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Offline 2Vermont

Re: Eye Doctor
« Reply #80 on: February 07, 2022, 07:37:24 PM »
Quote from: Mark 79 on February 07, 2022, 05:09:07 PM
I read that and said to myself, "What???!!!" So I looked it up in the online slang dictionary. I'm filing their explanation of the "float" phrase under "Sounds like a bunch of made-up baloney."

Reading their fantasy explanation I'll be careful not to use the phrase (I don't recall using the phrase though have heard it often), but I think they just have very vivid (and prurient) imaginations to come up with that one.

The all-too-common phrase that makes me cringe is, "That s*cks!" I can't imagine a polite origin of that one, but I have even heard it from a couple of "trad" (???) women. Go figure.
Yeah.  I always took it to mean "whatever works for you".  I have never heard it being used in a vulgar way.
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Offline epiphany

Re: Eye Doctor
« Reply #81 on: February 07, 2022, 07:47:58 PM »
Quote from: Mark 79 on February 07, 2022, 05:09:07 PM
I read that and said to myself, "What???!!!" So I looked it up in the online slang dictionary. I'm filing their explanation of the "float" phrase under "Sounds like a bunch of made-up baloney."

Reading their fantasy explanation I'll be careful not to use the phrase (I don't recall using the phrase though have heard it often), but I think they just have very vivid (and prurient) imaginations to come up with that one.

The all-too-common phrase that makes me cringe is, "That s*cks!" I can't imagine a polite origin of that one, but I have even heard it from a couple of "trad" (???) women. Go figure.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=float%20boat&page=2

been around a LONG time....
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Eye Doctor
« Reply #82 on: February 07, 2022, 08:33:35 PM »
Quote from: epiphany on February 07, 2022, 07:47:58 PM
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=float%20boat&page=2

been around a LONG time....

My point is that, if there is such a connotation, many people are unaware of it and therefore there was no intent on Anne's part in using the expression.  I imagine that I've used the term myself unknowingly.
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Offline DigitalLogos

Re: Eye Doctor
« Reply #83 on: February 07, 2022, 08:55:20 PM »
Quote from: 2Vermont on February 07, 2022, 07:37:24 PM
Yeah.  I always took it to mean "whatever works for you".  I have never heard it being used in a vulgar way.
That's pretty much what it's always meant. Why is there even a discussion on it? :facepalm:
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Offline Mark 79

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Re: Eye Doctor
« Reply #84 on: February 07, 2022, 09:02:49 PM »
Quote from: epiphany on February 07, 2022, 07:47:58 PM
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=float%20boat&page=2

been around a LONG time....

I found all that, including this: "Comes from the term 'man in the boat' referring to the c******s and the female genitalia. So, if your boat is floating, you are quite happy." 
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whatever%20floats%20your%20boat

So, yes, that is their claim. I just think the claim is stretched (and prurient). It doesn't make sense that it refers to both male and female anatomy. 

Obviously, with this perspective, it is worth avoiding the phrase even though I am dubious of their explanation.
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