow up, so you need a specific term to emphasise that it wasn't supposed to do that.

Similarly, "lithobraking" was coined by analogy with aerobraking (shedding velocity via atmospheric friction) and hydrobraking (shedding velocity by landing in water), and it does have some intentional applications; the Mars Pathfinder probe, for example, was deliberately crashed into the Martian surface while surrounded by giant airbags, and reportedly bounced at least 15 times before coming to rest.

(That said, aerospace engineers absolutely do use these terms humorously as well, because engineers are just Like That.)

[odinsblog]

A humanitarian crisis is what happens after a natural disaster like a tsunami, or a hurricane, or an earthquake. A humanitarian crisis is when an unexpected accident happens. A humanitarian crisis is what happens to marginalized communities in a pandemic. Indiscriminately bombing a population of noncombatant civilians and then intentionally depriving them of food, water and medical access is a deliberate war crime, NOT some random act of nature. Words matter. Calling the aftermath of bombing civilians “a humanitarian crisis” is no different than using the passive voice to describe Israel’s war crimes without directly attributing them to Israel. Please do not let the well documented displacement, and the meticulously planned out ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians… don’t allow that to be whitewashed and erased away into some kind of unfortunate “accident” of nature.

And don’t even get me started on the tired media trope of labeling non-white starving people, “looters” when they take food to feed their families…

[futileexercise]

[achromatophoric]

Yoko: She does not!

Wednesday: Are you suggesting that I am lying?

Enid: *walks up* What are you two arguing about now?

Yoko: Girl, I did NOT know that you were a connoisseur of extreme metal.

Enid: *confused* Uh— I’m not.

Yoko: HAH, I knew it! *points at Wednesday with her blood pack*

Yoko: Your girl here just said you think Cradle of Filth ate it all up!

Wednesday: You are paraphrasing, Tanaka. I said that Enid eats it all up.

Yoko: Huh?

Enid: *blushing bright* Oh gosh. Um—Yoko?

Yoko: Yeah?

Enid: *steps close and whispers into Yoko’s ear* Cradle of Filth is what Willa calls…

Yoko: 😟

Enid: *steps back*

Enid: 🤗

Yoko: ☹️

Yoko: *trashes her blood pack and walks away*

Wednesday:

Wednesday: Now that we are alone, would you be interested in—

Enid: Rocking some filthy, filthy cradle? Babe, you just read my—

Yoko: *distantly* AT LEAST WAIT UNTIL I’M OUT OF FUCKING EARSHOT!

[writingtoolofdubiousintegrity]

I propose we start saying "florid decompensation" instead of "crashing the fuck out"

[gawrkin]

[...]

(Source: Wikipedia.org)

Peredur = "Hard Spear"

Percival = "Pierce(s) (the) Valley"

...I might have an idea why the Vulgate writers tried to shove him aside in favor of Galahad...