OLS Reflections Setenta e Cinco — The Dazzlingly Unfun Ones

• Monogamy, monotony, monophagy, monocracy, monopoly, monogyny, monody, monotone, monorail, monotonous, monologue, monotheism, monocrystal, monochrome, monozygotic, mononucleosis, monotherapy, monoamine oxidase inhibitor… .
  
  Uhm, I forgot where this list was going. Though it sounds uncolourful, unappealing, even lonesome.
  
  Oh yes, it came back: Marriage, you see, is called an ‘institution’ because you must be somewhat mental to get into it. You first seek asylum but then end up living in one.
  
  You don’t see it? Well, consider how in Spanish, ‘esposas’ means wives as well as handcuffs. Uhu. Also in Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, ‘married’ and ‘poison’ share the same word, ‘Gift’! Quite ironic for English-speakers.
  
  But hey rest assured, these are absolutely nothing but linguistic coincidences. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
   

• Did they ever unfriend you when they got married then shamelessly re-friended you — or attempted to — when they got divorced?
  
  

• How weird is it to let her sleep in a separate room after sex — from 1 to 10?
  
  

• There should be a word for that intense inexplicable joy when you come across a certain surface with so must dust on it and you know you’re about to be the first one to wipe it in possibly 50 years. 
  
  

• This past year has seen so many deaths, that whenever now someone tells me “Sorry for your loss” — among other messages of condolences — I reply with: “Ah, thank you. We’re all gonna die.” You know, just a dose of reality to make it easier on both of us.
  
  

• He followed his dreams but they wouldn’t follow him back. So he unfollowed them.
  
  

• During his seizure of power Caesar had a seizure. See, ‘Tsar’ originates from Caesar while Caesar salad does not.
  
  

• I don’t bite — unless we’ll both enjoy it.
  
  

• His vocabulary is so expansively extensive and extensively expensive, words often dance on the tip of his tongue — creating novel linguistic hybrids in the process. Other times they’re mixed up missed steaks.
  
  

• Several severely savvy suave saviours saved Varsity’s vision by serving savoury visors as souvenirs.

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OLS Reflections Settantatre — The Flagrantly Fun Ones

 

OLS Reflections 71 — The Frightfully Fun Ones

OLS Reflections Sixty-Six — The Outrageously Fun Ones

OLS Reflections 64 — The Dangerously Fun Ones

OLS Reflections Sessantadue — The Scandalously Fun Ones

OLS Reflections 60 — The Sensationally Fun Ones

OLS Reflections 五十八 — The Shamelessly Fun Ones

OLS Reflections Fifty-Six — The Notoriously Fun Ones

OLS Reflections Dreiundfünfzig — The Playfully Fun Ones

OLS Reflections Cinquante-et-Un — The Corruptly Fun Ones

OLS Reflections 36 — الطبعة العربية المرحة

OLS Reflections Treinta y Seis — The Wickedly Fun Ones

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OLS Reflections ثمانية وعشرون — The Tranquilisingly Fun Ones

OLS Reflections पच्चीस — The Soothingly Fun Ones

OLS Reflections Venti — The Quiescently Fun Ones

OLS Reflections Siebzehn — The Peacefully Fun Ones

OLS Reflections Quatorze — The Mitigatingly Fun Ones

OLS Reflections Девять — The Pacifyingly Fun Ones

OLS Reflections Seis — The Mollifyingly Fun Ones

OLS Reflections Tre — The Mildly Fun Ones