Re:Zuckerberg defends not suspending ex-Trump aide Bannon fr...
by googthrowaway42 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @07:47PM
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"Heads on a pike" is a common expression.
"Eviscerate you and then hang you from your mother’s dining room ceiling by your intestines" is not.
Re:Zuckerberg defends not suspending ex-Trump aide Bannon fr...
by jacobolus on Thursday November 12, 2020 @07:53PM
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“Heads on pikes” is used as a hyperbolic shorthand for any kind of public shaming, especially when someone is fired.
But “Mount their heads on pikes at the corners of the White House as a warning the way they used to do to traitors in Tudor England” is nothing close to a common expression.
But his threat was much more graphic and specific. How many times have you e.g. emailed your friend’s whole family with a message along the lines of “If you post that picture online I will eviscerate you and then hang you from your mother’s dining room ceiling by your intestines as a warning.”
That is not normal friendly exaggerated banter, and would be pretty hard to play off as a joke.