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glasspostings

while you were attending therapy i was studying the blade

glasspostings

what do you mean i need better coping mechanisms

seaemberthesecond

it should be illegal for things in drawers to accumulate dust. you were IN the drawer WHAT is your problem

millionsknives

can you curry anything else or is it just favor

millionsknives

tim

sufficientlylargen

So "currying" a furry animal means grooming or brushing it with a currycomb, which in turn comes from the Old French correier meaning "to prepare [something]", because you prepare a horse for riding by brushing it; it's most commonly applied to horses but you can get e.g. currycombs for dogs.

If I understand correctly, medieval French folk tales considered chestnut-colored horses to be deceitful and tricky; the Old French word for a chestnut or dun horse was fauvel, and so the Old French expression correier fauvel, literally "to brush the chestnut horse", meant lying or being hypocritical for personal gain. This turned into "curry favel" in 15th-century English, and then mutated into "curry favor" over the next few centuries as people forgot about the horse.

So "currying favor" is really "brushing the Horse of Lies", and the reason you can't curry goodwill, or love, or hatred, or even disfavor is that we didn't have Horses for those.

And it follows that we can gain the ability to curry other things by assigning them to Horses.

soup-mother

Step back everyone. This post requires the delicate touch of an annoying gimmick blog

stillnaomi

filming scenes from The Odyssey in Western Sahara isn't a problem due to that being illegally occupied land. if Morocco's annexation of the territory has been judged 100 percent legal by the UN and the International Court of Justice, we should still oppose it. it's the colonization that's the problem, not the international legal status of the colonization

r2x2

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

herpsandbirds

Brown booby and black noddies, taken on a boat off the coast of Cairns, Australia, May 31st.

giragirameganedan

ieatratsyummy

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.

beautiful-songbird

How the new Odyssey movie sounds to me based off of what I’ve seen on tumblr

escapismroom

today I was wearing my “yes homo” shirt and some lady told me “you’re going to hell” and I said “with you around it’s like we’re already there” and I swear she made this exact fkn face

escapismroom

I cannot believe this post I made in 2015 is still going around…. anyway plot twist this same lady got famous on my town’s facebook gossip group for divorcing her husband for a woman 💅🏻✨ I like to believe my yes homo shirt pointed her in the right direction

typhlonectes

escabye-deactivated20190922

when ur mutuals are mutual with each other

pro: squad con: i saw this post like 18 times today

skingrad

silvermoon424

This tweet read me to filth

irlwakko

this is by far my favorite safety/warning sign btw. they really went off with this one

ri-rawr-isnt-ok

No cuz I fucking love this sign. It’s not an actual barrier so it’s not like some sort of challenge it simply says “fuck around and you will find out”

irlwakko

Ohohoho I LOVE “fuck around and find out” signs, especially the really dramatic and ominous (but true) ones

(Context for the last one: it’s a WWII era sign posted around the soldiers’ washroom mirror, warning them to never discuss military plans in places where civilians could hear them and report back to the enemy, e.g. in restaurants and pubs in the country. “Loose lips sink ships”.)

I also love these two, which I would place in the category of “You already fucked around, now you’re about to find out.”

professionalchaoticdumbass

Aerated water is fucking scary. It's water that has a fuckton of gas in it, which reduces the buoyancy to the point where you will immediately start to sink if you fall in.