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Optional@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Masterful gambit

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Optional@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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    dictionary definition of stait, warning against confusing it with straight

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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      Are the Straits okay?

      • erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works
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        No, they’re pretty dire.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Not like they’re gonna get money for nothing and chicks for free.

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            I’d ask them myself but they’re so far away from me.

            • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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              Well Harry doesn’t mind, if he doesn’t make the scene

      • Damage@feddit.it
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        let me ask Knopfler

        • TrooBloo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          He wouldn’t know, he came out as gay in 1994. Dire Gays?

          • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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            Puts Sailing to Philadelphia in a different light. TIL.

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        I hear the Strait of Hormuz is getting a long needed vacation. Trump is making the Arabian peninsula great again!

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        Also no

      • AeronMelon@lemmy.worldM
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        deleted by creator

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      “Strait” meaning “narrow, confining”: it’s a narrow passage through a body of water. See also “straitjacket”, a narrow and confining jacket.

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      If this war has any silver lining, it’s teaching a couple people how to spell “strait”

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      I just assumed Americans actually spelled it as ‘straight’

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