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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:25:08 JST feld
   I don't understand these people who button their shirts / jackets from the top to the bottom.
   
   The phrase is literally "button up". I don't think there is an English speaking place on the planet where mothers are telling their children to "button down" their coats to stay warm
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:27:38 JST dilbert 1

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     @feld you button up a coat but you wear a button-down shirt
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:28:12 JST feld

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     To make things worse, my wife informed me that she always buttons from the top down and is very annoyed that zippers do not start at the top as well
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     Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:29:54 JST Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

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     @sun @feld What about "close down" versus "close up" when it comes to businesses? :blobfoxthinkgoogly:
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:29:54 JST dilbert 1

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     @tk @feld you close up for the night but you close down permanently
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:30:38 JST dilbert 1

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     @tk @feld incidentally there are other uses for button down but I don't know the significance. if you are conservative you're buttoned down, or you can button down a tarp etc
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:30:43 JST feld

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     @tk @sun I think you should close down an activity, but you close up the physical store / building
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:33:08 JST dilbert 1

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     @feld you button from the bottom because it's harder to mess up the alignment and have to start over
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:33:37 JST feld

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     @sun But I thought that was the entire purpose of buttoning from the top lol
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     Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:37:22 JST Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

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     • dilbert 1
     @sun @feld Buttoning down versus buttoning up a shirt sounds like a good idea for a poll. :blobfoxthinkgoogly:
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     (roll m3tti) (m3tti@functional.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:50:18 JST (roll m3tti)

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     @feld wait top down i cannot compute. I never met a person who is doing such a thing

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:50:23 JST feld

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     @m3tti I feel like we need a support group now
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:59:49 JST dilbert 1

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     @feld yeah you are right I am dumb and mixed it up
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 03:00:49 JST feld

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     @sun I dunno man, the world is full of wonder. We could both be wrong depending on which cultural rituals we've been exposed to
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 03:02:18 JST feld

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     • Jonah Aragon
     @jonah here's a thought: when I was a kid I definitely was required to button up my own coat before ever being exposed to a shirt with buttons. So the fact that I was first taught to do it with a coat probably reinforced how I've always done it with a shirt.
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     Jonah Aragon (jonah@mastodon.neat.computer)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 03:02:19 JST Jonah Aragon

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     @feld I have genuinely never heard of or considered the possibility of buttoning from bottom to top. This is fascinating to me now lol

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 03:07:44 JST feld

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     @sun if you have a shorter coat going from the bottom is probably easy enough, but if the coat is very long it's harder to get the bottom ones started correctly
     
     that's my theory
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     Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 04:24:16 JST Pete Zaitcev

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     @jonah @feld one cannot be completely sure where the first button is on the bottom, especially back when spare buttons existed.
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