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Peadar Ó Guilín @thecallya.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I got feet, but I never feature...

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A list of lyrics if all lyrics were as profound as “I got soul, but I'm not a soldier” by The Killers... 1. I got hips, but I’m not a hipster 2. I got plums, but I’m not a plumber 3. I got toes, but I’m not a toaster 4. I got badge, but I’m not a badger 5. I got meow, but I'm not a homeowner

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I’d just like to let you all know that I’ll be taking a break from mental health to focus on my social media

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Today is National Biscuit Day so here’s a list of ten biscuity musical artists to listen to… 1. Bourbon Jovi 2. Florentina Turner 3. Fleetwood Macaroons 4. HobNob Dylan 5. Viscounting Crows 6. TimTammy Wynette 7. Garibaldi Barlow 8. Oreo Speedwagon 9. Lionel Rich Tea 10. Jaffas on Airplane

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I don’t think starter packs are a thing anymore but as today is National Biscuit Day I’m bringing back this Very Important Pack of biscuit connoisseurs…

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Reposting this because today is World Dugong Day (as I'm sure you all already know)...

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I was a bit skeptical but holy macanoly does it work

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The second best phrase I’ve heard for very warm weather is from the US South and goes “it’s hotter than two hamsters fucking in a wool sock.” And the best phrase I’ve heard is from Afrikaans and goes die hond die kat jaag, maar beide loop. It means “the dog is chasing the cat, but both are walking.”

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SwissMiss @fraupage.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

this needed to be reposted today

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Happy International Tea Day! My favourite phrase for when given a non-full cup of tea is “are you expecting stormy weather?” And my favourite phrase for when given a cup of tea that isn’t strong enough is “that tea’s as strong as a fortnight.“

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Happy World Bee Day! Here’s a list of how bees buzz in ten different languages… 10. Bzzz (Czech) 9. Bzzz (Bulgarian) 8. Bzzz (French) 7. Bzzz (Slovene) 6. Bzzz (Catalan) 5. Bzzz (Polish) 4. Bzzz (Portuguese) 3. Bzzz (Italian) 2. Bzzz (Spanish) 1. Wing wing (Korean)

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'll take any excuse to post this again...

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

A list of the top ten most pleasing sounds ever… 10. This 9. Is 8. Too 7. Subjective 6. So 5. Impossible 4. To 3. Rank 2. Them 1. Ducks quacking

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Melina ~looking for an alien symbiote~ @defoni.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My favourite Finnish one is "Ei menny niin kuin Strömsössä" [Didn't go like in Strömsö]. STRÖMSÖ is a Finland-Swedish TV show where they cook and craft and everything's so easy-breezy and lovely and quaint and always goes according to plan, presenting this Finland-Swedish utopistic way of existence

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My favourite phrases for when things go wrong… 1. It’s a shitshow at the fuck factory (English) 2. Now the turnips are cooked (Dutch) 3. A donkey is inside another donkey (Persian) 4. The Devil is loose in Salmonstreet (Danish) 5. A finger in the ass and screaming everywhere (Brazilian Portuguese)

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

One of my favourite awful puns is from when former Tottenham Hotspur manager Juande Ramos was at risk of being sacked and the commentator speculated whether his players could be heroes… “just for Juande”

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Steve Foster @slfoster22.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Maybe they also should have reconsidered Tatooine each others names on themselves so early in the relationship

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Couple about to sign divorce papers… WOMAN: I wish I'd never joined that Star Wars dating app MAN: You were looking for love in Alderaan places WOMAN: And I wish I'd never married a guy addicted to Star Wars puns MAN: It was a wookie mistake WOMAN: Just sign it MAN, SIGNING: May divorce be with you

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The second best phrase I’ve heard for when someone has the zipper of their pants undone is the Chinese 天安门开了. It means “The Gate of Heavenly Peace is open.” The best phrase I’ve heard is the Spanish la farmacia está abierta y el doctor dormido. It means “the pharmacy is open, and the doctor asleep.”

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Today is Narwhal Appreciation Day so if you haven't already please sign my petition to have their name changed to "tunacorns"

Illustration of two tunacorns swimming in the sea

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Birna Anna Björnsdóttir @birnaanna.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The word narwhal is apparently derived from the Icelandic náhvalur. Nár is dead human body, hvalur is whale. It’s said it’s because medieval sources describe náhvalur using their enormous tooth to eat men who had died at sea. Or, that the gray, pasty skin of náhvalur recalls that of a dead body.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Today is Narwhal Appreciation Day so if you haven't already please sign my petition to have their name changed to "tunacorns"

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Happy International Cuckoo Day! In English a mismatched pair could be described as being “like chalk and cheese.” An Estonian equivalent is nagu siga ja kägu, which means “like a pig and a cuckoo.”

