[Closed] There is no online trigger.

Next you'll be saying bikes shouldn't be referred to as 'steeds'

Indeed.

Trigger's on the pull, though.

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I'm all of a quiver....

Mods! Mods! this thread should have been flagged with a Trigger Warning!

There is no online trigger.

FFS !

spoiler alert would've been nice - I recorded the internet earlier and was looking forward to watching it tonight

not much point now 😯 😥

Also: "use it in anger"

Next up will be black bike bits described as "tactical".

I thought black bits were "stealth".

Murdered.

Honestly, you lot are so behind the times.

See also 'dropping' money on a purchase.

"Investing" in some gewgaw or other liability.

I've often heard people say it about cars, desktop computers and other shiny things that lose half their value in the first year.

Surely if you pull the trigger on dropping a serious investment on some buttery smooth forks to weaponise your steed and therefore enhance your quiver (even if some are darkside) so you can murder the trails that's ok?

I have no idea what you youngsters are talking about.

Are all idioms banned then?

Idiots or idioms?

It is also a short film, not an "edit".
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matt_outandabout

It is also a short film, not an "edit".

No, it's actually more likely to be an edit than a short film. Especially if it has no script, no narrative, no plot and no characters.

No, it's actually more likely to be an edit than a short film. Especially if it has no script, no narrative, no plot and no characters.

I'm with Matt - edit is a verb for what you do to make a short film. Calling it an edit is very 'youth' but still silly.

convert

I'm with Matt - edit is a verb for what you do to make a short film.

That's funny because when I was an assistant editor we used to produce edits. Or cuts. Editors and directors will often refer to taking a look at an edit or cut which might be the result of many days or weeks "editing".

Calling it an edit is [b]very 'youth'[/b] but still silly.

This is why you don't like it. I suppose language should be rigidly fixed at a certain exact time period. 1940 perhaps?

You can call it what you like in the industry sonny (and dear god isn't some in-industry language total toss), but when you give it over to the public you've got to use our language!

Teenagers only use the term as they want to come over all industry savvy try hard. It's a phase, it'll pass.

Gah this again.

And the apologists for crappy standards emerge positing 'evolution' as a valid excuse for sloppiness or plain old made up nonsense.

Harumph!

stumpyjon - Member

I thought black bits were "stealth".

Matt Black only, Shirley?

boblo

Gah this again.

And the apologists for crappy standards emerge positing 'evolution' as a valid excuse for sloppiness or plain old made up nonsense.

Language changes. Deal with it and shut the **** up. Do you speak old english, or middle english or victorian english? No.

Changing or evolving definitions of words is not the same as changing standards. You probably use hundreds of modern abbreviations and definitions that would be nonsensical guff to someone living in the 70s or 80s. You just choose to react negatively to current shifts in definitions and language because it is "of the youth" and you are old.

You just choose to react negatively to current shifts in definitions and language because it is "of the youth" and you are old.

Have you read the thread properly - most of the phrases above are popularised by middle aged tossers. The phrases (e.g. quiver for collection of bikes or pull the trigger for buying something online) are regarded with humour/mirth/derision because there are popularised by middle aged tossers!

Having said that, I bet you say 'bants' don't you 😉

Deal with it and shut the **** up.

Nice. Are you usually this rude to complete strangers? Probably another sign of your inability to recognise standards and social norms.

convert

Have you read the thread properly

Did you read the post I was replying to? Did you read the post above it which user-boblo was commenting on? Did you notice that he commented

the apologists for crappy standards emerge positing 'evolution' as a valid excuse for sloppiness or plain old made up nonsense.

boblo - Member

Nice. Are you usually this rude to complete strangers? Probably another sign of your inability to recognise standards and social norms.

Just bants innit 😉 Welcome to the internet.

Just bants innit Welcome to the internet

It's not really though is it? It's just plain rude and unnecessary.

You forget, language is a shared resource and unless there is some standardisation, it quickly becomes unusable. And, you don't get to unilaterally change the standard under the guise of being 'yoof' or 'edgy'.

Anyway, I'm off for a ride in the sun ya caant (just bantz hey?).

How am i supposed to snipe on ebay if i have no trigger damn you.

So stoked this morning ,I totally owned my commute .

parkesie
How am i supposed to snipe on ebay if i have no trigger damn you.

"Snipe on Ebay"? What kind of rifle do you use for that? Barret 98b? .338 Lapua? Spend days crawling through the long grass do you? in a ghillie suit is it? adjust for windage do you? Use a spotter do you? Killed many people have you? Red mist eh? One shot one kill?

Pffffffft.

Well, this thread's all gone a bit awks......

So stoked this morning ,I totally owned my commute .

With bombers?

Needs more roost

Would love to have enough spare time on my hands to give enough of a shit about the phrases people use to take the time to post up about it..

