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Fishing is boring until you catch a fish

Just wait a few days for a reply. Fishing is boring until you catch a fish.
by TheRoadLessTravelled August 17, 2025
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The observation that the lines on a map separating nations are not natural features but political fictions, often drawn by colonial powers with rulers, enforced by stories of "us vs. them," and made real through violence (border guards, walls). A river is geography; the "border" running down its middle is a story we all agree to treat as deadly serious, changing who gets to live where and who is considered a foreigner.
Example: "Standing at the U.S.-Mexico border, the Theory of Constructed National Borders hits hard. The desert ecosystem is continuous. The people, cultures, and families have flowed across it for millennia. The rigid, armed line is a recent invention, a story of nationalism made concrete and razor wire, proving a border is just a conflict between geography and ideology where ideology hired the guns."
by Abzu Land January 31, 2026
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The application of Critical Theory to national borders—examining how borders are created, enforced, and experienced, and how they serve power. Critical Theory of National Borders asks: Who decides where borders go? Who can cross, and who can't? How do borders create and reinforce inequality? What violence do borders enable? Drawing on border studies, postcolonial theory, and critical geography, it insists that borders aren't natural—they're political, violent, and always contested. Understanding borders requires understanding the power that draws them and the lives they shape.
"Borders are just lines on a map, they say. Critical Theory of National Borders asks: lines drawn by whom? Enforced by what violence? Some can cross freely; others die trying. Borders aren't just lines—they're weapons. They separate families, enable exploitation, enforce inequality. Critical theory insists on asking: who belongs, who's excluded, and who benefits from the lines?"
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 4, 2026
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2000's born child

The children who, during their early years, felt that 1991 and 2008 were separated by multiple decades, even though these years are actually just 17 years apart. This perception stems from their limited understanding of time and the significant cultural differences between those years.
As a 2000's born child, I remember thinking that everything from the '90s felt like ancient history, even though it was only a few years before I was born!
by Emotional Cruiser January 21, 2026
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softer than the fur on a new born colt

slang for describing a womans incredibly soft skin.
Her skin is softer than the fur on a new born colt.
by get gettin November 18, 2015
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