Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?

• morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  … just as much as bouncy castles?

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They saying is about holding a military position, like a fort, a line or a castle. Hence a bouncy castle can jokingly be thought of a military position that needs holding down.

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    • morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The phrase is typically used to refer to babysitting, i.e., I’ll make sure the kids don’t leave or kill themselves. So the “down” serves a purpose in the present use, regardless of its applicability to historic situations.

      “Holding the fort” just meant not letting enemies in

      “Holding down the fort” also includes preventing things from getting out of hand

      But I like the bouncy castle imagery as it’s less mundane

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    • bryndos@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Holding down a b-17 flying fortress?

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      • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Ha, very good!

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      New idea: flying airstrip! We already have floating airstrips. Or maybe we should take that idea and flip it. Airborne boatyards. Yeah!

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      • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Not that novel of an idea. Especially during the cold war there were several concept of launching smaller aircraft from airships or larger aircraft.

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      • morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Not new. Aircraft carriers exist.

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