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What's the most absurd thing you've seen someone refuse to do because of toxic masculinity? (lemmy.world)

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[-] EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago

Wait, what do you mean by a cot? In my British English a cot is what babies sleep in and has tall bars on the sides to stop them falling out. I'm guessing this isn't the same.

[-] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

My bad, I didn't realize it was called by another name elsewhere. It looks just like this [USGI Military Folding Cot https://a.co/d/c0K3vCF](USGI Military Folding Cot https://a.co/d/c0K3vCF)

What do they call those where you're from?

To be fair, that LT would feel right at home in what you're describing (we call that a "crib" in the US), he was such an ignorant ass.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago

In the UK a crib is a smaller cot for newborns. And what you call a cot looks like a stretcher with trampoline legs, I haven't ever seen one of these to hear what Brits call them.

[-] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 16 points 11 months ago

I think that's called a camp bed.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

So really, it presents as gayer than a regular bed and the whole endeavour was counterproductive.

[-] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Surely there is a name for it in Brittain since their soldiers probably use something similar.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Probably, but I'm not/don't interact often with soldiers, so I don't know

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I guess what’s called a ‘crib’ in the UK is what we’d call a ‘bassinet’ in the US?

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sometimes called a "camp bed" but I've heard cot in the US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_bed

[-] Nanomerce@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

it's like a glorified stretcher

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