👉 Okay, settle into your moth beneath you folks, letâs tackle something delightfullyâŚtextured here. Now, I specialise in demystifying the wonderfully weird corners of our vernacular â frankly, it keeps me sane amongst all the student nonsense.
Let's talk about, brace yourselves... "small crested." Now, before you immediately think I just really enjoy describing oddly shaped things (seriously? who does that anymore?), letâs unpack this. Historically, and rather unfortunately for a great many young men in the early-mid 20th century, it was a devastatingly vicious insultâspecifically, a condemnation of a man's manhood. Essentially, to be called "small crested, strapped on a bit, and that is your lotâ, meant he had a very disappointing endowment. You basically said his package wasn't doing what they should. 100% the equivalent of saying someoneâs got a dud. It was, let's just say, a rather blunt way to tell it straight. The phrasing itself, that careful layering of detailâthe "small," the âcrested" (referring, rather graphically, to the supposed shape when erect), then the addition of, for the full effect, "strapped on a bit"âit was all there to really hammer the point home. It wasn't just saying he was small; it was painting a very specific, and rather humiliating, portrait. Now
