Does that phrase mean the same as “Give your balls a tug”?

  • Rooskie91@discuss.online
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    16 hours ago

    Yah know this cutesy “Make fun of Trump for being an idiot” rhetoric is nice and all, but how about people take a principled stand against the fact that he is a fascist trying to install a fascist regime.

    • EABOD25@lemm.eeOP
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      15 hours ago

      I just wanted to share news and ask if “give your head a shake” means the same as “give your balls a tug”

      • Rooskie91@discuss.online
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        15 hours ago

        I’m not really trying to shit on you or anything, more so just wanted to express that I’m upset news outlets and politicians aren’t taking Trump seriously as a threat.

        • EABOD25@lemm.eeOP
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          14 hours ago

          Trust me. Just because certain news sources aren’t taking him as a threat doesn’t necessarily mean he’s not a threat. However, I don’t know another community where I can post real facts WHILE asking for a comparison of slang

      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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        14 hours ago

        Kinda, how I understand the terms:

        The shaking is in the hope to dislodge the thought.

        The tug is to highlight the self gratification aspect of the statement.

        They can be used similarly but have different tones.

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Lots of talk of “give your head a shake” but for context, “give your head a shake” from Cretien is functionally “fucking donkey, tabarnak”.

    Do I think even harsher words and action are necessary? Fuck yes. But this is a nuanced fuck you coming from him so at least gets a 3/10 instead of 1/10.

    Edit: tabarnak

    • EABOD25@lemm.eeOP
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      10 hours ago

      I just wanted to know if “give your balls a tug” means the same thing

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        10 hours ago

        Pretty much, but the Quebecois have a multiplier effect when using non-offensive English words that are like stem cells for beautiful insults.

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    15 hours ago

    I’ve only ever heard a Canadian say it, it means that they think your thoughts are all jumbled and if you shake your head a bit maybe some common sense will settle in. So maybe it’s Canadian slang, eh?

    • EABOD25@lemm.eeOP
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      14 hours ago

      Yeah but Canadian slang just kind of hits in a certain way that makes your brain wonder. Like Canadian speech is like a sub-english, and i want to learn it

        • EABOD25@lemm.eeOP
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          14 hours ago

          I’d prefer to refer to it as sub-english because it’s English… but it makes more sense to Canadians (of a certain regions) than the rest of the world until the rest of the world hears it and then it makes perfect sense. It’s not a new language. It’s just using an old language in a new way. If it was a dialect it would be like everything described by Jeff Foxworthy with his “you might be a redneck” jokes

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            14 hours ago

            That’s like calling the English Australians speak as “sub-english.”

            Also it just sounds wrong to refer to a dialect of a language as “sub-language” almost like you’re referring to people of a certain racial or ethnic group as “sub-people.” Just my two cents.

        • treadful@lemmy.zip
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          7 hours ago

          You all know they meant a subset of English and weren’t using it as a derogatory term.

        • EABOD25@lemm.eeOP
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          11 hours ago

          Ok. I see what you’re doing. Nice try, but I don’t believe any person that speaks what I would consider a “sub-language” any lesser or pronouncedly different beyond region adaptations from around the world.

          You can continue to make me look racist, but my first statement had nothing to do with race, culture, or religion. So trying to create a narrative to portray me that way is redundant and asinine

          • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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            11 hours ago

            Then maybe pick a prefix that isn’t synonymous with “beneath/lower” if that’s the idea you’re trying to get across.

            • EABOD25@lemm.eeOP
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              11 hours ago

              I’ll try to carefully use the short word for “substitute” a little better. I’d recommend learning all definitions of a word before you assume what people are saying

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                10 hours ago

                Sub- as a prefix does not mean substitute, though. The word “substitute” is made with that prefix but it doesn’t represent it any more than “submarine”.

                • EABOD25@lemm.eeOP
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                  10 hours ago

                  So then beside what I told you, what if I meant “submarine-english”?

  • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    Maybe…if he does it underwater. Until the bubbles stop. Or on an active runway after firing more air traffic controllers.

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    16 hours ago

    Just like that silly Mr. Hitler should have given his head a shake. Biting stuff against Nazis.

    • EABOD25@lemm.eeOP
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      13 hours ago

      Oh I’m sorry. Did I leave a sign out where it said “if you need a way to comment without contributing to conversation while boosting your irrelevant ego” out somewhere? My bad. I need to make sure I don’t have that sign displayed anymore

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        13 hours ago

        “give your head a shake”, lol, i mean, what, who says things like that outside a kindergarten playground, first graders would be mortified saying something that useless, toothless, banal, and they’d be mocked endlessly. “give your head a shake” for fucks sake, the man’s an worldender, give your balls a tug eh

        • EABOD25@lemm.eeOP
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          13 hours ago

          So you begrudgingly answered my question. Thanks

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            13 hours ago

            I’m sorry I couldn’t hear you over the celebration of some canadian telling the fascist to “shake his head”