(and yes, the irony of this comment isn't lost on me)

Would love to have enough spare time on my hands to give enough of a shit about the phrases people use to take the time to post up about it..

Surely you can make time if it's something that you'd love to do?

It appears he did make time for it, Ernest.

Do you speak old english, or middle english or victorian english?

As clerkes ben ful subtile and ful queynte;
And prively he caughte hire by the queynte,

We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,--
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
😆

UK - I'm wearing a red t shirt.
USA - I'm rocking a red t shirt.

Rocking wtf grrrrrrr

and an edit is something you do to a film, the film is the thing you show people[img] [/img]

edit is a verb for what you do to make a short film. Calling it an edit is very 'youth' but still silly.

I agree, using edit to describe a video annoys me more than it should.

Can you still call it an edit if it is just a ten second clip of a monkey drinking it own wee, or do you need to do some editing to call it an edit.

Can you still call it an edit if it is just a ten second clip of a monkey drinking it own wee, or do you need to do some editing to call it an edit.

Not even Hitchcock would dare to edit something so perfect as that.

As clerkes ben ful subtile and ful ****;
And prively he caughte hire by the ****,

Mods! Reported.

You forget, language is a shared resource and unless there is some standardisation, it quickly becomes unusable.

It doesn't though does it, it never has. It's always evolving and we all somehow manage to cope.

And, you don't get to unilaterally change the standard under the guise of being 'yoof' or 'edgy'.

Again, that's exactly what has always happened. Under any guise, language changes.

And it's always worked too.

and an edit is something you do to a film, the film is the thing you show people

Damned language corruption - "film" is the strip of celluloid it's recorded on!!1!

"Snipe on Ebay"? What kind of rifle do you use for that?

It's a metaphor. Surely they are allowed?

molgrips

"Snipe on Ebay"? What kind of rifle do you use for that?

It's a metaphor. Surely they are allowed?

jimjam

"Snipe on Ebay"? What kind of rifle do you use for that? Barret 98b? .338 Lapua? Spend days crawling through the long grass do you? in a ghillie suit is it? adjust for windage do you? Use a spotter do you? Killed many people have you? Red mist eh? One shot one kill?

See also hyperbole.

I do really object to the use of the word Steed and references to Stables, weapons etc...

But the great thing about English is it is always evolving we don't have the formal structures of the "furryners lingo", having said that a spade is a spade and if you use hipster toss pot lingo then that makes you an HTP. If we keep up our sanctimony they will go away....and be replaced by another faction, no doubt equally deserving of scorn!

I reckon that this sort of stuff is the 21st century's equivalent of regional accents. The increases in communications technology mean that people are increasingly more united by shared interests than by geographical proximity. Mountain biking slang can spread across the world but only between mountain bikers. Those unconnected to the sport will find our terminology increasingly incomprehensible but stick two (English speaking) MTBers from opposite sides of the world together and they'll understand the terms each uses (though not necessarily the "normal" words linking them!)

Because there is an internet, I can very quickly work out what someone means when they use words in a way I've never seen before.

The need for "standards" to facilitate communication is less than it's ever been. (That assumes that most people are still using [i]enough[/i] words to achieve a given level of precision. But I don't read mathematics anyway)

🙂

BigDummy - Member

Because there is an internet, I can very quickly work out what someone means when they use words in a way I've never seen before.

Generally speaking I can do this without resorting to "the internet" as it's quite obvious from the context (go me).

Even if I'd never heard someone say "I've just pulled the trigger on a new 27.5+ Carbon Ego-Steed" I think I'd figure out what they meant.

[i][b]trig·ger
?tri??r/
noun
noun: trigger; plural noun: triggers

1.
a small device that releases a spring or catch and so sets off a mechanism.

+ [/b][/i]

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translates as I bought a new bike.

Anyway, I haven't got time to shoot the breeze anymore. I've got a bus to catch. If I don't there will be hell to pay.

I put "people who moan about neologisms, metaphors and other thoughtful changes in language" in the same bucket, albeit less deeply buried, as "kippers, racists and bigots". It's all about treating the status quo as somehow inherently correct (eg "trigger" apparently can't be used as a metaphor, but no doubt "rose tinted spectacles" can) and being very selective about choosing which historical events and changes are perfectly acceptable (eg such folk are often very proud of the continental spelling affectations that the English nicked on a whim a few centuries ago, whilst they berate American English which didn't follow suit).

Accept that you're just sitting at a tiny point in time on a vast swell of beautifully democratic human invention and creativity. The rest of us can just sit by happily and watch your impotent rantings being washed away by its tide 🙂

Well I was just about to 'pull the trigger' on 2cwt of of pencil sharpeners, you can bugger off now.

I put "people who moan about neologisms, metaphors and other thoughtful changes in language" in the same bucket, albeit less deeply buried, as "[b]kippers[/b], racists and bigots".

What have the fish done to deserve such treatment?

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