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From a New York Times op-ed about Italian politics:
Economic growth flatlined across the past two decades, while eye-wateringly high public debt has forestalled efforts to revive the country’s fortunes.
Personally, I don’t think “eye-wateringly” is a real word. What does it mean? Italy’s high public debt makes you cry? (Not me.) It’s high public debt is like chopping onions?
I see “eye-wateringly” all the time lately, with apparent meanings like “surprisingly” or “shockingly,” such as:
Holidays in the UK have always been eye-wateringly expensive.
In June, petrol was the main culprit again, rising by more than 20p a litre and making transport costs eye-wateringly high for the owners of cars, trucks and trains.
But the bill goes further. It gives ministers eye-wateringly broad powers.
But while “eye-watering” sounds bad, sometimes it is good:
And if eye-wateringly beautiful jungles and beaches leave you cold, then here are the other countries offering digital nomad visa schemes for remote workers.
In other words, “eye-wateringly” means “jaw-droppingly.” I suspect “eye-wateringly” used to be “eye-poppingly” — i.e., making your eyes bug out in astonishment, as in a Tex Avery cartoon:
Which became an even bigger Thing in SpongeBob SquarePants:
“Eye-poppingly” is still around although it’s being displaced by “eye-wateringly.” From CBS News in Minnesota this week:
“I mean, 1.8% is an eye-poppingly low unemployment rate.”
Or from Bleacher Nation:
He’d been performing well in the minors by the stat line, though not eye-poppingly so.
“Eye-wateringly” sounds like one of those Fleet Street Britisms like “jab” that have infiltrated the US media, perhaps because The Daily Mail and The Guardian don’t have paywalls.
Checking the use of the two terms in books, yes, “eye-wateringly” is a recent Britishism:
that has recently displaced the Americanism “eye-poppingly:”
But it’s still stupid.
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It’s because we all have allergies now.
The stealthy imperialism of free content. Soon they’ll have you all talking like Eastenders characters.
Not that East Enders would do anything as healthy as chase leather outdoors.
However, given the present state of the Daily Mail (which makes the National Enquirer look positively hidebound), perhaps the old Brookside might be nearer the mark.
There was a “gobsmacking” moment in the US press about three years ago. It stopped. This too shall pass.
'In a nutshell' is another tedious locution that flooded the vernacular for a while, but which seems finally to have had its day.Replies: @Anon, @Anonymous
The most eye-poppingly great cartoon examples come from Ren and Stimpy:
‘Gobsmacking’ — which is a truly awful word — is (or at least was) eye-wateringly common in UK English.
‘In a nutshell’ is another tedious locution that flooded the vernacular for a while, but which seems finally to have had its day.
https://youtu.be/A8M8qTclbho
How often do you water your eyes? More often than roses?
Humans afflicted with dry eye syndrome Legal Foundation has now joined with dozens of farmers lobbying organizations to force the state of California irrigation authority to release more water to keep alive California’s largest industry, farming and big agriculture.
One day last week I happened to hear Sky News covering the Conservative leadership contest, and was struck by the combination of middle-class English voices and vulgar, phony-demotic language. It wasn’t helped by all concerned having to go on and on when there was no actual news to talk about.
Have you ever seen Nigel Kneale’s TV play The Year Of The Sex Olympics? Made in 1968, it’s a dystopian-future piece about brainless sex-filled programming being put out to a zombified public, and has often been cited as a prediction of reality shows, but when I saw it in 2002 what struck me was that it shows the programme makers as having become inarticulate and stupid, too.
Supposedly, eye watering while cutting onions is due to cutting with a knife that is not sharp enough (there’s got to be a metaphor in that):
Never use a knife that's not sharp.
Eye-watering –
Perhaps it means it caught its dick in its zipper?
Because that will make your eyes water.
I am too busy bemoaning the fate of “kneebiter” in America to be bothered about “eye-watering.”
Eye-wateringly describes the reaction to receiving a cricket ball, rugby ball, or football on the balls.
Not that East Enders would do anything as healthy as chase leather outdoors.
Have you ever seen Nigel Kneale's TV play The Year Of The Sex Olympics? Made in 1968, it's a dystopian-future piece about brainless sex-filled programming being put out to a zombified public, and has often been cited as a prediction of reality shows, but when I saw it in 2002 what struck me was that it shows the programme makers as having become inarticulate and stupid, too.Replies: @J.Ross, @SunBakedSuburb
That’s actually a great little teleplay for those not put off by black and white or 60s British TV. Probably the best part are the insanely comfy looking control room chairs, which appear to have been extrapolated from the 60s belief that surely everything was going to get bigger, plus current Laz-E-Boy recliners.
