Those pingf*ckitt clips mentioned by Cougar on page one are the weak link in Manfrotto tripod systems. They hold the tripod plate threaded thingmy onto the camera, and when they bend and fail, they leave your £1000 camera in a rocky puddle.
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Things that don’t have names.
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They do? My Manfrotto has a ****-off big screw that holds the plate to the camera. It's the hex plate - I know they do others...
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the remote is known a a zapper in our house
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bencooper - all my plates are the rectangular ones. The big ****-off screw is held in place on the reverse of the plate by a pingf*ckit.
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Oh yeah, there's one on the top of the plate to stop the screw falling out when it's off the camera, but there shouldn't be any force on that when it's on - plate presses on the camera, screw screws in, locking collar on the screw tightens down.
They're called E-type circlips, by the way...
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When you crack a situational joke in your head, and there's no-one around to appreciate it, and it's the funniest, wittiest thing EVAR but you know that if you ever tell anyone, the moment has passed and it won't be funny.
It's called a singletrack posters response to what they would have said in any given situation if they had actually been there.
Bullshit for short.
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we also rename things at work in accordance with their difficulty of adjustment rating,
Yep, SQL Server Enterprise Mangler was replace by Manglement Studio
Dust Bunnies
I remember that from a Stephen King book - Dolores Claiborne?Posted 5 months ago # -
Knee pits
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I still feel that "big toe" is not good enough. We say thumb for it's hand equivelent, foot thumb doesn't quite work
Even worse in Spanish, translates as "fat foot finger".
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My two year old has christened the tumble dryer the "bendover" and the computer the "poocutter".
We try not to wet ourselves laughing when he says them.
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Not long after learning to talk our son refered to dog poo* as dodge. It is always that now.*other words are avaliable
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Back on page 2,
the overhang in the top of your ear
now there's a case in point. What's that called??Posted 5 months ago # -
It's called the helix (the overhang on your lughole)or auricle
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My two year old has christened the tumble dryer the "bendover"
Dare we ask what he witnessed for that to come about?
On a related subject, I remember once hearing about a three year old on his first boat trip who spotted a seal. With a stunned expression, he pointed and shouted "DOG-BOAT!".
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Knee pits are called your popliteal fossa...
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Dog-boat... class!
Serious question though: is there a word that means someone who used to be your step parent but isn't any longer?
Was talking about my former step-dad to a friend a couple of days ago and realised I didn't actually know a name for what his relationship to me is now. Legally there's no link at all - but in reality he's still part of the family. You'd think there'd be a word as these days I doubt it's unusual!
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'pass us the squidge'.
when i had a TV i called the zapper "god".
in german there is a name for the inside of your elbow.... don't know if one exists in english.
the GF also does the Crtl-Z thing, too. nerd.
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As far as I know there is no word for the rogue cob of mud that you find under the auricle several days after a bike ride.
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in german there is a name for the inside of your elbow.... don't know if one exists in english
Antecubital Fossa
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there's a book,called the meaning of liff.it's not too bad.all about this sort of stuff.
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