What if it were 100? Or 1000? or 10000? or 100000?

At what point do you ask questions?

  • Yermaw@lemm.ee
    7·
    2 days ago

    I used to be able to count it down to the millisecond exactly when a strange chav would ask me for a cigarette.

    “In 3…2…1…” “oi mate you got a spare fag I can borrow”

    • wondrous_strange@lemmy.world
      5·
      16 hours ago

      Never understood that phrasing. A spare? As in a cigarette I carry but don’t need/don’t plan to use? And borrow? As in youre going to take it and bring it back to me later?

      I know I’m being too literal but damn it so stupid

      Edit thanks for the good chuckle btw

      • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
        1·
        2 hours ago

        i feel like it’s a euphemism intended to make the transaction feel less costly for the person giving

        the same way it’s easier to say “they’re gone” than “they’re dead” when you’re grieving, even though they mean the same thing given the context.