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> I also think the "uncle" thing comes across painfully pretentious. I'm 35, if you're not actually my uncle I'm sure not calling you that. It's a well known i
by eitland 6y ago
> I also think the "uncle" thing comes across painfully pretentious. I'm 35, if you're not actually my uncle I'm sure not calling you that.
It's a well known idiom:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob's_your_uncle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob's_your_uncle
You might not think it's funny but it seems a lot of people so.
Also: if anyone gets annoyed by it then for a lot of people that seems to make it even funnier.
Just saying.
- barbarbar 6y agoAwesome - thank you. I had no idea. I suppose there are a lot of sayings like that in different languages. Which does not make much sense unless you know that language.
- staticassertion 6y agoI think it's just really dated and comes across weird.
- overgard 6y agoHah fair enough I had no idea! Today I learned.
- wglb 6y agoI think that is a different idom. The sense of "Uncle" in Uncle Bob is someone that is older than you and may or may not know more than you do, but is authoritarian about it.