Yes, Fishtank is a much kinder person than I am. I have very little patience for viciousness for the sake of viciousness.
“Yes, Fishtank is a much kinder person than I am. I have very little patience for viciousness for the sake of viciousness.”
I’m feeling that vicious is the rational response to the Kenyan lizard’s communist coup.
Why don’t you go have a latte if you are not up to being free.
Regarding your previous post:
Slang definition of “Pound Sand”
There are two takes on go pound sand. The more recent, seemingly a product of World War II, and often euphemised, is go pound sand up one’s ass. It is used to dismiss and deride, and is ultimately a vehement way of saying: ‘go away’. Examples include:
1944 Life vol XVI:26 53: The soldiers naturally thought the MP was ribbing, and amiably shouted back, “Go pound sand up your back.”
1981 JJ McAleer Unit Pride 336: “Why don’t you go pound sand up your ass? ... If it wasn’t for Hal and me gettin’ Billy and Dewey you wouldn’t have anythin’ to drink. Did you ever stop to think about that?” “Get the fuck outa here,” Coggins said.
1984 BW Durkin Oh, you Dundalk girls, can’t you dance the polka? 146: She’s only twelve years old, and my mother says — ‘Go pound sand up a pipe.’
Subsequent examples seem to have abandoned the euphemism, and one can assume that, when actually spoken rather than written, the receptacle was almost invariably the ‘ass’.
A variant meaning is to suffer or to act in a pointless manner:
1974 G.V. Higgins Cogan’s Trade (1975) 14: I was pounding sand up my ass almost four years.
The link to a rathole is possibly misleading. The late 19th century phrase pound sand in a rathole originated on campus and meant to be reasonably intelligent. It was usually found in the negative phrase not enough sense to pound sand in a rat hole.
1896 W.C. Gore Student Slang 14: pound sand, not to know enough to To be hopelessly stupid. ‘He can’t help us, for he doesn’t know enough to pound sand.’
1899 Ade Fables in Slang (1902) 154: Somebody that wasn’t afraid to Work, and had Gumption enough to pound Sand into a Rat-Hole.
However the stupidity implied in the ‘rathole’ use may underpin the mindless task that the later use with ‘ass’ suggests the dismissed person is requested to perform..
http://www.quora.com/Where-does-the-phrase-go-pound-sand-come-from