It’s probably some derivative of the maratime slang pipe-down.

Pipe down: A boatswain or ‘bosun’ was a ship’s officer who was, amongst other duties, in charge of the crew. He would issue different orders to crew members by changing the sound patterns blown on his ‘call’, a sort of high-pitched whistle.

‘Pipe down’ was the last order of the day for off-duty crew to stop talking, settle down or go to bed. Today, the phrase ‘pipe down’ is still used to tell someone to be quiet.

If an officer is piping orders the expectation would be for you to pay attention.

The second world war and its huge naval population probably brought the much older term into American slang.

So the title should say that right wing and centrist sources are less factual than left wing ones.

That’s uh…what she said?

Well put.

A general strike is your only hand. So start prepping for that.

The Abominable Throw-man.

My partner would have been haggling that vendor down to a £1.

This is the big problem with centrist media fact checkers: paltering doesn’t count towards the tallying of deceptions.

Those are my questions! Give me back my questions!

It’s a great story.

My grandad was a captain in the British army. He took part in the invasion and push up through Italy. He told us about the nightmare of trying to take Monte Cassino. He got put in jail (for a very short time) for punching an officer who was screaming in his face in the middle of a battle insisting that he order his men into a certain death situation. He was of the opinion that if you ever met a WWII vet that hadden’t spend some time locked up for insubordination they were of low character.

Me a genX not getting the reference

Cowboys Ted!

Oh sorry it’s not politically expedient to save the environment. All we understand is the orthodoxy of neo-liberal economic dogma where increasing inequality is the goal. So what we can offer you is a third runway at Heathrow.

Wut?

He’s the very effergy of establishment compliance.

They’re in cahoots with the illegal aliens.

Maybe so. I don’t remember the packaging half as clearly as I do the crappy chocolate.

I think I remember these. They were a low quality chocolate stick wrapped in paper. I didn’t like them. I think I got that they were preying on kid’s desire to ape adult behaviours but I may be conflating a decade of memories.

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