do you know what I think of every time someone uses the phrase “I came across…?”
shooting one’s jizz across something.
There. i said it.
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gens@programming.dev 10 months ago
If i came across a bear, i’d sure remember it.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
M137@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I came across your mom the other day.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you could see the reality of what you just said, she was a hemiplegic in a wheelchair, she had bed sores, she is now cremated and sprinkled over her parents in a graveyard.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
In fact, the word “brown” is the morph of the original word for bear. Whatever humans used for brown was overshadowed long ago by the very experience of bear itself and the color became a permanent warning against that thing that the single most terrifying brown in existence.
sepia_sempervirens@yiffit.net 10 months ago
Well, maybe. There’s also a competing hypothesis that says it’s the other way around, i.e. “bear” is derived from “brown”; the old word for “bear” became taboo, possibility for fear that speaking the beast’s name would summon it. Either way, the fear of bears has certainly left a mark on the Germanic languages.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Describes the stimulus and the response.