The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 month agoWords mattermedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1448arrow-down12
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minus-squaremoondoggie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 month agoAre children no longer needlessly violent? Back in my day, you frogged someone by making a fist with the second knuckle of the middle finger stuck out a bit and then you punched them in the meatier part of the upper arm or leg with that knuckle.
minus-squareCarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·1 month agoYou get locked up and deported for that these days. Zero tolerance policies are a blight on society.
minus-squareThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoI’d completely forgotten that this had a name!
minus-squarelauha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoWe called it a wooden leg when you punched a person on the side of the thigh, because the leg usually get momentarily incapacitated.
minus-squareHowAbt2day@futurology.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoThe resulting “Charlie Horse” was quite painful.
Are children no longer needlessly violent? Back in my day, you frogged someone by making a fist with the second knuckle of the middle finger stuck out a bit and then you punched them in the meatier part of the upper arm or leg with that knuckle.
You get locked up and deported for that these days. Zero tolerance policies are a blight on society.
I’d completely forgotten that this had a name!
We called it a wooden leg when you punched a person on the side of the thigh, because the leg usually get momentarily incapacitated.
The resulting “Charlie Horse” was quite painful.