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Are The Straights OK?

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Is someone holding these poor souls hostage and forcing them to be together?

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[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

In the US it has stronger connotations of being really angry (not just annoyed, furious). "Pissy" or "feeling pissy" can mean annoyed. Pissed in the sense of being drunk isn't used much if at all. We also don't much use the phrase "taking the piss" to mean deceiving someone or joking around.