[Closed] Things that don’t have names.

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I think the dishwasher thing is probably called a rotor arm. Twasler is better though.

And the cover from the gas burners is probably called a burner cover.

That sort of dimpley bit between your nose and upper lip. What's that called and what's it for?

That sort of dimpley bit between your nose and upper lip. What's that called and what's it for?

Movember.

[b][i]DES MOINES (pl.n.)[/b]
The two little lines which come down from your nose.[/i]

Taken from the brilliant The Meaning Of Liff.

http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html

That sort of dimpley bit between your nose and upper lip. What's that called and what's it for?

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philtrum ]Philtrum[/url]: it's the seam where your face joins together.

No really that's what it is!

That sort of dimpley bit between your nose and upper lip. What's that called and what's it for?

It's just part of the manufacturing process.

It's a philtrum.

For plucking guitar strings.

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Odd, because the spinny arm things in my dishwasher are called 'f***ing useless'.

That sort of dimpley bit between your nose and upper lip. What's that called and what's it for?

to remind us your mum didn't drink in pregnancy. if it is missing we have to forgive you many things - and point the blame squarely at mummy's gin. 😉

The bits of paper that are punched out of sheets of paper by a hole punch. "Some idiot opened the hole punch and got [i]X[/i] all over the floor."

(Fun fact: The tips of shoe laces are called aglets.)

Des Moines (lit: the monks) is the french for Philtrum

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.

There must be a name for that. It happens to me pretty much daily.

When you attempt to use a computer command, for a non-computing problem. You can't find your keys and so your brains does a little ctrl+F. You drop something and Ctrl+Z doesn't work.

That.

Have a lot of specifc tools that have been made that have no name, wiggity, pushy pully, thing-amy-bobs

My cat.

miketually - Member
The bits of paper that are punched out of sheets of paper by a hole punch. "Some idiot opened the hole punch and got X all over the floor."

Have a lot of specifc tools that have been made that have no name, wiggity, pushy pully, thing-amy-bobs

Those tiny little C-shaped circlips with a wider bit in the middle, that you got on the ends of spindles?

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They're "pingf*ckits".

Lego pieces have names, but not the same names in every household. Your "two-er with only one bobble" might be someone else's "two-pieced one stud" and the "piece that goes on top of the spinny piece to make it spin" might be a "burger bottom" somewhere else.

But, when your seven-year-old asks for "a clippy bit" you know exactly what to hand them.

[url= http://www.themorningnews.org/article/a-common-nomenclature-for-lego-families ]A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families[/url]

Lego pieces have names, but not the same names in every household.

Funny how they're all unanimous that a 2x3 brick is a "six-er" when in my little Lego world it was always a double-three.

They're "pingf*ckits".

Funny how they're all unanimous that a 2x3 brick is a "six-er" when in my little Lego world it was always a double-three.

Ah, thats dominoes, not lego.

Anyway, everything falls into three categories: Yokes, wotsits and thingys. Anything else is superflous to my needs.

Is that because when you try to put them back on

Or attempt to remove them in a careful, controlled manner, yes.

A very small, non specific insect which is somewhere you'd rather it wasn't (cat's ear, sandwich, windpipe, eye, kitchen cupboard, crack of arse etc) is a 'greebly'.

I've no idea why, but it is.

pingf*ckits or e-clips I believe.

That Lego link is shit - it is all that crap modern Lego for kids with no imagination.

We had two-ers, four-ers, two-er flatties, four-er flatties, bases and windows - that was about it. And we could still make space rockets, houses, cars etc - we didn't need specially-shaped pieces because we didn't have the imagination to make a crane or a monster...

Rant over.

miketually - Member
When you attempt to use a computer command, for a non-computing problem. You can't find your keys and so your brains does a little ctrl+F. You drop something and Ctrl+Z doesn't work.

That.

i don't do that, but when i'm in e.g. sainsburys looking for some obscure item for my wife and i can't find it, my first thought these days is to look up its location on my phone. before realising i can't. 🙁

quite depressing state of affairs!

a 'greebly'.

