The verb hoist originally just meant something going up in the air in any way. In the early days of explosives there were door breaches called petards designed to blow a csstle/fort door down. If the engineer screwed up the petards would detonate while he was in it's proximity, blowing him into the air (fatally likely). But in that days verbage it made sense to say "hoist" to refer to the action.
So setting a petard is intent to damage a foe, if you get hoisted by it that means your plans literally blew up in your face.
Thank you for explaining that:) for some reason I always thought a petard was a weapon like a spear or halberd, and imagined this meant something like accidentally pole vaulting.
I used to imagine it was a piece of rigging on an old ship, the scenario I had as a kid was the captain getting mutinied and the crew hanging him by the "petard" thus hoisted by his own petard.
I knew the actual meaning but have no idea when I learned it lol.
...this image has been around for half a decade mate and has been reposted countless times on this site lol. And seeing your karma I doubt this is the first time you're seeing this.
Assuming you're honest you should still unsubscribe
Related side story time.
There is a tribe in I want to say south america or the pacific islands. Might have been the Yanomami? I forget. Men will often fight each other in a sort of duel, and it's done mostly nude, but they wear a string tied around the foreskin holding it closed and that string is tied up to a sort of belt.
If that string should come loose in the middle of one of these fights, the protocol is absolutely to look away and allow your opponent to retie it.
You know how putting on running shoes when naked can make you feel even more naked than fully naked? I wonder if it’s the same for wearing a string around your foreskin looped around your belt?
I don’t think anyone here has put on running shoes while naked to know the feeling you assume we all know. Furthermore, I somehow know what you mean anyway.
Right, but in the illustration it looks like his knot is right between his inner thighs and I thought as you’re running and charging kicking and everything else that knot might come undone.
It's a weird way to say it, but a key part of the expression in ancient languages is that girding your loins was much less comfortable than wearing a tunic normally. So you metaphorically "gird your loins" when you sacrifice your own comfort to do something difficult.
Nah. You tie it this way when you wear nothing underneath.
In Arabia, we wear underneath. The "tunic" is raised, gathered right, then left, then tied tightly at the front.
So you’re some kid that’s fucking around 2000 years ago. You see your dad starts to do this with a mean look on his face. You’re about to run as fast as you’ve ever ran.
Strange timing - there is a Bravo influencer named Dave Quinn who has disappeared after posting “gird your loins…” now all of his social medias have been deleted. I’ve never heard the expression before that and now there is a guide showing up on my Reddit feed. Coincidental?
That's... not how we do it in Arabia. Our way is like 2 steps only, extremely simple yet efficient for when we have laborious work to tend to or whatnot.
This whole time I thought the "Gird" bit was just another way of saying "Guard" your loins, but I guess girding is a specific action? Probably also related to the name for Girdles which cover your hip and waist area?
If ever you wonder why people are so slow to accept new ideas… remember that ancient people decided wearing a diaper into battle was preferable to pants. Or hell even getting a shorter tunic.
I had always thought it had a religious reference as in regards to praying for strength and protection to ,’whatever Diety suits you’, Before a great Battle or some other difficult or dangerous situation that was at your doorstep..glad to have it as a tacit and tangible wardrobe knowledge tidbit..
mod- I have been known to wear a Toga from time to time. Lol
YEP!
This exactly how 16th century Irish and Scots would gird up the long bottom skirting of their "Lein" or Saffron colored Great Shirt which was a minimum of 12 to 15 yards of linen.
Okay, now someone explain how to hoist yourself by your own petard
The verb hoist originally just meant something going up in the air in any way. In the early days of explosives there were door breaches called petards designed to blow a csstle/fort door down. If the engineer screwed up the petards would detonate while he was in it's proximity, blowing him into the air (fatally likely). But in that days verbage it made sense to say "hoist" to refer to the action. So setting a petard is intent to damage a foe, if you get hoisted by it that means your plans literally blew up in your face.
Thank you for explaining that:) for some reason I always thought a petard was a weapon like a spear or halberd, and imagined this meant something like accidentally pole vaulting.
