H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 Every time I see one of these terms on the Wire, I have to pause and remember that they don't mean what I think they mean. "Tang Site," does not refer to a place where you obtain orange flavored drink powder. "WTC," does not stand for World Trade Center. "CC" does not stand for Cubic Centemeters. That's a good thing cuz I loathe the Metric System. "ROC" is not a reference to a giant bird. "AA" does not stand for Anti-Aircraft. [Okay, I added that one to give me more items.] "TB" is not short for teberculosus. No, I can't spell it. Nobody can. That's why it's usually referred to as TB. "Number 9" is not a reference to Ted Williams. [Hey, I'm from New England.] "WB" does not stand for Warner Brothers. I guess I am easily confused.
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 Remember, being 'cornfused' has nothing to do with someone playing corny music...... ..........Widder
Warden Callaway Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 Made up lexicon drives me crazy. Boolits, shotty, winey, and so on. Now I'm running into "pew" or "pew, pew". I see in in Facebook posts so far. I may be wrong but I see it used as a substitute for gun or shooting.
Dantankerous Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 41 minutes ago, Warden Callaway said: Made up lexicon drives me crazy. Boolits, shotty, winey, and so on. Now I'm running into "pew" or "pew, pew". I see in in Facebook posts so far. I may be wrong but I see it used as a substitute for gun or shooting. You can buy t shirts from a well known and well respected online Second Amendment supporter if you'd like that say Pew Pew Life with an outline of a Glock or AR under it.
bgavin Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 1 hour ago, Widder, SASS #59054 said: Remember, being 'cornfused' has nothing to do with someone playing corny music...... ..........Widder Glad to see you up and around... and back on yer game...
Pat Riot Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 Acronyms and Abbreviations can be truly annoying. I often wonder if people think that they have a word clock or perhaps a syllable counter imbedded in their head. Once they reach their allotted number BLAM!!! They lose all cognitive ability or they die.
Warden Callaway Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 I search YouTube to find something interesting to watch. I key in "gunsmith" and sort by latest upload. What I get is page after page of video game renditions of fantasy guns. Not one video of anyone working on a real gun! It's fast becoming a world I don't recognize or fit.
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 36 minutes ago, Warden Callaway said: I search YouTube to find something interesting to watch. I key in "gunsmith" and sort by latest upload. What I get is page after page of video game renditions of fantasy guns. Not one video of anyone working on a real gun! It's fast becoming a world I don't recognize or fit. I have been there a very long time.
Subdeacon Joe Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 11 minutes ago, Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 said: I have been there a very long time. So, you are how old? I kind of suspect that none of us have really "fit in" for a long time.
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 12 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said: So, you are how old? I kind of suspect that none of us have really "fit in" for a long time. At least 40 years Joe.
Perro Del Diablo Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 1 hour ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: Acronyms and Abbreviations can be truly annoying. I often wonder if people think that they have a word clock or perhaps a syllable counter imbedded in their head. Once they reach their allotted number BLAM!!! They lose all cognitive ability or they die. I start without cognitive abilities I will end without them
Perro Del Diablo Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 18 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said: So, you are how old? I kind of suspect that none of us have really "fit in" for a long time. Are there that many numbers
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 1 minute ago, Perro Del Diablo said: Are there that many numbers We are not using Roman Numerals here.
Perro Del Diablo Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 2 minutes ago, Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 said: We are not using Roman Numerals here. Good thing I would get writers cramp thinking about it
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 6 minutes ago, Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 said: We are not using Roman Numerals here. Still bitterly clinging to the sexagesimal system of your youth?
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 15 minutes ago, Smuteye John SASS#24774 said: Still bitterly clinging to the sexagesimal system of your youth? I considered switching over to binary.
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 35 minutes ago, Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 said: I considered switching over to binary. Still having a problem with them clay tablets melting out in the Pacific North Wet?
Buckshot Bob Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 4 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: Acronyms and Abbreviations can be truly annoying. I often wonder if people think that they have a word clock or perhaps a syllable counter imbedded in their head. Once they reach their allotted number BLAM!!! They lose all cognitive ability or they die. We’re I used to work we had a acronym for everything. It was so bad that at social gatherings if a couple of us started talking about work around anyone who didn’t work there they were totally lost . Was also hard on the new people. FNG
Pat Riot Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 50 minutes ago, Buckshot Bob said: We’re I used to work we had a acronym for everything. It was so bad that at social gatherings if a couple of us started talking about work around anyone who didn’t work there they were totally lost . Was also hard on the new people. FNG I worked in Aerospace after leaving the Navy. I thought the Navy was bad. At Hughes we had Acronym Dictionaries for each major program. Same acronyms, but they meant different things depending on the project. The military started this trend / practice in WW2 so people wouldn’t know what other people were talking about for security reasons.
