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

• remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Holding down a b-17 flying fortress?

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ha, very good!

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Carrier has arrived.

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    • morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not new. Aircraft carriers exist.

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