[-] bricklove@midwest.social 3 points 5 days ago

Ass as in donkey and ass as in butt have different etymologies. The donkey one likely comes from Latin asinus and the butt one is from dropping the r in arse, which comes from the PIE root *ors- meaning butt/backside

[-] bricklove@midwest.social 12 points 5 days ago

I thought they were following our lead

[-] bricklove@midwest.social 49 points 3 weeks ago

When you're used to seeing the word classist it takes a second to remember a classicist isn't someone who is prejudiced against ancient Greeks and Romans.

[-] bricklove@midwest.social 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Now the day I was born The nurses all gathered 'round And they gazed in wide wonder At the horror they had found The head nurse spoke up Said, "Leave this one for dead" She could tell right away That my bones were bad

My bones are bad My bones are bad B-B-B-B-Bad B-B-B-B-Bad B-B-B-B-Bad

My bones are bad

[-] bricklove@midwest.social 55 points 1 month ago

Seems like everything is a pronoun these days. Anything can be a pronoun too. Could I even be one?

[-] bricklove@midwest.social 44 points 1 month ago

In Soviet Russia memory manages you!

[-] bricklove@midwest.social 42 points 3 months ago

Did you have the light switch outside the bathroom too? That way your friends can make you poop in the dark

[-] bricklove@midwest.social 48 points 3 months ago

Look, I'm sorry I didn't vote in 2016 but I've voted every time since then and started paying attention to local politics. Now I have a protected bike lane next to my neighborhood and the roads aren't full of holes

[-] bricklove@midwest.social 48 points 5 months ago

I love the attention to detail in the armor. It looks straight from 15th century Germany (well, the area eventually known as Germany)

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Something made by properly paid workers

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40" Stainless Rule (midwest.social)
[-] bricklove@midwest.social 52 points 11 months ago

The IDF must really love killing Palestinians. They can't even stop for a few days. They need an intervention

[-] bricklove@midwest.social 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It comes from Latin iactare meaning "to cast". Over time the c was dropped as French evolved and the i shifted to a y consonant and we get yeter. Once it was borrowed into English it further changed as the -er was dropped and short e became a long ee following the great vowel shift.

I am lying but most of those bits are facts and I'm actually describing the etymology of jet. Also the proto Indo European ye is hilariously uncanny.

[-] bricklove@midwest.social 124 points 11 months ago

I feel this whole case is everything wrong with the justice system (aside from him actually facing consequences). A corrupt cop with a history of violence gets attacked in an overpopulated and understaffed prison where folks are punished instead of rehabilitated.

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