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Blackitty

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Un mignon petit chaton prêt pour l'aventure en ce samedi matin

February 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM

Blackitty

@blackitty222.bsky.social

Un barbare à deux têtes... Comme deux têtes valent mieux qu'une, il sera possiblement plus intelligent que Grog 😆 #catlife #D&D #Voxmachina

February 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM

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Le Devoir

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Le regard de notre caricaturiste sur l'actualité du jour 👉 www.ledevoir.com/photos/gal...

February 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM

Blackitty

@blackitty222.bsky.social

Un paladin démoniaque, why not
#D&D #catlife #art&imagination

February 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM

Blackitty

@blackitty222.bsky.social

Les journées de tempête sont une ode à la lenteur et à la douceur selon moi. Bonne journée de ❄️🌬️🌨️ #Quebec #winter #cozy #catlife

February 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM

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-Boulet-

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Repost Fromager - Know your Cheese
(Tag yourself, I am Époisses)

Plein de petits fromages avec des petits yeux rigolos et des bras & jambes.

January 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM

Blackitty

@blackitty222.bsky.social

Un assassin dans la nuit brumeuse #catlife #D&D #mist

February 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM

Blackitty

@blackitty222.bsky.social

Concocté quelque chose pour garder espoir #witch #catlife #D&D

February 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM

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Infoman

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Un premier candidat sérieux au poste de tsar du fentanyl à la frontière canadienne.

February 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Blackitty

@blackitty222.bsky.social

Belle journée pour un jeux de société ❄️❄️ #game #catlife #winter

February 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM

Blackitty

@blackitty222.bsky.social

Samedi matin 🥐🥖 #catlife #bakery #bread

February 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM

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-Boulet-

@bouletcorp.bsky.social

Oldies but Goodies - French is Weird 03 - "Cows"

Cows - In France, we love cows. A lot of expressions have cows in them.
Being tough on someone is "être vache" : being cow (Image of a cow telling Boulet "your coat stinks") - Also, a mean person can be "une peau de vache" : a cow's skin (image of Boulet wearing a cow's outfit and saying "screw you").
It would come from the fact that cows can suddenly kick you when you are behind them. "Un coup de/en vache" : a cow's hit, is when you betray or trick someone. (image of a cow kicking Boulet out of the frame) you can also say "une vacherie": a "cowerie"
But more important: "la vache" is also a general exclamation you can use in almost any circumstance. (Image: Boulet is using "la vache" admiratively while looking at a painting, angrily while seing the price of a shirt, moved while recieving a present, painfully while waking up with hangover).
VACHEMENT is a slang adverb that means "a lot", "extremely". It means "cowly" (Image of a very cool cow wearing a "cowly cool" shirt)
In a totally different style, France also has a lovely way of saying it's raining a lot: IL PLEUT COMME VACHE QUI PISSE, which could be translated by: "IT'S RAINING LIKE PISSING COW" (Image of Boulet under the rain, saying "La vache". The clouds are shaped like utters and make "Moo" sounds)

In the old slang, the french equivalent of "ACAB" was "MORT AUX VACHES": death to the cows. An anarchist rally cry, the cows being all forms of law enforcement (image of a cow in an anti-riot armor, being targeted by stones. The demonstrators scream "Boo" and the cow says "No : Moo!".
It was an insult from the 1870 war: when the german were occupying Alsace, they had guard houses saying "Wache", meaning "sentinel". (image of a cow with a german helmet. Someone is saying "vache" and it answers "no, wache."
In 1871, the police headquarters were moved to the center of Paris where the chicken market used to be. The cops became "Les poulets" : the chickens (Image of a chicken and a cow in uniform)
There are dozens of other cow-related expressions in french, but I'll finish with two we sometime use in my region of origin (burgondy)
When a place is really dark, you can say IL FAIT NOIR COMME DANS LE CUL D'UNE VACHE. Literally: it's black like inside a cow's ass. (image of a voice coming from a cow's ass, saying "Oh no, where am I?") and when someone has very wrinkly clothes, like "stayed up all night", I heard the expression "TU AS L'AIR DE SORTIR DE LA BOUCHE D'UNE VACHE" (You look like you came out from a cow's mouth). (Boulet coming out of a cow's mouth saying "ah shit, I'm late)
Oh and if you stop by a market you can find "La Vache qui rit" (the laughing cow) It's a cheese that is so pasterized it could almost be american. This creepy french cow is famous all over the world!

