But that label is so useful!

Couldn't you, like, add a 'bloody' or 'dumbass' or other word in the mix there to get it past the idiom police?

That was absolutely fascinating -- great sift!

A few random thoughts:
-If any video has ever better demonstrated the idiom "necessity is the mother of invention", I don't know what it is.
-Castro was very very clever to anticipate the technological needs of his people and have the army print that "field guide" book that spurred on greater independent development.
-Some of the things they came up with remind me of working on my family farm. Every day is an exercise in problem solving -- how to solve problem A given a set of tools/resources B. And often the things in B don't really lend themselves towards A... So you end up hammering in a nail with a brick, or patching a friction hole in a metal pipe with a few layers of plastic from a 2 liter bottle and duct tape.
-That artist Oroza is a great combination of artist, historian, archeologist, and storyteller.
-We (the US) still have sanctions against Cuba, but I can't really say why that is warranted...

Wow. The word count. Love the kids in the video. More power to the girls. Shoot (figuratively) whoever came up with the idea. The video actually proves the idiom is universally known and understood and then implies it insults, puts down girls.

This has nothing to do with girls, girls who can run and throw (like a man :-) or girls who can´t.

Throwing like a girl is only worth mentioning if its a man doing it, so it can only ever properly insult a man. And it absolutely works.

Theoretically one girl who can throw could also effectively insult another girl who can throw, if she so desired.

Dont feed the political correctness troll.

Lets find a video with some men in it that throw like girls and have a good laugh. Please dont tell me thats wrong because they might be insulted.

....and to interject here for clarity and general edification and enlightenment, that the OVERUSE of the words 'just', 'actually', and my personally-peevish pet-polemic, 'CLEEEARLY' -(God, I fucking detest the abuse of this particular word esp. when used to begin a sentence/statement with a view to arguing some complete and utter bullshit with very telling emotionally-fueled, idiotic prattle), should sound as a warning to all that what you are about to read is a load of self-delusional horseshit.

Please smarty-pants, argue and defend MORE bullshit and reveal to all your lifetime extant of dysfunctional programming with these flaccid idioms designed to abuse logic, reason, and common-sense and experience the warm sensation of having your fuck-shit-stack of words inserted gently into and up your own ass.

Ahem. That said, any psychoactive drugs (some are better than others) combined with proper navigation through a qualified proctor, set, and setting can be utilized to re-write or substantially inhibit or reverse the ill-effects of traumatic imprinting and programming.

It's a metaphorical idiom.

*asia

*related=http://videosift.com/video/If-Idioms-Were-Real

Literal Idioms has been added as a related post - related requested by ant on that post.

If Idioms Were Real has been added as a related post - related requested by ant.

Adding video to channels (Asia) - requested by ant.

Ironically the suggestion I'd put at the top of the list has little to do with my post:

Put a big button on the top right of every page that says to the affect 'Submit a Video', with negative space to the left and below.

This will encourage brand new users to contribute, and draw existing users to take part. It will also instantly communicate what Videosift is. It's not simply a site with videos on it, it's a site that people post videos to.

It's a well proven design idiom. Have a look at the call to actions on the following sites:

Stack Overflow - Ask Question
Youtube - Upload
Github - Fork

Nope, I'm not buying that. It's simply a bastardisation for an already existing saying that has come into popular use (in just America it seems), such as "hold down the fort" rather than "hold the fort". You don't just liken it to another phrase that has an almost similar backwards meaning, when the circumstances are different. As far as I know "tell me about it" doesn't have a so-called 'correct' saying that existed before hand.

>> ^Kreegath:

"I could care less" is a correctly worded saying, though. Pointing to it as incorrect is not pedantic, it's misunderstanding how sayings work. "Could care less" means "couldn't care less", just like "tell me about it" means that you already know what's been said and DON'T need to be told about it. This particular idiom has been around atleast since the 40's, so it's no new phenomenon.
You could make similar complaints about phrases like "that's the shit", which means that the thing in question is amazing, but read literally it would appear to be likened to feces, which by most definitions is an unquestionably bad thing. It's understood, however, in the context of that saying. I'm sure you can come up with dozens of similar phrases that have a sarcastic tone, or are implicitly understood to have a meaning contrary to what they literally say.