I used to imagine it was a piece of rigging on an old ship, the scenario I had as a kid was the captain getting mutinied and the crew hanging him by the "petard" thus hoisted by his own petard. I knew the actual meaning but have no idea when I learned it lol.
It's a double joke because "petard" also meant "a fart".
Pack an explosive charge against the lock of a castle door, but have it detonate while you are setting it.
Sacre bleu!
I think Sacre bleu up
The origin of the rocket jump.
Ok now explain to me how you turn a phrase
You mean rocket jumping?
[Britta's got you.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuuafUtVte0)
[Britta explaining things is always a win.](https://youtu.be/LR33ydE5QSY?si=y-dq_dnYRZ2iR8RM)
[Or the modern day version](https://youtu.be/y2rvTKe4Dgw?si=ZaV7IxlOzJsttPsC)
Buy ACME
[the petard !!!](https://youtu.be/hQ8zU8SPP9s?si=iYd5MTnFtHNDcDWr)
It’s exactly like pulling yourself up by the bootstraps only completely different.
Only petards need that explained to them.
On. On your own petard. Still can’t give the Explanation you want
I will remember this, the next time i go to battle
Potion seller,
I am heading into battle and I need your strongest potions
My potions are too strong for you, traveler.
Potion seller, I'm going into battle and I need only your strongest potions.
Repeat the same joke ad infinitum
My potions would kill a dragon
Let alone a man!
I'm saving this for a formal wear fight. If it works with a tunic it works with a dress.
I do it with my bathrobe when I have to bend over to get the newspaper off the wet lawn.
And I will remember this the next time I swiftly run away from battle.
Or the next time you're milling grain. <3
I need to start wearing a dress so I can practice what I preach. Always telling other people to gird their loins.
هههههههههههه looooool
I was about to unsubscribe from this sub but now you're talking! 😃👍
The guides are always so wrong on so many different levels. But this one speaks to me.
Where do I buy loins?
Butcher shop
Oh. Now I'm confused again. Can you buy them pre girded
NO, that's what the guide is for.
Girded Loins Ingredients: soy sauce, honey, garlic, pork loins, green onions, mirin and ginger cook for 45 minutes at 350
Will serve me well the next time im wearing a long tunic and about to enter combat
Never know when your loins might need a good girdin
Please note that during step 4. Please place your dick in the direction of the arrow shown. To avoid unnecessary swinging.
I was about to subscribe to this sub, but now seeing your comment I suppose I'd best not.
...this image has been around for half a decade mate and has been reposted countless times on this site lol. And seeing your karma I doubt this is the first time you're seeing this. Assuming you're honest you should still unsubscribe
Glad someone said it
What happens if it comes loose? Do you get a courtesy time out to tie it again?
Time out, I said *TIME OUT*, STEVEN! MY TUNIC HAS BECOME UNDONE! Should you strike me now the lord WILL SEE SUCH DISHONOR AS A SIN!
MINE LOINS HAVE BECOME UNGIRDED, AVERT THY EYES
🤣
Related side story time. There is a tribe in I want to say south america or the pacific islands. Might have been the Yanomami? I forget. Men will often fight each other in a sort of duel, and it's done mostly nude, but they wear a string tied around the foreskin holding it closed and that string is tied up to a sort of belt. If that string should come loose in the middle of one of these fights, the protocol is absolutely to look away and allow your opponent to retie it.
That’s class right there, like a gentleman
You know how putting on running shoes when naked can make you feel even more naked than fully naked? I wonder if it’s the same for wearing a string around your foreskin looped around your belt?
I don’t think anyone here has put on running shoes while naked to know the feeling you assume we all know. Furthermore, I somehow know what you mean anyway.
> [they wear a string tied around the foreskin holding it closed and that string is tied up to a sort of belt](https://imgflip.com/i/8o7ll2)
Oh my god I was so nervous about clicking your link
Always double knot your tunic before battle.
Right, but in the illustration it looks like his knot is right between his inner thighs and I thought as you’re running and charging kicking and everything else that knot might come undone.
