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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.
It could be worse, you could be asking for a double chocomochalatteaeroflat
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 - Memberthe 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
I remember that from a Stephen King book - Dolores Claiborne?
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".
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.
Not long after learning to talk our son refered to dog poo* as dodge. It is always that now.*other words are avaliable
Back on page 2,
now there's a case in point. What's that called??the overhang in the top of your ear
It's called the helix (the overhang on your lughole)or auricle
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!".
Knee pits are called your popliteal fossa...
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!
'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.
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.
FTFY. 😀
in german there is a name for the inside of your elbow.... don't know if one exists in english
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