TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days ago"ok, imagine a gun."sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square114fedilinkarrow-up1761arrow-down110
arrow-up1751arrow-down1image"ok, imagine a gun."sh.itjust.worksTriflingToad@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square114fedilink
minus-squaredukeofdummies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up122arrow-down1·24 days agoYeah it was bench seating so one guy had the reins and the other had a shotgun. Hence the name.
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up67arrow-down4·24 days agoits interesting the slang that persists… “i call getting to shoot people!”
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down2·edit-224 days 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-up6·24 days agoThe amount of naval terminology that has stuck around in English is mind boggling.
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·24 days agoAhoj! I’m Czech. We don’t even have any access to sea…
minus-squareRavuAlHemio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·24 days agoNo direct access, but “jump into the Elbe and wait” is still a valid strategy…
minus-squareWrufieotnak@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·23 days ago… And hope no German bridge crushes on you!
minus-squarecatgames@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·23 days agoThe modern version would be “I call running the Spotify!”
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·edit-224 days agoGringo explaining a horse carriage: Imagine a gun
minus-squareVaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·24 days agoAnd the kids have been shouting shotgun from then on.
minus-squareTriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·24 days agooh I thought it was from the moonshine age, I guess horse buggies make more sense lol
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·24 days agoWhenever someone says “Shotgun” I can only think of the drive-by scene in Boyz 'n Da Hood.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·24 days agoIn the time of horse drawn carriages, wouldn’t the rifle be a more common weapon?
minus-squareJerb322@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·23 days agoEasier to aim a shotgun went bouncing around on the stagecoach, running from bandits.
Yeah it was bench seating so one guy had the reins and the other had a shotgun. Hence the name.
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 hope no German bridge crushes on you!
The modern version would be “I call running the Spotify!”
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.
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.