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Okay I Googled "foot-cannon" but didn't find any relevant looking results. Can you explain to me what it is?
by arthulia 8y ago
Okay I Googled "foot-cannon" but didn't find any relevant looking results. Can you explain to me what it is?
- eat_veggies 8y agoa more extreme foot-gun (this term should be more easily googleable)
- sneak 8y agoA way of catastrophically shooting oneself in the foot.
- JeremyBanks 8y agoA tool which is easy to accidentally misuse in ways that seriously harm yourself.
- richdougherty 8y agoA foot cannon is a joke term for something which makes it easy to "shoot yourself in the foot". In other words a tool which is easy to use incorrectly.
- marsRoverDev 8y agoWhy is this term so familiar to people on HN but like OP I cannot find a single reference to it on Google...
- gr__or 8y agoI think "foot gun" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footgun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footgun) is more common.
- sanderjd 8y agoI think people are very familiar with "foot gun" which is quite common, and are inferring that since a cannon is a really big gun, a foot cannon is a really big foot gun.
- teachrdan 8y agoA firearm 12" in size