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OrangeFlowersAreLovely · 2022-09-11T16:03:27+00:00

Those ID necklaces? I had absolutely never heard of the word "lanyard" until around 3 years ago. All my friend's children learnt this way before I did. If you had told me "Lanyard" was a European city - I'd have believed you. That little press send arrow in the top right hand corner? It only occurred to me in my mid 30s that it is in fact a paper aeroplane. I just thought it was a dodgy triangle. I was absolutely stunned to find out the woman who plays Amanda in Motherland is not Catherine Tate. Any confessions to console me I'm not the only one failing at life?! 😃

WrongWayApricot · 12/09/2022 23:56

TheLassWiADelicateAir · 12/09/2022 23:34

Well you're clearly failing given I'm not the only person who has pointed out you are talking nonsense.

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You all thought you were smart to know which phrase was coined first, but you had another THING coming 😈

Me! 😁

Unfortunately your other think didn't come and you still can't understand my point.

FurAndFeathers · 12/09/2022 23:56

WrongWayApricot · 12/09/2022 23:45

Yes, I don't doubt that think was first, I said that in my first objection to 'think makes so much sense' 🙄 it still doesn't make sense and the OED doesn't talk about the sense of it and the guardian article disregards the illogic of it. So I still firmly believe the phrase is nonsensical and I still couldn't give a flying fuck which one people prefer to say. I'm just incredibly content that a singular pp can also understand that both phrases make as much sense as each other 😌

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Well at least you know what you’re on about! I’ve read your post a couple of times and it’s still incoherent to me 😂

Pearshaped20 · 12/09/2022 23:59

IcakethereforeIam · 11/09/2022 18:15

Modern British cars the front number plate is white the rear one is yellow.

Me too. I passed my test 42 years ago and only discovered this last year when someone told me 🙄

FurAndFeathers · 13/09/2022 00:00

WrongWayApricot · 12/09/2022 23:30

How can you type so much but not read at all? You just keep saying 'the expression is think', and people are arguing that of course it is think because it makes so much sense. I've spent about 4 posts trying to show you how both phrases are nonsense and you just keep saying 'the expression is think'. Do you need a reboot or something? Whichever nonsense phrase you want to use doesn't matter to me. I'm only bothered that you all believe one makes much more sense than the other. They don't, they're both nonsense.

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If you think that, you’ve got another think coming

(though I don’t expect it’ll be along any time soon in this particular case!)

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 13/09/2022 00:01

Elderberries are lovely, you get lots of tiny dark berries on tiny stems and you comb them with a fork to get them off. We make elderberry jelly with them usually.

FurAndFeathers · 13/09/2022 00:02

Elderberry wine 😋

2004bestyear · 13/09/2022 00:10

Campervanlife4me · 12/09/2022 23:21

I live one mile away from Pontefract. Ponte cakes are lovely.
There is also a Hollywood in Ireland.
Who is Carol??
This thread is so bloody educational!!
I did learn recently that when handcuff are put on, if you don't press the little spike on the key into each cuff they're not locked on your wrists and you can therefore escape!! Just incase anyone needed to know. 😀

There is a Holywood in N Ireland. In fairness we do pronounce it 'Hollywood'

TheLassWiADelicateAir · 13/09/2022 00:11

You all thought you were smart to know which phrase was coined first, but you had another THING coming 😈

That doesn't make sense and really doesn't prove your point.

bruffin · 13/09/2022 00:17

My grandparentshad a greengrocer/florist shop. My nan used to say the od sailors are coming today. I was waiting for these old men in bell bottoms sailor suits to turn up but they never came.Found out when i was older it was Wholesalers!

ScotInExile · 13/09/2022 00:22

WrongWayApricot · 12/09/2022 10:22

@ScotInExile I was not implying shoplifting. Do you leave tags on the clothes when you wear them?

www.yourdictionary.com/pop-tags

www.dictionary.com/e/slang/poppin-tags/

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Jay-Z is a gangster rapper. Do you really think he's boasting about cutting the tags off his new purchases? No. He's boasting about his stacks of cash that he made in his hustle that he's now spending extravagantly.

that1970shouse · 13/09/2022 00:23

alwaysdarkestbeforedawn · 12/09/2022 23:14

Perhaps I think flowers that close are more common than they are then. I wish they did all do it. I agree it seems wrong to have an open flower in the dark.

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Lots of flowers are pollinated by moths so have to be open at night! They often have white flowers so they show up in the gloom and strong scent too.

ScotInExile · 13/09/2022 00:24

5YearsLeft · 12/09/2022 11:12

Right, but I and another user are both telling you that your friends have just invented a new definition (2022) and it doesn’t overwrite the original definition (2004 onwards). In 2004, it was originally referenced to shoplifting, popping electronic tags off clothes. “Thrift Store” was released in 2012, where Macklemore talks about “popping tags” off new clothes, so people now believe it means that. In 2022, your friends are apparently now using it somewhere in the America, for dollars, like in your photo, or elsewhere (probably not the UK, since we shrink wrap our new bills in plastic?), to refer to removing the paper from around denominations of money, which is not referenced anywhere online or directly in any music as popping tags. So maybe your friends think that’s what it means, but it’s definitely not what it means in Thrift Shop, which is the most common reference and what most of us assumed this mother was asking about (she asked about music - not your friends). Gunna’s references are about as non-specific as possible. The way he uses it in the lyrics, it could literally mean anything (clothes, cash, drugs, sex, an organic kale green juice), but music usually tends to evolve from itself. You haven’t given any reason to assume your definition is the one used in any music.

