Quote Originally Posted by ImSavy View Post
Do you struggle with taking this literally when they're not meant that way?

edit - I don't mean that as an insult or anything it's a serious question. A lot of my posts you seem to take too literally. Might be a UK thing.
I sometimes do. I sometimes think it's funny to highlight how silly a turn of phrase is... especially old ones like "let the cat out of the bag" whose literal meanings are completely lost to anachronism.

That was just a joke, though.

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Thinking about emergency preparedness is a good process to go through in moderation, IMO.

I don't think the zombie apocalypse is upon us, or even the Germans, any time soon, though.