Sex Olympics was actually made and originally shown in colour, but only exists in black and white. For some years now computer technology has made it possible to restore the colour in b/w film recordings of old TV shows, but early 70s Doctor Who seems to be the only thing commercially worth the expense and time of restoring in full.Replies: @J.Ross
https://youtu.be/KY8jvFqpZ_o?t=418Replies: @J.Ross, @slumber_j, @Veteran Aryan
Doubt. It’s a simple reaction. Maybe a sharp knife reduces spray upward at best.
I was going to bring up “gobsmacked” too but I wondered I was the only one who noticed it. Jonah Goldberg was an early adopter and seemed very pleased with himself every time he worked into a conversation. For awhile, everything was “on steroids.” I don’t watch television anymore so I don’t know if that one has faded.
I was at a small dinner party where he was the guest about 10 years ago and he came across as a smart guy. I was surprised that he became such a hard core Never Trumper.
My impression is that there is a big mysteriously harmonized collective effort at work to create evidence for Dave Rubin’s thesis that the Left (= the West) would be in a regressive mode. –
– Eye-watering is a reminder or a stand-in for crying, and that is what kids (and women too, that’s true) preferably do.
(A less complex explanation would refer to you as the noticer of this phenomenon and the fact, that you had eye surgery – lately, which might have affected your reception and made it more inclined to all things eye – and even eye-watering – related. – If I’d sum this up in postmodern/ deconstriuctivist Deuleuze-Guattarian mode I could say that there is a strictly Stevee-insight/ inside – in this little epistemological eye-catcher***machine…)
***the eye-catcher here stems from my mind’s lazy associative summer-morning mode, I have to ad(d)mit.
I cannot speak to what the Grauniad has been up to lately, as I went off it back when Sarah Jane was spotted reading a copy on a stone wall.
However, given the present state of the Daily Mail (which makes the National Enquirer look positively hidebound), perhaps the old Brookside might be nearer the mark.
I don’t mind “gobsmacked” as much as the superlatives “epic” and “super”. What I cringe over, however, is the verb “sourced”. Will this eventually go away along with the green/organic products it was first associated with?
I thought everything was “harrowing” lately.
But what about the “overarching” and the eternal “quintessential” moments? Will they never end?
Webster‘s Third, the big one from Merriam-Webster, lists “eyewater” as archaic for tears, aqueous humor, or eye lotion. But the big Collins, published in Scotland, has “eye-watering” as contemporary and meaning “painful or extremely unpleasant,” with an example applying it to high electricity bills.
"What anger so fierce that may not be quenched with eye-water"
So originally rooted in rage rather than sorrow or pain. My own last experience of the phenomenon though was due to the latter: a cricket ball in the nuts.
I looked at a random sample of emojis. Emojis with droplets emanating from eyes outnumbered popping eyes, for example eyes with hearts super imposed over eyes by like 5:1. This is possibly due to the apparently strict 2 dimensional nature of emojis.
Obviously it means enough to make you cry.
Yes, it is just a journalistic cliche.
Reminds me of an erstwhile Labour leader of the 60’s, possibly Harold Wilson or Dennis Healey, promising to squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.
Eye-popping sounds disgusting, and reminds me of productions of King Lear in which Gloucester has his eye gouged out and someone stands on a red grape dropped on the stage and pops it with their boot.
…and book a flight to Monaco or the West Indies, where such subjects are no longer subject to the likes of uh-uh Mr Wilson, uh-uh Mr Heath.
An option not available to well-off Yanks.
I’m pretty sure that non-word (which isn’t a word either!) is used because writers can get pretty lazy. One can just grab a word or phrase off of something he read, get its purported meaning from the context – as you do here – and stick it in his writing without ever even THINKING of any literal or dictionary meaning.
Modern “journalists” are nothing if not conformists too, so if one guy uses the word, the next guy figures it’s fine.
Doesn’t eye-watering also have to do with having to take a piss really bad? Perhaps these guys are writing from Starbuck’s whose bathrooms are still closed due to the Flu Manchu … and Supply Chain Issues?
https://youtu.be/KY8jvFqpZ_o?t=418Replies: @J.Ross, @slumber_j, @Veteran Aryan
That’s my experience in fact. I’m guessing that with a sharper knife fewer cells are getting broken.
