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A Viscous Attack 🤣

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GarlicStyle · 09/03/2025 23:21

OK, I know it's a really easy mistake to make. It's just that every time I read this - more and more frequently - my mind conjures something like this. Enjoy!

A Viscous Attack 🤣
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RobinHeartella · 04/04/2025 10:56

GarlicStyle · 04/04/2025 09:30

Agreed!

I LOVE tragesties, @RobinHeartella. It deserves a place in the (correct) English lexicon, and I plan to use it as soon as I need to snark at comment on a tragic travesty.

I wish I could claim credit for it haha, it's from an old SNL sketch (30s in):

SnoozingFox · 04/04/2025 11:09

Just planning my lunch menu - think I'll have avacado on toast, maybe a Cesar salad? And no idea what to have for desert, maybe mackaronns?

Bone apple tea.

backslashruby · 04/04/2025 12:15

JaneJeffer · 04/04/2025 10:49

actually they’re correct 😬

cats in Rome are legally protected under Law 281. This law specifies that harming a cat is punishable by law, cats can live wherever they choose and cannot be relocated

Every day's a school day!😁

HopeSpringsInfernal · 04/04/2025 13:51

JaneJeffer · 04/04/2025 10:49

actually they’re correct 😬

cats in Rome are legally protected under Law 281. This law specifies that harming a cat is punishable by law, cats can live wherever they choose and cannot be relocated

This is true, but can they just wonder?

KhaleesiLikeSundayMorning · 04/04/2025 13:51

SnoozingFox · 04/04/2025 11:09

Just planning my lunch menu - think I'll have avacado on toast, maybe a Cesar salad? And no idea what to have for desert, maybe mackaronns?

Bone apple tea.

How about some expresso for after?

CarrieOnComplaining · 04/04/2025 13:59

Someone needs to go on to the Pregnancy / Birth board and warn that interventions in birth can become a Vicious Circus.
According to my NCT teacher.
And so it was.

Bignanna · 04/04/2025 15:44

When I was a nurse I had to give the patients bowels, so they could wash themselves.

TheDevilWearPrimarni · 04/04/2025 15:54

@KhaleesiLikeSundayMorning
I prefer a campuchino, personally.

TheaBrandt1 · 04/04/2025 16:15

Admit I would like to see a vicious circus. Sounds intriguing

RobinHeartella · 04/04/2025 16:31

CarrieOnComplaining · 04/04/2025 13:59

Someone needs to go on to the Pregnancy / Birth board and warn that interventions in birth can become a Vicious Circus.
According to my NCT teacher.
And so it was.

I'm really sorry. Me too.

KhaleesiLikeSundayMorning · 04/04/2025 16:47

TheaBrandt1 · 04/04/2025 16:15

Admit I would like to see a vicious circus. Sounds intriguing

If they were to attack me, I would go for the juggler

TheSillyCrab · 04/04/2025 16:58

I'm being treated like an escape goat. And to all intensive purposes.

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 04/04/2025 17:23

@GarlicStyle ye gods!! just read this one in a thread! is it a new flavour of kebab?? relying on the sperm doner

HopeSpringsInfernal · 04/04/2025 17:31

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 04/04/2025 17:23

@GarlicStyle ye gods!! just read this one in a thread! is it a new flavour of kebab?? relying on the sperm doner

Whale meet again?

GarlicStyle · 04/04/2025 17:55

HopeSpringsInfernal · 04/04/2025 17:31

Whale meet again?

OMG, that works whichever way you interpret it 😂

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HopeSpringsInfernal · 04/04/2025 18:03

GarlicStyle · 04/04/2025 17:55

OMG, that works whichever way you interpret it 😂

😁 I couldn't decide which way to spell it

KhaleesiLikeSundayMorning · 04/04/2025 18:13

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 04/04/2025 17:23

@GarlicStyle ye gods!! just read this one in a thread! is it a new flavour of kebab?? relying on the sperm doner

Seems like there was a misconcepcion there

Cattery · 05/04/2025 09:13

Seen on an exchange board in a supermarket many years ago “gunea pigs for sale. Lovely walking pets”. I’ve never been able to interpret the second statement. (Or is it so literal and I’ve been overthinking it all these years?)

CaptainMyCaptain · 05/04/2025 09:19

Cattery · 05/04/2025 09:13

Seen on an exchange board in a supermarket many years ago “gunea pigs for sale. Lovely walking pets”. I’ve never been able to interpret the second statement. (Or is it so literal and I’ve been overthinking it all these years?)

Baby guinea pigs can walk and do everything as soon as they're born so I have no idea what they meant by that.

RobinHeartella · 05/04/2025 09:32

Cattery · 05/04/2025 09:13

Seen on an exchange board in a supermarket many years ago “gunea pigs for sale. Lovely walking pets”. I’ve never been able to interpret the second statement. (Or is it so literal and I’ve been overthinking it all these years?)

Typo for working pets?

Some dogs are bred as working dogs. Sheepdogs herd sheep for example. Other working dogs are good at retrieving shot birds, hunting rats.

Some guinea pigs are working guinea pigs. Herding (beetles), retrieving (lost keys), hunting (silverfish).

Good, pedigree, working guinea pigs

SonoPazziQuestiRomani · 05/04/2025 19:11

Can we eek out this thread abit longer?

KhaleesiLikeSundayMorning · 05/04/2025 19:40

We’ve barely scratched the tip of the iceberg

JuliaPargetter · 06/04/2025 00:06

Yes, you can’t all be wary already

GarlicStyle · 06/04/2025 06:19

Though I'm loathed to admit it, @JuliaPargetter, I am weary of been too pendantic.

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SonoPazziQuestiRomani · 06/04/2025 08:00

I realised I've made a grammer mistake in another thread I started. If only I hadn't of let my eyes wonder I wouldn't of bin so silly. It's my just desserts for been such a pendant I recon.

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