HOSED

I went with a friend to watch The Blind Side last week before it stopped showing in all the cinemas and the movie was great!! Thanks for the recommendation, Prof!

Anyway, somewhere in the movie, the male lead, Michael Oher used the phrased “totally hosed”. Have never came across it so didn’t know what it really meant.

I can’t remember the exact way he used the phrase in the movie but it was in the context of something like if you’re unpopular with your friends in school or if you let people know you’re a mummy’s boy, you’re totally hosed! From the context I inferred that totally hosed probably means like ‘you’re dead’ or ‘you’re screwed’, somewhat akin to having committed social suicide.

So I quickly googled the phrase when I came home and apparently “hosed” is rather productive!

From urbandictionary.com

1. Hosed 285 up, 46 down

1.utterly and undoubtedly affixiated in a troublesome situation
2. reflecting on a situation in a negative manner

syn: Jacked, screwed, fucked

"we got hosed tommy, we got hosed"

2. Hosed 41 up, 4 down

Screwed.
in the 'Dude. You're screwed.' sense.
Sometimes also means Stuck.

"You did what?! Hosed, man.
"When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor."

3. Hosed 135 up, 99 down

the MIT version: to be completely mentally and physically exhausted from completing some form of academic work typically within the last 8 hours of it being due.

Man I am hosed, I stayed up all night finishing a pset.

HAHA I can’t believe they have an MIT version of this. But apparently not everyone agrees ‘cos they had 135+ but 99-.

4. Hosed 69 up, 48 down

to be intoxicated. to be drunk to the point of memory loss and the possibily of pissing the bed becomes high.

If we drink all these 40's we're gonna be hosed.

While googling for definitions of hosed, I also found out that it is used a lot and rather often when it comes to matters pertaining to the computer, internet etc.

From http://dictionary.die.net/hosed

Hosed

A somewhat humorous variant of "down", used

primarily by Unix hackers. "Hosed" implies a condition

thought to be relatively easy to reverse. It is also widely

used of people in the mainstream sense of "in an extremely

unfortunate situation". The term was popularised by fighter

pilots refering to being hosed by machine gun fire (date?).

Usage in hackerdom dates back to CMU in the 1970s or

earlier.

From http://www.csl.sri.com/users/mwfong/Humor/Meanings/

Hosed: Totally screwed or technically disabled. Usually used in reference to a malfunctioning computer app or program. Generally personalized - "I'm hosed" rather than "This is hosed."

From http://www.csgnetwork.com/glossaryh.html

Hosed: To be totally destroyed or otherwise unusable, as in "my hard drive is hosed" or "the network is totally hosed."

Learnt something new that day!

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Saw this sign outside NUH telling visitors what they or should not do when they visit patients.

Look at the last line. Abusive visitors and patients? How does abusive fit in here? I initially thought it meant visitors and patients who are coarse and vulgar, who will hurl vulgarities or physically abuse the nurses if they do not get their way. My friend, a speech therapist ever got punched by her patient because he didn’t want to take his medicine so I was thinking along this line and this is usually how abusive is defined (see definitions below).

Dictionary.com

1. Characterized by improper or wrongful use: abusive utilization of public funds.

2. Using or containing insulting or coarse language: finally reprimanded the abusive colleague.

3. Causing physical injury to another: abusive punishment.

4. Relating to or practicing sexual abuse.

Longman

1. using cruel words or physical violence:

Smith denies using abusive language to the referee.

He became abusive and his wife was injured in the struggle.

OED

1. Wrongly used, perverted, misapplied, improper: in Rhetoric, catachrestic.

2. Full of abuses; corrupt. arch.

3. Given to misusing, ill-using, perverting. Obs.

4. Employing or containing bad language or insult; scurrilous, reproachful.

But when I saw the Chinese translation, it had no hint of abusive visitors or patients. It merely said 有权拒绝不合作的访客进入医院 which is translated as they have a right to deny uncooperative visitors entry into the hospital.

So why “abusive visitors and patients”? Maybe the hospital was thinking along the lines of “abuse of rules”, but abuse of rules has a different meaning – it means misusing or using the rules inappropriately (definition 1 on dictionary.com and 1&3 in the OED); something like trying to beat the system. So perhaps the people at NUH misunderstood the meaning of “abuse of rules” and used it wrongly or were primed differently so it sounds weird to me in this context.