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Late response, but Wiktionary puts cat’s ass and plural quails together to mean buttocks (I wish I’d found this before manually looking up each symbol!):
Just add an extra email or two of onion, and a little extra oif to allow for the quantity.
𓃘 or 𓀗 or 𓀐 are all good substitutes until we can find out.
I know literally nothing about hieroglyphs, but I found all the individual symbols (I think):
𓄤 𓆑𓂋𓅱𓏭𓄖𓎡𓏭
Good little article on the phrase origin here. Excerpt from the quoted 1838 editorial:
Ensconced in his mail of proof—for defence purely, his disposition being no ways bellicose—he snugly nestleth in his mucid bed, revels in quiescent luxury, in the unctuous loam that surroundeth him, or, with slow and dignified motion, worketh nearer the surface, as the summer suns warm the roof of his mud-palace, or sinketh deeper within, from the nipping frosts of winter.
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You can't park there, mate@feddit.uk•You can't park in the castle garden, mate!
5·12 days agoFor those curious, this is Deal Castle, on the east coast of Kent in south-east England. Is one of a string of forts ordered by Henry VIII.
This crash happened in September 2018, and another car did the same two months later. I can’t find a non-spammy article to link to, though.
egrets@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Andrew's prince title and HRH style formally removed by the KingEnglish
6·22 days agoIn my embellished mental image of this, you’re careening down the wrong side of the road, puzzled why everyone’s flashing their lights at you and honking, until one of you says, “Oh, it must be the number plate.”
It’s okay, you don’t have to be that animal, I was asking for myself.
Which animal embodies, “the concept of success is a capitalist mindset that keeps you buying things you don’t need and comparing yourself to others, which robs you of contentment and some happiness”?
I eyeballed an edit, because the horizon line and lack of squareness bothered me:

Holy shit, you actually made the meter work too. Normally on the web, it’s the first casualty.
egrets@lemmy.worldto
Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•"How do you pronounce Mary/merry/marry?"
4·26 days agoNot to mention that despite the impact of TV and radio, UK accents are wildly variant and it’s pretty much a guarantee that there’ll be corners that don’t make distinctions between at least two of these words.
There’s no such thing as “regular English” in the UK; the Thames Estuary accent is prescriptivism, not regularity.
It could be coincidence, but there’s an antiquated term for a mace or morningstar, bommyknocker. People on the web seem to attribute it to a children’s book from the 90s, but I’ve found much older uses in the past, both in the UK and in Oceania. Similar to your name and not a very dissimilar tool.
Edit: I guess it’s obvious I skimmed your answer! You’ve already made the connection.
Continued the survival of the species, so now I have to sit in meetings and press buttons all day. Thanks for nothing, protopeople.
egrets@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I finally get the joke I think on calling X (twitter) xitter
1·28 days agodeleted by creator
egrets@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to helpEnglish
52·29 days ago“You fell for a phishing scam and hadn’t enabled two-factor authentication” is more likely, followed closely by “You used the same password for another service/platform that got compromised”.
Microsoft are being unhelpful here and deserve to be criticised, but the fault for the “hack” is almost certainly the responsibility of the user.
egrets@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Messages in a bottle from WWI soldiers found on Australian coastEnglish
15·1 month agoI think the BBC has made the wrong assumption when cribbing from ABC or another news source.
Ms Brown has tracked down the great-nephew of one of the soldiers, Private Malcolm Alexander Neville, who came from Wilkawatt in South Australia.
He said his aunt, who was now 101, always told stories over the years of “Uncle Malcolm” and how he never returned home from the war.
I guess she, born in 1924, had heard a lot of stories from her parents or other families about him.






The link is an archive of OP’s article, for anyone wondering if they should click.