Isn't that what they call stuff that adds detail to models in the movie industry?

Agree with you on the Lego MF. My nephew has all of his kits in separate boxes and only ever builds the same models.

We have adopted words coined by our children (2 and 4) and use them in everyday speech.

Mrs Chimbong = Emily
Mr Gam-Gam = Oliver
Nursery = The fireplace in Emily’s room that we keep books in.
Cuddlies = Any toy that may be taken to bed including die cast cars, 14” plastic Buzz Lightyear dolls and Viking helmets
Bare Necessities = The Jungle Book
Stegga-noceros = Any dinosaur that isn’t a Rex
Rex = Any dinosaur that isn’t a Stegga-noceros
Walkie Bike = The Isla Bike Rothan
Pedally Bike = The Ridgeback MX14

Cougar, that's got a name it's a Uturn top cap c-clip, yes and than can be a right @@@@ at time 😉

a 'greebly'.

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Isn't that what they call stuff that adds detail to models in the movie industry?

My mistake, that's a [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble ]greeble[/url]. As you were.

When you attempt to use a computer command, for a non-computing problem. You can't find your keys and so your brains does a little ctrl+F. You drop something and Ctrl+Z doesn't work.

Yes Yes!!!

We have adopted words coined by our children (2 and 4) and use them in everyday speech.

We still refer to malt loaf by the name used by our youngest, when she called it curranty bread but couldn't pronounce her Rs. But not when the kids can hear us.

The plastic thing that holds your 4-pack of special brew (or other alcholic beverages) together. what the hell is it called?

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.

There must be a name for that. It happens to me pretty much daily.

It's called 'failure'

That big cushion that draymen drop beer kegs onto. I bet that's got a name but I don't know what it is.

I wonder what the name of the thing that makes a cat purr is called...

derek_starship - Member

I wonder what the name of the thing that makes a cat purr is called...

rampant rabbit, isn't it? 🙂

Nah, it's a purrcolator.

I wonder what the name of the thing that makes a cat purr is called...

We don't know. There isn't anything special about cats that makes them purr, no 'purr gland' or anything, they just... purr.

I though cats were clock work.

They're anti-clockwork. They wind up (some) other people.

In Lego I have coined the term "wumba"

For a brick which is 1x1

I always like the name of Avid's Rolamajig.

They should have branded the RS range "boingamajig" and the SRAM range "shiftymajig".

I always halved the number of knobbles on a lego brick - so a 4x2 was a 4 spot

miketually - Member
When you attempt to use a computer command, for a non-computing problem. You can't find your keys and so your brains does a little ctrl+F. You drop something and Ctrl+Z doesn't work.

That.

I try to 'vi' real life.

Although it's possible that that's a sign of not having a real life...

I still feel that "big toe" is not good enough. We say thumb for it's hand equivelent, foot thumb doesn't quite work but I think another one syllable word should be used instead.

Peb? ped+thumb=peb.

We also need a word for latte, it's not a latte in Italy and I always cringe slightly when I say it. We're ordering a "milk" in a way that sounds awkward in an English accent 😐 It sounds a bit... w@nky.

I think milfy (milffee) works better. It's also convenient if the barista happens to be an attractive mother.

I always cringe slightly when I say it.

We also need a word for latte, it's not a latte in Italy and I always cringe slightly when I say it. We're ordering a "milk" in a way that sounds awkward in an English accent It sounds a bit... w@nky.

It's an espresso with hot milk.

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the remote at my mum and dad's has always been called 'the squidge'. Ever since we got a remote control telly back in 1624 (or thereabouts) the whole family has called it that.
Now my own family call it that, so does my sister's family.

'pass us the squidge'.

As far as I know there is no word for the rogue cob of mud that you find under the overhang in the top of your ear several days after a bike ride.

The archaic term for a remote control passed down through generations of my family is "zapper". My sister calls it a "doofer" despite us being brought up in the same household by the same parents at the same time. She's weird.

the small lump of compacted black sock fluff twixt big toenail and toeskin. That needs a name.

