It'll be dot product next, mark my words ilx ⋅ kinder
― kinder, Friday, 13 January 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
i had never heard of tlg's interpretation before, had always thought of it as your graf has it
― Tracer Hand, Friday, January 13, 2023 2:06 AM (eight hours ago
i have! it's quite common! Like it shows up with Savage Fenty, which is the opposite of cult? see also YMP's post ... another common one though is "designer for brand" like "Christian Siriano for Lane Bryant" or "Betsey Johnson for Torrid"
― sarahell, Friday, 13 January 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link
https://di2ponv0v5otw.cloudfront.net/posts/2018/03/30/5abefc2f9f78042734449c5b/m_5abefc358290af1329e6d631.jpeg
― kinder, Friday, 13 January 2023 18:50 (one year ago) link
lol
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 13 January 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link
whoa that's like the song Black Sabbath on the album Black Sabbath by the band Black Sabbath
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 13 January 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link
or La Dusseldorf
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 13 January 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link
or Focus
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Friday, 13 January 2023 22:21 (one year ago) link
Cash, the autobiography of Johnny Cash, by Johnny Cash
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 14 January 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
"pull your finger out"
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 January 2023 09:43 (one year ago) link
like, when you think about what's being said....??!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 January 2023 09:44 (one year ago) link
I assumed it was out of one's mouth, like a baby sucking its thumb. You assumed anus?
― Alba, Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:38 (one year ago) link
Yes!!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
https://media.tenor.com/81Qx9-z3yKoAAAAC/pull-yer-finger-out-letterkenny.gif
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link
Yeah that phrase is not referring to your mouth.
― can you still hit dinngers (gyac), Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link
Assuming has made an ass out of me.
― Alba, Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
And u!https://i.imgur.com/JBoA5QH.jpg
― Alba, Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:33 (one year ago) link
or not: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/186931/origin-of-the-expression-pull-your-finger-out
― rob, Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
about 2 seconds after the gun commander shouted at everyone to pull their finger out, rumor has it that one local funny muttered "...out of your ass", and it was one of the best moments of that terrible battle
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link
This may show my naïveté, but why would someone have their finger in their ass?
― Alba, Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:43 (one year ago) link
What I've always wondered about the phrase "sitting around with your thumb up your ass".
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
Was just about to mention “get your thumb out of your ass” which I’ve seen/heard in US fiction & leaves no ambiguity
― pilk/pall revolting odors (wins), Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate_massage
― rob, Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
Probably means lazily scratching your arse.
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
Inclusive for those of us without balls to scratch!
― can you still hit dinngers (gyac), Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
thanks zing, point made
I have never heard that phrase without the ass part.
― peace, man, Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
And of course, the inverse:
https://y.yarn.co/a4e8c55d-3ec0-4400-9b92-c027e0015e53_text.gif
― peace, man, Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
It's a very very common British phrase. Without the ass/arse that is.
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
I know and it’s….. pretty gross!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
Like I’m in a meeting and somebody says that. Hmm okay I didn’t really plan on imagining you with your finger up your own ass but hey I guess I didn’t have a choice
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
wait so was that System of a Down song that goes "pull the tapeworm out of your ass" parodying this phrase
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 January 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
Something I’ve recently noticed that I find grating is referring to workplace training programs or courses as just “trainings.” eg “This is a full day training that will teach you to…”
― ed.b, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
it's just a harmless gerund, ed
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
“Learnings” - which I always imagine in a yesssss masssster accent.
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
lol suzy
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:16 (one year ago) link
That one's pretty pedantic. Everyone knows what it means when you say that
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link
Still hate it.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
I won't defend the jargony register that people might say these words in, but. It's not an unprecedented type of word formation.
We use the word "feelings" all the time, and it has exactly the same etymological pedigree (that which is felt).
What's in an art museum? Paintings. What's in a city? Buildings.
Scientists speak of findings, musicians speak of bookings, formal institutions speak of proceedings, botanists speak of cuttings, decorators speak of furnishings, publishers speak of bindings.
Trainings and learnings (for instances of training and learning) may annoy you but they exist in a venerable tradition.
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
I've got a learning, a learning deep inside
Oh yeah
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
lots of venerable traditions are annoying too
― rob, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link
Those traditionings are notes.
I think what makes “trainings” and, more so the singular “a training” grating is less grammatical objection and more it’s close resemblance to verbal tics I associate with my parents (eg referring to soup as “a soup”), which aren’t linguistically objectionable either but, I think, are more about the unconscious dynamics that make kids oppose, or want to control, innocuous things their parents do. I guess?
― ed.b, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
I feel like 'learnings' has already faded from my world of nonprofit gobbly-jarg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:13 (one year ago) link
prefer munchings and crunchings
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
Everyone may know what is meant by ‘learnings’ but a) it’s still annoying jargon and b) I don’t think ‘lessons’ needed an overhaul.
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Thursday, 19 January 2023 20:43 (one year ago) link
It reminds me of the Fonejacker call centre sketch.
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 January 2023 20:47 (one year ago) link
See also: when people spell it FONE
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Thursday, 19 January 2023 20:49 (one year ago) link
Have we talked about vibe and vibing yet
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 19 January 2023 21:24 (one year ago) link
Yes.
Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 19 January 2023 21:35 (one year ago) link