How to prevent jumper sales : casualuk

[-] rubikcuber@feddit.uk 16 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, it's not even the same jumper...

[-] brap@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

Who's that guy?

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A retired British footballer (generally considered a very good one), and England's "great hope" in the 1998 Football World Cup.

"Little Michael Owen is England's great hope, he's only 18, and he's playing in the World Cup. If we lose, we'll blame everything on him. No pressure".

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago

Fortunately we blamed it all on Beckham instead.

If you're going to kick another player and get sent off, at least kick them hard...

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

One of the greatest soccer pundits to ever live.

/ducks under a table

[+] Linktank@lemmy.today -12 points 3 weeks ago

What does a sweater have to do with jumping?

[-] Docus@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Hint: you are in a UK focused community.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago

What does a jumper have to do with sweating?

[-] Linktank@lemmy.today 4 points 3 weeks ago

Well you sweat when jumping for one thing.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 5 points 3 weeks ago

This is true - especially if you were wearing a thick woolly jumper whilst doing it.

[-] Linktank@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

The lack of logical explanations for why it's called a jumper are deafening.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

It looks like one of those "vague, unsure" ones, it's perhaps too old a word, and with too many vague, possible sources.

Some bits of dictionaries suggest various etymologies - it likely drifted from words in Gaelic, Scots, Arabic and French, like "jupe", "jump", "juppe" "jubbe" and so on, which tended to mean things like "smock", "jacket" or whatever. It's been around in English for various clothing types for a few hundred years, and referred specifically to the woollen pullover thing from the picture above for 100-150 years.

It has no relation at all to jump as in "leap".

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago

Also, and worthy of note, it rhymes with "bumper", which is important if you want to say something like:

"Dancing at the disco, bumper to bumper. Wait a minute! Where's me jumper?" (Youtube link)

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