The best “I told you so”s are the ones where you never have to say “I told you so” because the other person clearly knows you told them so

[maeve@kbin.earth]

I'm working on taming my inner beasts. I imagine it's a lifetime endeavor (and I also imagine for some, excessive humility can be a wild beast).

Those skirts did have hoops! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_skirt

[skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de]

i mean external schengen zone border

[benjaben@lemmy.world]

OOF, cheers and well done homie! That's delicious.

[benjaben@lemmy.world]

I love botched idioms so much. "It's not rocket surgery" is my go to, but the best ones are unintentional (and completely torture the original).

Best I've heard lately was on the air, local NPR affiliate, and the unfortunate lass said something, complimenting I think a film director, saying "He's hitting all cylinders at just the very top level".

(The original is "firing on all cylinders", which just describes an internal combustion engine working properly and not suffering from that particular degradation, cylinders misfiring. Hitting them, anywhere, let alone "at the top level", is utter nonsense and it was delightful to me, she flat out abused that idiom)

[delphia@lemmy.world]

You would love some of the "Fick-isms" from the Arisen book series.

"Hey! If you put your dirty dick beaters on her again I'm gonna light you on fire and put it out with a fork!"

[prex@aussie.zone]

[jlh@lemmy.jlh.name]

imagine waiting at borders

[benjaben@lemmy.world]

Color me intrigued!

[benjaben@lemmy.world]

ENTIRELY possible that this exact line is what sent me down the path of noticing and loving tortured idioms. And I forgot all about it, so thanks!!

[forrgott@lemm.ee]

My favorite recently was when a friend said, "Reap the fruit of my loins".

[valmond@lemmy.world]

EU member: borders?

[valmond@lemmy.world]

Oh, outside civilization...

[appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

This weird thing that falls apart between countries because it's not in active use

[thedoozer@lemmy.world]

So, like, labor and delivery?

[delphia@lemmy.world]

Its a zombie apocalypse book series following the last of the spec ops operators in the world as they hit hot zones and try to piece together the elements of the cure the world was working on before everywhere but the UK was overrun.

The Audiobook is particularly good.

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

Oh my god......it's like I'm looking at the skirts BONES!!!! It looks so weird. It IS so weird!!! Why did they invent this???

[gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works]

Funny you should say that - as a matter of fact, whale bone was frequently used in women’s dresses and corsets back in those times.

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I've become more and more empathetic with age, to the point where I sometimes feel bad about being correct and in a "told you so" situation. It's weird. I have found myself couching it with like, "well it was confusing, and I get why you thought it was X" or, "Oh wow, I thought I was wrong and you were right. That's surprising actually," or whatever, to soften the blow.

I think what it comes down to is: I don't want to make a person feel bad for being wrong about something because that's how you learn. I probably overcorrect a bit though...

[jjjalljs@ttrpg.network]

I'm going to guess erp doesn't mean "erotic role play" here but maybe you had a niche job.

[jjjalljs@ttrpg.network]

I'm usually more interested in what they learned than rubbing their face in it.

Like, are they going to listen to me next time or are we going to keep having this problem?