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You obviously don't know what you're talking about so trying to argue the case makes you look a bit like the thing/think posters. This thread is about common misconceptions, of which this is clearly one.
Jay-Z was rapping about Poppin' Tags in back in 2002 which suggests the phrase is even older than that. He is referencing popping the tags off his stacks of cash to spend it extravagantly on designer goods. He's a gangster rapper, he's not boasting about cutting the tags off his new purchases, he's boasting about how much money he has to spend. So while the phrase has come to mean spending loads of money, the origin of the phrase is referencing removing the paper wrap around a bundle of notes in order to spend it.
Macklemore's song is a reference to this from a poor man's perspective and was a full 10 years after Jay-Z was rapping about it. If you're going to argue about the original reference to popping tags you should do a bit more research than urban dictionary, though even there there are references to popping tags which are older than 2004, and all the entries also include the meaning to be spending loads of money.

WrongWayApricot · 13/09/2022 00:56

ScotInExile · 13/09/2022 00:22

Jay-Z is a gangster rapper. Do you really think he's boasting about cutting the tags off his new purchases? No. He's boasting about his stacks of cash that he made in his hustle that he's now spending extravagantly.

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Yes, I do think that. He's not cutting them, he's popping them. He doesn't get the nail scissors out of the junk drawer. He pulls them til they pop. He probably doesn't now, I don't imagine he does his own shopping now. But yes, that's what popping tags means for him, me and the rest of the world.

WrongWayApricot · 13/09/2022 00:59

TheLassWiADelicateAir · 13/09/2022 00:11

You all thought you were smart to know which phrase was coined first, but you had another THING coming 😈

That doesn't make sense and really doesn't prove your point.

That doesn't make sense 🤣🤣🤣 that is the fucking point, your other think is running well behind schedule.

MrsFezziwig · 13/09/2022 01:12

Iadorerain · 11/09/2022 23:57

It’s another THING coming

Read the thread. No it isn’t!

RobertaFirmino · 13/09/2022 01:14

Whatever Mr. Z means with his verse, he didn't make all those Benjamins by wasting his time trying to get one over some random on the internet.

Furries · 13/09/2022 01:18

I’m chuckling at the wrangling over think/thing.

It’s been shown that think is the correct term. It IS the correct term.

If “thing” works for you, then fine. But just realise that you’re completely fucking up the real meaning of the phrase.

I’m sometimes all for modernising shit - but, at this rate, we might as well all ignore the meaning of any words and head forth with our own interpretations!

MrsFezziwig · 13/09/2022 01:27

RagzRebooted · 12/09/2022 23:07

Regarding the 'lesser spotted thing' I'm confused now as DH says it does mean spotted less often. I must have used to think it meant had fewer spots, as I definitely remember being wrong about it. I will have to Google it now...

Your DH is wrong. It is “lesser” as in smaller, to contrast with greater spotted woodpecker - which is larger.

MrsFezziwig · 13/09/2022 01:42

WrongWayApricot · 12/09/2022 23:45

Yes, I don't doubt that think was first, I said that in my first objection to 'think makes so much sense' 🙄 it still doesn't make sense and the OED doesn't talk about the sense of it and the guardian article disregards the illogic of it. So I still firmly believe the phrase is nonsensical and I still couldn't give a flying fuck which one people prefer to say. I'm just incredibly content that a singular pp can also understand that both phrases make as much sense as each other 😌

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The reasoning:
If you think this (ie you are in the act of thinking something, but it is wrong) then you’ve got another think coming (you will have to repeat the act of thinking in order to come to a different (correct) conclusion).
This seems perfectly logical so not understanding why you think it is nonsensical.
Using “thing”, on the other hand, makes no sense at all.

Mothership4two · 13/09/2022 04:01

I thought the Cold War was called that because Russia is a cold country until my dh enlightened me

The hare posts reminded me of a friend that thought reindeer were mythical creatures. Every time I told her they were actually real she would look at me askance as though I was pulling her leg. Pre Google obvs.

CrazyJoPavlova · 13/09/2022 04:05

My lovely 6ft2 tradie friend thought the full phrase was “Ciaobella” (as in one word), and just meant “goodbye”. “That explains the funny looks from the boys on site”, he said when I explained it 😅

He also thought the song was, “Cool Lion”, and not “Moonlighting”…God bless his adorable heart

Mothership4two · 13/09/2022 04:07

Personally I think 'thing' sounds better and more logical than 'think' which is probably why it has replaced it. That's how language works it's fluid and probably in a few years 'think' will have been replaced altogether. Getting your knickers in a twist about it is pointless IMO

flapjackfairy · 13/09/2022 06:18

@5Yearsleft
I admitted I was wrong in my v first post so no need to swear at people and be rude especially on an interesting and informative thread that is genuinely enjoyable.

5YearsLeft · 13/09/2022 06:24

@flapjackfairy Sigh. I genuinely apologize. It seemed like the “think/thing” argument has gone on for 75% of the thread, but you’re absolutely right. I got some terrible news yesterday, I was in a horrific mood, and I should have just stayed off the internet. My apologies to you as well @ScotInExile

alwaysdarkestbeforedawn · 13/09/2022 06:24

@Mothership4two I’m assuming you haven’t RTFT otherwise you surely wouldn’t still think that.

Until I read this thread I had never heard anyone say “thing” when using this phrase. Had no idea people did. I’m sure it’s a long way from replacing “think” because it’s not at all logical. It’s nonsensical. I’ll pinch the example from a pp:

”If you think you’re having an ice lolly after you’ve already had cake, you’ve got another think coming.”

The meaning here is clear. Think again, you’re not getting an ice lolly. Replace think with thing and what on earth does it mean. What’s the thing in this example?! There is literally nothing (no “thing”!) coming. Please explain how thing is more logical.