#mixedmetaphor — Public Fediverse posts
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> “For a program that’s been around since 2013, it was shocking that you’d come
> across its cancellation, effectively, in the corner of the bowels of a subpage of the internet.”TWEEET!
Doubly-mixed metaphor; 10-yard penalty. Repeat first down.
#whistle #football #penalty #metaphor #MixedMetaphor #LanguagePolice
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I don't get it -- is this a wrestling metaphor? When you squeeze somebody do they roll over?
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"They were torn between two fires."
John H. Dent
(03/10/1908 – 04/09/1988)
US Representative (PA)
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Legislators do not merely mix metaphors: they are the Waring blenders of metaphors, the Cuisinarts of the field. By the time you let the head of the camel into the tent, opening a loophole big enough to drive a truck through, you may have thrown the baby out with the bathwater by putting a Band-Aid on an open wound, and then you have to turn over the first rock in order to find a sacred cow.
Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (1989-09-17), “On Language: The Legislative Mangle,” New York Times MagazineMore info about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/79685/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #communication #metaphor #mixedmetaphor #politicians #rhetoric
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@wackJackle problem: judo der macht - das funktioniert nur, solange es überrumpelt. also besser ein paar züge im voraus denken #mixedmetaphor
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@coachgowron
Haha, very true, as well as being a gloriously #MixedMetaphor! -
2/2 But I'm actually even more inconsiderate than that.
I want to take all the boxes away! Those boxes mean that cis people don't have to do the work and can go on pretending that they live in a world they understand.
I want cis people to take on the discomfort of being uncertain of another person's gender identity and just LIVE with that uncertainty Permanently. There's no reason you need to know my gender identity in most meetings and social events.
(OK, don your eye protection because I'm about to take off my normal-person mask. The harsh light of autistic lack-of-theory-of-mind blasts out whenever I do that, and it makes people uncomfortable.)
We're none of us cis. When it comes to gender, we're all floating in a confusing sea of what-the-fuck, and our gender identities are just flotsam we're holding on to to keep us afloat.
That's OK. It's better to float than to drown. Or you can surf! Or scuba dive...
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Eternal Punishment
Stubborn rock, bound to
Sisyphus in immortal
Struggle, love's labor's lost.
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You can bring a dead gift horse of a different color to water under a burned bridge, but you can't look him in the mouth while he drinks.
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Vulcan in the streets, Illithid in the sheets.