How to prevent jumper sales : casualuk

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Who's that guy?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months 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...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

One of the greatest soccer pundits to ever live.

/ducks under a table

[+] [email protected] -13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What does a sweater have to do with jumping?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hint: you are in a UK focused community.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What does a jumper have to do with sweating?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well you sweat when jumping for one thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months 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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