The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months agoWords mattermedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1448
arrow-up1448imageWords mattermedia.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squaremoondoggie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·2 months 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-up13·2 months agoYou get locked up and deported for that these days. Zero tolerance policies are a blight on society.
minus-squareThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoI’d completely forgotten that this had a name!
minus-squarelauha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months 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-up3·2 months 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.