Regular Eli
captainhelion.bsky.social
Regular Eli
@captainhelion.bsky.social
The same Eli you know and love*, now with 12% less grease!

NZ-based history, wargames, and RPG nerd, for my crimes
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The Objectively Objectionable Grammatical Pet Peeve
A semi-attentive investigation into a confounding sentence type.
web.archive.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
i was halfway through saying "crawling out of my skin", "tearing off my skin/ears" and "crawling up my ass" and somehow it all cametogether
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
as they would be (tho u r correct)
November 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
it'd have me crawling out my ears in less than 30min i reckon
November 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
no, that would make me want to kill something
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
100% yeah, and that's assuming no repeats!
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
if im gonna listen to old people christmas music, then its gotta be Bing ykwim. and i'd still prefer not to have that across two CDs if I could help it
November 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
oh nice, Dame Kiri. Still couldn't pay me, etc etc
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
this was a rollercoaster of a skeet, tbh
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
ohohohohohoho yes
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I guess its so they don't have to do a specific set for Empire-Clones and etc for before the infrastructure got moved over to TK troopers and etc
November 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Oh, mood
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 AM
you fool (positive)
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I'd rather you just hit me in the face, yeah
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I'm still entranced by the idea that Prince went door-to-door as part of the JWs. Can you imagine? You're like. Ugh. The JWs! Not again! But then you open the door and PRINCE is there
November 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
all im saying is that when things go wrong, the closest person to blame is RIGHT THERE
November 27, 2025 at 5:45 AM
yeah alright that's technically true
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 AM
easy to do!
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 AM
the humble b2 pencil and a heavy hand is King
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
at least its a semi-understandable critique of a Labour guy instead of a variously-racist shot at another leftish MP
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Like fucking CLOCKWORK SMH.
The Post
www.thepost.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
the way i could not live without being near the sea? thats elf shit in the most tolkienian sense
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
my favourite SCP, easily
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
sorry, i was meaning about the 'less universally beloved but still the same kind' part you were talking about
thats on me for going for an attempt at a pithy statement, sorry
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM