American Expressions That Still Confuse You After All These Inane Years Here ?

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Grey Fox

#30
June 17, 2011, 05:56:47 AM
Quote from: mongers on June 17, 2011, 05:50:56 AM
I'm still not clear about all the expressions regarding kool-aid.

You know what Kool-Aid is right?
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mongers

#31
June 17, 2011, 06:00:45 AM
its the stuff in big bins a US rugby games ?
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Grey Fox

#32
June 17, 2011, 06:04:25 AM
Quote from: mongers on June 17, 2011, 06:00:45 AM
its the stuff in big bins a US rugby games ?

No, that's Gatorade.


Kool-Aid is powdered mix that is artificial flavor that you mix with Water. The mascot is a giant pitcher of it call the Kool Aid man.

The expression drinking the kool-aid, apparently comes from the Jonestown massacre where a sect & it's followers committed mass suicide by drinking Kool-Aid lace with cyanide.
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Viking

#33
June 17, 2011, 06:06:56 AM
Quote from: mongers on June 17, 2011, 06:00:45 AM
its the stuff in big bins a US rugby games ?

I blame the cheater Heisman for ending the Purity of Rugby in the US. Only pussies use the forward pass.
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#34
June 17, 2011, 06:45:02 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 17, 2011, 06:04:25 AM
The expression drinking the kool-aid, apparently comes from the Jonestown massacre where a sect & it's followers committed mass suicide by drinking Kool-Aid lace with cyanide.

Look at the big brain on Brown Wolf.

Grey Fox

#35
June 17, 2011, 06:50:03 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 17, 2011, 06:45:02 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 17, 2011, 06:04:25 AM
The expression drinking the kool-aid, apparently comes from the Jonestown massacre where a sect & it's followers committed mass suicide by drinking Kool-Aid lace with cyanide.

Look at the big brain on Brown Wolf.

No credit is deserve, I googled it. There's even a wikipedia page about it.
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garbon

#36
June 17, 2011, 06:53:32 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 17, 2011, 06:50:03 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 17, 2011, 06:45:02 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 17, 2011, 06:04:25 AM
The expression drinking the kool-aid, apparently comes from the Jonestown massacre where a sect & it's followers committed mass suicide by drinking Kool-Aid lace with cyanide.

Look at the big brain on Brown Wolf.

No credit is deserve, I googled it. There's even a wikipedia page about it.

Disappointing. -_-
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#37
June 17, 2011, 09:11:40 AM
Quote from: Viking on June 17, 2011, 06:06:56 AM
Quote from: mongers on June 17, 2011, 06:00:45 AM
its the stuff in big bins a US rugby games ?

I blame the cheater Heisman for ending the Purity of Rugby in the US. Only pussies use the forward pass.

:rolleyes:

The forward pass was the greatest invention of the 20th century.

Not the airplane, or the silicon chip.  The forward pass.   :cool:
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#38
June 17, 2011, 03:25:52 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 17, 2011, 06:50:03 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 17, 2011, 06:45:02 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 17, 2011, 06:04:25 AM
The expression drinking the kool-aid, apparently comes from the Jonestown massacre where a sect & it's followers committed mass suicide by drinking Kool-Aid lace with cyanide.

Look at the big brain on Brown Wolf.

No credit is deserve, I googled it. There's even a wikipedia page about it.

It's widely remember in the US.  The phrase is fairly recent though.  I only encountered it on the net in the 2000's.  Possibly it could have been in places that aren't Missouri before that.
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#39
June 17, 2011, 03:30:14 PM
Quote from: Barrister on June 17, 2011, 09:11:40 AM
:rolleyes:

The forward pass was the greatest invention of the 20th century.

Not the airplane, or the silicon chip.  The forward pass.   :cool:

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Monoriu

#40
June 21, 2011, 04:52:54 AM
I still don't quite understand "white trash."

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#41
June 21, 2011, 04:58:33 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on June 21, 2011, 04:52:54 AM
I still don't quite understand "white trash."

What is there to understand?  Lower class white people, with strong implications of tackiness, violence, criminality, drug and alcohol abuse, really bad hair, incest, portable living quarters, etc., etc.  More associated with the South and rural areas.

Monoriu

#42
June 21, 2011, 05:07:50 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 21, 2011, 04:58:33 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on June 21, 2011, 04:52:54 AM
I still don't quite understand "white trash."

What is there to understand?  Lower class white people, with strong implications of tackiness, violence, criminality, drug and alcohol abuse, really bad hair, incest, portable living quarters, etc., etc.  More associated with the South and rural areas.

All the things that you described can easily apply to non-whites.  So why "white" trash?

And, are things really that bad?  I mean, there must be quite a large number of relatively poor whites.  It is a bit hard to believe that they all participate in incest  :unsure: 

Admiral Yi

#43
June 21, 2011, 05:14:14 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on June 21, 2011, 05:07:50 AM
All the things that you described can easily apply to non-whites.  So why "white" trash?

The short answer I think is that the term originated in the Deep South, where it was already understood that blacks were trashy.

QuoteAnd, are things really that bad?  I mean, there must be quite a large number of relatively poor whites.  It is a bit hard to believe that they all participate in incest  :unsure:

It's a continuum of trashiness Mono.  You could, for example, hit one or two of the bases and qualify for a white trash yellow belt.

Ed Anger

#44
June 21, 2011, 07:26:40 AM
Also you have the hilljack, cousin the the white trash hillbilly.
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