[Closed] Stomach Churning turn of phrase..

Making the trails come alive? 😆

is it not acceptable* to say cockpit system then 😉

*A popular thread title when you disagree with something ..... usually resulting in a response along the lines of stop being so up yer self.

I hate "can I get?" when they mean "could I have?" - it's stupid and babyish.

My response to that ("Can I get?") would be: "I don't know, can you?" Totally confuses them 😆

have taken root in the forum

(...actually, except perhaps "oh, the ironing")

having recently seen a poster roundly slated for using the phrase "cockpit system"

Have you read Fresh Goods Friday today? 😉

Lead from the front. Where the frig else can you lead from - gimps

Mum,dad can I have a chat?

Cold sweat everytime

ok, i cant wait patiently for you to guess what is boiling my pi$$

gnarpoon

even saying it in my head makes me a total cockwomble
i tried to read some of the "how much does a HT weigh" thread and had to give up.

^^^ no perch, i havent yet.
should i?
or should i get back to work?

Child in one of my classes - is that, like, a saw sir?
Me - no it actually is a saw.
Child - uhh?
Me - metaphorically slaps forehead and realises humour is lost on youth.

gnarpoon

pretty sure that's still being used as a joke/tongue in cheek?

isn't it? (please dear god let it be so...)

'Swap out'

What's wrong with simply 'swap', or 'change'?

on and on - Member

Lead from the front. Where the frig else can you lead from

Not the front....?

E.g. You lads, climb out of that trench & face certain death shooting at those Germans, while I sit in my tent drinking a nice port, 15 miles behind enemy lines.....

Not the front....?

E.g. You lads, climb out of that trench & face certain death shooting at those Germans, while I sit in my tent drinking a nice port, 15 miles behind [b]enemy[/b] lines.....

The Germans seem to treating the POW's better than I remember these days.

On point

Bell-end vocabulary.

I use gnarpoon a lot. But only in what I hope is a humorous/ironic way. My secondary hope is that anyone who thinks I am using it in a very serious manner finds it unbelievably irritating.

Apparently gnarpoon is my fault (I tried to blame ojom but supposedly it was me, I think he was using gnarwhal?) And yes it's tongue in cheek. If you use it seriously I'll charge you commission.

"Different tact" drives me up the wall, it's a killer combination of just wrong, and also totally nonsensical. It makes me want to slash people with a stanley knife.

I hate "can I get?" when they mean "could I have?" - it's stupid and babyish.

"Please may I have?"

"Different tact" drives me up the wall, it's a killer combination of just wrong, and also totally nonsensical. It makes me want to slash people with a stanley knife.

See also: "pacifically".

Different tact

There is an epic youtube somewhere of Asian people singing the wrong words to karaoke/ktv

Not really stomach churning or forum-rooted, but I can't abide lazy tautologies:

pre-warn = warn. You can't warn somebody before you've warned them the first time.
I personally = I or personally.

I always cringe and never read forum posts titled "warning xxxx content". Vom.

My brother started using, 'proper mint', when describing something good. I had to restrain myself from slapping him in the face every time he said it.

I hate "can I get?" when they mean "could I have?" - it's stupid and babyish.

Or it may just be the common vernacular of the region the person is from and you're just being a pedant.

Sessioning a section
Slamming the stem
But worst of all...ghetto tubeless....there's nothing ghetto about it...middle-class suburban tubeless would be more accurate

language is fluid.

philjunior - let you off then
the other two early uses in that thread will be punished

"language is fluid".

Colorway,
Edit, or sick edit..
😈

Twodogs - Member

But worst of all...ghetto tubeless....there's nothing ghetto about it...middle-class suburban tubeless would be more accurate

There's an amazing video of Gee Atherton at a race, complaining that the uplift is ghetto, the pits are ghetto... In Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

I was watching some old Redbull Rampage on the Bike channel last night and when the commentator says, 'coming out of British Columbia' rather than 'from British Columbia' when telling us where the riders from. I guess it's an american thing?

Oh, and 'sick' for describing something good, hate it!

Quite a few of the American way of phrasing things grate with me: "Monday through Friday" rather than "Monday to Friday" for example. But I do use other such phrases: "go figure" and probably many others. Logical? Not really.

"Discuss"

As in: here's a vaguely controversial subject, I'm not going to offer any opinion on it, I'm just going to order you all to discuss it.

Another Americanism that really annoys me is on the cinema adverts, coming May 21, not it's ****ing 21st!!

I about to pull the trigger on swapping out my colorway.

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Surely it's Monday while Friday 🙂

The whole 'CX' thing gets me annoyed*, as in "I want a CX bike for commuting". If you're going to be running round a muddy field for an hour with a bike on your shoulder you want a cross bike. For everything else you want what used to be known as "a bicycle".

[i]*I've got one, it's got cantis and knobbly tyres and 'Cross' written on the top tube :-)[/i]

Another Americanism that really annoys me is on the cinema adverts, coming May 21, not it's **** 21st!!

