put out fire like a boss

[David Williams]

David, you don't get the complaints from users: the mods do. The consensus when we introduced that rule several years ago was that many regular forumites object to unexplained links.

I don't think asking people not to post unexplained links makes the forum as dull as ditchwater or drives people away. Bit of hyperbole there?

You've missed the point completely.

On this occasion, I wasn't commenting on the rule itself (although I do think it ridiculous as well). I was commenting that your comparison of gregg's post with spam and trolling was totally unfounded. The hyperbole on this occasion is coming from you.

My comment about this forum becoming dull was not hyperbole. In the last six months or so it has become incredibly tedious. Example: we actually have a thread at the moment that amounts to "OMG - look at my post count!"

[JoeC]

Example: we actually have a thread at the moment that amounts to "OMG - look at my post count!"

No more tedious than someone complaining about the forum!

[George512]

and this forum has become as dull as ditchwater

That wasn't me!

[Rob P]

Perhaps the most interesting question is what did the pilots call it?

No idea, sorry.

Whilst we meander off topic which isn't a bad idea since I have just scrubbed today's flying...

There was a famous WW2 flight test of a new type which contains the words

"Access to the cockpit is difficult. It should be made impossible"

Rob P

[Leaky Mick]

That wasn't me!

It wasn't. The Forum server attributed that to you all on its own. How strange.

Whilst we meander off topic

In the spirit of the above quote (correctly attributed), I saw this photo. It made me smile.

[Rob P]

It made me smile.

Me too

[JoeC]

so Rei-Shiki Kan-Jou Sen-Tou-Ki is zero-styled ship-borne fighter-aircraft.

Didn't someone post that right at the beginning?

[Katamarino]

Strangely enough, after reading the title and seeing a video link, I immediately thought "This must be a video of someone extinguishing a fire in an imaginative manner". Turns out that it was. I'm not sure why the "Every link must have a description" brigade found it so hard to understand this one which seemed perfectly clear.

[Pete S]

I has wondered what 'put out fire like a boss' meant but concluded it was a transliteration of an eastern european aphorism which lost something in the translation.

Peter

[greggj]

Right, like I live in Eastern Europe ;> .

[Leaky Mick]

I has wondered what 'put out fire like a boss' meant

I've never heard it before either. But according to online slang sites, it means: 'like a professional' - or something of the sort.

So, you could fly an aeroplane 'like a boss'. Wouldn't that be nice?

We do live and learn on this forum.

[greggj]

Also, there's a kind of it - where it's called 'like a Sir'. Let me explain:

[Pete S]

memegenerator.net Now there's an interesting website to wile away a dull half hour

[Paul_Sengupta]

I think it's an "internet-ism" rather than any other -ism. Usually for when someone does something in a boastful or elaborate style.

For example:

http://www.lolbrary.com/post/13702/like-a-boss/



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[vintage ATCO]

I've split the Japanese Zero stuff into its own thread as it is far more interesting than the rest of this thread . . . .