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

CUCKOO 1: I heard you finally found work CUCKOO 2: Yeah I got a job in a cuckoo clock CUCKOO 1: How are you finding it? CUCKOO 2: Pretty boring, but it gets me out of the house

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I'm all about fitness. ... ... ... FITNESS OREO IN MY MOUTH, HEY-OOOOOOOOOOOO

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Today is National Exercise Day so here’s a list of my ten favourite exercises… 1. Jogging my memory 2. Skipping a workout 3. Surfing the net 4. Jumping to conclusions 5. Skating on thin ice 6. Pushing my luck 7. Running my mouth 8. Kicking up a fuss 9. Catching forty winks 10. Throwing in the towel

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Drawn @commoner.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Tom Weights

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

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Mary-Alice Thompson (she/her) @mathompson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Happy Day, too, of the poetic form Tanka to you and you and all those who need a little more space to finish a thought.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Happy Day of the poetic form called Haiku to you and you and –

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Ken Cheng @kenchengceo.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The jogger

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Lt. Uhura @ltuhura.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Mr. Sharp says that Today is Haiku Day. Now Let's put this to bed.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Knock knock. Who’s there? Hike. Hike who? solitary cow standing atop a mountain longs for home – Dundee

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A SHORT CROSS-LINGUISTIC POEM ABOUT FOOD… An English cheese is good But a Dutch cheese is gouda An English sausage is bad But a German sausage is the Wurst An English egg leaves you hungry But a French egg is un œuf In English you fancy some bread But in Spanish you’re pan sexual

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Happy Praying Mantis Appreciation Day, to all who celebrate… CHILD PRAYING MANTIS: Dad, who are we all praying to exactly? DAD PRAYING MANTIS: Depends which religion you belong to CHILD: So not all people follow the same religion? DAD: No, son… we’re in sects

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The Thai word for a praying mantis, ตั๊กแตนตำข้าว, means "rice-pounding grasshopper." And the Navajo word, naakaii náásééł, means "Mexicans are coming as a mob." This may come from an old belief that if you ask a praying mantis where the Mexicans are coming from, it will point in the correct direction.

Praying mantis / rice-pounding grasshopper pointing at something (that may or may not be a mob of Mexicans)

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pyykkö @pyykko.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

In 2008 The Committee for Mammal Names proposed changing the name to 'tikutaku'. Chip 'n' Dale - probably the world's best-known chipmunks - are called Tiku and Taku in Finnish. However, Institute for the Languages of Finland rejected the proposal.

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Jyri Huttunen @jyri.synapsinappi.fi · 09/04/2026

It's more like "goat of the sky", or if you want to wax more poetic, "heaven's goat" (since "taivas" means both the concrete blue sky, and the more esoterically-loaded heaven).

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Hilla @hillavierela.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I might be biased, but I think Finnish is a fantastic language. ❤️ I didn't see listed one of my favourites: dragon = lohikäärme = 'salmon snake' 😅👍

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Torbjörn Björkman @torbjornbjorkman.eurosky.social · 09/04/2026

My own Finnish favourite: interaction with bureaucracies can be referred to as paperisota, or "paper war".

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subtleknife.bsky.social @subtleknife.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Himalayan - he is in a state of repose Heart - explores the male form Manatee - please don't go bare-chested all the time! Gentile - important to distinguish when you install his and hers bathrooms

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Gemolisch @jodievdw.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

🎵 Teenage mutant thuggish turtles 🎵

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Bromine = a concealed device used to blow up dudes Manslaughter = dudes having a chuckle Hispanic = dude having a bout of anxiety Guidance = a dance for dudes Mandate = dudes going for dinner and a movie

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The Finnish word for an auction, huutokauppa, means “shout market” (or “shouting shop”) * read on for more of my favourite Finnish words (a thread in honour of today being Day of the Finnish Language)…

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clavier_continuo @claviercontinuo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Let me introduce a Japanese phrase in similar category. *目に入れても痛くない(Meni iretemo itaku nai) It expresses "incredibly very cute". The literal meaning is "Even if it is put into my eyes, it would not hurt them."

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

In English, a phrase for looking at attractive people is "to check out the eye candy." An equivalent phrase in Mexican slang is echar un taco de ojo, which means "to throw an eye taco"

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

if i had a pet beaver, i would call it Graham Gnawton, Chewie Theroux or Tim-Berton. ...or possibly Chewbarka.

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Blorkers @blorkers.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A tribal chief retired and his people bought a stone throne to go in his mud hut as thanks for his kind rule. There wasn't room below so he built a mezzanine for it. The rains came, the mud melted and the throne fell and killed him. The moral: people who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.

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