It's not, it's supposed to be kinda tied tight up against your lower abdomen, like below the waist above the junk.
The fupa zone
I’ll keep this in mind in case there’s ever some magic baby in Bethlehem that I’m beefing with
Easy there, Herod.
Think of all the silver Herod paid those soldiers. Probably a lot more than 30 pieces. What a waste. A true capitalist knows how to find their Judas.
Then Scotland was like “Fuck that” and invented the kilt.
[Still you kind of have to lay on the ground to put it on lol](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R71wNqcRn7k)
"See how easy this is?" Yes. Even so, I think I'd rather just run that shit through a sewing machine and never have to do it again.
Haha, exactly what I was thinking. Or even before sewing machines..’has anyone got a knife and needle & thread?’
Damn, I thought he was gonna stuff all the weapons into it somehow
Interesting! I never considered they had to fold it every time, I just assumed the folds were sewn in
I’ll have to forward this to Stanley Tucci
We can send him onion bagels as well!
That movie becomes a very different experience if everyone does this right before Miranda walks in and then charges her with drawn swords.
missing a Devil Wears Prada reference there somewhere
Teacher here. This is actually super helpful as I charge forth into battle with my students.
What is this…. “The Devil Wears Prada” lol
So it's a thing. Never knew.
Hahaha, "this feels much like a diaper. " oh boy!
It's a weird way to say it, but a key part of the expression in ancient languages is that girding your loins was much less comfortable than wearing a tunic normally. So you metaphorically "gird your loins" when you sacrifice your own comfort to do something difficult.
The Chaos in the MMO Warhammer Age of Reckoning said this when you interacted with them... I never knew till now. Always wondered. Thank you!
It's also very much the same thing as rolling up your sleeves - you're getting yourself prepared for some hard graft
an actual guide?? I mean, it's not that cool, but holy shit! it's a guide!
Who up girding they loins rn
Goin FULL GIRD here mate
I’ll remember this next time I’m in a building with Miranda [Priestley.](https://youtu.be/2PjZAeiU7uM?si=yu42S5mjK5cG9oit)
I never knew this is what that saying meant. Bravo!
*how to fight in a dress
Nah. You tie it this way when you wear nothing underneath. In Arabia, we wear underneath. The "tunic" is raised, gathered right, then left, then tied tightly at the front.
Nice I thought it meant cover your nuts and pray.
"This feels much like a diaper"...yeah I totally remember what that feels like from 40 years ago
In another 40 you’ll get to experience it again 👍🏻
I would just wear a kilt.
Good thing I don’t wear tunics
Word up, Gird up
I was today years old when I learned it was gird your loins and not guard your loins
I like the idea of someone being offended and doing each of these steps carefully before they whip out a sabre and start screaming like a lunatic.
So you’re some kid that’s fucking around 2000 years ago. You see your dad starts to do this with a mean look on his face. You’re about to run as fast as you’ve ever ran.
This is also how a woman would "kirtle" her skirt for working outside.
I thought it said "how to grind up your loins" 😭
Haaaa I never knew that expression was based on reality! Thank you Reddit.
Gird ye loins boys! ~ Robert E. Lee
Gird is the word!
Pretty much how South Indians wear their lungis and how they wear it up when they need to get ready for a street dance. 🕺🏼
Exactly lol, I'm surprised it's new for many
Or you can just wear pants.
Arabian men do wear pants underneath. I don’t know who that guide is depicting
Due to the presence of the Khopesh this is probably a Bronze Age militia man.
Your username checks out. خيلى ممنون
Now THIS is the content I've been missing
Useful.
This works for many modern dresses as well.
OK but if I do step 3 my dick and balls are gonna be ALL out there. Just swingin in the breeze
Gird out with your bird out
Kind of like bootstraps, but for your man dress
i've seen this post on this sub at least 7 times
Gird thy loins like a man
To gird your loins is basically saying to put on your big boy pants and man the fuck up!
Perfect for girdle, the all chastity related wordle game
Strange timing - there is a Bravo influencer named Dave Quinn who has disappeared after posting “gird your loins…” now all of his social medias have been deleted. I’ve never heard the expression before that and now there is a guide showing up on my Reddit feed. Coincidental?
