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Ever since I can remember, my dad would refer to groin shots as "Cooney Punches". For the longest time, I wondered why he called them that, thinking he had a friend named Cooney who punched him in the crotch. Only now do I know he was referring to a moment in the Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney fight from 1982 in which Cooney punched Holmes in the dick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZZDWXC1BQ Any phrases your parents said that, in retrospect, make sense given context?
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My dad said a whole lot of racist things that I didn't know were racist.
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Sep 13, 2023 04:58
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it’s all a bunch of racist hullabaloo aside from when my great grandmother would say, “it’s colder than a witch’s titties,” but i think that one is self-explanatory and likely holds no deeper meaning
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Sep 13, 2023 05:21
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"Life sucks and then you die"
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Sep 13, 2023 05:23
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"It's a simple task and we are already paying them far too much to do it."
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Sep 13, 2023 05:29
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Growing up in a developing country in the Pacific we had a big stick near the front door This was the "Kanaka Whacker" As an adult I have now learnt that is basically "The N-word Stick" so that was a bit of a revelation about my parents I can't unlearn
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Sep 13, 2023 09:10
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"There's no such thing as depression, going through life with no hope except for your eventual death and eeking out what little small amounts of happiness you can before it goes away for the next day. There is nothing actually fulfilling about life, you just keep going through it because you have no choice." As an adult I now understand my mum was hella loving depressed.
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Sep 13, 2023 10:31
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I heard "poo poo fire and save the matches!" so often that I never stopped to parse it until way, way later.
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Sep 13, 2023 10:47
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Das Boo posted:I heard "poo poo fire and save the matches!" so often that I never stopped to parse it until way, way later. Mind unpacking it for the class?
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Sep 13, 2023 12:25
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Three Olives posted:"It's a simple task and we are already paying them far too much to do it." drat apple didn't fall far from the tree
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Sep 13, 2023 12:27
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Gas thread ban op
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Sep 13, 2023 12:35
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My mom has a lot of odd regional expressions but my favorite is probably “he should be shot with poo poo and killed for stinkin’”
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Sep 13, 2023 12:36
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"You're a worthless piece of poo poo" Turns out Mom was right!
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Sep 13, 2023 13:36
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When me and my brother were being insulted, the word was toe-rag, not 'torag'.
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Sep 13, 2023 13:57
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My grandfather used to say “poo poo, mother, I can’t dance!” I still don’t really know what it meant.
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Sep 13, 2023 14:12
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you look like joe poo poo, the rag-man. basically this killer crane posted:My dad said a whole lot of racist things that I didn't know were racist. TK8325 fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Sep 13, 2023 |
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Sep 13, 2023 14:17
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they mostly just ended up being a bunch of esoteric racial slurs
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Sep 13, 2023 14:19
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:My grandfather used to say “poo poo, mother, I can’t dance!” Neil Young has a song from 1974 called Try with the lyrics I'd like to take a chance But poo poo, Mary, I can't dance So here's to lookin' up your old address Golly what a mess We gotta take the rest and try It only would have been heard live or on a bootleg, though.
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Sep 13, 2023 14:25
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Das Boo posted:I heard "poo poo fire and save the matches!" so often that I never stopped to parse it until way, way later. I love this but also need it explained I learned that "[Relative] has a lot of problems and they need some space" was shorthand for "that person is crazy and we're not exposing you to that anymore, no apology for letting them around you in the first place though"
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"it means you’re in complete shock or surprise. It comes from the idea of lighting a match, after going to the bathroom, to eliminate the smell – so you could save the match by “making GBS threads fire” instead."
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Sep 13, 2023 15:24
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“Like a striped* rear end ape!” is something my dad would say to mean something was working as intended. He apparently picked it up from a coworker deep in the old school 1960s biker gang culture and told me it was biker slang. Example: “How’s the chopper running?” “Like a striped* rear end ape!” * “striped” is pronounced with two syllables as “STRY-PED”
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Sep 13, 2023 16:02
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My Air Force dad also used the work-safe “tango uniform” to indicate something died. If you know, you know.
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Jestery posted:Mind unpacking it for the class? Powerful Katrinka posted:I love this but also need it explained Nothing as complex as you might be thinking! More that I just registered it as a mundane exclamation of surprise or frustration without noticing how ridiculous the actual statement is. My mom liked to cuss and was coloring it up a bit in front of the kids to be less severe/scary. Which actually, thinking of it now, was probably something she only considered because of how terrified she was by her own dad's anger. Oh poo poo, it ended up complex. Also of note was "gently caress a duck!"
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You Are A Elf posted:My Air Force dad also used the work-safe “tango uniform” to indicate something died. A good friend of mine used to work at an AIDS organization in the early 90s, he said the "X moved to Philadelphia" was code within the organization for died of AIDS so close their file because they became so demoralized with hearing people died constantly.
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An uncle likes to say, "The cheese is more binding." in a very sage-like tone; stroking of the beard and all. He says it when something is accomplished; from reeling in a fish, painting a wall, changing a flat on a car; whatever. I finally asked him what the hell it meant and he admitted he had no idea. He didn't even know where he learned it. Obviously if you eat a bunch of cheese you'd probably get constipated which could be "binding", but I have no clue. So I fail the thread in that I've known a phrase for a good 30 years and still have no idea what it means. Maybe another goon knows. The cheese is more binding.
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Sep 13, 2023 18:28
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Father used to say many trite things my mother called "moon talk" but his favorite saying was probably, "Not bad for an old chicken farmer," which I guess is something you say if your family raised chickens on a farm. Least favorite father expressions: it is what it is
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Sep 13, 2023 18:42
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5rPzyJd87s
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Sep 13, 2023 18:46
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my parents made me listen to the talking heads as a baby and i didnt realize how awesome that was until i got older does that count
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Sep 13, 2023 18:47
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"Eeeny-meeny-miney-mo, catch a tiger by the toe --" "That's not how I learned it!" Also "I hate philberts -- " "That's not what we called 'em!" Sheesh, Mom.
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if she keeps that up you can start calling them dipshit mother toes instead
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