better names for existing things...

[Spare tyre]

My 4 year old calls bank holidays “lucky days”

I now use this term

Mum calls boy racers “whizz boys”

[ERIKM400]

German is a brilliant language for this kind of stuff.
They've got some truly wonderfull words.

One of my favourite insults in German is "Sitzpinkler"
Impossible to translate directly into English.
It's a contraction of two words: "sitzen" which means to sit down and "pinklen" which means to urinate.
You can only use it for men and it means something like: you're to weak to even pee standing up

[J4CKO]

SpudLink said:

boxst said:

SpudLink said:

This thread actually reminds me of “The Meaning of Liff”.

Wow, you are as old as me it seems

Hard to believe that was 4 decades ago.

Enjoy, dont need to order it,

http://lib.ru/ADAMS/liff.txt

[J4CKO]

J4CKO said:

SpudLink said:

boxst said:

SpudLink said:

This thread actually reminds me of “The Meaning of Liff”.

Wow, you are as old as me it seems

Hard to believe that was 4 decades ago.

Enjoy, dont need to order it,

http://lib.ru/ADAMS/liff.txt

Also “Indognant”, one I coined for the mood the dog is in having let him out and him having decided it’s raining and urgently now needs to come in, descriptive of the incessant angry bark at the back door and the grumbling as the arsey entitled beast is let back in.

[ClaphamGT3]

Spare tyre said:

My 4 year old calls bank holidays “lucky days”

I now use this term

Mum calls boy racers “whizz boys”

My MIL refers to drive through hand car washes as "hand-jobs"

[XJSJohn]

ERIKM400 said:

German is a brilliant language for this kind of stuff.
They've got some truly wonderfull words.

One of my favourite insults in German is "Sitzpinkler"
Impossible to translate directly into English.
It's a contraction of two words: "sitzen" which means to sit down and "pinklen" which means to urinate.
You can only use it for men and it means something like: you're to weak to even pee standing up

https://www.instagram.com/iambeniam/reel/C1Z7Q6wuUKZ/

Goochcoolen

[Randy Winkman]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Rh14n said:

Hearty Starty

That's good, but unfortunately, it's actually a hearty stoppy. When you have a heart attack, the heart doesn't initially stop, it goes into an irregular beat. The defib delivers a shock that momentarily stops the heart, allowing it to "reboot" and restart immediately on it's own, hopefully in the correct rhythm. If you've actually flatlined, the defib won't be any use at all. But on tv it looks more dramatic for the machine to flatline and the defib to shock you back to life, which is why they show it that way.

Genuine question - the guidance I have heard says that you do CPR and use a defibrillator when someone isn't breathing and you cant feel a pulse. How does the latter match your statement that the heart hasn't stopped? Perhaps that the irregular beat isn't sufficient to pump blood? I ask because I'm an air ambulance volunteer and CPR and defibrillators are a big deal. Cheers.

[DodgyGeezer]

XJSJohn said:

ERIKM400 said:

German is a brilliant language for this kind of stuff.
They've got some truly wonderfull words.

One of my favourite insults in German is "Sitzpinkler"
Impossible to translate directly into English.
It's a contraction of two words: "sitzen" which means to sit down and "pinklen" which means to urinate.
You can only use it for men and it means something like: you're to weak to even pee standing up

https://www.instagram.com/iambeniam/reel/C1Z7Q6wuUKZ/

Goochcoolen

not quite the same but still... I want a Caddy STS

[mikey_b]

DodgyGeezer said:

not quite the same but still... I want a Caddy STS

I had a vent there in my GS. Fabulous on a hot day, especially when wearing shorts.

[Voldemort]

DodgyGeezer said:

Knacker duct, surely?

[some bloke]

J4CKO said:

SpudLink said:

boxst said:

SpudLink said:

This thread actually reminds me of “The Meaning of Liff”.

Wow, you are as old as me it seems

Hard to believe that was 4 decades ago.

Enjoy, dont need to order it,

http://lib.ru/ADAMS/liff.txt

Thanks for that - I have a very battered copy of it stored with some other treasures in my sister's garage, 12000 miles away. I still use the odd word from it, like Fraddam and Kentucky.

[QuickQuack]

Randy Winkman said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Rh14n said:

Hearty Starty

That's good, but unfortunately, it's actually a hearty stoppy. When you have a heart attack, the heart doesn't initially stop, it goes into an irregular beat. The defib delivers a shock that momentarily stops the heart, allowing it to "reboot" and restart immediately on it's own, hopefully in the correct rhythm. If you've actually flatlined, the defib won't be any use at all. But on tv it looks more dramatic for the machine to flatline and the defib to shock you back to life, which is why they show it that way.

Genuine question - the guidance I have heard says that you do CPR and use a defibrillator when someone isn't breathing and you cant feel a pulse. How does the latter match your statement that the heart hasn't stopped? Perhaps that the irregular beat isn't sufficient to pump blood? I ask because I'm an air ambulance volunteer and CPR and defibrillators are a big deal. Cheers.

What Twig said is wrong. See my explanation. Only one of us has actual experience of cutting open human chests and operating on human hearts, and that's not Twig.

[QuickQuack]

PS automated defibrillators will not give a shock unless the heart is in a "shockable rhythm", i.e., VF or VT. If you're in VF or VT, your heart has stopped as it's not pumping blood round the body. Individual cardiac myocytes contracting asynchronously such that the heart as a whole isn't functioning doesn't mean that the heart hasn't stopped. It definitely has stopped.

[anonymous-user]

QuickQuack said:

PS automated defibrillators will not give a shock unless the heart is in a "shockable rhythm", i.e., VF or VT. If you're in VF or VT, your heart has stopped as it's not pumping blood round the body. Individual cardiac myocytes contracting asynchronously such that the heart as a whole isn't functioning doesn't mean that the heart hasn't stopped. It definitely has stopped.

I guess that's why when someone is being treated for a HA but go into CA, there's a lot more flurry going on!

[foggy]

Cow = milk horse
Sheep = woolly rock
Badger = furry kerbstone

[Se7enheaven]

Agree that some German words need to replace what we have.
Ball point pen - Kugelschreiber
Brilliant

[paua]

foggy said:

Cow = milk horse
Sheep = woolly rock
Badger = furry kerbstone

Sheep = paddock maggot.

[Randy Winkman]

QuickQuack said:

PS automated defibrillators will not give a shock unless the heart is in a "shockable rhythm", i.e., VF or VT. If you're in VF or VT, your heart has stopped as it's not pumping blood round the body. Individual cardiac myocytes contracting asynchronously such that the heart as a whole isn't functioning doesn't mean that the heart hasn't stopped. It definitely has stopped.

Thank you for this. And I've just read your full explanation. Very helpful. And well done for doing clever medical stuff. I was critically injured in a road accident once and wouldn't be around if it were not for people like you.

Edited by Randy Winkman on Saturday 20th April 17:44

[Randy Winkman]

underwhelmist said:

Wipescreamers (courtesy of my youngest when he was about 3)

[Super Sonic]

Se7enheaven said:

Agree that some German words need to replace what we have.
Ball point pen - Kugelschreiber
Brilliant

Handschuhe