TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours ago"ok, imagine a gun."sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1443arrow-down17
arrow-up1436arrow-down1image"ok, imagine a gun."sh.itjust.worksTriflingToad@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squaredukeofdummies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up91arrow-down1·12 hours agoYeah it was bench seating so one guy had the reins and the other had a shotgun. Hence the name.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoIn the time of horse drawn carriages, wouldn’t the rifle be a more common weapon?
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up56arrow-down1·12 hours agoits interesting the slang that persists… “i call getting to shoot people!”
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·edit-29 hours agoI mean, it’s still America. I guess the location of the shooting has changed though. It should mean having your desk at the front of the classroom by the teacher’s desk now.
minus-squarejawa21@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoThe amount of naval terminology that has stuck around in English is mind boggling.
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoAhoj! I’m Czech. We don’t even have any access to sea…
minus-squareRavuAlHemio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 hours agoNo direct access, but “jump into the Elbe and wait” is still a valid strategy…
minus-squareProprietary_Blend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·12 hours agoAnd other shit.
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·edit-212 hours agoGringo explaining a horse carriage: Imagine a gun
minus-squareVaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·12 hours agoAnd the kids have been shouting shotgun from then on.
minus-squareTriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 hours agooh I thought it was from the moonshine age, I guess horse buggies make more sense lol
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 hours agoWhenever someone says “Shotgun” I can only think of the drive-by scene in Boyz 'n Da Hood.
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?
its interesting the slang that persists…
“i call getting to shoot people!”
I mean, it’s still America.
I guess the location of the shooting has changed though. It should mean having your desk at the front of the classroom by the teacher’s desk now.
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…
No direct access, but “jump into the Elbe and wait” is still a valid strategy…
And other shit.
Gringo explaining a horse carriage: Imagine a gun
And the kids have been shouting shotgun from then on.
oh I thought it was from the moonshine age, I guess horse buggies make more sense lol
Whenever someone says “Shotgun” I can only think of the drive-by scene in Boyz 'n Da Hood.