Americans can't cope with ordinal numbers (4th, 5th, 21st, etc) besides it's 21st May* 😆

We'll have none of that ruddy Yorkshire "X while Y" rubbish here!

*We should really use the ISO format, it makes much more sense: YYYY MM DD (and hh:mm:ss if you want)

i sort of agree rusty, gnarmac being the one
its a real niche which doesnt have a tag line

adverture bike, yuk, gravel bike, same, cx, not really, tourer, not quite,

Mum,dad can I have a chat?

Cold sweat everytime

Oh but the relief when it turns out all they want is cash.

"...vertically compliant whilst schralping the square-edged hits..."
**** off.

Colourway
Swap out
Calling a home video an edit
Anything with Gnar prefixing it
Stoked
(Old STW one) - jey, xc jey boy... Etc.

I'm 'running' a whatever stem with a wotsit set of bars. No you're not. AAAHH

My daughter has started using the word 'swaggy' I have no idea what it means, although I now use it liberally when she is in earshot to make her cringe.

From the front page

[i]120mm trail ripper,[/i] really?

[i]as well as a platform which is readily upgradeable.[/i]

Platform, what just say frame FFS, as lets face it even the shock is changeable.

ANd my most hated, [i]slammed stem[/i] 😈

Not sure what colourway I want to be running.

"Yourself" as a misplaced attempt at politeness, as in "I'll give this back to yourself when I'm finished".

Not stomach churning as such, my mum swears this is true - years ago she was interviewing someone who, rather than using the term '****' wanted to demonstrate some cultural sensitivity, so opted for 'Pakora' instead, telling her how a [i]family of Pakoras[/i] had moved in next door to him.

Lots of people seemed a bit gnarked.

i sort of agree rusty, gnarmac being the one
its a real niche which doesnt have a tag line

adverture bike, yuk, gravel bike, same, cx, not really, tourer, not quite,

But I suspect this needs a thread of it's own rather than derail this one.

Trail weapon!!! er no...it's a bike

'Duking it out' is a horrible phrase and has no business in a piece of writing which aims to draw simple comparisons between two superficially similar objects.

Set of forks.

Just spent a happy half hour in the garage with my lad swapping out his cockpit courtesy of a couple of generous bargains from fellow forumites.

Steed 😥

Using 'rig' instead of bike.

Front Forks

Arrrrh! There is absolutely no need to include the word front... unless you've just joined us from an alternative universe where that manitou thing from the 90's caught on. In which case, carry on.

My new Whip

Fort Bill
Can I get?
Reach out
Rail / Rip / Rag / Roost
Enduro (adj.)
"at 31lb it really is too heavy for all day riding"
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Intolerance

"Body English" is my current hate

The classics;
Steed
Colourway
Rig
Edit

and all the ****ty French roadie stuff eg. Bidon, Chapeau!

I like the word colourway 🙁

'Installed' instead of 'fitted', grinds my gears that one. 'Grinds my gears' really boils my piss too 😆

I'll take your "front forks" and raise you "front shocks".... Give me strength.

Oh one from my banking days "monies" when people think that because it's a large amount or they want to sound all business-like they need to talk about "monies".

'Literally' as in " I literally flew down the trail". No you bloody didn't you stupid fool.( unless you have a pilots licence and a plane). Although footballers seem to be the worst culprits. Literally.

"Yourself" as a misplaced attempt at politeness, as in "I'll give this back to yourself when I'm finished".

This. See also people "ironically" using the word thou in an attempt to sound old fashioned and formal, when "thou" was historically the informal (equivalent to tu in French and Spanish) and "you" was formal (vous or usted).

Having not read a bike mag for at least ten years (mainly due to the level of drivel spouting), just wondering if everybody is still required to rock up to the start of every ride?

Quiver,no its not.

I am quite bad for "yourself".

OTOH I'd love to see someone with an actual quiver of bikes.

and raise you "front shocks

Front shock(absorber) is technically accurate, it just happens to be integrated into the fork.

Makes me laugh on guitar forums, more so american ones. someone who owns more than one refers to them as a stable, a flock or a herd.

Thinning the herd means they are selling one.

Using the word actually in every sentence.

Gapped is a good one.

The problem with this kind of threads, is everyone just comes across as moaning old bastards.

The sales team up stairs are always noshing each other off, or if not them then someone else. Either that or they're dropping their pants to make a sale.

The sales team up stairs are always noshing each other off, or if not them then someone else. Either that or they're dropping their pants to make a sale.

Erm...where exactly do you work?

The problem with this kind of threads, is everyone just comes across as moaning old bastards.

You've been here a while, you must have twigged by now, surely?

Cockpit?
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Steed?
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Gnarpoon?
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Haha, I tell my Wife off for calling it "Fort Bill" 🙂

^are all those buttons really necessary? I bet half of them are for show.

'cool story bro' shutdown gets on my goat. As does the hilarious use of 'fleabay, farcebook, ****ter, etc'.

All of the above and 'That's Jokes'.

As an aside in my Local you tend not to get served if you say 'Can I get?'.

perchypanther - Member

The Germans seem to treating the POW's better than I remember these days.

Whoops! 😆