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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!

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Chersfrozenface · 24/05/2025 18:54

Someone advertising a three-piece suit on Facebook. Says "Waste is 17 inches flat so ~34 inches".

RobinHeartella · 24/05/2025 21:02

Someone suggested giving an ultimation on another thread

GarlicStyle · 24/05/2025 21:40

RobinHeartella · 24/05/2025 21:02

Someone suggested giving an ultimation on another thread

That's a weird word. Implies being more optimally optimal than the optimum, sort of thing. Overtones of 'the end of days'. Maybe that's what the poster did mean?!

Perhaps she's going to send this guy to sort her problem out.
https://outwar.fandom.com/wiki/Crantos_Defender_of_Ultimation

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RobinHeartella · 25/05/2025 08:25

GarlicStyle · 24/05/2025 21:40

That's a weird word. Implies being more optimally optimal than the optimum, sort of thing. Overtones of 'the end of days'. Maybe that's what the poster did mean?!

Perhaps she's going to send this guy to sort her problem out.
https://outwar.fandom.com/wiki/Crantos_Defender_of_Ultimation

Haha yes I did visualise a kind of Transformer booming your wife will leave you if you don't do the washing up

Cattery · 25/05/2025 08:43

“Wash up or your wife will leave you on Valentimes Day!”

Funnywonder · 26/05/2025 15:57

Just read a thread where someone was complaining about having posted an ‘inoculous thread’ only to be ripped apart. My brain is cycling between innocuous and inoculation in a state of terrible confusion🤣

thehorsesareallidiots · 26/05/2025 16:10

RobinHeartella · 25/05/2025 08:25

Haha yes I did visualise a kind of Transformer booming your wife will leave you if you don't do the washing up

Just think of all the good that Transformer could do in the world.

I am in the throws of irritation about all the people in the throws of stuff on here.

GarlicStyle · 26/05/2025 17:15

Throws of irritation for @RobinHeartella

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thehorsesareallidiots · 27/05/2025 08:40

I like the one made up of cactuses. That's definitely a throw of irritation 😁the rest of them are just annoyed people wrapped in throws.

Can I be a real pendant [sic] for a moment here? It's YEA or nay. Not yay. I'm not sure I've EVER seen that one correctly in the wild.

TheDevilWearPrimarni · 27/05/2025 12:42

I read a thread earlier about having blamange for pudding in the 1970s.

JuliaPargetter · 27/05/2025 18:01

thehorsesareallidiots · 27/05/2025 08:40

I like the one made up of cactuses. That's definitely a throw of irritation 😁the rest of them are just annoyed people wrapped in throws.

Can I be a real pendant [sic] for a moment here? It's YEA or nay. Not yay. I'm not sure I've EVER seen that one correctly in the wild.

Here here! Although I poo poo your idea of annoyed people in wraps.

Cattery · 28/05/2025 09:31

I always try to be courteous and polite; it was engraved in me from a young age

ASuitableName · 28/05/2025 17:31

I agree with @Cattery about being courteous and polite, as long as it’s not taken too far.
The waiter in the restaurant where we dined yesterday evening was extremely obsequinous, he was practically cow towing!

Cattery · 28/05/2025 17:31

ASuitableName · 28/05/2025 17:31

I agree with @Cattery about being courteous and polite, as long as it’s not taken too far.
The waiter in the restaurant where we dined yesterday evening was extremely obsequinous, he was practically cow towing!

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HopeSpringsInfernal · 28/05/2025 18:45

Cattery · 28/05/2025 17:31

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As long as he wasn't sheep russeling!

Cattery · 28/05/2025 18:50

Admittingly, he probably was

thehorsesareallidiots · 28/05/2025 18:52

ASuitableName · 28/05/2025 17:31

I agree with @Cattery about being courteous and polite, as long as it’s not taken too far.
The waiter in the restaurant where we dined yesterday evening was extremely obsequinous, he was practically cow towing!

This one next for AI to have a crack, pleeeeeease

GarlicStyle · 29/05/2025 07:34

An obsequinous, cow-towing waiter. Hope the diner's prepared to wait for his steak!
@thehorsesareallidiots @ASuitableName

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thehorsesareallidiots · 29/05/2025 07:45

I actually missed "obsequinous" on first read (my eyes did an autocarrot on it) and was like "whyyyyy is he so sparkly" 😁

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 29/05/2025 07:54

@GarlicStyle what is "boarder control"? why do so many people get this word wrong? the word is "border"!!!! is it because they talk slang landuage?

GarlicStyle · 29/05/2025 08:17

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 29/05/2025 07:54

@GarlicStyle what is "boarder control"? why do so many people get this word wrong? the word is "border"!!!! is it because they talk slang landuage?

No idea. Maybe they think the UK is a ship with pirates trying to board? 😂

Or perhaps they really, really hate skateboarders and that's what they want to control!

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GarlicStyle · 29/05/2025 08:28

Yeah, boarder control didn't work all that well ...

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KhaleesiLikeSundayMorning · 29/05/2025 10:29

GarlicStyle · 29/05/2025 07:34

An obsequinous, cow-towing waiter. Hope the diner's prepared to wait for his steak!
@thehorsesareallidiots @ASuitableName

No wonder the hospital tea industry is going to hell in a hen basket!

GarlicStyle · 29/05/2025 11:08

Going to hell in a hen basket with @KhaleesiLikeSundayMorning

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JuliaPargetter · 11/03/2025 11:33

This thread is on route to becoming a classic.

En route, surely?!

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