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Because I'm tired of threadjacking, this thread is specifically about when you live in a small town (Adelaide counts) and you drive your car around and around because there's nothing else to do. It has a different name in every town, it seems. Please place the names you know it by in the list.
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The data so far:
me: coggin (Grafton), peelies (Tamworth), lappies, hooning
__v: boglaps (Perth)
littlesmoke: mainies, blockies
fzchk: fanging, blockies
Hellzapoppin: laps (he grew up northside of Brisbane, it's not his fault)
yogurt: townies
fucken ace!
Doing laps
circle work
Nup. Circle work is doughies.
I know...just throwing it out there
south coast nsw agrees with littlesmoke - mainies
te kuiti and a farm in qld - drifting
In Brisbane CBD it was known as doing The Block... which I'm sure probably still have dude doing it in VH 3.0L beige commodores listening to Hocus Pocus.
The Block is really good if you doing on a sports bike at about 3am on a Monday night. There's about fifty feet between traffic lights and everything's yellow, so it's like being in Tron. VRM! SCREECH! VRM! SCREECH! VRM! SCREECH!
bRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Shepparton nominates ''chuckin' laps''.
There's always the specific Chap-lap.
fitzroy - parking
Chortle chortle.
Back when I was 16 and living in the burbs, we'd pack everybody into a couple of Commodores and fang it up Mount Dandenong Tourist Road to do burnouts in the Sky High Restaurant carpark at night and get shitfaced. Then we'd race back down, and the driver would turn the headlights off while taking hairpin bends. Good times.
Oh, and it was definitely a Blockie where I came from.
The Holden Gemini in it's natural habitat. Felt we needed some visual stimuli.
Mainies
It's a small thing but in SE QLD you 'crack' laps, as opposed to doing or chucking them.
My next amateur anthropology thread will be about the different rules of handball from school to school.
I'd like it to be about practice of putting a dab of petrol in your bong water. The petrol bong. Does it have another name? Was it popular elsewhere or just Logan, QLD? Why doesn't it kill you? Or does it kill you? The people I've know who enjoyed this cocktail of suburbia are not technically dead but...they lack something.
Maybe so (i've never heard of it!) but in South Grafton it was def called 'blockies'.
It was ''chuckin' lappies'' back in my day. My oh my, how times have changed.
the extra ''pie'' just adds to texting time.
Shit I used to do exactly the same thing, Boronia Represent
probably hasn't changed, it's knox afterall.
I've never heard of that. It sounds astoundingly stupid, but then again I thought ''doin' bulbs'' was probably the stupidest thing ever, so I may be outside the mean on this.
I'm pretty sure chav laps made it to my area, even though it's a distinctly English name. Either that or somebody close to me uses the expression frequently.
noneabove:
you mean downball.
takes notes
Do you 'fool it' in this downball?
Is the line in or out, or is it a replay?
Am I threadjacking my own thread?
You had lines.. luxury.. we just had jagged cracks which sent the ball in any random direction.
No, that was what we meant by 'lines'. Some schools played that as a viable option, at mine it was a replay if you called it before you missed the shot. ''Lines!'' you'd yell, swiping furiously at the ball, and everyone would groan.
Ours was viable, I prided my skills in cross stepping to take a quick deflection from the crevasse.
...
what are we talking about?
Surely that extra ''pie'' would be included in predicative text?
In Albury, you ''do a Deanie''. While listening to Blow Up Your Video.
I was so disappointed to discover that handball the olympic sport was different to handball the lunchtime sport.
What's 'fool it'?
Ditto - and Olympic handball looks stupid compared to the schoolyard game.
Where you put it across the 'net' line without bouncing it in your half first. Almost certainly derived from 'foul'.
''let's go for a drive'' is all I remember. And the drives were legend - Dandenongs (cf Frankie), Great Ocean Road, the Airport, the backstreets of North Balwyn.
In Geelong it was ''laps for baps'' ie. checking out the chicks.
I think I don't really know what they called it. I was a girl. I came late to their driving activities. Most of the death defying car accidents had already happened (except for the one I was in.)
Are you talking about Four Square?
The thread after my next thread will be about what name you give permanent markers (textas, sharpies, nikkos, etc) according to what state you grew up in.
Where i'm from it's called ''a slutty''.
As in a ''slut lap''.
Checking out the sluts.
Warragul represent.
They're the same thing! dramatic music
Twatting it up, or a twot up.
Also known as a cranberry surprise.