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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Another reply to SuperHolly’s video:
I always thought “useless as tits on a ball†not bull. Which made sense to me because they would get in the way and be beyond useless!
Works for me!
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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FWIW, the version I heard from my dad was “useless as breasts on bacon”, but I suspect that was the “kid-friendly” version and that he really probably said “tits on bacon” or some such thing when with other grown-ups. Anyone here heard any other variations?
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‘About as much use as a one-legged man in an arse-kicking contest’
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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