Thanks. I thought this was going to be funny. Some idioms in German are quite the challenge. But rather than talking about the informative side of the subject this dude found it hilarious to just bullshit about it for the whole video. What went through his mind?
In reply to this comment by Barseps:
>> ^luxury_pie:

Alternative title: How to be a dick about cultural differences.


I wish I could promote a comment, but I can't so you'll have to settle for an ^upvote^ :

>> ^Ryjkyj:

Oh yeah, I get it. I'm not an idiot.

I didn't think you were an idiot, I just thought maybe you were unfamiliar with the idiom, based on your responses.

>> ^Ryjkyj:
All I'm saying is that Obama has said a lot of things, but it's just like QM to focus on a colloquialism that denotes racial, and by association, economic status. That's QM's subtle form of labeling that he uses to imply a lack of education and thus, inferiority. He does it so often, that even I can't really tell anymore when he's doing it intentionally or by accident.
Calling him a racist is beside the point. Except when he's complaining about why people don't listen to him.
The really hilarious part is that he tries to label a professor of constitutional law as an idiot and simultaneously a communist political mastermind.


Yeah, I find these days that the gap between what people on the right say and reality is so wide it's often hard to build a bridge between what they said and the truth.

I don't really think that's an accident, either.

>> ^NetRunner:

@Ryjkyj, to defend QM a bit, "skin in the game" is an idiom that roughly translates into "has some personal stake in the outcome". It's not about race, it's about economic philosophy.


Oh yeah, I get it. I'm not an idiot.

All I'm saying is that Obama has said a lot of things, but it's just like QM to focus on a colloquialism that denotes racial, and by association, economic status. That's QM's subtle form of labeling that he uses to imply a lack of education and thus, inferiority. He does it so often, that even I can't really tell anymore when he's doing it intentionally or by accident.

Calling him a racist is beside the point. Except when he's complaining about why people don't listen to him.

The really hilarious part is that he tries to label a professor of constitutional law as an idiot and simultaneously a communist political mastermind.

@Ryjkyj, to defend QM a bit, "skin in the game" is an idiom that roughly translates into "has some personal stake in the outcome". It's not about race, it's about economic philosophy.

That is at the core of what's supposed to make capitalism superior to communism or socialism -- people have something personally at risk if they don't manage their resources well, and could stand to reap some personal gain if they do.

This is why conservatives are only one hair short of saying we should torture people who lose their job -- it'd give them even more skin in the game.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

>> ^shuac:
Could we please have a generation of tweens that are not stupid, just one, is that to too much to ask for.
Well, I expect tweens to be kinda stupid but I've been kidding myself about the average Videosifter's ability to write correctly, which is, I believe, symptomatic of intelligence. Oh well.

I was curious to see if you ever made a mistake while writing English.
Took 30 seconds to find this gem.
>> ^shuac:
I'd just like to say that I have no opinion about this video. I am apathetic like you read about.



LOL! That's what I get for trying to use an idiom, a very new idiom, granted, but an idiom nonetheless. Some idioms only work when you say them aloud and this is one of them.

I'm going to come off as a bit nutty typing this all out but nutty is a label I'm ok with.

When people say "like you read about" they're being emphatic and pointed. For instance, I might say, "I'm fuckin' cold like you read about." People who've taken the time to write books and articles about tundra wasteland and life above the arctic circle typically don't spend that time on the page writing about how warm it is. When someone takes the time to read such a book or article, they walk away knowing something about chilly weather. It typically only works with extreme states: extreme cold, extreme heat, or in my case extreme apathy. So what I'm really saying with "like you read about" is an attempt to express solidarity with the writer of such books/articles.

Capice? I'm not surprised you may not have heard about it but all these sayings had to come from somewhere, no?

Without context, I admit, it reads kind of wrong. Oh well. I forgive you, Boise.