Re:Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty ...
by osullivj on Friday September 18, 2015 @12:59PM
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I'm not familiar with the epithet 'toolbag'. I take you're not likening Bobby to a bag of tools. In this context, is toolbag a metaphor for scrotal sac?
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Re:Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty ...
by monknomo on Friday September 18, 2015 @02:28PM
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A tool is an insult for a person who is a jerk with a high opinion of themselves. Appending bag to tool is an enhancer to the original insult, like douche vs douchebag.
You also get things like jerkbag or dirtbag or dickbag. I think I've seen people write "so and so is a bag," so the exact nature of the insult is evolving.
Bag is evocative of scrotum, but I don't think it originally evolved that way. Although scrotebag is a pretty good insult