TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前"ok, imagine a gun."sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square114fedilinkarrow-up1762arrow-down19
arrow-up1753arrow-down1image"ok, imagine a gun."sh.itjust.worksTriflingToad@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前message-square114fedilink
minus-squaredukeofdummies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up124arrow-down1·1 年前Yeah it was bench seating so one guy had the reins and the other had a shotgun. Hence the name.
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up68arrow-down4·1 年前its interesting the slang that persists… “i call getting to shoot people!”
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down2·edit-21 年前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.
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 年前Ahoj! I’m Czech. We don’t even have any access to sea…
minus-squareRavuAlHemio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 年前No direct access, but “jump into the Elbe and wait” is still a valid strategy…
minus-squareWrufieotnak@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前… And hope no German bridge crushes on you!
minus-squarecatgames@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 年前The modern version would be “I call running the Spotify!”
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·edit-21 年前Gringo explaining a horse carriage: Imagine a gun
minus-squareVaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 年前And the kids have been shouting shotgun from then on.
minus-squareTriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 年前oh I thought it was from the moonshine age, I guess horse buggies make more sense lol
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前Whenever someone says “Shotgun” I can only think of the drive-by scene in Boyz 'n Da Hood.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 年前In the time of horse drawn carriages, wouldn’t the rifle be a more common weapon?
minus-squareJerb322@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 年前Easier 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.
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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…
… 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.