• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    The saying is “shooting fish”, not “shooting a fish”. Bet it’s pretty easy when the barrel’s wall to wall fish.

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    1 year ago

    i always thought the point was that even if you miss, you’ve now shot a hole through the barrel and the water will drain out, killing the fish anyways

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        sure, but i guess what i mean is like, that’s why the meaning of the idiom is clear to me even having not tested or watched someone test what the actual effect of firing a gun into a barrel full of fish would be. if you were ever in a conversation, prior to watching that episode, wherein someone used the idiom to describe a task, and you were like “oh, you mean that’ll be easy, because the shockwave from a gun shot would kill all of the fish in a barrel at the same time”, before you watched the mythbusters episode, i guess you’re a lot smarter than me

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    1 year ago

    This saying never made sense to me. You already have trapped the fish. If you shoot them, they become inedible. Why not just starve them, or tip the bucket over and a couple minutes later bam, dinner for the whole village.

    Who tf was like ‘ima blast these little swimming fools’ and why in the fuck were people like ‘that sounds like a great idea, I can be a real badass now’. Those people just sound like wannabes.

    Now who’s helping me tip over this barrel?

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            1 year ago

            Hey now, babies shouldn’t have candy. It’s a choking hazard, I’m doing them a favor!

            👶🍬🏃

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          No it is not. It means to do something really simple - which shooting a fish in a barrel is. It doesn’t need to be the most logical thing people do, it just needs to be easy.