A: Ketchup / catsup's sole raison d'être is to provide a socially-acceptable way for adults to add sugar to savoury foods.
B: No way! I just like the taste!
A: Ah, sorry. So you'll be switching to unsweetened ketchup, then?
B: ...
A: Ah.
#ketchup #catsup #sugar #savoury #excuse #sweet #unsweetened #DidntThinkSo
GHOST PROPERTY ПРИМАРНА ВЛАСНІСТЬ
汝、ゴミ制度を焼却せよ！
Спали систему сміття!
https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=26960192
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#ＡＩ生成 #roof #whose #hell #like #give #damn #city #hypocrite #just #blind #eye #graveyard #memories #left #rot #die #scrap #paper #sneers #owner #unknown #someone #else #land #but #cheap #excuse #your #called #justice
GHOST PROPERTY ПРИМАРНА ВЛАСНІСТЬ
汝、ゴミ制度を焼却せよ！
Спали систему сміття!
https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n03418b09596f
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#ＡＩ生成 #roof #whose #hell #like #give #damn #city #hypocrite #just #blind #eye #graveyard #memories #left #rot #die #scrap #paper #sneers #owner #unknown #someone #else #land #but #cheap #excuse #your #called #justice
#Zensur gegen #Hassverbrechen im #Netz ist unerlässlich und wenn man Menschen, die sich gegen #Hass aussprechen und dagegen engagieren, sanktioniert, ist man wohl selber ein #Nazi. Wenn das den Amerikanern nicht passt, sollen sie sich verpissen aus #Europa. So einfach ist das ! No #Excuse for #Hatespeech. Man muss die #Amis noch viel härter sanktionieren.
#Macron beschuldigt #Trump der „#Einschüchterung und #Nötigung“
Lest the Moon Blushes 月も赤らむほどに Part 2
[Continued from previous post]
Before answering, Shishi took an object from a bag at her feet. "I would like to learn one more transformation. It's something that would make Ume happy."
“What is it? Oh, a book. Let me see it.”
"I found it in a bookstore. It’s from the Edo period,” Shishi explained. “Look.”
Maiyoi held the book up to the moonlight and ran her fingers across the cover. "It's faded. Wait, I have it! It's an etiquette guide. Whatever do you have in mind? Does Ume like strict mistresses or is it librarians?”
Shishi laughed. “Neither of those. I might like a strict mistress, but Ume wouldn’t. Let me do this. I want to surprise you both, you now and Ume Christmas morning. Is it okay if I learn to do possession tomorrow?”
“Oh, ho, ho. Do you think you can learn that in one night? But we can start tomorrow. I would be a fine #excuse of a teacher if I wouldn't help my student make her lover happy. Let's begin. Face the Big Dipper.” Maiyoi wrapped her arms around Shishi and slowly spun her to face the constellation. “But beware, lest you make me too jealous, though. Listen,”
Lest the moon
Glimpses pool ruffles
Envies the wind
Shishi laughed and kissed Maiyoi’s cheek and replied,
Ruffled pool
A moon worshiper
Yet wind embraces
"Such cruelty!" Maiyoi cried, laughing. "I should snatch the wind with my teeth, lest it steal the pool from me."
“Fear not. The moon will always be in my sky, even if the wind embraces me.”
"Now watch, Sensei," said Shishi, placing the book on her head.
"Pray and visualize what you want to become," Maiyoi instructed.
The change was slower this time, but when Shishi turned to face her teacher again, her face had changed to that of a young European woman, and her clothes…
“An Edo maid. So that’s Ume’s weakness,” Maiyoi cried, clapping.
“Maids and idols. She can be quite the otaku.”
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Peter and Chip were sitting together at the breakfast table giving Mindy a bit of a headache.
Peter burped, followed by "excuse me."
Then Chip burped a little longer, followed by "excuse me."
Then Peter burped longer still, "excuse me."
Both kids were snickering.
Mindy decided that this wasn't a battle she had energy for, so she picked up her coffee and went out to the parlor.
Peter said, "We should stop, she's actually mad."
"Now you're just shy of a century and your life is running out." Eric raised each knee, dangling his foot as if they were soaked through the shoe. "And I'm hip deep in it." Eric rested his hands on the footboard, "But since you're due, they let me out on good behavior."
"Yer sayin' I keptcha bound to Erf 'cause I 'member yas?" The old man wheezed.
"Affirmative."
"S'shitty #excuse." Finn stuck out his lower lip, "So why you botherin' me?"
"To gloat."
"Whassat? You gots a goat?" 4/x
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Today's Wandering Shop Stories #prompt is #excuse. Feel like writing something short and sweet that has the word "excuse" in it? Check out the definitions of the word at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/excuse Join in and tag it with #wss366! #writing #WritingLife #microfiction h/t @tobadzistsini
My Commitment Issues Deserve a Trophy
What’s the funniest way you’ve ever sabotaged your own plans? Creativity powered by caffeine and the daily prompts at ericfoltin.com. Because inventing my own ideas sounded like way too much responsibility. So here we go, digging into the comedy goldmine of self-sabotage, except I’m apparently terrible at sabotaging anything. I don’t “accidentally” cancel plans. I don’t craft elaborate excuses. I just hit the nuclear button with the grace of a pissed-off raccoon and say, […]https://ericfoltin.com/my-commitment-issues-deserve-a-trophy/
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. Moreover, when we have an alibi for not writing a book, painting a picture, and so on, we have an alibi for not writing the greatest book and not painting the greatest picture. Small wonder that the effort expended and the punishment endured in obtaining a good alibi often exceed the effort and grief requisite for the attainment of a most marked achievement.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 181 (1955)
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#excuse : to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook
- French: excuse
- German: die Ausrede
- Italian: scusa
- Portuguese: desculpa
- Spanish: la excusa
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no dance today. no gym, no #rush. well, ok – with some #rush, I guess, because there’s a lot going on around my place lately. but at least I don’t have to go anywhere today. I woke up with that small sore throat again – not really #sick, maybe just enough to slow me down. maybe it’s an #excuse, maybe not.
A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
Many voices are heard as we face a great decision. Comfort says, “Tarry a while.” Opportunism says, “This is a good spot.” Timidity asks, “How difficult is the road ahead?” […] If I know aught of the spirit and purpose of our Nation, we will not listen to Comfort, Opportunism, and Timidity. We will carry on.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1937-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.
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It is true, the bill is said to be founded on necessity; but what is this? Is it not necessity, which has always been the plea of every illegal exertion of power, or exercise of oppression? Is not necessity the pretence of every usurpation? Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt (1759-1806) British Prime Minister (1804-06) [William Pitt the Younger]
Speech (1793-11-18), House of Commons, London
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