The spinny arm things in a dash washer, what are they called? In the absence of a known name our household have adopted the word “twasler”.

Fig 1. Twasler

Next we need to find a name for the black disk of metal that sits over the centre of the burner on a gas hob.

Fig 2. Unknown item

Suggestions please and more example of nameless items.

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.

DES MOINES (pl.n.)
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?

Philtrum: 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.

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 X 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.”

Chad

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?

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.

A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families

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

Funny how they’re all unanimous that a 2×3 brick is a “six-er” when in my little Lego world it was always a double-three.

They’re “pingf*ckits”.

Is that because when you try to put them back on they normally go “ping” across the garage, and you go “oh, f*ckit”?

Funny how they’re all unanimous that a 2×3 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 greeble. 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.