I said “Maaaaan… My dad’s not a firearm!” And I threw it on the ground!
How is "son of a gun" an insult?
Submitted 10 months ago by BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
kmartburrito@lemmy.world 10 months ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
He’s got that look because the loaded gun with the safety off that he just threw on the ground triggered and shot his dad.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s just a softened version of “son of a bitch” but I agree with others, never heard of it as an insult
spiffy_spaceman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve heard an old man use it this way a long time ago in the west. You would only hear it from someone who’s very old or thinks they’re a polite cowboy.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Southerners use it in a very endearing way that is hard to describe. Only ever in a funny and harmless way, to my knowledge
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I heard it in the south. Tennessee.
problematicPanther@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Smbc did a comic on this!
BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fun fact: The Navy uses the affirmative “aye” or “aye aye” as opposed to “roger” like the Army/Air Force/etc because of similar slang origins. Basically, sailors used to use the word “roger” to mean “fuck,” both as an insult and as a way to identify women they had been with while in port.
“Yeah, I rogered her last night at the tavern,” kind of thing. But as sailors began to respond to officers using “Roger that (fuck that),” the Navy came down and made “aye aye” the official affirmative response for their personnel.
And even then, “aye” is simply a “I understand” whereas “aye aye,” means “I understand and will carry out X.”
The US Navy also launched an investigative unit during the 1800s (I wanna say the 1880s?) to find homosexual sailors and kick them out of the Navy. The unit only lasted a couple of years before being shut down, as the only people volunteering for the unit were homosexual sailors. 😆
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We had a similar situation at a hospital IT department I worked in about 10 years ago. We had been given a grant for Computers on portable platforms so Nurses could take the computer with them and update records as they needed live and during the moment. The acronym they came up with to describe them was COW aka Computers On Wheels. Someone got insulted about this and I am thinking it was because this hospital is in a dairy farming area and some poor farmers daughter got hurt by it somehow?? So the IT department was told to called them WOW from that day on aka Workstations on Wheels. So trivial but yet so controversial and time wasted was the biggest issue for us as we had to go around and pull the names off and put all new labels on them for inventory. So instead of COW-01 and so forth ,it was WOW-01 and so on.
Johanno@feddit.org 10 months ago
If you are American, no. If you are from a civilised country, yes.
Twitches@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You got us, you son of a gun!
palebluethought@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m sure some parents use it as a substitute to avoid saying “son of a bitch” in front of their kids, if that helps
njm1314@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 10 months ago
It’s not?
Zerlyna@lemmy.world 10 months ago
First I heard of that.
eezeebee@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Something about taking prostitutes on voyages across the sea in the olden days. You’d romance her under the cannons and the bastard child would be a “son of a gun”. I don’t remember where I learned this so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_a_gun
Checks out. Very interesting.
itsathursday@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I always thought “gun” was a replacement for “bitch” and was a way of saying it without saying it.
bamfic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Minced oath
solidgrue@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you’re wrong then I don’t wanna be right.
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I long to fornicate with many a sea bound trollop, under the blazing fire of a worthy vessels’ cannons