"ok, imagine a gun."
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The amount of naval terminology that has stuck around in English is mind boggling.
Ahoj! I'm Czech. We don't even have any access to sea...
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It's used in the UK too
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It's used in the UK too
Yes, because we invariably import whatever bollocks the US says or does.
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Not many countries had to arm the person next to the coach driver to fight off natives defending their country against foreign invaders.
I'm the times coaches like that became common it wasn't really safe to travel in most parts of the world.
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wait, it's illegal to drink anything while driving in places? when did that happen?
In some place that counts as distracted driving and you can get fined for it.
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I'd been told it was a gangster thing: passenger seat shoots out the window for a drive-by.
I thought it was a US police thing, because the passenger seat is where the shotgun is commonly holstered.
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I thought it was a US police thing, because the passenger seat is where the shotgun is commonly holstered.
wrote last edited by [email protected]That makes a bit more sense if true.
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Not many countries had to arm the person next to the coach driver to fight off natives defending their country against foreign invaders.
There was once a theory that the reason for the difference in which side a vehicle is driving on the road today, stems from whether a country had many stretches of untamed wilderness with lots of bandits. So if there was a high likelihood that whoever you met on the road was a danger, the horsecart driver preferred passing them on the side of their sword arm (right hand as default), while if you did not have to take that into account, you would pass them on the left hand side.
The theory has now largely been abandonded as spurious, but it does remain a fact that there were dangerous stretches of roads in older times in Europe as well.
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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?
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My kids say "Chewbacca!"
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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.
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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
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Now I'd like to know why in France it's la place du Mort, the seat of the dead...
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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
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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
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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.
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Kartuschenpresse aka cartridge press
Cool thx
