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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldbySomeonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
13 days

A wristwatch is like a handcuff to time

English

You’re constantly reminded to check the hour in case you have an appointment to keep

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    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
      13 days

      Does that mean a pocket watch is a ball and chain to time?

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
        13 days

        Not if you are a lobster, than it is a clawcuff.

          • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
            13 days

            Reminding you that you’re late to your business meeting at Red Lobster.

              • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
                12 days

                I know what happens there!

            • Lumidaub@feddit.org
              13 days

              Sure, and lungs are like handcuffs to air, they constantly remind you to breathe.

                • 667@lemmy.radioEnglish
                  13 days

                  You are now breathing manually.

                    • xep@discuss.online
                      13 days

                      augh could you please not

                        • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
                          12 days

                          But did you know you can always see the tip of your nose?

                            • xep@discuss.online
                              12 days

                              aaaaaaaaaaaaa

                        • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
                          13 days

                          Kind of missing the whole locked on to your wrist theme.

                            • Lumidaub@feddit.org
                              13 days

                              Analogies are never perfect.

                          • kinsnik@lemmy.world
                            13 days

                            you might enjoy Cortazar’s Preamble to the Instructions on How to Wind a Watch

                            • KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de
                              13 days

                              Or like a compass, allowing you to steer the vortex of time perception :3

                              • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
                                12 days

                                if we don’t find that time handcuff then bdsm will never be invented!

                                • Heinous@feddit.onlineEnglish
                                  13 days

                                  Chronos knows what he’s doin

                                  • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
                                    12 days

                                    That title is the kind of thing the Matthew McConaughey’s character in True Detective would say.

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