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"found them all a bit pants" Can you explain this phrase to me? I've never heard it before and I can't get the meaning from the context. Thanks
refers to underpants, with some perhaps dubious stains. common uk english.
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"found them all a bit pants" Can you explain this phrase to me? I've never heard it before and I can't get the meaning from the context. Thanks
- "adjective. British slang. Not good; total crap; nonsense; rubbish; bad "The first half of the movie was pants but I stayed until the end and it was actually a great film.""
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pants
HN is the pants, man! (am I doing it right? am I cool?)
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look at any of the bullet points in the article. it's very hard to constructivly criticise any of them, they are all so vapid. typical of beck's writings.
I think it's more likely that if you can't find anything constructive to say about it, that maybe you don't have a valid argument (your original post was an ad hominem attack after all).
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"found them all a bit pants" Can you explain this phrase to me? I've never heard it before and I can't get the meaning from the context. Thanks
I can’t seem to find the history of it, but it essentially means somethings a bit rubbish, bad, or crap. Pants are typically underwear in Britain, we wear trousers (Jeans, chinos, suit trousers) over our pants (boxers, y-fronts, briefs) so probably not something you’d want to show off that much.
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I think it's more likely that if you can't find anything constructive to say about it, that maybe you don't have a valid argument (your original post was an ad hominem attack after all).
not ad hominem - i know nothing about him as a person. i have read 3 or 4 of his books (have you?) and found them pretty worthless.
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I can’t seem to find the history of it, but it essentially means somethings a bit rubbish, bad, or crap. Pants are typically underwear in Britain, we wear trousers (Jeans, chinos, suit trousers) over our pants (boxers, y-fronts, briefs) so probably not something you’d want to show off that much.
Thanks for the reference to pants. In US pants covers jeans, chinos, slacks. Shorts are well, shorts. Underwear is our boxers, briefs, tighty-whiteys, etc.
Shorts are mostly just shorts, but we do have jorts and chorts depending on how hipster your shorts wearing cohorts are.
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not ad hominem - i know nothing about him as a person. i have read 3 or 4 of his books (have you?) and found them pretty worthless.
In your original post, you dismissed the article because you read previous books of his and thought they were bad. That is literally an ad hominem.
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> what actual publicly available product has he ever produced? oh, i remember - a not very good smalltalk test framework. See also, Bob Martin.
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Meditation and insight are useful analogues here, they sound utterly mundane or obvious when written about, even in highly technical or mystical contexts like mahamudra because they operate on behavior and schemas below language.
I think Kent’s writing is useful as a pointing method: read what he says and watch how you undermine yourself during work. It’s easier said than done too because cognitively demanding tasks undermine metacognition.