@Elliott Dunn Muster is a military term for an inspection of soldiers or sailors and their equipment by a commanding officer. If they pass the inspection, they have passed muster.
no he doesn't. squids are supposed to be damp. it's a good thing for squids to be damp. there's no negative connotation there. quit trying to gasline me!
One of my friend's favorite expression is "No pain, no game". Neither I, nor any of his other friends have ever corrected him, just so we can see how long he'll go before realizing it's wrong.
True that. most older people always assume that their generational epoch of pop culture is universal and get bewildered when they find others whom arent familiar
It's kinda like when people say "I could care less" which implies they care somewhat but could care less if they wanted to, when it's supposed to be "I COULDN'T care less" because you care so little that you literally can't care less than you do already lol
Should "OF", could "OF", would "OF" ..... screams at top of voice..."IT'S HAVE, HAVE, GODDAMIT, HAVE!!!!!!" normally just grit my teeth when I hear this but since we're all here.......
"Could care less" is actually correct. The whole point is that one is not merely apathetic (a static disposition) but actually liable to decline (dynamically not caring). It dates back to an older sense of could/would meaning wish/will i.e. "I have the wish to care less". "I couldn't care care less" implies that you may actually care but won't be reducing the care you do have. Therefore "could care less" is stronger. I wonder when they will start teaching English properly in schools.
@@drworm5007 Tell me you're an American without telling me you're an American. Sorry Luke that is utter bullcrap. And I couldn't care less if you disagree with me.
My brother just accidentally said "I didn't know that washing machines needed a pedals-... I mean.... haha, I just said Pedalstool. Anyway, I didn't know that washing machines needed a-" and I was like, "WAIT!!!!" and I ran in the other room and grabbed my computer and pulled this up. It was so perfect! Thank you for posting it!
A man I used to know wasn't able to say the name of Italian scooter company Piaggio. He would say 'pu-gadgeo,'. We would all be talking about motorcycles and scooters, saying Piaggio, and he never noticed. He was a bit of an aggressive argumentative bigot, so we let him get on with it. Last I heard he pulled a stun gun on a policeman in Reading.
I used to tease the hell out of my wife (because cheeky husband and to make her to smile), and one day I inadvertently used the phrase 'a hair's breath' and clarified it as such when she asked me to repeat it, and she **absolutely** roasted me. 😂😂😂😂
It is not the correction that is the problem, it is the mocking that is. It is the Golden Rule right? The minute he mocked her he said it was ok to mock him.
I worked with someone who used to say “can’t see the wood through the trees”. When I corrected them they insisted that there were in fact two sayings: can’t see the wood for the trees and can’t see the wood through the trees and he continued to use it 😂
That would be a pedal stool ma'boy! A peddle stool is the stool used by street vendors to exhibit their wares. And if you want what's good for you, never, ever, put a woman on it. Unless she's the very thing you're selling, in which case go right ahead.
A squib, especially in this sense of a "damp squib", is a small explosive charge. From firecracker sized, to a quarter or half stick of dynamite. Hence, it went off like a damp squib means little or nothing happened when something much more dramatic and/or effective was expected. Why would this have anything at all to do with a muggle born of wizards being damp?
@@Random-xw1fg Thanks for the emoji. It's kind of satisfying that a fairly obscure joke would get appreciation 11 months later. It warmed the cockneys of my heart. 😁
Exactly. Or a firework that doesn't go off properly. It's just unfortunate that the word "squib" isn't in more common usage, which is why people get it wrong. There's no reason for comparing to a squid, damp or otherwise
I have only learned about the word "squib" in the context of cinematic special effects (they're used for making the explosions that simulate the impact of a bullet on the ground or a wall). An more familiar expression that fits in the context of the video is 'just a flash in the pan'.
*Roy was sentenced to 7 years incarceration in a maximum security prison for his 'blind-spot'* *PS: Squids that are on land for a significant amount of time are NOT damp anymore*
Thank you for taking the trouble to share, Abdullah! We do not all know what every idiomatic phrase that appears on the telly means, unlike some of us would have you believe 🙄
Amazing comedy, I am an English teacher, never heard of damp squid....will look it over. IT Crowd must return with all these new gadgets and smart devices to mess around with on TV. I was 25 when it was telecasted. I wish I could see it then. I only found it after turning 40.
@@nitinkataria3474 A 'squib' by-the-way was a small explosive device, used for signalling and such; when they were damp they'd fizzle rather than bang. Hence the phrase.
Unpopular opinion - the show has gone downhills ever since they killed off Reynholm senior and replaced him with his son. Suddenly it wasn't as much about nerdy humor and the original three characters as it was about lame sexist humor (although the humor was about sexism, not really sexist itself, but still it was an abrupt change) and Reynholm jr. for some reason made the show about himself..
