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Showerthoughts

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[–] kaktus@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Is it just me or are people also using hands up instead of hands down? As in: this is hands down/up the best post I've read all day.

As a non English native this always throws me off.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Aussie chiming in: haven't heard hands up before, might be a US thing

[–] eliasar@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

US here, we use "hands down".

That is hands down the worst children's play I've ever seen.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I think some people are deliberately trying to fuck up intergenerational understanding by teaching weird or opposite versions of phrases and other cultural tokens