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All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you David.
If you were here right now, I'd kiss you. I can save it up for next weekend.
And thank you billytea. Maybe I won't blow up Australia after all.
(Okay, maybe just this tiny corner over here... ::BOOM::)
(Okay, maybe just this tiny corner over here... ::BOOM::)
Didn't you see that picture of the electrified zones of the world taken from outer space? There's a thin ring of civilization on the outer edge of Australia and a vast wasteland in the middle. Which contains their capitol, I think. You could blow up four-fifths of Australia and not hit a single human.
It's like Canada, but upside down.
You could blow up four-fifths of Australia and not hit a single human.
Damn those crafty Australians.