Oh. Are you one of those characters some novelists always write about, who "let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding"?
I am, but there's no tense situation, no meeting of implacable foes, no angsty choice of Door #1, #2, or #3. It's just me, sitting here, doing my usual do. There's no cause, no situational aspect I can attribute.
I had an old pickup truck with a manual choke and no clue how to properly use it. Got that effect often.
Related thought: Who here has ever, in a pinch, used carb cleaner as starting fluid? Who here has no clue what those words mean?
I like elevator music. Admittedly, if I heard it daily, I wouldn't. But as it stands, I look forward to hearing and horribly dancing to said music. Such a horrendous crime cannot go unpunished. May Zeus have mercy on my soul.
A few times only (fortunately) I woke with a huge gasp because I wasn't breathing. Sleep Apnea I think it's called? Scary stuff!
He won't. When you meet Zeus, your elevator will be going down. (I know, horribly mixed metaphor...) And the music will be rap.
Sometimes I sabotage my own happiness, and I really don't understand why. I can be morbidly depressed and entirely satisfied with life's directions simultaneously.
I know what the words mean and can extrapolate their usages from the context, but, no, not really. Starters have fluid and carburetors need cleaning? Not my jam... of course with modern cars, you can't change the oil or the headlights without removing half the front end anymore. They've negated as much home maintenance as they can. The bastards.
Right to Repair Laws. They can't legally stop you from doing your own work, so they've made it as difficult as they possibly can to put it outside the skillset of all but the most highly trained or overconfident technicians.
Not only that, but thanks to so-called emissions testing, you can't even drive it if anything is wrong. They tag you for just about anything that will trip the diagnostic computer in any way, not just emissions related.
That's one reason I'm glad I live where I do. Emission testing doesn't exactly apply to the Far North for some reason.
I think they were both more or less ether in a spray can. Something even more flammable than gasoline and pre-aerosolized to boot. Pop the hood of your car, take off the air cleaner, have someone hit the ignition and spray it straight into the carb. Engine starts with a roar and if you're lucky you get a jet of blue flame out of the top. This is with gasoline dumped into the carb, but you get the idea: My stepdad is a retired engine mechanic for one of the big construction equipment companies. Forty years working with engines and he opened the hood of my mom's Jeep, nothing but a solid block of nope. He said he wasn't even sure if he could change the oil on it without voiding the warranty.
Lord have mercy. I've got an 16 year old PT Cruiser and I fix whatever I can, and whatever I get stuck on, I take to the independent mechanic up the street. Warranty? What warranty?
PT Cruisers are lit fam. Not gonna' lie to ya'. Criminally underrated. Old acquaintance of mine from high-school had freaking flame decals on his gold PT lol.
Maybe i'm getting old or maybe I'm becoming more culturally secluded, or perhaps even it's that I don't live in an anglophonic country anymore, but what does half of those words mean? Lit? fam? pt? cruisers? pt cruisers???
Don't listen to me. I'm very drunk. I'm also 21. Please, forgive me, for I have sinned. EDIT: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lit EDIT 2: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fam I confess to knowing what all these meant. (EDIT: except fleek; wtf is that)
It reminds me when I hear some teenagers (i'm only 26) speak, they may as well be speaking german for all I can understand. Has the english language changed so much from when I left high school or is it just me? Funnily enough, when I speak I sometimes use slangs and words they don't understand/know. For instance, the amount of people who think volatile means explosive is astonishing, especially when volatile means 'to become gaseous' (i.e evaporate). It can also be used in the sense that someone is temperemental/easier to anger. Also, definition of "lit": When something is turned up or popping ... What does "popping" and "turned up" mean? Like was the volumne loud? *cries in existential definition crisis whilst looking at links* Looked it up, it means beautiful (apparently).... Still confused... Also, i'm pretty sure that the urban definition of 'fam' has a couple grammar mistakes....
SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH? MEIN DEUTSCH IST SCHEISSE, ES TUT MIR LEID. Ich war in hoch-schule, wenn ich Deutsch lernen. (?!) ACHTUNG, NEIN NEIN NEIN. English really only changed significantly in terms of slang. Definitely exacerbated by social media and pop culture, which is all the more easily and readily accessible by the magical devices in our pocketses. Sorry, I should've just explained it instead of using links lol. "Lit" can be used in a few contexts, but I think you'll see they're all closely intertwined. "I was lit." I was drunk or otherwise on "some sort of substance" *AND* having a good time. The party was lit. Meaning, it was a really great time, there was weed or there was booze aplenty, etc. It's like saying that something was awesome, but there's a drug connotation to it. Not necessarily a negative drug connotation; I just mean that there were substances involved in the fun. Burning Man would be lit in more ways than one, for example. Having a good time, and in some fashion being "high". "Turn up" is borrowing from the phrase that refers to "turning up the volume", which would mean something like "let's get this party started". Or "let's get lit". Let's get this party "popping". This is boring; let's turn-up. Not to be confused with turnips. Popping. Meaning, let's get the music going. Let's get people excited. Let's get loud. Let's get that high energy flowing. So first you have to get a party popping, to "turn-up", so you can say "yo this party is lit". Note: Clubs or big parties with random strangers are my nemesis. Not my scene. So I usually use these terms ironically or in a way that only my little clique would understand. If I talk like this it's almost always a little ironic at least.
