@NEStalgia Looks around the room to see who the f*** NES is addressing, seeing as I am NOT a bloody European. Expat at most... I just acquired a European passport to blend in, and for other, official purposes...
But glad you had a good old laugh again thanks to yours truly.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
Don't you just hate those [removed] posts? I actually like to know what these bots have to say.
After all: at some point in the not too distant future, they're going to take over the world anyway,
so better start listening to them, so we can get used to that in our own tempo...
@NEStalgia Dangerfield? Now THERE's a blast from the past. And having to think back even further will probably be too much for most people on here, seeing as most are below 30, far as I know.
On a side note: still got no clue about "crazy hump day" and "adulting", though. These phrasings must have entered the American-English dictionary LONG after I left the sunny Californian shores...
@ThanosReXXX Only humans are so stupid we invent our own replacements.....
Aww, Dangerfield is classic. The end of the great comics....a sad day when he died. A world in which the population here is too young to remember. Now I'm depressed. Youngman...well that goes back before all of our times, though. It's more of a "comedy history" study at this point, like studying Al Jolson or Charlie Chaplin, but newer. But he was the pioneer of the Dangerfield brand of comedy...or Carrot Top in a way. (I wish I weren't old enough to remember the latter)
Hump day has been a phrase for eons. Maybe in sunny California, but that one's an oldie. "adulting" is an invention of the internet age though. But I can see where a hump day gets crazy with lots of adulting, LOL.
Of course my supplied example is much more serious. It's all about coupling and uncoupling in a push-pull configuration. The signage for prohibiting humping is because it can get a bit too rough, so it's not for all situations or locations. Not like your gutter minded thinking!
It's always fun to spend some time watching the humping yard:
They pull the stock up to the top of the hill (hump) onto the rowed siding tracks, and then they don't need a switcher to couple each car of the train set individually to construct the service train. The road loco just backs up to the edge of the mainline junction and the tracks are switched so that the stock just rolls down the hump to couple to the main train, no second switcher loco needed. It's much faster than manually building the train over hours with a switcher and shunting over a dozen tracks both ways. But the down-side is you're rolling a 450 ton stock car down 3/4 mile of grade to abruptly terminate when coupling with the last car in the set. Sometimes it derails if the inline retarders fail (and they do.) You don't want to do this with, say, a butane tanker. Or a livestock car, or a car carrying glassware. or on areas where the roadbed is mud and the track can't handle extreme shock without bending/breaking, and it gets loud when you're banging these cars around. Thus, "no humping" signage. It's not just antiquity, it still applies today.
(Seriously, I DID mention my main XBox game has been Train Sim World lately - preordering the new DB DLC....seriously addictive. What did you think I was talking about? )
@Morpheel Thank God for accommodating people. Thanks for the explanation. Glad to finally be able to put that to rest. Although I am now wondering why Wednesday is called hump day, though...
@AlohaPizzaJack Woah! Back up the truck there, my yellow-on-the-inside, spiky-on-the-outside looking friend...
I just don't understand certain phrasings, not phrases. As in: sayings. My English hasn't become that bad, that I lost comprehension of phrases in general.
And before you react: yeah, I know you're just kidding, but even joking about me turning into another, shall we say, weirdly age-inappropriate game lover, is a bit too much for me. We've already got one of those, and that's MORE than enough for one life time...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@Morpheel Ah, okay. Sort of a synonym of how the Dutch see it: Wednesday cuts the workweek in half, and that hump explanation kinda sounds like the same thing: getting to/through/over the first and/or hardest part of something, in this case a week.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@nintendobynature Those aren't confusing at all, especially because they're pretty darn clear/self-explanatory, far as I'm concerned. Over here, we've got Friday Booze Day, because it's the start of the weekend, and time to hit the bars...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
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