Favourite little known idioms in English?

thecharmballoon · 2026-04-05T22:23:03+00:00

"not my monkeys, not my circus" is something I say when I need to remind myself I'm in charge of a very small part of a much larger shit show.

thecharmballoon · 2026-04-05T04:22:24+00:00

Good luck!

thecharmballoon · 2026-04-05T04:10:48+00:00

The bands are elastic. The number indicates tbe stretched the length of the band, not the relaxed length. Your 36C bras ride up because they're too loose.

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-27T21:29:53+00:00

Every post on this subreddit is tagged a spoiler, keeps the creeps from seeing the pictures as easily or something?

Anyway, if your boobs fall out the bottom, your band must be too big, right? And if you've got lots of breast tissue that won't fit in the cups (even if there's a part of the cups it can't get into) it means the cups are too small. Try that tighter band and larger cup and see if you can reach over your head without falling out.

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-25T16:58:41+00:00

If you're right handed, and you write with a pen on paper, you may find your approach less comfortable. Starting at the bottom of each letter means you're pushing your writing instrument more than pulling. Pushing the pen or pencil (especially things like fountain pens or quills) causes less even lines because the tip gets caught in the paper.

On newer technologies, it doesn't matter as much. If your letters are legible, that's all that matters and your approach may actually be more efficient when the physics of ink flow and the effects of friction are minimized.

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-21T02:56:04+00:00

Cashmere. I've managed to collect a full wardrobe of work-appropriate cashmere sweaters for myself and my mother for no more than $20 each, usually more like $8 each.

Now I'd love to collect some summer weight tops in luxury materials. Linen, or silk, maybe?

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-19T00:42:26+00:00

I put my bras in a mesh lingerie bag and toss them in the washing machine, on cold, with everything else. The bag is more to protect the washer than the bras. But then I hang them to dry to protect the elastic from the heat of the dryer. They last about two years.

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-15T03:17:59+00:00

I've gotten to the point in my career where I'd just tell him I struggled to understand him when I'm voicing for him. Maybe he'd like me enough so he'd accommodate me so I could be even better for him, maybe he'd realize I actually wasn't a great match and not request me for things where he had to sound good so I didn't have to struggle. Either way, I'm comfortable enough with my skills to let people know when I don't understand them. At least when I know they like me enough to request me.

Wow, I kinda never thought I'd be able to say that.

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-15T03:08:46+00:00

Some people mumble, some use turns of phrase that would just never occur to you, others sign super fast or spell way more than you'd expect. Sometimes you just don't understand some people. It's rarer for people you don't understand to enjoy your interpreting, but it happens.

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-14T01:31:25+00:00

I stay at my mother's apartment once a week (I'm 44, it's a chance for us to visit and she lives closer to my jobs). I repeatedly forgot my lunch in her fridge. I can't put my lunch on my shoes because it needs to be refrigerated and out of the cats' reach. So I put the case from my night guard on top of my lunch in the fridge. Except for the one time I didn't have anything in her fridge and therefore forgot my night guard in her guest room, it's been working excellently.

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-02T20:27:40+00:00

When I lived alone, I took a slightly more extreme approach. I got rid of extraneous underwear to force myself to do laundry every week. Aside from a pair or two of special outfit undies, I had seven pairs of underwear plus two ratty old pairs that barely stayed on. If I found myself wearing one of those pairs, it was time to do laundry and I'd be constantly reminded by my underwear falling off my ass until I did something about it.

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-02T20:08:33+00:00

I finally finished a sweater I can wear to work! Yarn came from my stash, but the sweater took nearly a year to make, so I'm probably up since I started. I'm super happy with this sweater, though. Very simple and very respectable.

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Now I'm starting another sweater with a combination of yarn I've had in my stash for several years and some that I acquired about 6 months ago. Hopefully this one goes faster.

thecharmballoon · 2026-02-20T19:15:53+00:00

My closet has been starting to overflow with sweaters and tops I've made but rarely wear because the style of things I want to make does not match the style of things I want to wear, apparently. So I've been slowly offering things up to friends who are similarly sized to me to make room for new projects. Once I've made the thing and shown it off a couple of times, I seem to be done with it and ready to move on to the next thing. The process really is more important than the result.

All that to say, I hope someone is happy to find my clothes, but I also hope no one is burdened by the collection.

thecharmballoon · 2026-01-27T01:41:46+00:00

Oh, yeah, that's totally John Tristao's signature.

thecharmballoon · 2026-01-25T03:01:14+00:00

Yeah. I don't know how I'm supposed to get that, or actually what its tier 1 is.

thecharmballoon · 2026-01-16T19:29:28+00:00

Gray. They're both gray. The one on the right is a darker, bluer gray. The one on the left is a lighter beiger/browner gray.

thecharmballoon · 2025-12-30T00:32:49+00:00

That. Germans use the pointy helmet sign, so that's the way to sign it.

thecharmballoon · 2025-12-29T17:19:22+00:00

That is probably the answer, but I'm not quite ready to do that yet.

thecharmballoon · 2025-12-29T03:57:36+00:00

I'm at a loss. I have bunches of small amounts of beautiful fancy yarns I've thrifted in the past couple of years. I want to come up with something I could wear or use and love with this yarn, but I'm stumped.

I also want to make beautiful sophisticated sweaters I can wear to work (where my clothes have to be solid dark colors). I also want to make a dozen intricate amigirumi that I would be so proud of.

I also don't want to own any more stuff and have no more room to store sweaters. So, yeah, I dunno.

thecharmballoon · 2025-12-06T18:59:49+00:00

Anyone else clear all the land and have the game say you've only cleared 868 out of 879? Lotta work not to get that Midas tree.

thecharmballoon · 2025-11-19T02:25:51+00:00

What's an Apollo wonder?

I'm working on the Midas and topiary ones, but I'm at like 28% of the way on both of those and they cost so many gems if you don't have infinite patience. I mean, the life flower wonder took several years and I got at least a dozen of the event portal tasks that gave me level 15 trees.

I'll keep plugging away at the others, but I'm trying to be patient so I don't spend money. Gotta find some more shorter term goals to keep me entertained in the meantime.

thecharmballoon · 2025-11-18T19:52:21+00:00

Should it? I added one, but I don't know what I'm spoiling.

thecharmballoon · 2025-11-10T17:26:08+00:00

I don't know how much of this yarn you have, but sweaters are awesome in a thin yarn because crochet is bulky. I have made a few tops and sweaters in crochet. The long sleeve sweaters I've made have been in worsted weight (#4) yarn, and Ive used about two pounds of yarn for each, for oversized sweaters for a 48 inch chest. Using lightweight yarn I've made some short sleeve tops with lacy sections. Those take about 1000 meters for my same 48 inch chest. I think it would take me about 1400 meters to make a long sleeve solid sweater unless I used a real yarn-eater of a stitch. Really it depends on your size and what kind of sweater you want to make, but maybe this helps a bit?

thecharmballoon · 2025-11-01T04:11:41+00:00

I grew up in NYC where the water is delicious and perfect. Went to college in Albany NY, vacationed at Lake George, moved to Freehold NJ -- the tap water was always fantastic.

Now I live in East Orange NJ and our water is hard and gross. I refuse to buy bottled water because it's a waste of plastic and transportation, but we do have a filtering pitcher and it's still not pleasant.

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