inspired by Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC) of 22 September 2022, petty.
An apprentice apotheker, Neil,
Made a tincture he promised would heal,
But instead, caused a scene,
People’s todgers turned green,
And his last words were “what’s the big deal?”
Mister Bump 
😂
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I had to google the word “todger.” That’s a slang I’d never heard before. Not used in the States much…if at all.
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it’s a very jokey term, not used here much either but if you said it, everybody would know what you meant.
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Well, not everyone! 😉
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Me too a new one
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Apologies. WP continues to diddle erratically with my likes and comments. You know, basically, I like the site but its poor performance will ultimately make me find another site so I can be comfortable paying for performance and monetization. This post I “liked” yesterday and commented that it was (as usual) ribaldly funny and to boot made me consult a street dictionary to confirm I’d contextually deduced “todger.” Keep hammering away,, Bumper. If I don’t appear to be in the audience, it’s that I’m busy duking it out with WordPress.
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Oh yeah, I never realised that todger was a Brit thing but Fandango pointed that out, too. It’s a very jokey way of referring to it.
I follow a few people who have looked at other blogging sites… but they are still here. I just backed out of critiquecircle.com – a peer review site than a blog – not at all my cup of tea but perhaps more to your taste? Also there is scribophile.com – but I halted even registering for that when I discovered that my DoB was a mandatory field. Someone’s DoB is their business.
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Inclined to agree on the DOB thing EXCEPT. the first site I ever contributed to was a smashingly good (writer-centric) site. Then, a (declared) kiddie site came down on its kiddies for cussing and such, so the kiddies pitched a hissy, quit en mass, and flooded the new site, bringing with them their lop-sided “fairness,” entitlements, and titter-tee-heee “you love me and I’ll love you” pubescent bullshit, ruined the site. When I quit the site, managers asked why. They agreed and said they were going to take age-control actions. They never did. I’m in MAJOR overhaul to front-and-center my fiction (250 shorts, novellas, a novel and more) but am not looking to WP as a host if I can find another. By the way, being an ADULT (of sorts) a slice of humor salted with vulgarity is okay by me. You do it well. And all considered, tastefully. SP
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I must admit, my counts are secondary (except for hundreds) but I do have a round of polishing every time, just aimed at reducing. Used to be I could get 20% saving, not so much now. But I have an attitude where people are giving me their time. Least I can do is use it efficiently. It’s had benefits when reading, too. I can spot a lazy sentence a mile off and I use it to determine whether to continue reading.
I generally assume adult – I should put a graphic on my site, but… – just easier that way. But I like to be sufficiently vague that everyone sees things slightly differently. It gives me a buzz to get people thinking. I fell out with a guy once because he expected it to be served on a plate. Good luck to him.
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Evening out your way. Have a nice one.
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just suppered. And you.
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