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Dane Murgen

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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #15 on: November 20, 2015, 04:28:35 AM »
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #16 on: November 20, 2015, 10:14:26 AM »
Quote from: Dane Murgen on November 20, 2015, 04:28:35 AM
Making a bagel from an anvil.

When you ask too many questions but the responder isn't annoyed by them for some reason.

Feel like water in an angel's bladder

When you irrationally feel old.
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #17 on: November 20, 2015, 10:45:23 AM »
Quote from: ryagami on November 20, 2015, 10:14:26 AM
When you irrationally feel old.

To feel like a library book.

Pssst rya. I'm older than you  :D

That feeling when you see someone you met online for the first time.
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #18 on: November 20, 2015, 11:31:21 AM »
Quote from: Feartheviolas on November 20, 2015, 10:45:23 AM
That feeling when you see someone you met online for the first time.

Jumping out of the computer screen.
Psst Vi I'm older than you too ;P
Forgetting what you were trying to say mid-sentence and just stopping suddenly.
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #19 on: November 20, 2015, 12:01:30 PM »
Quote from: Ana Nymus on November 20, 2015, 11:31:21 AM
Jumping out of the computer screen.
Psst Vi I'm older than you too ;P
Forgetting what you were trying to say mid-sentence and just stopping suddenly.

To have your brain backspaced.

That feeling when you have been wanting to visit a friend for ages, but when you finally do, you just can't wait to go back home.
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #20 on: November 20, 2015, 03:32:28 PM »
Quote from: Daéa Reina on November 20, 2015, 12:01:30 PM
To have your brain backspaced.

That feeling when you have been wanting to visit a friend for ages, but when you finally do, you just can't wait to go back home.

to discover there are no palm-trees

when you feel like being annoyed but don't have something to be annoyed at?
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #21 on: November 20, 2015, 06:45:57 PM »
Quote from: P__ on November 20, 2015, 03:32:28 PM
when you feel like being annoyed but don't have something to be annoyed at?
Missing a wasp on your tart.

You know that you have a crazy amount of things to do but you cannot for the life of you make up your mind which task to start with.
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #22 on: November 20, 2015, 07:33:34 PM »
Having an excessively target rich environment.

Drinking something you think is low-alcohol, but as you get drunk you realize it is high-alcohol.
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #23 on: November 23, 2015, 10:33:30 AM »
Quote from: Fenris on November 20, 2015, 07:33:34 PM
Drinking something you think is low-alcohol, but as you get drunk you realize it is high-alcohol.

Underthought and overproofed.

The need to get outside in the middle of the day.
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #24 on: November 23, 2015, 03:33:56 PM »
Quote from: urbicande on November 23, 2015, 10:33:30 AM
The need to get outside in the middle of the day.

Craving sunshine.

That feeling when you're panicking internally but have to keep a straight face on the outside.
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #25 on: November 23, 2015, 03:44:03 PM »
Quote from: Ana Nymus on November 23, 2015, 03:33:56 PM
That feeling when you're panicking internally but have to keep a straight face on the outside.

Keeping a lid on a bowl full of ants.

That feeling when you can't admit to yourself that you're lost.
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #26 on: November 23, 2015, 04:58:22 PM »
Quote from: Laufey on November 23, 2015, 03:44:03 PM
That feeling when you can't admit to yourself that you're lost.
Pining for the North.

Finding yourself in a group that needs to get itself organized, but turns out to consist of people with different, downright incompatible frames of reference.
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #27 on: November 23, 2015, 05:18:37 PM »
Quote from: JoB on November 23, 2015, 04:58:22 PM
Finding yourself in a group that needs to get itself organized, but turns out to consist of people with different, downright incompatible frames of reference.

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Showing strong interest in procrastination when you should work on your school paper
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #28 on: November 23, 2015, 05:50:02 PM »
Quote from: Adriano on November 23, 2015, 05:18:37 PM
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... that's a problem now? It never was until the day I decided they're a bit too snoopy for my tastes ...

Quote from: Adriano on November 23, 2015, 05:18:37 PM
Showing strong interest in procrastination when you should work on your school paper
Being taught that every window is an exit.

Looking at your to-do list and finding that some of the stuff there is so ancient that "I would need to find out what I was supposed to do in the first place" alone is enough of a deterrent to steer you away from those tasks.
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #29 on: November 23, 2015, 07:31:26 PM »
Quote from: JoB on November 23, 2015, 05:50:02 PM
... that's a problem now? It never was until the day I decided they're a bit too snoopy for my tastes ...
Being taught that every window is an exit.


Quote from: JoB on November 23, 2015, 05:50:02 PM
Looking at your to-do list and finding that some of the stuff there is so ancient that "I would need to find out what I was supposed to do in the first place" alone is enough of a deterrent to steer you away from those tasks.

Losing the map.

The sort of half knowledge that come of not really listening to what someone's saying.
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