There’s a lot more to cry about these days.
Where did the word “resilience” come from? Sure, it’s a regular word and all. But during the COVID era it’s use increased enormously (or should I say – to be fashionably modern – “exponentially”). Now everything is “resilient”. There are even VPs for Resilience. I figure it’s one of those McKinsey/WEF terms that got seeded into the language by technocrats. Like “supply chain”, another term that almost nobody used prior to March 2020.
The purpose of “resilience” seems to have been to imply that society was weak – fragile even – that everything was on the edge. And now, to be “resilient” we need to change everything. Change everything, that is, in ways that are recommended and approved of by government/business/NGO technocrats.
More importantly, you could characterize all of our zeitgeist as non-resilient. (Maybe "fragile" is the opposite of resilient, but it's not quite the same.) Reducing our resilience -- making us hopelessly dependent on the state or other authority figures to protect us and then to remedy any harm -- has been the left's goal. People are snowflakes now, but non-resilience extends to physical and not just psychological realms as well as to most institutions.
All of the news stories of people "running for their lives" at the slightest perturbation demonstrate this non-resilience. E.g., last weekend in Las Vegas a glass door shattered at MGM Grand and people were scrambling like headless chickens everywhere from there to Bally's, a mile away: https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/07/18/run-get-out-hide-fox5-reporter-describes-chaos-after-unfounded-reports-shooter-las-vegas-strip/.
Whatever happened to keeping calm, surveying the situation, and taking rational actions? Sure, some of these people running are just play-acting, thinking that's what they're supposed to do, relishing their minor victimhood, but I am sure that the reaction to such trauma is different now that it was in previous generations. I am not sure if America was ever a highly resilient nation -- we have been spared the constant turmoil of other places and maybe haven't needed to be -- but we are certainly getting less so, by design.Replies: @Mr. Anon
It means something painful, stupid but not complicated. “Skyrocketing” is my pet peeve. I have to admit that it conveys meaning efficiently, it just sounds like a dim child’s description of whatever is happening.
Jonah Goldberg also uses “don’t get me wrong” and “at the end of the day” both of which set my teeth on edge.
I was at a small dinner party where he was the guest about 10 years ago and he came across as a smart guy. I was surprised that he became such a hard core Never Trumper.
Speaking of stupid:
“You’re not going to get Covid if you have these vaccinations.”
Joe Biden
The “mother of all xxx” discourse faded out a long time ago. 23skidoo!
I don’t know the answer to why everything is “eye-watering” lately, but it could be interesting to trace the paths that neologisms (or local neologisms) go through, to see who is influenced by whom. I see the pattern in the iSteve commenting section: a commenter might use an unusual turn of phrase, maybe another commenter picks it up, then Steve uses it in a post, then it enters general circulation. Then it either dies out or changes history.
Or Steve just coins a neologism and changes history.
But seriously, one of the “data scientist”-types could find all the statistically improbable phrases* on Unz, then see when they appear and who uses them, and what the influencer-influencee pairs are.
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*Amazon used to show the SIPs (statistically improbable phrases) of the books it sold. I thought it was a remarkably good shorthand for what you could expect from a non-fiction title, especially when looked at in conjunction with the table of contents. But they stopped. Too helpful, I guess.
Perhaps it means it caught its dick in its zipper?
Because that will make your eyes water.Replies: @Almost Missouri
Wear underpants.
The memo just goes out on these things. “Cruel”, “heartbroken”, and “terrifying” are among those that appeared one day and then everywhere. I think it seeps in from PR professionals and then everyone adopts.
Lazy, and conformist: pretty much the exact opposite of what journalists were 100 years ago, and what an ideal type would be.
Nobody asked me, but my least favorite of these whatchamacallits is the “______ gate” tag assigned to every single scandal that has broken out over the last fifty years. Gamergate, Nipplegate, Climategate, Deflategate, Pizzagate, Debategate, . . . . Literally hundreds more.
Perhaps, like Becky Sharp, you threw away your dictionary?
Because of climate change, drought blizzards hurricanes and tornadoes caused by the very existence of humans. Eye watering, like lawn and garden watering, is restricted to every other day for one hour only in the American Southwest.
