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Trawling is dragging a net. trolling is dragging a line
Trolling as in fishing is the derivation orgionally - as in " got a bite", "Hooked one" "got one on the line
Its been forgotting tho by many
Anyway - my pet peve is people calling dogs " fur babies"
I used to run a warranty department for a cycle company and would groan every time someone used the words, ‘Well, I’m an engineer…’
For various reasons that are too dull to go into, a couple of blokes on the patient group that I tolerate under sufferance at the GP practice I run have started to fixate about the heath benefits, to an absurdly evangelical degree, of low-carb diets on our practice FB page, I had to have words about it with them, one of them started to defend himself with "Well, I'm an engineer by trade..." It took very nearly all my self restraint to not self harm
Talking of dogs, is there such thing as a mongrel anymore?
This is a conversation we really needed to have...
"Smart" used to mean
I forgot billion.
A billion is a million million, not a thousand million.
No that's a grampsillion.
chapeau!
It means hat.
Nothing else, especially not an exclamation of salute.
Tj is absolutely correct, trollimg is dragging a lure behind a boat. Usually at a set depth, for pike mostly.
I forgot billion.
A billion is a million million, not a thousand million.
Milliard?
Super instead of very.
Amen, brother/sister/other self-descriptor 🤷🏼♂️
It is actually the attempts by some to redefine “engineer” as an exclusive job description that is new, it used to be quite a broad term.
Even the colouring pencil fairies get to use it.
I forgot billion.
A billion is a million million, not a thousand million.
No it's not. It was back in my grandparents day, but the 'short billion' has been established as a standard in the UK for decades now.
Anyway – my pet peve is people calling dogs ” fur babies”
There's a whole bunch of these. Sorry for their loss and all, but Fido having "crossed the rainbow bridge" makes me twitch. Probably left its "forever home" in the process. These are the same people who dress their cats and dogs in knitted jumpers and Batman outfits.
[chapeau] means hat.
Nothing else, especially not an exclamation of salute.
It does, but it's become shorthand for "I doff my cap to you, sir."
I forgot billion.
A billion is a million million, not a thousand million.
No it’s not. It was back in my grandparents day, but the ‘short billion’ has been established as a standard in the UK for decades now.
Agreed. However this thread's title is:
New Definitions for a Modern World
No it’s not. It was back in my grandparents day, but the ‘short billion’ has been established as a standard in the UK for decades now.
I thought that was an american thing, where thier version of a billion defies the standard metric convention for reasons.
I might be wrong though.
It was an American thing but it has been accepted as the norm now in the UK.
Edit: Americans are master salesmen, and everything in the United States is bigger and better, it stands to reason that what is a mere thousand million in the UK should be a massive billion in the US!
youtube
used to be an insult now it’s a video sharing platform. it still makes me chuckle.
Shipping.
Now means packed and driven to your house by some poor sod.
Vinyl.
An album, a single, EP, LP, 78 etc.
Steed for bicycle. Cockpit for handlebars and levers, quiver or stable for your few bikes,
Shipping.
See aso 'shipping new software' in lieu of 'software update release' ...no boats involved.
I guess it's used more now in a broader logistical sense of getting thing 'A' to place 'B' even if it's not a physical object or involving sea transport.
I thought that was an american thing
Yep, as Ernie said. Historically the US billion was a "short" thousand million, the UK billion was a "long" million million. We've since fallen in with the rest of the world's definition, probably because it made jeff all sense.
Steed for bicycle. Cockpit for handlebars and levers, quiver or stable for your few bikes,
A cockpit is obvs where you'd keep a cock.
In a pit?
The cockpit is the name of a now defunct nightclub in leeds, that shall we say, catered for a certain type of clientelle....under the railway arches.
Had good Djs though, espessially on techno nights 😀
'Uptick' instead of upturn or increase. Seemed to have gained popularity during the daily Covid briefings. And there's no 'downtick' whereas there's a downturn or decrease.
Mid-Century seems a popular 'add on' when people want to sell any old tat that they forgot to take to the tip.
The same people also love to use Patina at every opportunity 🙁 😠
New Definitions for a Modern World
The modern world ended decades ago. We all then went post modern and disappeared up the world's collective bumhole!
Mm, funky cold patina.
Rapid unplanned disassembly
No - it blew up!
Mid-Century seems a popular ‘add on’ when people want to sell any old tat that they forgot to take to the tip.
You having a pop at my favourite TV programme, The Bidding Room?
Uptick as in lost 10% but recently gained 2%
So that's an uptick but still 8% loss?
Had good Djs though, espessially on techno nights 😀
bet they were banging 😳
Mid-Century seems a popular ‘add on’ when people want to sell any old tat that they forgot to take to the tip.
Some mid century stuff will be as old as victorian stuff was when quite a few STWers were born
Adventure. As in adventure cycling.
My mates dad rough stuff cycling across Iceland in the 50’s I’ll accept.
Heading into the Cairngorms to do routes hunners a folk have done hunners of times before you? Ya think? Perhaps not…
I blame emojis. 🤪😝🤗🤔🫣🤨🤐🙄🥸😎🤓🤯🤧🤮🤕🤕😷🤥🤠🥳😱🫤😮🤡
Brexit - definitely doesn't mean what they said it would 8 years ago.
Sorry for their loss and all, but Fido having “crossed the rainbow bridge” makes me twitch.
Twitching here in support, but you can't really tell someone who's just lost their dog to give their heads a wobble. Always too soon.
Oh, of course, give me some credit. I am a higher-functioning sociopath, you know.