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• #102
Funny that, because my middle name is Medi. :D
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• #103
thats really not that funny... CAN YOU PLEASE *ALL *GO AWAY NOW , UNLESS YOUR SERIOUS ABOUT THE WHEEL
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• #104
Will you please get off my thread.
Lulz.
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• #105
Im feeling medieval.
Please please try to fit "hoist by his own petard" into this thread.
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• #106
omg ..
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• #107
GA2G everytime you post something your minuscule penis shrinks by another inch
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• #108
I think it cause he's such a dick you cant help but no think about it
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• #109
cars for bars / boats for goats / DEALS ON WHEELS
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• #110
Maow
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• #111
Please please try to fit "hoist by his own petard" into this thread.
Every time I hear this phrase, I think about shirt lifting.
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• #112
Not like I think about it... just that I think about it when I hear it.
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• #113
okay now the babbling has stopped ..
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• #114
Well, it's related in an odd kind of way- the phrase is based on trapping one's garments (possibly a shirt) in the petard (a type of cannon) when loading in the ball, then being pulled along by the projectile upon ignition- so being lifted by your shirt, sort of.
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• #115
I have edited my post. However I do not understand the logic that I have to keep unsolicited PMs a private matter.
The person concerned was kicking off about me attacking a piss poor vendor but I would hate to insinuate that the same person might have been doing the same here.
Here they appeared to be having a go because a vendor was guilty by association with a thief.
Who here does not know a criminal or two?
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• #116
guess who sent those pms?
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• #117
oh DJ, Pm's are PM's, don't publish them ffs
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• #118
Hoist with your own petard
Meaning
Injured by the device that you intended to use to injure others.
Origin
The phrase 'hoist with one's own petar[d]' is often cited as 'hoist by one's own petar[d]'. The two forms mean the same, although the former is strictly a more accurate version of the original source. A petard is, or rather was, as they have long since fallen out of use, a small engine of war used to blow breaches in gates or walls. They were originally metallic and bell-shaped but later cubical wooden boxes. Whatever the shape, the significant feature was that they were full of gunpowder - basically what we would now call a bomb.
The device was used by the military forces of all the major European fighting nations by the 16th century. In French and English - petar or petard, and in Spanish and Italian - petardo.
The dictionary maker John Florio defined them like this in 1598: [INDENT] "Petardo - a squib or petard of gun powder vsed to burst vp gates or doores with."
[/INDENT]The French have the word 'péter' - to fart, which it's hard to imagine is unrelated.
Petar was part of the everyday language around that time, as in this rather colourful line from Zackary Coke in his work Logick, 1654:[INDENT] "The prayers of the Saints ascending with you, will Petarr your entrances through heavens Portcullis".
[/INDENT]Once the word is known, 'hoist by your own petard' is easy to fathom. It's nice also to have a definitive source - no less than Shakespeare, who gives the line to Hamlet, 1602:[INDENT] "For tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his owne petar".
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• #119
^Interesting, that suggests that the petard is an explosive device rather than something with a projectile element.
And James- you should delete those PMS's from your post, I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve but doing that is abusing the trust of someone who clearly cares for you.
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• #120
Well, it's related in an odd kind of way- the phrase is based on trapping one's garments (possibly a shirt) in the petard (a type of cannon) when loading in the ball, then being pulled along by the projectile upon ignition- so being lifted by your shirt, sort of.
I meant gay sex.
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• #121
I meant gay sex.
Ah, gotcha.
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• #122
Guys this is interesting and all
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• #123
I meant gay sex.
are you offering?
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• #124
oh DJ, Pm's are PM's, don't publish them ffs
And James- you should delete those PMS's from your post, I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve but doing that is abusing the trust of someone who clearly cares for you.
I concur. Just to score a cheap point? Not worth it.
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• #125
Guys this is interesting and all
but stop hi jacking my thread you fucking terroriststhose fixed gear extremists, fucking taliban
Im feeling medieval.