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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (6 children)

milk toast

Is this sarcasm or do you not know the proper term?

[–] RaoulDook 149 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Don't put yourself on a pedal stool like you know all the words in the world

[–] Redditgee 76 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for saying that. People like you are a blessing in the skies.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive porpoises I think you are wrong.

In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. If you don't tow the line you'll never hone in on the truth. Gorilla warfare will be used against you if you don't agree!

[–] SocializedHermit 9 points 1 year ago

You had me at "zero taller ants".

[–] billwashere 4 points 1 year ago

This is just art, plain and simple.

[–] MojoMcJojo 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's a decades-old copypasta AFAIK. I do sometimes add new malapropisms as I come across them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate you all. LOL. I thought I was having a stroke.

[–] boeman 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We don't need to know your self pleasure habits.

[–] Fapper_McFapper 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, if you’ve got the time why not? I’m having a stroke right now.

[–] sensibilidades 23 points 1 year ago

that's a bit of a damp squid

[–] Beetschnapps 5 points 1 year ago

All just to spider face…

[–] Thteven 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Which, for whatever it's worth, was deliberately coined as 'milk + toast'.

[–] Nightwingdragon 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, there was a time recently when Trump used the term "milk toast" to describe Kayleigh McEnaney, so using the term "milk toast" isn't entirely unreasonable here if it's meant to be a dig at Trump.

[–] halferect 0 points 1 year ago

Also eggcorn is argued by linguists as the natural progression of language, so calling it milk toast or milquetoast is a example of how language developes and really isn't wrong since everyone understood what milk toast means and understands what milquetoast means.

[–] Linuto 8 points 1 year ago

Language is fluid. The character named Milquetoast the expression comes from was based on the idea that milk and toast are a bland and uninteresting meal anyway. The idea is communicated either way.

[–] Fisk400 4 points 1 year ago

Did not know. English is my second language and I have only heard it spoken. The weird part is that I have written it in comments before (on reddit) and nobody corrected me.

Also, it should be milk toast. Milquetoast is a reference to a comic character that is referencing the dish.