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[โ€“] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[โ€“] AlecSadler 27 points 1 month ago

Alright, this ends the thread.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey I was still using those.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Sorry, didn't realize you still needed your skin. Here, you can have it back

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Is that like mclovin?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Removing gloves? Also this implies the existence of "gloving"

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

A very useful word, though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'll try, but I am not the smartest with lvl. 2 and 3.

Level 1: Sounding
Level 2: God
Level 3: Wrongdoing

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)
  1. ???? No replacement word
  2. Deity
  3. fault
[โ€“] dnick 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not sure what you're attempting there, trying to make it so his choices aren't useful?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Capitalism/Greed on Level 3 please.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't believe no one said skibidi

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

My knowledge of that "word" is the fact that it exists and that is all. There is nothing for me to unlearn.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'd be very happy to never hear a scandal described by having "gate" as a suffix.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Please wait. Before the suffix -gate goes away for good I want a fence-related scandal that we can call gate-gate. Then it can be retired.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Or cyber as a prefix

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I had to look it up. Ew

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Don't you mean santorum?

[โ€“] LambdaRX 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Level 3 is a big part of the storyline in "The Memory Police" by Yoko Ogawa

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This ask reminds me of this Kids in the Hall sketch

https://youtu.be/lStcwT_RGrQ

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I delineate that to be true

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Removing half the body by cleaving the left and right sides apart.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

the victim being trapped between two small boats, one inverted on top of the other, with limbs and head sticking out, feeding them and smearing them with milk and honey, and allowing them to fester and be devoured by insects and other vermin over time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
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[โ€“] electronVolt 2 points 1 month ago

The word 'due' as in 'due to covid.' I hear it everywhere now, especially from young people. I want the word 'because' to make a comeback.

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