Humans afflicted with dry eye syndrome Legal Foundation has now joined with dozens of farmers lobbying organizations to force the state of California irrigation authority to release more water to keep alive California’s largest industry, farming and big agriculture.
What does it mean? Italy’s high public debt makes you cry?
Taken literally, may be yes. Some Italians may be saddened enough that their country is near default. They saw what happened to their friends across the Ionian Sea and it was not pretty. Remember PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain)? They have not gone away; they are just sleeping. All they need is a dinner bell.
Italy’s government collapsed yesterday.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/21/italys-economic-crisis-could-do-real-damage-to-us-and-global-markets/
More than 20 years ago I started using “panty piddling paranoia” to describe the way people were convinced that Islam would Conquer the World. As the years went on I used it less and less as fear of Islam gradually subsided, but of course I resurrected it in a big way to describe the way everyone thinks This Disease Thing is a Guaranteed Death Sentence.
My other favorite term is “The alt-right’s quasi-homoerotic black male physical superiority fetish.” That describes a high percentage of the Men of Unz. It began with Trayvon Martin, a scrawny teen who has been physically transformed after his demise into a tower of pure muscle.
Sounds like something Spiro Agnew would have said, like "nattering nabobs of negativism" or "pusillanimous pussyfooters."
Your eyes will spew salt water if you spend too much time looking at phones and computer screens. There is an easy fix!
well, our society have become extremeley feminized in recent decades, and women are known to cry far more than men…I think that is all there is to it
I saw ‘eye-watering’ first used with some regularity in The Economist perhaps half a decade ago, meaning ‘quite painful indeed’. I suppose the meaning is drifting because like US jourmalistes having a ‘free reign’.
'In a nutshell' is another tedious locution that flooded the vernacular for a while, but which seems finally to have had its day.Replies: @Anon, @Anonymous
At the end of the day.
Maybe “eye-watering” is a girl thing, because Women’s Tears.
But I’m not sure whether “eye-popping” is a boy thing. More research is needed.
I think sometimes a word can be used in a smaller environment. I negotiated contracts for the federal government back in the 1980s and had many interactions with IBM. For a brief period of maybe a few months their negotiators used the word “crisp” to describe their costing data. It meant that it was fresh and up-to-date. I don’t recall any other instance outside of that time period and that company where crisp was used in that way.
Let me know when the “-gate” suffix gets deep-sixed. I’m so over that.
The Daily Mail has cornered the market on “jaw-dropping,” so The Times had to go to eye-watering. I myself avoid vogue idioms, and stubbornly support whenever possible disappearing similes and usages. Recently I said to someone, “Missing that is like missing a tuba in a telephone booth” and I was pretty sure she did not know what a telephone booth is.
You say ‘con-tro-vers-y,’ I say ‘con-trov-er-sy,’ let’s call the whole thing off.
Substitue ‘ball-squeezing’ for ‘eye-watering’ and ‘eye-popping’. Ball-squeezing will made your eyes water and pop.
Only if done correctly.
Another bit I liked was an old-fashioned striptease being presented as “ARTSEX.”
Sex Olympics was actually made and originally shown in colour, but only exists in black and white. For some years now computer technology has made it possible to restore the colour in b/w film recordings of old TV shows, but early 70s Doctor Who seems to be the only thing commercially worth the expense and time of restoring in full.
Cliches are popular with semi liberate Fake News journalists.
Many of the items iSteve excerpts for his topics are so poorly written that in the old days you’d flunk high school journalism class. And English.
The most popular cliche seems to be “Trump’s false claims about 2020 election fraud…”
Someone should do a study of the popularity of Americanisms versus Britishisms over time.
In what periods do Americanisms take over the UK, more than the other way around?
I suspect that when the Beatles were opening for Little Richard, Americanisms were gaining ground, then after the start of the British Invasion, Britishisms were gaining ground.
I would imagine than Americanisms gained ground for most of the 20th Century, with the exception of 1963-1986.
Why? For the same reason that all at once Qatar was suddenly “Gutter” instead of “Ka-tar”. The insecure Hive Mind mentality of our self-proclaimed betters (who know in their heart of hearts that it’s not so).
