"ok, imagine a gun."
-
Yeah it was bench seating so one guy had the reins and the other had a shotgun. Hence the name.
In the time of horse drawn carriages, wouldn't the rifle be a more common weapon?
-
This post did not contain any content.
My kids say "Chewbacca!"
-
I'm the times coaches like that became common it wasn't really safe to travel in most parts of the world.
Weren't these coaches a thing in the 19th century US, from which time the term comes? From what i could find quickly, Highway robbery became less of a thing in the UK and mainland Europe by the end of the 18th century.
-
All the things you listed either shoot projectiles and/or have triggers. What else do you call trigger operated projectile launchers? Also Caulk guns legitimately look like old timey machine guns.
Kartuschenpresse aka cartridge press
-
Ahoj! I'm Czech. We don't even have any access to sea...
No direct access, but “jump into the Elbe and wait” is still a valid strategy…
-
All the things you listed either shoot projectiles and/or have triggers. What else do you call trigger operated projectile launchers? Also Caulk guns legitimately look like old timey machine guns.
Replacing "gun" with "press" for example.
Alternatively, caulker, stapler, nailer, gluer, tattooer, and finger pointers. Fingers also usually don't launch projectiles I think. It's just that gun culture is so embedded in your brain you couldn't think of an alternative.
Note how these are all construction tools, and construction is also usually worked by men there. Yet more traditionally feminine tools don't get the "gun" additive; most will say spray bottle for example rather than spray gun, even though it also has a trigger (a literal gun-like one in some cases) and shoots out a projectile.
-
This post did not contain any content.wrote last edited by [email protected]
This phrase has confused me so much when I heard it in one of Taylor Swift's songs.
Then my Texan cousins explained it to me on a visit one day. I was still confused. Now I've found out it's a stage coach thing. Interesting.
-
This post did not contain any content.
Now I'd like to know why in France it's la place du Mort, the seat of the dead...
-
Not many countries had to arm the person next to the coach driver to fight off natives defending their country against foreign invaders.
lets not pretend that the US sprouted up out of nothing from nowhere and decide on a whim to slaughter native people. the American continent exists as it does today because of European colonial projects, and the brutal treatment of natives was official policy of the pope
-
Now I'd like to know why in France it's la place du Mort, the seat of the dead...
While this is probably some bullshit from the horse drawn carriage era, what I'd like to say is that statistically speaking riding shotgun is the most dangerous seat in car crashes, so the saying still works
-
Replacing "gun" with "press" for example.
Alternatively, caulker, stapler, nailer, gluer, tattooer, and finger pointers. Fingers also usually don't launch projectiles I think. It's just that gun culture is so embedded in your brain you couldn't think of an alternative.
Note how these are all construction tools, and construction is also usually worked by men there. Yet more traditionally feminine tools don't get the "gun" additive; most will say spray bottle for example rather than spray gun, even though it also has a trigger (a literal gun-like one in some cases) and shoots out a projectile.
I think press works for Caulk and glue. Stapler is used already for the machine that sits on a desk as opposed to the hand held construction style. Finger pointers is certainly descriptive but when people do "finger guns" the thumb usually mimics the hammer action. What else are they miming? Am I so inundated with gun culture I was unable to think of another use for the thumb?
I think bottles were around before firearms but Staple, nail and Caulk guns were not.
-
Kartuschenpresse aka cartridge press
Cool thx
-
To be fair on this one, based on actual functionality 'air nailer' or 'power hammer' is more accurate than 'nail gun'' anyway. Outside of movies, you can't use it as a gun without enough modification that it's no longer the same tool.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I like < method of creating force > + hammer above nail gun but to your second point. Nail guns can be deadly without modification. Just close up work. They sell these and others like them at big box stores. This would be, in my favored naming convention, a gunpowder hammer.
-
While this is probably some bullshit from the horse drawn carriage era, what I'd like to say is that statistically speaking riding shotgun is the most dangerous seat in car crashes, so the saying still works
wrote last edited by [email protected]The shotgun Georg, who uses a small motorbike to jump inside 80,000 cars on highway and bites whoever is in the shotgun seat anually; is an outlier and their victims should be excluded from this survey.
-
In the time of horse drawn carriages, wouldn't the rifle be a more common weapon?
Easier to aim a shotgun went bouncing around on the stagecoach, running from bandits.
-
Yes, because we invariably import whatever bollocks the US says or does.
We don't even SAY bollocks in the US.
-
lets not pretend that the US sprouted up out of nothing from nowhere and decide on a whim to slaughter native people. the American continent exists as it does today because of European colonial projects, and the brutal treatment of natives was official policy of the pope
wrote last edited by [email protected]Let's not pretend colonial europe is a thing (in 21st century) or that EU is ran by catholic church. For whatever reason, lemmy really loves shitting on countries based on what happened centuries ago. It's pretty much irrelevant and if that is your argument against EU in 21st century, then I genuinely see you as someone who simply wants to hate, but fails to find good enough reasons to do so. Same thing about US, South America and Middle East. Oh, let's not forget bloody (literally) Asia.
-
Not many countries had to arm the person next to the coach driver to fight off natives defending their country against foreign invaders.
No, but many needed to protect those passengers from bandits and other assorted outlaws.
-
Now I'd like to know why in France it's la place du Mort, the seat of the dead...
La place du mort, c'est pas le siège du milieu a l'arrière ?
-
Yes, because we invariably import whatever bollocks the US says or does.
Yep, and we thank you for the word soccer too.
