Could you stick to Yankee or Yank or something? It’s not like I find the disdain confusing, but Septic is a little heavy-handed. We’ve got big and growing problems, but we are all still people here, and not everybody under that umbrella has been asking for it. The assholes in charge have been running on minority support for decades now.
Curious, though. Septic tanks are a standard feature in rural USA. Are they rare in the rest of the world? Is this something we’re considered odd for?
It’s cockney rhyming slang, it’s best not to think too deep about it
Americans are called yanks, yank rhymes with tank, and septic tanks are a type of tank, so Americans are septics. It’s not exactly flattering but it’s not really as much of an insult as it sounds.
The same kind of logic has them calling “stairs” “apples and pears” because pears rhymes with stairs and apples are kind of similar to pears.
Or “cherry” meaning “lie” because lie rhymes with pie, and cherry is a type of pie.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Septic tank -> Yank. A brit slang for American I picked up somewhere.
Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
As an American, this is good slang. I hate it here.
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Could you stick to Yankee or Yank or something? It’s not like I find the disdain confusing, but Septic is a little heavy-handed. We’ve got big and growing problems, but we are all still people here, and not everybody under that umbrella has been asking for it. The assholes in charge have been running on minority support for decades now.
Curious, though. Septic tanks are a standard feature in rural USA. Are they rare in the rest of the world? Is this something we’re considered odd for?
Fondots@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s cockney rhyming slang, it’s best not to think too deep about it
Americans are called yanks, yank rhymes with tank, and septic tanks are a type of tank, so Americans are septics. It’s not exactly flattering but it’s not really as much of an insult as it sounds.
The same kind of logic has them calling “stairs” “apples and pears” because pears rhymes with stairs and apples are kind of similar to pears.
Or “cherry” meaning “lie” because lie rhymes with pie, and cherry is a type of pie.