I don’t follow the American national anthem lyrics, I just googled them for the tag line and wtf.

Edit: oh its about some battle according to my bf

  • TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    To me “glassing” someone means hitting them over the head with a pint glass. What’s it mean in the context you’ve posted?

        • Bureaucrat@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          Okay but now imagine if everyone in England nuked eachother when they got drunk, instead of beating each other with glass

            • Bureaucrat@hexbear.netEnglish
              3·
              6 months ago

              I don’t really mean anything, I was just amused by the idea of the english meaning of “glassing” being the same as the military meaning, but nothing else being changed. There’s no depth to it, I just found myself chuckling at the image of some old geezer going “oi mate!” and then just… explosion over a disagreement about when tottenham was most shit

              • TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
                3·
                6 months ago

                Actually that has me giggling. I’ve never seen anyone get glassed, though. I’ve heard numerous stories though, probably mostly bollocks, cause that’s what people do. Bet they’re all based on this scene.

    • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      Nuking a place, especially a desert will create lots of glass from the heat. So “glassing” a place is slang for nuking it, or just bombing it so hard nothing remains.

    • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      in this context it means a bunch of nuclear strikes, which in the American imagination would turn all of the sand there to glass