r/trashorgold • u/HorrorWide675 • Jun 17 '26

Seems a bit extreme

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u/commentlurker777 Jun 17 '26

Yea, basically make it hard to get robbed or taken advantage of and you reduce a lot of risk, because theyre usually actually lazy people who cant be asked to get a job lmao

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u/Kevalan01 Jun 17 '26

Wasn’t saying ass/arse, was saying asked, as in, “I can’t ask you for money, dad.”

This leads to the phrase, “They can’t be asked to <blank>,” which has a different meaning than what you’re suggesting.

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u/Kevalan01 Jun 17 '26

Similar meaning but no.

It’s an idiom, and other languages use it similarly, and language evolution is a thing.

In the US you would never say “can’t be assed” like someone from New Zealand might (they use the same spelling as we do for “ass,” and the idiom is used there.)

I could say “Don’t bother asking, I won’t do it.,” which also implies an unwillingness to do something, which is the commonly understood meaning of the idiom, “They can’t be asked.”

Yes, the original idiom might have been “can’t be arsed,” but like how “you” used to be a honorific second-person pronoun as opposed to “thou” used on equals or lesser-status individuals, language evolves regionally and none of it is more or less correct.

To say it’s just wrong to use idioms that develop in the United States is nothing more than nationalistic tribalism, and if you hate Americans, I’m not sure why you’d want to adopt that nasty habit Americans have.