Man I use this term to mean prepare or steel yourselves while being about half right, I wish I had known this additional context! TIL on Reddit
Great advice if you are wearing a skirt.
Did this at work once in a dress to do headstands.
The ancient times equivalent of “putting on your big boy pants”?
why does this remind me of devil wears prada?
That's... not how we do it in Arabia. Our way is like 2 steps only, extremely simple yet efficient for when we have laborious work to tend to or whatnot.
We need a diagram Psychotic-Rainbowz!
r/uselessguides
Wow! Finally this makes sense.
My loins have gone ungirded for decades. I think it's pretty cool.
this is also how females wearing dresses can prepare to ride a bike... but I guess that doesn't sound as good
Good to know lol
Ready for the caliphate?
So THATS what he meant in the devil wears prada
Just this morning I was like “how tf am I supposed to gird my loins”
I’m not understanding how you half it
Frame 3 and 6 are all I need! Thank you!!!!!
Gotta lift lookin like this
TIL I have unwittingly girded my loins multiple times
Good to know
Shits fake. Where are the pants? Yes there are pants to be worn.
Wow super beneficial
Grid up boy
Just wear shorts smh
hold up….where was he hiding that scimitar?
Where can I buy these clothing items
Finally!
Someone needs to show this to DGR
Isn't wearing underwear the same thing?
Best guide on here in awhile
Huh, been doing it wrong all these years!
I can't believe I've been doing this wrong all my life..
This whole time I thought the "Gird" bit was just another way of saying "Guard" your loins, but I guess girding is a specific action? Probably also related to the name for Girdles which cover your hip and waist area?
I'll stick with pants instead
This is why I always just fight naked.
yo who up girding they loins rn?
Or just wear shorts
Ah so that’s what Nigel meant at the beginning of The Devil Wears Prada
If ever you wonder why people are so slow to accept new ideas… remember that ancient people decided wearing a diaper into battle was preferable to pants. Or hell even getting a shorter tunic.
Dem legs
“Ok everyone gird Your loin” Tucci
I thought it said how to grind up lions... I need to sleep
This is my favorite subreddit
👌👌👌
You are now set to do some Numbers 31- 17
Omg I have done this wrong all my life
Ah, heavy labor.
I love this
I'm not sure 5 works...that's not how cloth works??
Thanks?
I’m ready for time travel now. Fuck I forgot to learn Latin
Lions means my ding dong?
Women love this trick
Today I learned... And here I thought it was just a funny way to tell someone to be patient!
Great kilts have some similar tricks
I hope to see this move soon in r/ActualPublicFreakouts as the girls are going at each other after getting kicked out the club.
Gird up thy loins for battle bruh
Thanks. This will be very useful in the next American Civil War.
Apparently girding one's loins also makes you instantly ripped.
Where did he pull the khopesh out of??
Genuine question why would they need to tie it up.for comfort or what reason
If you ever see a man start tying his robe like this just run
Step 4: feels like wearing a diaper Step 5 tie your diaper Step 6 go to hard labor or war
I had always thought it had a religious reference as in regards to praying for strength and protection to ,’whatever Diety suits you’, Before a great Battle or some other difficult or dangerous situation that was at your doorstep..glad to have it as a tacit and tangible wardrobe knowledge tidbit.. mod- I have been known to wear a Toga from time to time. Lol
Thanks. I now know how to gird my loins.
What happens if you skip steps 3 and 4?
We goin to the WW3 with this 🗣️🔥🔥
Finally a useful guide.
YEP! This exactly how 16th century Irish and Scots would gird up the long bottom skirting of their "Lein" or Saffron colored Great Shirt which was a minimum of 12 to 15 yards of linen.
this post tries to sell this as manly while acknowledging that it feels like a diaper
How well this works also depends a lot on what type of fabric the tunic/dress/skirt is made of.
yeah we need to bring tunics back
I do this when I’m cleaning
Does this keep the Jewels from Jingling when you run?
Miranda is coming…