Pat Riot Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 1 hour ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said: Pew? As in Pepe Le? No, “pew” as little children going “Pew, pew, pew” while firing toy guns. Any adult male using the the term “Pew Pew” should be slapped or at the very least chastised.
Perro Del Diablo Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 4 hours ago, Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 said: I considered switching over to binary. Too many digits
John Kloehr Posted October 4, 2020 Posted October 4, 2020 I see WTC and think What The Cr*p? Looks like getting around the foul-language rules. Then I remember I am here. I do know BP is not the gas station, but TB? I think Throttle Body. Thinking some more... OK, I give up, what does it stand for here?
Tyrel Cody Posted October 4, 2020 Posted October 4, 2020 1 minute ago, John Kloehr said: I see WTC and think What The Cr*p? Looks like getting around the foul-language rules. Then I remember I am here. I do know BP is not the gas station, but TB? I think Throttle Body. Thinking some more... OK, I give up, what does it stand for here? @TBBandito ToyBoy Bandito? If not that, I guess Trail Boss(as in Hogdon Trail Boss powder).
H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 Posted October 4, 2020 Author Posted October 4, 2020 44 minutes ago, Tyrel Cody said: If not that, I guess Trail Boss(as in Hogdon Trail Boss powder). And the gentleman wins a cigar
Tyrel Cody Posted October 4, 2020 Posted October 4, 2020 3 minutes ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said: And the gentleman wins a cigar Cool, my favorite is a Tatuaje Havana VI, unless you want to send a real Cuban
Pat Riot Posted October 4, 2020 Posted October 4, 2020 It took me a while to figure out “RNV” was Ruger New Vaquero. Or is the term”NRV”?.,, There used to be a Glossary of Terms here on the Wire. I guess it is no more. It used to have all these terms, abbreviations and acronyms so people might be a little less confused.
PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L Posted October 4, 2020 Posted October 4, 2020 19 minutes ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: It took me a while to figure out “RNV” was Ruger New Vaquero. Or is the term”NRV”?.,, There used to be a Glossary of Terms here on the Wire. I guess it is no more. It used to have all these terms, abbreviations and acronyms so people might be a little less confused.
watab kid Posted October 9, 2020 Posted October 9, 2020 back in the early days of the internet i learned a lot of the shortcuts - im not a phone texter or whatever the kids use these days so i dont get those at all , seems today we are all about the alphabet stuff but you may have to forgive me if i misinterpret the intent of your communication should you use that form of communication , im not real big on alphabet identification , even if i once in a while use my learned internet shortcuts
Tequila Shooter Posted October 9, 2020 Posted October 9, 2020 With all the texting and Twittering I get confused with all the abbreviations. My wife’s aunt used to think “LOL” meant “Lots of Love”. One time she got a text that a relative had died she texted back LOL. Someone had to tell her what it really meant.
Warden Callaway Posted October 9, 2020 Posted October 9, 2020 My oldest son sends text messages with some 9 key shortcuts. I was really screwed up with "ATM" . I kept thinking he was at a remote banking facility. No. At The Moment.
Pat Riot Posted October 9, 2020 Posted October 9, 2020 On 10/3/2020 at 10:57 AM, Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 said: I considered switching over to binary. I am 59 or this many years in binary 111011
Sixgun Sheridan Posted October 9, 2020 Posted October 9, 2020 What annoys me are the other gun forums where people try to speak fluent TactiCool like they're a Navy SEAL or something, even if they're not. For example they don't use PMags in their ARs, they rock PMags in their ARs. Everything they own or use, they don't use it, they rock it. Oh well. I guess if I were teleported back to the 1950s I'd be hearing young guys say a whole bunch of slick greaser talk I wouldn't understand either.
Warden Callaway Posted October 9, 2020 Posted October 9, 2020 I haven't heard Ebonics for a good while. Maybe that fad as died out? Maybe I don't get around as much as I use to? American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English.
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