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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

In Australia: yes and it's commonplace. But like 70% of our media is American so unsurprising.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 hours ago

That's like an amazing American showerthought, I never even considered it

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago

Shotgun is an America thing, coming from the stagecoach era. The shotgun in question has a shortened barrel for reduced storage footprint.

The BMW R12 has a sidecar mounted with an MG 42 light machine gun. But no-one calls sidecar gunner

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

That is purely an American thing.

Not saying my family had someone in the passenger seat with a shotgun to protect their batch of white lightning...also not saying they did.

[–] railcar@midwest.social 9 points 12 hours ago

It's still relevant. I always hand my passengers a pistol before disembarking.

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Years ago I read "shotgun wedding" and thought it was common to see a guy having to marry a girl he fucked while her father was there at the side with a rifle.

Capaz son asi andá a saber...

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It means "quick marriage because the bride is pregnant" and that is 100% the origin of the phrase.

Particularly in poorer, rural parts of the USA having a child out of wedlock was incredibly shameful, and the financial burden of a single motherhood was intolerable. So the bride's family would ensure the man responsible married their daughter ... regardless of how he felt about it. Sometimes that meant having a shotgun at the wedding to ensure he didn't run off.

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

NL here. "Shotgun" is a concept, though mostly through Pop Culture Osmosis.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

hi northernlion i love your videos

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 64 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

Not many countries had to arm the person next to the coach driver to fight off natives defending their country against foreign invaders.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

lets not pretend that the US sprouted up out of nothing from nowhere and decide on a whim to slaughter native people. the American continent exists as it does today because of European colonial projects, and the brutal treatment of natives was official policy of the pope

[–] bier@feddit.nl 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

No, no, no, this is all wrong. When we discuss immigration and the current situation in the US all Americans are European immigrants.

When we talk about the genocide of the natives Americans, it was done by Americans, Europeans had nothing to do with it.

;-)

[–] anzo@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago

Technically 85% correct now, after brexit ;p

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[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

No, but many needed to protect those passengers from bandits and other assorted outlaws.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Fun fact: Joseph Stalin first became known to Lenin when he organized the successful robbery of a bank stagecoach in Russia. The stagecoaches were heavily protected by armed men riding on the outside of the coach as well as riding horses alongside, but Stalin observed that they tended to relax their guard upon reaching a densely-populated city, on the assumption that revolutionaries would not be willing to injure or kill innocent bystanders.

This assumption was very wrong in Stalin's case. He had his people lob satchel bombs at the coach and riders after they reached the city, killing most of the guards as well as nearly 100 innocent bystanders in the vicinity. They made off with a huge amount of money, and Lenin congratulated Stalin although he had only planned the operation and not participated in it. The importance of delegation!

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Tbilisi bank robbery

Bonus fun fact: part of the reason for their success might be that one of the local police informants was … Stalin.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

I'm starting to think this Stalin guy has some red flags.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Huh, who knew that violent bank robbers who indiscriminately kill bystanders would ~~do a bunch of genocide after their violent takeover complete with secret police and gulags~~ I mean create the best goverbmont in history, praise USSR or something.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 21 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Now I'd like to know why in France it's la place du Mort, the seat of the dead...

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Because they didn't have a shotgun.

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 19 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

While this is probably some bullshit from the horse drawn carriage era, what I'd like to say is that statistically speaking riding shotgun is the most dangerous seat in car crashes, so the saying still works

[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Isn't that because a driver will instinctively pull left (instinct to protect their own body) when facing a head on collision in many cases? Also the rate of being thrown from the vehicle, being pierced by objects from outside the vehicle, and the risk of unsecured things (including passengers not belted in - wear your goddamn seatbelt!) flying forward from the back all being higher?

Not sure how the saying still works if those types of things are the main causes for passengers riding shotgun being statistically higher to get fatally injured

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

The shotgun Georg, who uses a small motorbike to jump inside 80,000 cars on highway and bites whoever is in the shotgun seat anually; is an outlier and their victims should be excluded from this survey.

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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 18 points 19 hours ago

My kids say "Chewbacca!"

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 129 points 1 day ago (9 children)

thats a stagecoach thing, right?

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 117 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Yeah it was bench seating so one guy had the reins and the other had a shotgun. Hence the name.

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