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mcphage
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> But apparently someone with a stick up their ass dug up the etymology of it and decided to include it in the list.
Don’t you realize what “a stick up their ass” originally meant?!
robocat
on Dec 20, 2022
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Presumably comes from the upright posture taught as good bearing - no etymology I saw suggested anything different - comment implies it isn’t that old either:
https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/38mzi9/comment/c...
mcphage
on Dec 20, 2022
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Oh, I don't think it means anything, I was just being a jerk :-)
henrikschroder
on Dec 21, 2022
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How dare you! :-)
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Don’t you realize what “a stick up their ass” originally meant?!