New hobby idea: using phrases that sound like down-home folksy expressions you learned from your grandma but are actually just nonsense you just made up
- that man really salts my melon!
- you know what they say, it takes a bushel of corn to feed one chicken
- a louse will live on any head it lands on
- don’t put down a salt lick and say you ain’t got cows
- there’s a guy who eats half the berries and says the pie shell’s too big
- like digging a pond and hoping for ducks
This was supposed to be a joke and all but as a southerner, these still make sense.
its weird these don’t mean anything but you can still kind of intuit what they would mean if they were things people actually said.
@lexicalpsychopathy I literally can’t help but picture you saying all of these
That man really salts my melon: Salt is actually frequently added to melons around here, so someone who salted your melon would be doing you a favor, or make something more appealing. Even though the framing presents it as a negative thing, so maybe you’d use it for someone who annoys you by doing you a favor.
It takes a bushel of corn to feed one chicken: Even if something might seem like a small ask, over time it might add up. A single chicken might eat a small amount of corn in a single day, but over time you’ll find you’ve bought lots of corn. Therefore, something that seems miniscule may in fact be a large commitment.
A louse will live on any head in lands on: Everyone can suffer through bad times and ill luck, regardless of their lot in life. (ie, anyone can suffer from depression, even if they haven’t got it “bad enough”)
Don’t put down a salt lick and say you ain’t got cows: There are multiple possible meanings for this. My favorite is don’t take time fixing a problem you don’t even have, ie, if you don’t have cows, you don’t have the problem of your cows needing a salt lick.
There’s a guy who eats half the berries and says the pie shell’s too big: Don’t blame circumstances for a problem of your own creation.
Like digging a pond and hoping for ducks: Don’t just hope something will turn out after one step, actually follow through all of them. Your pond could attract ducks, sure, or you could just go get ducks to live in your pond.
Seriously, every single one of these nonsenses you just made up follow a certain internal logic and make perfect sense.
Family sues PETA for $9 Million for stealing, killing their dog
Maya was a family-owned, healthy Chihuaua. PETA members were filmed stealing Maya from private property, which they denied until they were told they were filmed. After the family called asking about where their pet was, PETA delivered them a gift basket and told them that Maya was dead.
It is illegal in the state of Virginia for a shelter to kill an animal that comes to them without waiting five days, and PETA was fined $500 for doing so. The day of the incident, PETA also took in other animals from the same park that may or may not have been stolen, including kittens, a lab mix, a puppy, and another chihuahua. These animals were also killed the same day, without effort to find homes for them. Multiple accounts of current and former PETA workers describe that the organization routinely kills healthy animals, including 97.5% of the animals they take in. Sometimes animals are killed in the back of PETA vans, before even making it to the shelter. “Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved,” PETA CEO Ingrid Newkirk said at a press conference.
Four months after the incident with Maya, PETA responded. Even though the thieves knew the park well and had personally met with Maya and her owners, they claim that they didn’t realize the dog was owned.
I hope peta gets put in so much legal and financial trouble that it’s forced to disband. Peta is aweful.
I really wanna know what’s so problematic about having small secrets and big secrets of your own characters, or drawing Gore especially when you tag it, or joining a fandom brcause you enjoy the game or show. sking opinion…. Seriously first of all they’re called secrets for a reason, it’s just a way to put lightly the fact that they’re SPOILERS TO A STORY.
Apparently the Steven Universe crew is bad:
-keeps secrets for their story -drew/animated body horror of the cluster gems, people being stabbed, and kids getting beaten up -some members of the crewniverse like Overwatch and some animes
Yep. They’re all bad. Horrible people.
cant believe this
where’s the callout for those things
the worst part is that some people actually believe that the crewniverse is horrible for having complex characters and conflicting situations and harassed lauren zuke off of twitter.
this really effeminate lady came to my store yesterday and like….her hair and makeup were done super well and she had a casual outfit on and we talked and she said she also worked in the mall. she told me at her department store, a bunch of people come in and take shit so i was like “wheres security?” and she was like “i AM security” and pulled up her sleeves and showed me a bunch of bruises and scars and she was like “i love hand to hand combat” and i? have never fallen in love so Quick? holy shit
