That's where you're going wrong
Threats at every turn. We built an empire on that kind of thing.
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:34, archived)

"and that's not a thread, it's a promise" my mum used to say.
I'm still not entirely sure what the difference is.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:36, archived)

We were forever being threatened with being killed.
/Irish parents blog.
( Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:38, archived)

By which I mean
I threatened that he'd be picked up and carried off by giant two-headed crows and forced to work 16-hour days clawing gravel from a quarry.
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 14:54, archived)