• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      I’ll never understand where the term “blowing hot air up my ass” as if it was a pleasurable thing came from. I find it to be foul, but turning my bidet blower down to the coolest breeze is refreshing AF.

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        1 day ago

        Well that’s because the phrase is “blowing smoke up my ass” not “blowing hot air up my ass”. You’re probably mixing it up with someone being “full of hot air”.

        It comes from an actual medical procedure way back in the day where doctors would, well, blow smoke up your ass.

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        2 days ago

        My dad would use the term ‘blowing purple smoke up my ass’ to mean someone was lying to him or trying to scam him. Never understood that.
        Flash edit: Damn, it was the acupuncture of its day.