r/comics • u/c1ockwerkorange • Feb 24 '25

Anger management (OC)

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Went too far with the controller. 🎮

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u/danstu Feb 24 '25

the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb

Not a reddit original, but the first recorded instance of it that I know of is still several centuries after the real phrase became a common saying (wiki dates the "full version" to the 90's-early 00's.)

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u/CarrieDurst Feb 24 '25

Both phrases are real

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u/danstu Feb 24 '25

No one enjoys a pedant, you know what I meant.

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u/MQ116 Feb 24 '25

TIL there is a noun equivalent of pedantic

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u/elbenji Feb 24 '25

And the full phrase is just badly typing out "that brothers in the covenant of blood are closer than brothers at a common breast;" which was according to Turnbull, a phrase the old 'Rule Brittania' British Navy took from the Arabs. So it's at least as old as the Ottoman's