Stamets [Mirror]@startrek.website to Risa@startrek.websiteEnglish · 1 year agoRemember that time Kate Mulgrew and AOC talked about Tuvix? No? Well take a lookstartrek.websiteimagemessage-square112fedilinkarrow-up1652arrow-down113
arrow-up1639arrow-down1imageRemember that time Kate Mulgrew and AOC talked about Tuvix? No? Well take a lookstartrek.websiteStamets [Mirror]@startrek.website to Risa@startrek.websiteEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square112fedilink
minus-squareElHexo [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIt’s partly a joke (your favourite peeve, for example) and probably a reference to the other, now archaic, meaning of pet: fit of peevishness, offense or ill-humor at feeling slighted I think you can accept idioms as they are or you’ll be endlessly feeling like one saying or another has got your goat
minus-squareApathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYou must have missed the part that says I’m not really serious.
It’s partly a joke (your favourite peeve, for example) and probably a reference to the other, now archaic, meaning of pet:
I think you can accept idioms as they are or you’ll be endlessly feeling like one saying or another has got your goat
You must have missed the part that says I’m not really serious.