I wish I could be gently snoozing like this little turd-boy was yesterday
nicolina [va de luto❤️🩹]
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hate Ohio, love Cincinnati ☭ las mujeres sostienen la mitad del cielo
hate Ohio, love Cincinnati ☭ las mujeres sostienen la mitad del cielo
![The Standard Dictionary [that is, Funk and Wagnalls] gives butty as a variant of buddy. I raise the query whether precedence should not be the other way. When I was a boy in the Pennsylvania coalfields, one of the commonest words in the miners’ speech [again mining, as in England!] was butty, or buttie, as I have always preferred to spell it, meaning work-fellow. In the cramped, underground and honey-combs where bituminous coal is dug, the man with a pick and the man with the shovel are literally butties, working all day long buttock to buttock, or in the vulgar but comradely abbreviation, butt to butt. The word was used generally in a technical sense, without any endearing connotation of spiritual nearness. But the boys of the community thirty years ago adopted the word for the idea which later at school they were to express by chum, a word which I confess always sounds emasculated and utterly lacking the vulgar warmth of buttie (!).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jthkzh6wswiprrezolgdtemo/bafkreifu3uyveniqyh2suftvow5ux3liebkjyzpsna5xg5piz6t65kujwy)
