Lifecoach5000TIL going "balls to the walls" originates from aviation lingo
NOT_RICKWow I never knew this either. This is a good one
š° š š± š¦ š³ š¦ š° š® šIāve never understood āPeddle to the meddle.ā What am I peddling and whoās meddling in my peddling? ^/s^
HikingVetPedal to the metal.
Petal to the mettle.
owenfromcanadaaka competitive gardening
YarHarSuperstarEnglish is so stupid.
No, your.
[deleted] in lemmyTo expand, it is referring to pushing the gas pedal to the (metal) floor when racing.
Close, but your inverted and I feel the need forā¦ Keeping up with foreign relations . That one comes from the 80s or 80s where TV executives were pushing a cartoons series about a travelling group of crime solvers. They had the show syndicated, but it was rookie numbers and they needed to pump them right up. The show was known for villains saying they would have got away with it without the meddling kids (and sometimes dags). So the marketers came up with he catchphrase to inspire the marketers to spread the word more. It worked and the show became wildly successful.
I think it may be peddling bullshit to meddle with the integrity of the English language
Another fun phrase with similar etymology is āpulling out all the stopsā. It comes from church organs, where the stops are all of the levers that can change the timbre
Ohhhh this makes sense too! I actually have a pipe organ in my garage so I know exactly what youāre talking about!
ZachariahI want a pipe organ in my garage.
I want a garage in my pipe organ.
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comedy genius. really useful.
Thatās what she said
I wish I owned a garage. Or a house. Or a fucking shed. Need to start smaller. Maybe food first. Weāll work are way into it
*our way
Yeah id didnāt catch that
Found Dewey!
Thank you, thank you, sir or madam
TheReturnOfPEBIām pretty sure it was from trains first
You may be thinking of "balls out" which refers to centrifugal regulators that are usually used on steam engines.
ThatWeirdGuy1001I just assumed it was an exaggeration. Putting the balls to the wall meant having them wide open
My mom worked for the railroad - she was the first trains woman to become a superconductor.
Probably had a lot of folks railing against her for being a trainsetter
Trains used levers for the throttle.
Captain AggravatedAs do many airplanes, in fact Cessna-style plunger throttle controls are relatively unusual.
The knobs on airplane throttles or thrust levers are also seldom spherical; it has happened but most are cylindrical. Thereās a whole section in FAR 23 that talks about how they have to be oriented in the cockpit, the shape and color of the knobs/handles etc. so pilots can tell them apart at a glance/by feel. For instance, when you first climb into a Cessna Skyhawk the position of the flap lever in front of the copilotās left knee feels kind of strange, almost everything is conveniently placed for the pilot, but the flaps are way over there. law requires the flap control to be to the right of the cockpit centerline, the gear lever must be to the left, but a Skyhawk has fixed gear.
You often hear steam engineers say āput the throttle on the ceilingā meaning apply full power. Diesel engineers will refer to ānotch 8ā as the highest power setting.
I heard that too
Not to be confused of course with āballs deepā, which is exactly what it sounds like
ScubusDunking from basketball, right? right?
Silly. Itās from hitting a baseball so far that the balls deep in the bushes
No, dunking your balls is a little different
The bottom of the ball pit!
Mounting yourself on those balls at the wall?
potoooooooo ā
ļøItās when your shaft is so damn deep that you can only barely make out your ball amidst the shaggy rough entanglement. Courses like Oakmont Country Club, Koāolau, and Pinehurst are some examples that can challenge even top golfers.
This thread is a doozy, canāt tell whats real and what isnt anymore
Of course we still donāt have an agreed upon standard for how deep balls deep actually is.
Yeah, I hear it varys from person to person.
It used to be relative but the French have an underground chamber that has very precisely controlled environmental conditions to avoid shrinkage, ensuring exact depth of balls. Itās actually quite scientific.
I guess it makes more sense than slamming your testicals against the wall.
In a way relating to human anatomy that has caused me to remove this phrase from my usage in recent years (because I worried how others would take it) the balls=testicles actually always made sense to me, but Iām not going to explain it.
However, now that I know what the most literal interpretation of the phrase actually is, I can feel safe using it again!
Tangentially: modern flight controls have extremely specific shapes, for different functionality, because B-52 pilots kept reaching for the throttle and raising the landing gearā¦ while landing.
You are correct, you can read about the standards of lever shape, placement and operation in FAR 23 for Normal, Utility, Aerobatic and Commuter category aircraft.
I think youāre thinking of the B-17 rather than the B-52 though. The B-17 was a very complex airplane for its day, a very early test flight crashed on takeoff because the crew did not remove control locks. This incident is often cited as the reason why checklists are so prevalent in aviation. The B-17 had what weād now think of as weird controld, but the B-24 Liberator built only a few years later and concurrently with the B-17 has more typical controls laid out more or less as you would now including a wheel-shaped gear lever on the left and a flap shaped flap lever on the right, a good distance aft of the engine controls. These predate the B-52 by a decade.
Youād never mistake the gear lever for the thrust levers in a B-52; there arenāt eight gear levers.
NaichGoing āballs outā refers to governors on steam engines which used centrifugal force on a pair of balls to regulate the speed of the engine. At full speed the balls were out at the maximum.
Now i wonder what the origin of ātripping ballsā is?
That refers to noted hippie Mad Jack McMadd, whose balls were so big he used to trip on them when he got high.
If course, how didnt i think of that
Have you ever accidentally stood on a ball (football/dodgeball) and tripped? If you have you may have an idea where the expression comes from.
You trip really hard.
So much better in Scots pronunciation
BAWZOOT MIN
BlueLineBaeSo is the term āgroundedā and I genuinely wonder what parents used to say to their misbehaved children before airplane terminology was commonplace.
nocturneThey just beat them.
BigBenisPounded.
Waitā¦
Iām offended by them calling testicles āvulgarā
Little Known Fact: In Texas they donāt have testicles, they have texicles.
Heh nice
Some people told me that school book authors in Texas actually have Texticles.
Vulgar in linguistics refers to street usage instead of formal. See also Classic Latin vs Vulgar Latin.
PlaidBaronKind of like āhaving oneās balls in a viceā. It actually refers to the old days when ball bearings were made by hand. It was tedious work and the pressure to make ball bearings for the burgeoning industrial revolution was intense. They were cut out of metal and then polished smooth, secured in a vice. Hence, āhaving your balls in a viceā meant being under intense pressure.