A stitch in time saves nine.

This refers to a time when clothes were hard to come by and often homemade. If they tore, a small tear could be fixed with one stitch of needle and thread, but if let go too long, it would take many more stitches to repair a bigger rip.

Change your oil (or tires) in time, or change your car.

I'd bet you dollars to RAM...

Also, I enjoy etymology. To me donuts will always be doughnaughts. (Naught meaning nothing or zero. Essentially zeroes made of dough.)

I came here for this comment. Thanks OP.

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This symbol, the ampersand, used to have equal status with letters of the alphabet and was stuck at the end after Z.

That's how it got its name. People would say "X,Y,Z, and, per se, And". (And "sort of" an and). Thus, "And per se And" became Ampersand.

Amen.

What the people who want to control us don't want us to realize is that you have a lot more in common with the Chinese/Russian/Ukrainian/Mexican/Indian working class... Factory worker/programmer/hard-working house wife... Then you do with your own political leaders and billionaires. People with servants who don't ever worry about bills. (Biden, Trump, Harris, Vance, Elon, Gates, Bezos, etc)... Don't look at the foreigners as different and the enemy... Look at the Rich and the Politicians (who want us to blame the foreigners)

When someone is abusive or hurtful to you, 90% of the time it's not your fault. It's that there is something wrong or something broken in them. They are malfunctioning and it's necessary to understand that.

The other 10%.... Well, own that and fix your mistake.

But a very large majority of the time, it's them being broken and wrong.

In English, the days of the week are named for Norse gods (or the pantheon)... All except Saturday. Sunday... The sun Monday... The moon Tuesday... Tew/Tiw, Norse god of war and justice Wednesday... Wodin (Odin), the all father Thursday... Thor, God of lightning and thunder Friday... Freyja, the lady, goddess of love.

Except Saturday. The Norse called Saturday laundry day. Laugerdagr. Great word actually....

But the English wouldn't have it so they went with the roman God Saturn for Saturday.

^ This answer. He wants the US Treasury for his own. But also, he knows money is just a way of keeping score. If he wants to accomplish great things, he needs a slave race working blindly for him. (Musk having been raised in South Africa, apartheid was a real thing. Small white ruling class with all the money over the black native population who were treated like dogs). His goal is to bring that here and D.T. will help him.

They are both broken people inside. Something is very wrong in there and I pray it gets fixed/better.

(>Old people are unrelatable, so they can fuck off.<)

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It's crazy how expensive it is to be alive.

Early 1800's France... Printing presses were very common and flyers and placards were being produced en masse.

The printing presses would make a clicking sound repeatedly. Or, in French "cliché"...

Cliché... a repeated phrase or word that has grown mundane.

Also, working at a flour mill, as I do... If you want the best, purest flour, you get it from the head (start of) the milling process before flakes of wheat bran (the skin of the wheat kernel) can get ground up and mixed with the pure, white flour.

Head of the mill flour is more expensive and aesthetically pleasing but not always necessary.

If you are making breading or pretzels, you are not worried about color or rise, so you buy flour that runs the whole process of the mill. "Run of the mill" flour.

Run of the mill... Average, commonplace

Visiting Nurse Ratchet.

Putting a letter in Nurse Ratchet's inbox.

God Damnit.

Someone I grew up with.

Well, 79 ain't too bad. And she did a hella job.

Thank you, Teri.

Shhh, eating my 'Mato and Mayer sandwich. Mmmm.

VLC...

Legen (wait for it)..... dary.

Great book by a Swede... The 100 year Old Man who Climbed Out A Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. Surprisingly good and funny. Light hearted. If you like books about people being on the road. Good stuff.

"The devil bowed his head cuz he knew that he'd been beat and laid that golden fiddle on the ground at Johnny's feet."

Competition has always been a fine part of being a human. Betting as well. I'm still wondering which Roman family has Jesus' fine robe.

The devil lost. He conceded.

Or alternatively, you could cut the bottom out of a plastic 3-liter soda bottle, make a tin foil screen to go over the top, submerge it in the full kitchen sink, and pull a deep gray, opaque gravity bong hit.

Tbh, I usually didn't remember what happened after the first hit because, even with 5% mexican brick weed this was still a pretty effective method of meeting Jesus on a jet plane.

Yeah, but the smallest is also the largest... Because Pil-grams were also Puri-Tons!

Yeah, I just did.

Genius. You are an amazing person. Reminds me of a Kurt Vonnugut quote....

"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind."