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⌈ Secret Post #3193 ⌋

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[Da Vinci's Demons]

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03. tb - please check sizes when using tinypic
[Harry Potter, general]

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[Raffles by E.W. Hornung]

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[Avengers: Age of Ultron]

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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[Wreck It Ralph]

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[Steven Universe]

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[David Bowie]

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We all have them.

I used to think "burning the midnight oil" referred to staying up all night talking to someone, possibly with drinks involved.

Also, I didn't use the expression itself wrong, but it took me years to understand where fandom got the term "ships" from. I thought it was just quirky. Then I was explaining fandom to my sister, mentioned ships, and she was all "oh, ships! Like relationship!"

... d'oh.

"Humblebrag"

At least I was told I was using it wrong....but I don't think I was? I was talking about how annoying it is when girls who are anywhere near pale use really negative words to describe their pallor (corpse-pale, slug-pale, etc), when you know they are proud as fuck of their complexion and are trying to out-pale each other.

Is that not a humblebrag?

That sounds like humblebrag to me.

That is an example of a humblebrag. A really good example.

That's how humblebrag is used

I don't think it's actually a humblebrag & I think we should differentiate between humblebrag and complainbrag but no one agrees with me

"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" confused me for ages because I thought it referred to Troy. LOL. As opposed to checking a horse for its age by looking at its teeth.

I don't think I ever had any given idea of what it meant (barring that one time when I was a kid that I made a collage that included a horse eating a pan of fried potatoes and joked that you don't look a [gift] horse in the mouth or you'll see it's dinner), but it was a long time before I connected it to the age-checking thing.

I'll go out on a limb and say it's probably originally a german proverb. Because in german it rhymes:
"Einem geschenkten Gaul schaut man nicht ins Maul"
Maybe because of the rhyme I always considered it to be a native expression and not a classically inspired one, so I would never have made the connection with Troy.

I didn't know shitfaced meant drunk. I thought it meant real ugly.

Well, getting shitfaced does push some people more toward the ugly side, so maybe it's not totally wrong.

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