• @saltesc
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      A hand job could be a handjob, but a hand job isn’t itself a handjob.

      Hand jobs: Massaging, opening jars,.handjobs.

      Handjobs: Old fashioned, the rusty trombone, etc.

      • @[email protected]
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        128 months ago

        A rusty trombone is not just a handjob. It’s anilingus at the same time. The rusty part is because the lips get covered in “rust” from the “mouth piece” of the metaphoric trombone.

        • @saltesc
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          I classify it more a handjob than a rimjob, but I suppose it’s more down to who’s playing and their forté.

          • @AnUnusualRelic
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            It all comes down to how hard they blow.

        • @AnUnusualRelic
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          Or more precisely, why not one, and then the other. Purely for statistical purposes.

  • IninewCrow
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    198 months ago

    First hand job experience at disability mentoring day

  • @A_Toasty_Strudel
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    I’m over here amazed with how many times I had to read the headline before my brain would register what was wrong. It’s times like this that I can almost understand how stuff like this happens. Ha

    • lad
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      Same but I struggled to make any other sense of it, trying to understand how stuff like this happened

    • @AnUnusualRelic
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      28 months ago

      You’re ready for the job market! (hand)

  • @Sorgan71
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    i mean it builds character

  • @[email protected]
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    It’s “first-hand”. English is stupid. Sometimes two words don’t become compound. Sometimes they do become compound and they’re just grafted together, like in German. And sometimes you use a hyphen. I’m really good at writing and I can’t always keep this shit straight.

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        That’s a different kind of use for hyphen though. The use of hyphen that I’m talking about is actually flexible, used as-needed to turn any given multiple words into a single adjective, adverb, noun, etc.

        Also, never get your English punctuation (or other) patterns from JRPGs, nor from popular usage on the internet. I’m not saying literacy is lowering, but I will say that people with poor literacy use the internet more than ever, and bad patterns emerge.

  • @[email protected]
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    The easiest way to solve the editorial issue for a lot headlines like this is to simply ask a teenager to read it. Their reaction will tell you if it’s correct or not…

  • Dr. Coomer
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    There’s a reason wording and punctuation is important. For example: “let’s eat, Greg.” Vs “let’s eat Greg.”