February 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM

Blackitty

@blackitty222.bsky.social

Mon pays, c'est l'hiver #winter #Québec #snow

January 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM

Blackitty

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Excellent 🤣🤣🤣

-Boulet- @bouletcorp.bsky.social · Jan 31

Oldies but Goodies - French is Weird 02 - "French Kiss"

A lot of expressions use "french", like "french bread", "a french leave", "french fries"... So it raises the one essential question : How do you french kiss in french ? (image: Boulet and Amelie Poulain kissing in front of the Sacré Cœur. A mime and the Eiffel Tower in the background. Amelie is saying "Ohlàlà monsieur Boulet"
There are different types of kisses in France:
-La bise to say hello/goodbye. You don't really kiss, we are not savages. It mostly consist in touching cheeks with a "mwa" sound. It's however absurdly complex to understand when and how many times. (image: to people doing "la bise")
-Donner un bisou/un baiser. "Give a kiss". Means lips are touching the cheek, the lips, or any other part you judge appropriate to kiss (image: Amelie kissing a foot) but CAREFULLY use "baiser": "un baiser" is a kiss, but "baiser" as a verb means "to have sex"
-Embrasser can mean a lot of things, it's the basic way to say "to kiss", which doesn't make any sense because the word itself means "to take in your arms" (image: two people kissing)
EXAMPLES: "S'embrasser sous le gui" (to kiss under the mistletoe) / "Je t'embrasse" at the end of a letter or an e-mail ("love&kisses) / "Embrasse tes parents pour moi" ("say hi to your parents for me)
Hey! Does that means that "embrasse" is "embrace"? Yes, you can also use it like that. You can "embrasse" your destiny, or the dark side (image: Luke Skywalker screaming.)

But Wait... Does that mean that French doesn't have a specific word for the FRENCH KISS? The one with the tongue and all?
Well… No. But we have a pretty good slang for this.
In France, "to french kiss" is "Rouler une pelle". Which literally means "To toll a shovel" (image: Boulet is putting a shovel in the mouth of Amelie Poulain, who is saying "Ohlàlà monf'eur Boulet")
It would come to the similar expression "Rouler un patin" (to roll a rollerskate / ice skate) (Image: Amelie is saying "say haaa" and putting a rollerskate in Boulet's mouth). Sometime you'll also meet "rouler une galoche" (to roll an old shoe. Probably because of the "patin" thing) (Amelie watches Boulet approach with an old shoe and says "oh no", horrified).
It would come from "patiner" and "peloter", which both used to mean "to touch with insistance, to caress. We still use "peloter" in this sense. (Image: Amelie is touching Boulet's butt, and he's blushing "Ooh mademoiselle !"
I also heard a theory that says it could come from trains, and the shovel to load coal that was shaped like a tongue. But nothing conclusive. (Image: a small shovel of coal is approaching the furnace. The shovel says "you're hot, baby", and the furnace says "Oh, monsieur Boulet ♥"
Fun fact, if you try to roule une pelle and get turned down... It's called "se prendre un rateau" ("to get a rake")
(image: Boulet walking with a shovel steps on a rake and gets hit on the face when it springs up.)

January 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM

Blackitty

@blackitty222.bsky.social

Well... #filling2025 #badnewssaltime

January 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM

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Astropierre

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Des études sur la roche et la poussière de l'astéroïde Bennu livrées sur Terre par la sonde spatiale @OSIRISREx suggèrent que les briques chimiques élémentaires nécessaires à l’émergence de la vie étaient répandues dans tout le système solaire primitif !
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