honestly, @tkingfisher.com has the best solution for some types of recurring thoughts: she makes a donation in its honor and then when it reappears she's like "Nope, I paid my toll, go away."

didn't look very thrashed

ok that is so wild though. the thought that your vision slowly turns more and more yellowish just by … getting older sounds both so reasonable and so screaming-inducing

Go play with the lights in the dark on the Autobahn. (Germany)

or

Go catch the lights in the dark on the Autobahn. (Germany)

I particularly like "vai se fuder com cobra pra ter filho comprido" (go fuck a snake and have lengthy kids)

Just realised I forgot to mention my favourite Hungarian way of telling someone to get lost, which is szarj egy taliga aprósünt. It means “go shit a wheelbarrow’s worth of tiny hedgehogs”

* and if the person asks why the hedgehogs are tiny, you respond with “more fit into the wheelbarrow that way”

If you want to tell someone to leave you alone while in the Basque Country, you can’t go wrong with zoaz antzarak ferratzera, or “go put horseshoes on a goose”

My favourite Polish phrase for telling someone to feck off (or shut up) is idź do parku sufit malować. It means “go to the park and paint the ceiling”

at this point, I just use it so friends know implicitly if I'm replying from my phone (might be bored but won't write long texts) or from my laptop (happy to write a ton, but no pictures)