We have a name for this but it is wrong. We call it "Toe Jam" despite it not being made of jam. Also balls of fluff on the wooden floor are called "Dust Bunnies" despite them being fluff.

normally the thing I'm trying to describe to a work colleague/friend/relative.

I usually completely forget what it's called and resort to:

"the black square thing with fins (in this case I should've called it a transceiver), next to the wiggly wires and the orange connector block"

incidentally we also rename things at work in accordance with their difficulty of adjustment rating, hence circulators become "swirliators and the pots of doom". Tune-able inductors become "pots of return to manufacturer".

terrahawk - Member

the small lump of compacted black sock fluff twixt big toenail and toeskin. That needs a [s]name[/s] good scrub.

Scruffy git.

When I worked in a factory, the 'going home/break time/get working you swabs' hooter was called The Wazzler.

My 5 yo calls his big toe the "daddy toe".
Crumpets are unversally known as "clompets" now.

the small lump of compacted black sock fluff twixt big toenail and toeskin. That needs a name.

It is indeed 'toe jam', but I think that's an Americanism. I discovered this years ago, thanks to the MegaDrive game "ToeJam & Earl".

As far as I know there is no word for the rogue cob of mud that you find under the overhang in the top of your ear several days after a bike ride.

I'd go with "aural tagnut."

the remote at my mum and dad's has always been called 'the squidge'.

It's been simply "the gadget" for as long as I can remember, sometimes with a modifier if you have more than one. Eg, "have you seen the telly gadget?"

we also rename things at work in accordance with their difficulty of adjustment rating,

That's rife in IT too. I used to support PCs with Orchid NuSound soundcards in, and they were swines of things to get working correctly. We quickly renamed it the Awkward NoSound. The Matrox Mystique became the Matrox Mistake for not wholly dissimilar reasons.

Then there's acronyms of course. IBM OEM - In Being Mended, Once Every Month, and countless others.

It's been simply "the gadget" for as long as I can remember, sometimes with a modifier if you have more than one. Eg, "have you seen the telly gadget?

We have "buttons". The "blue buttons" work the Virgin box and the "telly buttons" work the TV. But, collectively, they're "the doofers".

Our kids are washed in shampalooz and soapyduds. And they put on their jammybums and jammytops before getting into bed.

Cougar: don't forget good ol' "Knackered Bell"

Our kids are washed in shampalooz and soapyduds. And they put on their jammybums and jammytops before getting into bed.

Do they then say, "for god's sake dad, I'm twenty-five"?

Cougar: don't forget good ol' "Knackered Bell"

Knackered Hell, ITYM.

Cougar - Member
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.

There must be a name for that. It happens to me pretty much daily.

The French have 'L'esprit de l'escalier' for when you think of a comeback too late and the moment has past...

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.

There must be a name for that. It happens to me pretty much daily.

Not quite the same thing, but the French have the term "esprit d'escalier", literally "the humour of the staircase" because it's the witty response you should have used earlier, but only thought up on the stairs on the way out.

EDIT: Curse you!

Milf Gear - the 'granny' gear on a 1x9 setup

The French have 'L'esprit de l'escalier' for when you think of a comeback too late and the moment has past...

<nods> I was already aware of that ("staircase wit" - those wacky French); mine was kinda the opposite of that.

It made me very happy to find out that those little conical springs you get on quick releases are called volute springs. In our house, the remote control is called the doofer.

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.

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...

the remote is known a a zapper in our house

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.

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...

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.

That big cushion that draymen drop beer kegs onto

Its called a drop mat or dumper (hehe)

[url= http://www.filton.net/acatalog/Drop_Mats___Dumpers.html ]Dropmat[/url]

or a cellar pad

[url= http://www.abcdirect2u.co.uk/acatalog/Cellar_Warehouse_Dray_Drop_Mats_Pads.html ]pad[/url]

although reading the actual website:
pigs, blobbies, dump sacks, cork bags and dropping bags

Learnt a lot working in a brewery as a student !

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

Knee pits

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".