Have you ever seen Nigel Kneale's TV play The Year Of The Sex Olympics? Made in 1968, it's a dystopian-future piece about brainless sex-filled programming being put out to a zombified public, and has often been cited as a prediction of reality shows, but when I saw it in 2002 what struck me was that it shows the programme makers as having become inarticulate and stupid, too.Replies: @J.Ross, @SunBakedSuburb
Nigel Kneale: wonderful imagination and stories that linger in the mind. I would say Kneale’s output was “eye-wateringly” ahead of its time but that would be too obvious.
Here’s something else that’s too obvious: Latinx Appreciation Day at the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum. A’s v. Astros. A’s lost. The Latinx-themed jalapeno-infused weenies turned the air in the male latrine “eye-wateringly” noxious.
That lack of originality never fails to amaze me. You’d think they’d have found a replacement by now. The original -gate was half a century and about five thousand scandals ago.
“Ball-squeezing will make your eyes water and pop.”
Only if done correctly.
It’s been around longer than that in the British media – at least 20 years. But a lot of people commenting here are misinterpreting it. It describes something that makes your eyes water, but not in the way they do from crying. It means the way the eyes react to excruciating pain in some part of your body.
In what periods do Americanisms take over the UK, more than the other way around?
I suspect that when the Beatles were opening for Little Richard, Americanisms were gaining ground, then after the start of the British Invasion, Britishisms were gaining ground.
I would imagine than Americanisms gained ground for most of the 20th Century, with the exception of 1963-1986.Replies: @Rob McX
One person who used Americanisms was King Edward VIII, not just after he met Wallis Simpson, but when he was still Prince of Wales in his twenties. In his private letters he would say “I guess”, and “ass” instead of arse. These terms were alien to English people at that time.
https://youtu.be/KY8jvFqpZ_o?t=418Replies: @J.Ross, @slumber_j, @Veteran Aryan
Onions and horseradish begin to oxidize immediately on contact with air. To stop this process, drop them directly into cold water for ten or fifteen minutes. Makes onions a lot more palatable for people who have issues with them.
Never use a knife that’s not sharp.
I’m seeing a sudden explosion of “dragging” from the social justice media battalions. Dragging: to publicly humiliate someone on a social media platform.
Well, would you Adam’n’Eve it!
My OED , Volume V p 634 has a source, one Southwell in 1690
“What anger so fierce that may not be quenched with eye-water”
So originally rooted in rage rather than sorrow or pain. My own last experience of the phenomenon though was due to the latter: a cricket ball in the nuts.
One person who used Americanisms was King Edward VIII, not just after he met Wallis Simpson, but when he was still Prince of Wales in his twenties. In his private letters he would say “I guess”, and “ass” instead of arse. These terms were alien to English people at the time.
Just in case you are not being sarcastic, it’s “free rein”, as in horses.
I don’t like this “eye-wateringly” fad either.
But more critically what is actually “eye-watering” about Italy is not remotely public debt, it is that Italians are flat out being replaced–and pretty quickly, one Italian replaced by some foreigner, often African, every 7 minutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Italy#Demographic_statistics
And that 7 minutes is an understatement as the already existing foreigners are much younger and much more fertile, so have an outsized contribution to the birth rate. I’d eyeball the real number–now–at more like one replacement every 5 minutes.
And it will get much, much worse very quickly. Italy–like Europe in general–had a later baby boom, and it maintained reasonably fertility up through the 70s. So Italy has a huge bulge of people in the 40-60 zone. But those Italian boomer-Xs (whatever you want to call ’em) did not reproduce so much, so much, much smaller cohorts (tumbling down to only half the peak size) after. As the Italian boomers start dying off quickly the population shift will be dramatic.
When your children go to enjoy “the experience of Italy” in 50 years it will be
another depressing African sludgediverse! In other words, the beauty of the people and culture of Italy will be destroyed–a substantial, tragic loss to actual diversity.That is what is “eye-watering” about Italy now, the impending destruction of its people. Somehow, I’d bet if that was happening in Israel or Nigeria the NYT would have worried, alarmist articles bemoaning the potential loss and urging action to turn it around. Instead of worried, alarmist articles about politicians bemoaning the potential loss and offering action to turn it around.
Maybe someone should try “-ghazi”.
Now there’s an idea.
“Resilience” had a renaissance after 09/11 — true that it was consultant-speak, but I think it’s an important concept that isn’t really captured by any other word. A resilient target is a bad choice for terrorists, for example.
