Forum specific lingo ?
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J4CKO

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45,697 posts

222 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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Every forum seems to have its own language to describe certain events, technical details and situations that newcomers wont understand.

PH has the Custard thing, MX5...., x35d..... the Whoosh Parrot, the Red Bull thing (with its own T shirt) and probably others.

Scoobynet has "Cocklinks" which I think is to do with some anti knock thing for engines and it rhyming with penis slang, they also have SIAL which means report, stands for "Scooby in a lake" which relates to this post wich got posted a lot back when it happened.



Any more ?

PS, not sure I get the Whoosh Parot, does it means something has gone over someones head ?

JamieMatthews

110 posts

179 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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Every car on Edition38 belongs to Jolfa.

Changedmyname

12,549 posts

203 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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There fixed that for you.

slinky

15,704 posts

271 months

uncinquesei

918 posts

199 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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J4CKO said:
PS, not sure I get the Whoosh Parot, does it means something has gone over someones head ?
biggrin Love that - you are operating at a higher level there... In the parlance of my colleagues in Sinclairs, that's a classic Waahh...

MiniMan64

18,797 posts

212 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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J4CKO said:
PH has the Custard thing
Did that start on BB and migrate here or did it start here and migrate to BB?

Paul O

3,058 posts

205 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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VVAL might make it to the list soon (very very almost lorry).

"...with the back-seats down" is often referred to on another forum, when looking to get maximum performance from a car with, errr, back seats. This relates to the post on a Corsa forum where some apparent physics master folded the back seats down in his Corsa to make it more areodynamic and faster. laugh Still makes me chuckle.

Dr Interceptor

8,182 posts

218 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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SWMBO - love that one.

bqf

2,288 posts

193 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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Paul O said:
VVAL might make it to the list soon (very very almost lorry).
Eh?

Nick3point2

3,920 posts

202 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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Paul O said:
VVAL might make it to the list soon (very very almost lorry).

"...with the back-seats down" is often referred to on another forum, when looking to get maximum performance from a car with, errr, back seats. This relates to the post on a Corsa forum where some apparent physics master folded the back seats down in his Corsa to make it more areodynamic and faster. laugh Still makes me chuckle.
No you fold them down because it makes them lighter, in the same way you can't walk on a frozen lake, but you can crawl. Laying them down therefore makes the seats act through a larger plan area and they are therefore lighter.

Obviously.

AndrewW-G

11,968 posts

239 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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AICMFP & VBRJ

slinky

15,704 posts

271 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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Nick3point2 said:
Paul O said:
VVAL might make it to the list soon (very very almost lorry).

"...with the back-seats down" is often referred to on another forum, when looking to get maximum performance from a car with, errr, back seats. This relates to the post on a Corsa forum where some apparent physics master folded the back seats down in his Corsa to make it more areodynamic and faster. laugh Still makes me chuckle.
No you fold them down because it makes them lighter, in the same way you can't walk on a frozen lake, but you can crawl. Laying them down therefore makes the seats act through a larger plan area and they are therefore lighter.

Obviously.
There was a thread on this very forum in which the back-seats down came up.. Along with, if I remember rightly, Cadence Clutching... Yes, you read that right..

eldar

24,839 posts

218 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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Dr Interceptor said:
SWMBO - love that one.
Predates the internet that does. John Mortimer's Rumpole.

BarnatosGhost

32,468 posts

275 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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slinky said:
Nick3point2 said:
Paul O said:
VVAL might make it to the list soon (very very almost lorry).

"...with the back-seats down" is often referred to on another forum, when looking to get maximum performance from a car with, errr, back seats. This relates to the post on a Corsa forum where some apparent physics master folded the back seats down in his Corsa to make it more areodynamic and faster. laugh Still makes me chuckle.
No you fold them down because it makes them lighter, in the same way you can't walk on a frozen lake, but you can crawl. Laying them down therefore makes the seats act through a larger plan area and they are therefore lighter.

Obviously.
There was a thread on this very forum in which the back-seats down came up.. Along with, if I remember rightly, Cadence Clutching... Yes, you read that right..
Someone will find it I'm sure. The chap was working very hard to extract max performance from his Corsa, including the backseat trick, keeping it shiny to reduce drag, refusing passengers, and wearing the bare minimum of clothes. Great guy, shame he didn't stay longer.

DaveH23

3,349 posts

192 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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Now this is something I nearly started a thread on the other day.

You constantly see threads with the speeling polease and people not liking txt spk but this site is covered in accronyms that I constantly have to google to understand.

A few recent ones:

SWMBO
AFAIK
FFS
MTFU
IMO
IMHO
GTFO

This is to name but a few but rest assured there are many more.

Anybody else think the same?

TommyBuoy

1,278 posts

189 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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slinky said:
Nick3point2 said:
Paul O said:
VVAL might make it to the list soon (very very almost lorry).

"...with the back-seats down" is often referred to on another forum, when looking to get maximum performance from a car with, errr, back seats. This relates to the post on a Corsa forum where some apparent physics master folded the back seats down in his Corsa to make it more areodynamic and faster. laugh Still makes me chuckle.
No you fold them down because it makes them lighter, in the same way you can't walk on a frozen lake, but you can crawl. Laying them down therefore makes the seats act through a larger plan area and they are therefore lighter.

Obviously.
There was a thread on this very forum in which the back-seats down came up.. Along with, if I remember rightly, Cadence Clutching... Yes, you read that right..
From memory it was the Corsasport forum, I browse the projects on there occasionally as some of them are fantastic! I believe the guy also cleaned his car loads to improve the aerodynamics and get better something or other...

Edit: Too Late frown

SMcP114

2,916 posts

214 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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Paul O said:
VVAL might make it to the list soon (very very almost lorry).
That one was sad 5 mins after it happened.

Classic Grad 98

26,050 posts

182 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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slinky said:
There was a thread on this very forum in which the back-seats down came up.. Along with, if I remember rightly, Cadence Clutching... Yes, you read that right..
Cadence clutching was fantastic... the guy reckoned he could make his car get up to speed faster by stabbing the clutch while on full throttle, so the sudden 'jolt' through the drivetrain boosted the car faster biggrin

EDLT

15,421 posts

228 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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slinky said:
Nick3point2 said:
Paul O said:
VVAL might make it to the list soon (very very almost lorry).

"...with the back-seats down" is often referred to on another forum, when looking to get maximum performance from a car with, errr, back seats. This relates to the post on a Corsa forum where some apparent physics master folded the back seats down in his Corsa to make it more areodynamic and faster. laugh Still makes me chuckle.
No you fold them down because it makes them lighter, in the same way you can't walk on a frozen lake, but you can crawl. Laying them down therefore makes the seats act through a larger plan area and they are therefore lighter.

Obviously.
There was a thread on this very forum in which the back-seats down came up.. Along with, if I remember rightly, Cadence Clutching... Yes, you read that right..
Wasn't Cadence Clutching one of Twincam's many well informed ideas?

Prawo Jazdy

5,023 posts

236 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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Can someone explain where the hell "So much win" came from?

Is it like AYBABTU - translation gone wrong?