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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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pray tell

For demanding an answer. In my opinion, it adds a friendly layer of irony, indicating that you cannot see a possible reason for something :

And pray tell, what purpose does it serve? 🙄

Describes self sabotaging tendencies (while showing good will and effort).

I thought you quit smoking last month – yea, half Sisyphus, half rolling stone🥲

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wide awake nightmare: A terrible thing you have to live with, you can't just wake up from it.

As in the line from the MST3k episode The Scream Skull, "This is Micky, Micky is a wide awake nightmare."