We did trash bags for exhaust testing in the army. Have the privates fill the bags up from the exhaust on a cold start, tie them up, then bring them to the motor pool sergeant. You have to label and sign the bags though.
That is something that could actually be a thing though.
While camping, I was sent to the ranger station to ask for a “left handed smoke shifter”. Fortunately for me, the ranger had no poker face and just laughed. I felt like a dumbass, but it was a long walk back to the campsite, so by the time I got there I was able to laugh with everyone else.
My group extended the name to “left handed automatic adjustable smoke shifter.”
Legend has it there was a boy scout troop that actually built a left-handed smoke shifter, such that when a young scout arrived from a different troop searching for one, they could send him back successful.
God I’ve been seeing way too much Gen Z slang that I almost forgot “sussed out” is a real phrase that means actual things.
Yea pretty common phrase here in the UK.
Fucking hell man. That same statement came to me exactly when I read your comment. Glad to know I’m not the only one.
Nah I’ve heard that term since I was a child and I’m 28. Not that far back but before Gen Z slang was a thing.
I’m familiar with the usage here but what does it mean to Gen Z?
“sus” short for “suspicious,” often linked to the video game Among Us which became very popular during the pandemic. I’m not sure if that was the origin; the Zoomers seem to like their abbreviations (“rizz” being short for “charisma” is another example) but Among Us definitely popularized it.
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Idk about everywhere else, but “sus” or “suss”has been common slang for “suspicious/suspect” in Australia, the UK and New Zealand for at least several decades.
It already existed but the popularity of Among Us globalized it and gave it new wind.
Walt I don’t know man, you’ve been acting kinda sus lately
Among Us shit related to being suspicious.
But they mean exactly the same thing and are slang from the same word, no?
No. Sussed out, means to work something out. Usually implies a certain amount of trial and error, or coming to the realization slowly, depending on the context.
So, “I sussed out how to work the printer”.
Sus, in British English didn’t really have any meaning until the game came out.
From the dictionary;
Etymology
Verb
by shortening & alteration from suspect
1930s: abbreviation of suspect, suspicion.
People like you are why I have trust issues.
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I never argued the definition, I argued the etymology. That they are slang for the same word. They are both shortened versions of the same word.
Whatever other made-up argument you thought we were having is irrelevant, either you didn’t understand and you should admit it or you moved the goal post which is sad.
I bet you’ll double down, though. You seem like that kind of guy.
Those appear to be examples that were made of recently. That’s a pretty bad dictionary cuz it doesn’t actually say when the examples are from.
Not sure if you’re pulling our legs or really don’t know…
We’ve had the term “suss c*nt” in Aussie English for decades, and British English isn’t that far removed.
Red is sus.
Red and white striped is sus.
Have you heard the term “sussy baka” before?
Amogus???
Nope! Maybe my one-year-old niece babbled something like that once.
You are very lucky.
But what does it mean?
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I guess you haven’t groked it.
Figured out.
You should have sussed that out by now…
Always fun to send the apprentice to the tool crib for a spool of flight line and a gallon of prop wash.
Gallon of prop wash, that’s a new one for me.
I’d have probably been caught by that one for at least a few paces.
I live in Quebec and we’re pretty bilingual around here so I’ve heard these hazing jokes in both languages. My favorite in French is sending an apprentice for “une clé taurus”.
A bull? Or is that a misspelling or torus, meaning donut shape?
It’s funny because they ask dudes if they have a clitoris and we are big children.
Eh new guy la ouien toien mon’tit sauce. Vien-cit câlis. Cherche moien une Clé Taurus à home depot. Ouien une C L É T A U R U S. Les chums aux “service desk” va savoir c’est quoi. Away let’s go crisse.
Beautiful.
A Taurus key?
It sounds like clitoris and it’s funny when they go ask people if they have one.
Ah, that is a good one. Common one in the UK is to ask for a reach around.
Sound it out
there’s something in computer networking called Cisco discovery protocol and I used to teach new interns about it by making them find every Cisco access point we had in the building.
That’s better than sending the newhire back to HQ to get the cable stretcher.
only cisco
lmao that’s awful
But funny at the same time
Router#Show cdp neighbor
unless you fuck with naming convention and make them walk around with a wifi analyzer on their phone.
late ass reply. but nah, no fancy naming, they absolutely could’ve done that (if they had opted to spend 30 seconds googling to find out that’s something you can do) but for the most part they just wandered around looking up
Don’t forget your headlight fluid!
I was crossing the street with my mom once and the crosswalk beeped indicating it was safe to cross. She asked, “Why does it beep like that?” I said, “It’s for the deaf people.” We crossed and then she started laughing. She said, “You asshole.”.
The only thing of this ilk that I’ve participated in is sending interns to the supply room for a box of checkmarks.
Joke was on them. There was no supply room.
On a drive when I was ten, I asked my dad why the tall, skeletal towers had blinking lights. He said so planes wouldn’t crash into them. So I asked what the towers were for, and he said to hold up the lights.
That fucked with me for like ten more years.
I just wanted to let you know this comment made me laugh like an idiot in front of my coworkers
I mean, he’s not wrong…
Shopkeeper should glue a fake label to a can and actually sell it to the kid. Get both the kid and the dad lol
When I painted, it was a thing to send new guys out to the van for a can of roller stipple. Good times.
Petahh!!
Seriously, I don’t get the joke.
His dad sends him to the shop to ask for red and white striped paint, which doesn’t really exist as the paint would mostly mix together in the tin and make some badly mixed pink paint. The employee in the shop sees this is a gag and asks a follow up question: would he like the paint to be striped vertically or horizontally? So they are on the way back and only *then the realisation dawns on them that this is a massive wind up, which sparks a rage large enough to break the door.
Dad needed some private time with Mom
As did the employee which is why he sent him back with the followup question.
Damn, mom goes around
I read the post feeling tired, so somehow, I was thinking that the red and white paint are in each separate tin bucket and the white paint is somehow striped so I didn’t get the joke.
Haha thanks for the explanation!
My senior manager at work once tried to start a vacuum cleaner, apparently he had never used one before. Anyway the cleaners told him the power cable was in fact a rip cord like on a generator.
I used to work in a hardware store. One day a guy came in looking for a skyhook.
After we called his boss to confirm the situation (this was well before cell phones), we all had a good laugh. I think the boss was shocked he fell for it.
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