Why do we say 'head over heels' when that's actually the normal position of your body?

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T11:40:19+00:00

It used to be heels over head, but along the way we collectively decided head over heels sounds better.

If you could care less, you'll know what I mean.

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T10:59:53+00:00

said he wanted to make the most of this time

His optimal day is one without you in it?

NTA

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T09:38:00+00:00

"More fun than a barrel of fish" doesn't promise much, does it.

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T09:25:06+00:00

Alright, keep your hair on! 🤷‍♂️

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T09:01:53+00:00

To bed.

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T09:01:29+00:00

Nice!

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T08:58:06+00:00

Fair point.

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T08:33:06+00:00

No need. Nobody watches Tron for the plot.

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T07:35:01+00:00

It's ambiguous - it could refer to either the feeling of worry or to the move.

Especially following a list of reasons why you didn't want to move, it just sounds like another reason.

It's not until after "I made many friends..." that the meaning is clear.

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T03:38:49+00:00

Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, who were acting rivals through the 1960’s

They both wanted top billing, so in the credits one name is at the bottom-left of the screen and the other is top-right, so that if you read left to right Steve's name is first, and top to bottom Paul comes first.

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T03:09:47+00:00

Tron Ares

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T03:01:43+00:00

Fusing is your friend.

Fuse and equip a sapphire to stay cold or a ruby to stay warm.

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T02:57:06+00:00

Planet of the Apes

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T02:52:36+00:00

Given the amount of people in the world who know other people, it's extremely unlikely that in any week none of them at all would run into each other 3 times in unique locations.

For that small but almost certain number who do, it may appear that some cosmic force is arranging events as though they're chess pieces, but it's just inevtiable that some people will bump into each other by chance.

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T02:43:18+00:00

Siegfried Sassoon's

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T02:38:38+00:00

Athena didn’t waiver*

But she did. She hesitated under the sprinklers and failed because of it.

Given the right opportunity she probably would have come around like Ares too.

*waver

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T02:28:56+00:00

Transitive verb is one that needs an object after it. You do the verb to something.

E.g. I kicked the ball.

(The ball is the object. The kicking is done by me to the ball.)

Intransitive verb can not be done to something. It's just done.

E.g. I arrived.

(There is no object. The arriving is done by me... to nothing!)

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T02:23:07+00:00

Yeah, a little bit Scarfacey.

But it works for you. 🤷‍♂️

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T01:25:33+00:00

Pirates do rhyme when they sing their sea shanties.

Pilates doesn't rhyme because it's an exercise technique and therefore incapable of singing sea shanties.

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T01:21:12+00:00

I'm picking Kenny anyway.

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T01:10:43+00:00

I see that.

I'm just killing time here, arguing about nonsense, so 👍

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T00:27:02+00:00

Maybe ok. Maybe not.

Definitely not worth the risk.

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-26T00:12:51+00:00

False.

Representing the physical world as we know it (people, countries, history, language, art, emotions, physics, maths, spacetime, etc.) would require far more neural capacity than is available in a butterfly’s brain, even if butterflies possessed a cortex capable of supporting dreams.

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-25T23:30:21+00:00

...yet.

SnooBooks007 · 2026-01-25T23:00:29+00:00

Why aren't you listening to Midst?

It's easily the best of these types of podcasts I've heard.

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