The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 29 days agoWords mattermedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1427arrow-down12
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minus-squaremoondoggie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·29 days 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-squareThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·29 days agoI’d completely forgotten that this had a name!
minus-squareCarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·28 days agoYou get locked up and deported for that these days. Zero tolerance policies are a blight on society.
minus-squarelauha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·28 days 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-up4·28 days 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.
I’d completely forgotten that this had a name!
You get locked up and deported for that these days. Zero tolerance policies are a blight on society.
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.