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[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

No, no, he had it right the first time: the sorts of people who want to look in your windows really do want to reign, like an autocrat.

.(I'm just riffing off your comment to make a point. I don't actually think the person was that clever and agree it was a typo.)

[-] GabrielBell12fi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I thought it was "free reign" but reign as in the way you reign a horse -- you give your horse "free reign" to do as it wishes.

EDIT : huh. Turns out I am right, but you "rein" a horse not "reign". Derp!

[-] Timwi@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago
[-] GabrielBell12fi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

(grin) Yeah -- I realised that after I wrote it.

As unbelievable as it sounds I had only ever heard it said -- I'd never seen it written down. (Or if I have I don't remember seeing it written down -- must have been twenty, thirty years ago.) I am not a horse person, so I don't deal with vocab relating to horses all that often.

Just one of those things I guess.

[-] Timwi@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Don't be too hard on yourself. English spelling is not exactly cooperative.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Isn't it ironic, don't you think?

[-] harmsy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

A little too ironic, and yeah I really do think.

[-] A7thStone@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I thought it was free rain, like the water falling from the sky.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

If nestle ruled the world they'd make it so

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Already illegal in certain jurisdictions to collect rainwater on your own property (with a goal of protecting aquifers IIRC)!

Looking into it, perhaps 15 states regulate it but I’m not sure any have outright bans anymore - plenty of states encourage it.

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