More importantly, you could characterize all of our zeitgeist as non-resilient. (Maybe “fragile” is the opposite of resilient, but it’s not quite the same.) Reducing our resilience — making us hopelessly dependent on the state or other authority figures to protect us and then to remedy any harm — has been the left’s goal. People are snowflakes now, but non-resilience extends to physical and not just psychological realms as well as to most institutions.
All of the news stories of people “running for their lives” at the slightest perturbation demonstrate this non-resilience. E.g., last weekend in Las Vegas a glass door shattered at MGM Grand and people were scrambling like headless chickens everywhere from there to Bally’s, a mile away: https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/07/18/run-get-out-hide-fox5-reporter-describes-chaos-after-unfounded-reports-shooter-las-vegas-strip/.
Whatever happened to keeping calm, surveying the situation, and taking rational actions? Sure, some of these people running are just play-acting, thinking that’s what they’re supposed to do, relishing their minor victimhood, but I am sure that the reaction to such trauma is different now that it was in previous generations. I am not sure if America was ever a highly resilient nation — we have been spared the constant turmoil of other places and maybe haven’t needed to be — but we are certainly getting less so, by design.
Eye watering bad, mouth watering good.
As long as I don’t have to see the “drumbeat of bigotry”.
I loathe how it implies the deplorable hordes are marching in step to marginalize and stigmatize females, sexual deviants and non-whites.
'In a nutshell' is another tedious locution that flooded the vernacular for a while, but which seems finally to have had its day.Replies: @Anon, @Anonymous
400 years is quite a “day,” seeing as the phrase was coined by William Shakespeare.
Don’t forget “alarming,” an urban liberal favorite — as in “An alarming uptick in anti-Asian gun violence”
“Surging” and “raging”, as supposedly Covid has been.
How about “butt-rapingly”?
More importantly, you could characterize all of our zeitgeist as non-resilient. (Maybe "fragile" is the opposite of resilient, but it's not quite the same.) Reducing our resilience -- making us hopelessly dependent on the state or other authority figures to protect us and then to remedy any harm -- has been the left's goal. People are snowflakes now, but non-resilience extends to physical and not just psychological realms as well as to most institutions.
All of the news stories of people "running for their lives" at the slightest perturbation demonstrate this non-resilience. E.g., last weekend in Las Vegas a glass door shattered at MGM Grand and people were scrambling like headless chickens everywhere from there to Bally's, a mile away: https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/07/18/run-get-out-hide-fox5-reporter-describes-chaos-after-unfounded-reports-shooter-las-vegas-strip/.
Whatever happened to keeping calm, surveying the situation, and taking rational actions? Sure, some of these people running are just play-acting, thinking that's what they're supposed to do, relishing their minor victimhood, but I am sure that the reaction to such trauma is different now that it was in previous generations. I am not sure if America was ever a highly resilient nation -- we have been spared the constant turmoil of other places and maybe haven't needed to be -- but we are certainly getting less so, by design.Replies: @Mr. Anon
I don’t remember hearing it very much then, if at all. It seemed to bloom like algae long about April of 2020, belched forth from every globalist orifice.
Journalists writing for The Economist should instead use the phrase ‘pillow biting’.
Sex Olympics was actually made and originally shown in colour, but only exists in black and white. For some years now computer technology has made it possible to restore the colour in b/w film recordings of old TV shows, but early 70s Doctor Who seems to be the only thing commercially worth the expense and time of restoring in full.Replies: @J.Ross
I’d like to see those crazy shirts in color, they were like a combination of togae and daishiki.
A shameless and disturbing one with unintended Homeric import. I anticipate “Tilling.”
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Why does Joe Biden look like three different guys in photographs? Is that because he is three different guys and the real power is with fedslime like Vindman? But Vindman is three different guys …
A descriptive response I might use after asking my wife how her day went operating on men’s waterworks would be ball shrivelling. Either that or it might be a sign of old age.
She takes great pleasure in describing in detail the prostrate cutting tools that she assembles and how they are used. My eyes don’t just water, sometimes they cross over.
Perhaps eye-watering is now preferable to the traditional “mouth-watering”.
I suspect that he is a zombie possessed by multiple nefarious entities – Pazuzu, Cthulhu, Joe Isuzu. The various demons must have some kind of timeshare arrangement.
On the other hand, as non-words go, it’s better than “bowel-loosening.”
“panty piddling paranoia”
Sounds like something Spiro Agnew would have said, like “nattering nabobs of negativism” or “pusillanimous pussyfooters.”