porridge
Porridge and rap, oatmeal porridge without treacle or milk ; suggestive of hard times j (a) — powder, oatmeal j (3) — thibble or thibbo, a piece of stick used to stir porridge when boiling.
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Dusk is settling over the city. You stand at the Pnyx. You taste barley porridge with a drizzle of honey — humble but filling. You see the Parthenon above everything, impossibly bright against the sky. You realize you…
Ah, you define "Zionist" as "hates Muslims". Fascinating how mushy your porridge brain is.
Aside from glossy graphics and a well known IP skin, it is a totally threadbare experience. The combat is repetitive, the characters utterly bland, the questing and plot cookie cutter and uninspired. Porridge game design
Devoured porridge like a starved medieval peasant. Now smoking my last tropical flavored cigarette which would almost definitely one shot a medieval peasant
Fawlty Towers TOTP MOTD Final Score The Tube Top Gear (yes I know...) Star Trek Only Fools and Horses Porridge Open All Hours Monty Python's Flying Circus (re-runs, didn't get it aged 5) Dr Who Tom And Jerry Wacky Rac…
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Porridge and rap, oatmeal porridge without treacle or milk ; suggestive of hard times j (a) — powder, oatmeal j (3) — thibble or thibbo, a piece of stick used to stir porridge when boiling.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
Eat your porridge while it's hot!
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(British, slang, uncountable) A prison sentence.
There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.
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(rare) A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
Just do your porridge and keep your head down.
“Dusk is settling over the city. You stand at the Pnyx. You taste barley porridge with a drizzle of honey — humble but filling. You see the Parthenon above everything, impossibly bright against the sky. You realize you've been standing still just watching for a while now.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Ah, you define "Zionist" as "hates Muslims". Fascinating how mushy your porridge brain is.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Aside from glossy graphics and a well known IP skin, it is a totally threadbare experience. The combat is repetitive, the characters utterly bland, the questing and plot cookie cutter and uninspired. Porridge game design”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Devoured porridge like a starved medieval peasant. Now smoking my last tropical flavored cigarette which would almost definitely one shot a medieval peasant”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Fawlty Towers TOTP MOTD Final Score The Tube Top Gear (yes I know...) Star Trek Only Fools and Horses Porridge Open All Hours Monty Python's Flying Circus (re-runs, didn't get it aged 5) Dr Who Tom And Jerry Wacky Races Family Guy”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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