Today I Learned

that's a hell of a meaning shift

 

i dunno, literal to figurative...

 

so i guess in ancient times, when we'd have said "you just got burned!" they'd say "you just got flayed!"

 

i mean, when i want to be sarcastic, it is sometimes because it feels like people are stripping my flesh off with the sheer force of stupidity?

 

I've heard "caustic wit" before, which also has the sense of flesh-stripping, so it seems like our expressions haven't changed that much in two thousand years.

 

Metaphors like to stick around.

 

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I usually put a bare foot on the pavement I wonder if that is similar enough.

 

Depending on how callused your feet are it should be fine-- the soles of your feet and palms of your hands have roughly similar temperature sensitivity, but if your feet are already protected by all that nice tough callus it'll be harder to feel through 'em.

 

Hmm I spend a lot of time barefoot so I might switch to hand just to be safe.

 

Today I learned about fictive kin.
Which is to say CHOSEN FAMILY.

 

Today I learned Snapchat filters work on our lab's plastic teaching skeleton.

 

Today I learned that a lot of ancient earache cures involved doing horrible things to mice

 

Sawbones?

 

If it does end up being sawbones can i get an episode number :3c

 

http://www.maximumfun.org/sawbones/sawbones-earaches

 

Thanks!

 

Lol yeah it was Sawbones I've been bingeing it at work.

 

TIL the comic book industry is a tire fire.