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Cultural point about the joke in the title: It’s a pun on “The AYEs have it”, the sentence said by the speaker of the UK Parliament when the MPs vote AYE in maj

Cultural point about the joke in the title: It’s a pun on “The AYEs have it”, the sentence said by the speaker of the UK Parliament when the MPs vote AYE in majority (Aye = yes in old English). If the opposite, the NOes have it. Often mistaken for “the eyes have it” and “the noses have it” for first-time viewers.

worble 6y ago
>Aye = yes in old English I know the south likes to pretend we don't exist, but us northerners still say it every day.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
  I use it daily. Picked it up when living in the UK's midlands. No londoner has ever commented on it nor gotten confused.
- sukilot 6y ago
  It's more the western freedomers the imperialists.
tannhaeuser 6y ago
That indeed was puzzling to me, but I figured it out by the very entertaining live coverage of parliament sessions last year (with John Bercow still as Mr Speaker). I only knew Aye from pirate movies (and Highlander), so I thought it was a reference to Royal Navy history or some such lol. In US congress (?) they display Yea/Nee on voting displays I believe; anyone knows where that originates from? Edit: there's also the "the Ayes to right, the Noes to the left" thing which contributes to the confusion; it's sad that the House of Commons can't congregate in close proximity like they used to due to coronavirus I guess
- stordoff 6y ago
  > the Ayes to right, the Noes to the left The Cambridge Union Society, being based on the House of Commons, has a slight extension to this - Ayes to the right, Noes to the left, abstentions down the middle. You're counted as you leave the chamber, so anyone abstaining leaves through the unmarked central door. https://miro.medium.com/max/908/1*ut4G1Vo8C8Uc4sqQ4A6m-Q.png https://miro.medium.com/max/908/1*ut4G1Vo8C8Uc4sqQ4A6m-Q.png

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Cultural point about the joke in the title: It’s a pun on “The AYEs have it”, the sentence said by the speaker of the UK Parliament when the MPs vote AYE in maj

by laurent92 6y ago

worble 6y ago
>Aye = yes in old English I know the south likes to pretend we don't exist, but us northerners still say it every day.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
  I use it daily. Picked it up when living in the UK's midlands. No londoner has ever commented on it nor gotten confused.
- sukilot 6y ago
  It's more the western freedomers the imperialists.
tannhaeuser 6y ago
That indeed was puzzling to me, but I figured it out by the very entertaining live coverage of parliament sessions last year (with John Bercow still as Mr Speaker). I only knew Aye from pirate movies (and Highlander), so I thought it was a reference to Royal Navy history or some such lol. In US congress (?) they display Yea/Nee on voting displays I believe; anyone knows where that originates from? Edit: there's also the "the Ayes to right, the Noes to the left" thing which contributes to the confusion; it's sad that the House of Commons can't congregate in close proximity like they used to due to coronavirus I guess
- stordoff 6y ago
  > the Ayes to right, the Noes to the left The Cambridge Union Society, being based on the House of Commons, has a slight extension to this - Ayes to the right, Noes to the left, abstentions down the middle. You're counted as you leave the chamber, so anyone abstaining leaves through the unmarked central door. https://miro.medium.com/max/908/1*ut4G1Vo8C8Uc4sqQ4A6m-Q.png https://miro.medium.com/max/908/1*ut4G1Vo8C8Uc4sqQ4A6m-Q.png