Ummm, so he meant something above and beyond your being a hooded jacket that keeps you warm in windy weather?
Or is it one of those funny things, like how in my family if you are a complete fool we call you a "drinkbox"?
What? She killed 'em with mathematics. What else could it have been?
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Nutty - Oct 20, 2003 6:48:56 pm PDT #6628 of 9843
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2003 6:51:45 pm PDT #6629 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's British slang for geek, Nutty.
Sue - Oct 20, 2003 6:53:39 pm PDT #6630 of 9843
hip deep in pie
Apparently the term is now used to describe geeks, and people with a head load of facts. The way he described it was that people like trainspotters wear anoraks, so by implication, people with a mindful of useless facts are called anoraks.
Rio - Oct 21, 2003 12:25:28 pm PDT #6631 of 9843
Are you ready to be strong?
Question: Do Scots say "uni" for university?
DavidS - Oct 21, 2003 12:41:06 pm PDT #6632 of 9843
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So an English guy called me an anorak last week. Was he implying anything more insulting than I'm just a big old geek. (It was because of my frightening knowledge of cheesy music.)
It's not just brit-slang for geek, it also connotes a particular kind of trainspotting music geek.
Sean K - Oct 21, 2003 12:42:23 pm PDT #6633 of 9843
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Okay, this has bugged me for a while now.
What exactly is trainspotting? After watching the movie, I would have expected it to mean doing a lot of heroin.
DavidS - Oct 21, 2003 12:44:26 pm PDT #6634 of 9843
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What exactly is trainspotting?
It's watching trains go by and noting it in your little train book, and when they are early or late and what kind of cars they were carrying etc. It is, in short, brit shorthand for geeky, nerdy behavior - often to do with super trivial bits of information. We are all a bit trainspotters here when we can cite continuity errors in Buffy by chapter and verse.
billytea - Oct 21, 2003 12:47:35 pm PDT #6635 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
What exactly is trainspotting? After watching the movie, I would have expected it to mean doing a lot of heroin.
Trainspotting, originally, is just as the name suggests - a hobby of hanging around near tracks and recording which trains you see. One site informs me that it came to mean shooting up because of a railway yard in Leith commonly used by heroin addicts. Thanks to the location, the local joke had it that they were trainspotting.
Sean K - Oct 21, 2003 12:47:38 pm PDT #6636 of 9843
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Thank you David.
If you were here right now, I'd kiss you. I can save it up for next weekend.
Sean K - Oct 21, 2003 12:48:37 pm PDT #6637 of 9843
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
And thank you billytea. Maybe I won't blow up Australia after all.
(Okay, maybe just this tiny corner over here... ::BOOM::)