Meanwhile, “utter” works for the first (e.g., “you utter floorboard”) but somehow “utterly” doesn’t seem to work as well for the second (“I was utterly floorboarded”).
Utterly doesn’t work for drunk because it’s the affix for turning random objects into terms for *shocked*, obviously.
… huh. I thought that might just be the similarity to “floored”, and yet “I was utterly coat hangered” does seem to convey something similar.
I have to tell you, I am utterly sandwiched at this discovery.
Completely makes the phrase mean “super tired”.
“God, it’s been a long week, I am completely coat-hangered.”
Are you an ocean gay, a space gay, or a forest gay? Are you a coffee, tea, or hot chocolate gay? Are you a 420 gay, 69 gay, or 666 gay? Are you an early morning, a mid-day, or a late night gay?
Anyone else terrified that they are toxic and manipulative and just can’t see it? Or is that just me?
A lot of people who’ve been abused think this. It’s very common for abusers to try to convince their victims that they, in some small part, deserve the abuse.
And a common way of doing that is to frame the defensive tactics of the victim as bad, manipulative things.
if you sulk and act like a sullen loser when someone asserts a boundary you’re not actually respecting their boundaries, basically if you make things unpleasant afterwards you’re creating an environment where people feel they cannot say no to you or assert themselves
Part of my brain that makes me not do socially inappropriate things: don’t walk across the break room like David Byrne in the music video for once in a lifetime
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