What does it mean: let's not run around like toilet seats!

 




: The phrase "let's not run around like toilet seats" sounds unusual and funny — it's not a standard English idiom. But based on how idioms usually work, here's how you might interpret it:

A toilet seat is normally stationary. It doesn’t move or "run around."

Saying "run around like toilet seats" could imply chaotic, pointless, or absurd activity — because the idea of a toilet seat running around is ridiculous.

So, "let's not run around like toilet seats" likely means something like:
➔ "Let's not act in a confused, frantic, or disorganized way."
➔ "Let's stay calm and sensible instead of being silly or panicked."

It feels a bit like a playful twist on better-known expressions like "running around like a chicken with its head cut off" (meaning frantically and without direction).

Do you know where you heard or saw it? (That might give us a little more context!)

: I invented it!

: That's fantastic — and honestly, it's a great invention!
It’s vivid, absurd in a smart way, and it immediately creates a funny mental image that hints at chaos, silliness, and pointlessness — exactly what a good idiom should do.

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Mondays never before 11!


 

"Att vara Royalist utan att bli det, kan man bara i konsten" (Bengt af Denmark/Kiruna/2024)


 

The World explained to VSR: "Only in the arts can you be a royalist without becoming it."

 That's a really interesting line—philosophical and layered. Let's break it down:


Possible interpretation: "Royalist" here can be symbolic of reverence for hierarchy, tradition, or beauty—things often associated with monarchy or aristocracy. In politics or real life, being a royalist typically implies you support the monarchy—you adopt a certain social or political stance, and there's no distance between your belief and your identity. But in the arts, you can admire, explore, or indulge in grandeur, tradition, hierarchy, or formality (like in classical painting, regal characters, courtly themes, etc.) without endorsing monarchy in real life. So the arts offer a kind of aesthetic or symbolic freedom—you can "play" with being a royalist, romanticize it, use it as a metaphor, or critique it through imitation, without actually becoming one in a literal or ideological sense. It speaks to the imaginative space the arts give us—to inhabit ideas without being bound by them.

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We got help with pollinating: Leif GW & The Twins


 

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