• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    I hear this a lot from young women, “there’s just no pleasing my mother”. I cannot offer words of wisdom or comfort, but I can promise you this. I will try my hardest to please your mom, as I always do. 👍

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        15 minutes ago

        What’s interesting, “-lingus” in cunnilingus and “lingua” are actually connected. “Lingua” used to be “dingua” but then mixed with the verb “lingo” (I lick) because, well, tongues do lick.

        Also both dingua and lingo are cognates to English toungue and lick.

        Anyway sorry for being boring!

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      6 hours ago

      I was an awkward youth and accidentally said something like this to my friends mother. I kept trying to correct myself and the phrasing just kept getting worse.

      by the end of it she was deep crimson and my friend was begging me to stop.

      she always treated me…differently after that.

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        2 hours ago

        Hi Mrs. Smith, I’m pleased to your meet-

        Err, I meant, your pleased to my meet-

        Err, meeting your pleasure-

        Look, Mrs. Smith, I just came over to deliver the sausage pizzas my whole family wants to give you.

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      7 hours ago

      I will try my hardest to please your mom, as I always do. 👍

      this is like that time I told my brother in law “Don’t worry, I’m not doing anything to your sister your dad wouldn’t approve of”.

      This is when we were trying for a baby