Does the word "discharge" ever have a positive connotation?

[Sluggo]

Does the word "discharge" ever have a positive connotation?

dis-cuss

 

[TridenT]

Paging wannabe smartass Rubycon...

 

[n7]

Paging wannabe smartass Rubycon...

Wow.

I think that speaks for itself.

 

[jteef]

honorable discharge from the military?

 

[DominionSeraph]

Discharging HV caps.

I wouldn't want to stick my hand in gear with charged ones.

 

[Sluggo]

Paging wannabe smartass Rubycon...

Do you have an app that alerts you whenever a thread with a cock tag is posted?

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

How about discharging TridenT from ATOT?

 

[schneiderguy]

Discharging a firearm can be positive.

 

[Ruptga]

Electrical discharge can be fun. Though that depends quite a bit on both where it's going and how much we're talking about.

But I have to admit, my first thought was of something coming out of a $5 hooker's cooter.

 

[Sluggo]

Discharging a firearm can be positive.

My tag for you was too long, shorten your name.

 

[mcurphy]

Discharging a firearm can be positive.

Exactly what I was thinking.

For instance, say you were a 50+ year old woman, and just got out of the shower...and some stranger is there waiting to rape you. If you discharged a weapon and killed the scumbag, then the next day the headlines read something like "Elderly Lady Discharges Firearm to Thwart Rapist"

Then that there would be a prime example of how discharge can be a positive connotation. (unless of course you're an idiot, then you may disagree).

 

[ViRGE]

Hospital discharge?

 

[Perknose]

Yes, absolutely OP. When you discharge your duty, you are doing an honorable and positive thing.

 

[Sluggo]

Exactly what I was thinking.

For instance, say you were a 50+ year old woman, and just got out of the shower...and some stranger is there waiting to rape you. If you discharged a weapon and killed the scumbag, then the next day the headlines read something like "Elderly Lady Discharges Firearm to Thwart Rapist"

Then that there would be a prime example of how discharge can be a positive connotation. (unless of course you're an idiot, then you may disagree).

Elderly woman's discharge kills rapist. Video at 11.

You know you would tune in for that.

 

[schneiderguy]

My tag for you was too long, shorten your name.

What was the tag? D:

 

[Perknose]

Yes, absolutely OP. When you discharge your duty, you are doing an honorable and positive thing.

My example is meaning 3b.

b : to get rid of (as a debt or obligation) by performing an appropriate action (as payment)

Your duty is an obligation; you discharge it by performing the appropriate action of carrying out your duty.

Example:

"...He Died in the Discharge of His Duties"
Dedicated to America's warriors and warrior-citizens on Armistice Day, 2007

 

[DominionSeraph]

Elderly woman's discharge kills rapist. Video at 11.

You know you would tune in for that.

Ewww.

 

[Perknose]

Paging wannabe smartass Rubycon...

Excuse me, Sparky, but for the English language, I'm the "smartass" you want. :biggrin:

 

[Sluggo]

Your duty is an obligation; you discharge it by performing the appropriate action of carrying out your duty.

That, sadly, falls under the umbrella of personal responsibility. Those of us old enough to care, know that personal responsibility is the historic fiction of Norman Rockwell paintings and Sherwood Schwartz sitcoms.

 

[zerocool84]

Anal discharge

 

[Zebo]

Sounds pretty damn positive to me unless I misconstruing the word...I didn't read much as a child tho..to busy discharging in anything that moved.

 

[zinfamous]

"TridenT has been dishonorably discharged from ATOT."


yeah, I'd say that's a really fucking positive connotation.

 

[Perknose]

That, sadly, falls under the umbrella of personal responsibility. Those of us old enough to care, know that personal responsibility is the historic fiction of Norman Rockwell paintings and Sherwood Schwartz sitcoms.

Well, Sluggo, Sluggo was contemporaneous with Rockwell and far older than any Sherwood Shwartz sitcom.

I don't think he ever got to "discharge" any of his Sluggo swimmers into Nancy. She never struck me as that kind of 'toon.

 

[Perknose]

Hospital discharge?

Dis charge, dat charge . . . there are a ton of different charges on many hospital bills. It's like your phone or cable bill, only with extra zeros.

 

[Sluggo]

I'm old enough to remember Nancy in the funny papers, and that was actually the basis for my name.

Well, that and an old idiom my father always had about putting on your "Sluggo Hat", meaning that's when your conversation turned from pleasantries to a much more direct dialogue concerning business transactions.

Greg, at some point you have to put on your Sluggo Hat and tell them its time to shit or get off the pot, there's a line forming, you do have to word it nicer though. A woman will never do business with or give respect to a crass man.