I thought I saw it on top on the most popular list. Guess I got them confused.
I appreciate the idea of the King being trained in proper, polished RP oratory by an Australian.
My mistake, that must not have registered with me.
Yeah; in my early twenties I used to think, though I don’t know whether I said it to anybody, “Cars, jobs, and periods: the only thing worse than having one is not having one.”
Then I found work that I liked and some of my friends started wanting to get pregnant, so I stopped thinking that. But it still applies for some people in some situations.
How did I miss that?
As a further note, I haven’t even heard of several of those.
Don’t think there’s an option for that….
Car colors: I just picked the first 7 that weren’t white, black, silver, or gray.
Some of those colors were… memorable.
Where I live people referring to “New York” could possibly mean NYC but more like elsewhere in the state because people nearly always specify when it’s New York City. I’ve been to the New York Ren Faire 7 or 8 times and no one has ever confused Tuxedo Park for NYC when I’ve mentioned it, nor have they assumed my two work trips for conferences held in NY were in New York City.
I assume it’s a location based thing, because while we’re close enough that New York is a plausible daytrip, a person referring to attending an event in “the city” would much more likely mean Boston, were they to say “the city” in the first place.
It is certainly location based. We had a guy at work who insisted that he did not live in South Jersey. He was asked when he refers to “The City” what is that referring to. He begrudgingly admitted it was Philadelphia. Case closed.
Regarding the Democratic vs. Trump-supporter one:
I think there is a slight difference. It’s one thing to say someone is “lazy” or “malignant” - those are character issues. The one about “wanting free money from the government,” though, is more of a tangible thing, more of a policy issue. It’s not an exaggeration necessarily to say that wanting more Covid-relief stimulus, or wanting student loan debt relief, or wanting Universal Basic Income, is in fact “wanting free money from the government.”
Now, what you could do, though, is point out what Gavin Newsom did - that it’s actually red states who get subsidized a lot more, financially, by blue states than vice versa. You could throw that back in her face. You could also point out that every single Republican who got a PPP loan forgiven (such as Marjorie Taylor Green) or any Republican who got a Pell Grant for college, got free money from the government. But I don’t think the “(some, or many,) Democrats want free money from the government” statement is necessarily false. I’ve known quite a few people - red or blue - who did in fact want just that, free money.
It’s a ridiculously stupid argument. Everyone wants free money, and as long it’s legal nobody cares where it came from.
Political “debate” has devolved so fully into “the other side is [insert insulting epithet here]” that — even if there is indeed a clear difference between the sides — there is no difference between those two reductive and counterproductive sweeping generalizations.
Because of the birth control I’ve been on as well as having my two kids, I haven’t had a menstrual period in about 18 years. While I love not having to worry about it, there are times when I REALLY wish I could have used the indicator to know if things were working the way they were supposed to.
I had a girlfriend who did that (though, she did not have any young’uns). She just skipped past the pink ones and kept taking the white ones. I hear that there is not any issue with skipping the pink ones, they were just added in there to appease the sensibilities of some ranking religious dudes.
Pills aside, there are birth control methods – I’m thinking specifically Depo Provera – which stop ovulation and thus, menstruation. One of my partners years ago was delighted by that side effect.
I read a lot of decor books and magazines, so I’ve known for years that there was a color called Elephant’s Breath. Made by the same company that makes Mouses’s Back.
I’m 100% okay with designers giving their colors weird names. I bought a green car once because I really liked the particular shade of green it was. But if it had been listed as “green” or even “light green” on a website, I’d have thought, “Ugh, no!” and moved on. But if you call your particular soft green color “River Mist” or whatever, I’ll go look at it to see what it is.
I once had a car with the color “jolly green”, which summed up the shade pretty well.
mmm
Was it the color of a particular Giant?