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Anti-Piracy Labeling Bill in Works
Rinisari writes "Just posted on news.com.com is an article with more on the bill that could make all digital consumer products be required to be labeled with information regarding any anti-piracy technology within the device. Senator Ron Wyden, D-OR, will be the primary sponser of the bill (he's also got a text-only site)."
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WTF.
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Maybe i am retarted, but why is news.com now news.com.com ?
Now i get the news.com.com.com.com.com.. joke in an earlier article a few days ago.
That is wierd
D.
You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
Lets give his site hell! Bring it down my fellow /.'ers!
"Some fight for law. Some fight for justice. What will you fight for? One day, you will see."
Because two .coms are better than one.
Sometimes I like to walk around in just my skips.
wow that's cool. i wasn't aware they were coming out with a new album. it's a shame it's copy protected, i wont be able to use it since i dont own a normal cd player.
-- john
face like a bag of arses adj. ugly. circa. 1990's Ireland
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Face like a leper licking piss off a thistle Lincolnshire (UK) equivalent of saying someone "has a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp". Refers to someone pulling an ugly face, or indeed can be referring to an ugly girl. UK (Mid)
fag n. a cigarette (to Americans it brings a whole new meaning to the term suck on a fag) cf. coffin nails circa. 1920's - onwards UK
fag, faggot n. derogatory term for a homosexual USA
fag farm adj gay strip club or bar circa. 1990's USA
fag tag adj. The seemingly pointless 'loop' on the back of a boys/mans 'Oxford' type shirt. Many a child was caught pulling these loops off unsuspecting victims. c.f. fairy loop circa. 1970's UK (SE)
faggot (1) homosexual (2) insult used towards straight males. (3) Also describes a male who dosn't do what he says he will e.g. you faggeted out!), circa. circa. 1900's+ USA
fainting game n. shortlived craze for hyperventilation in the playground. Came to an abrupt halt when two kids cracked their heads open by fainting all too easily and landing rather painfully on concrete.
fainites barley n. Expression which when shouted gives you protection and prevents attack during games of touch such as British Bulldog etc. (ed: I can't remember the spelling of the real expression... any help out there??) c.f. fleas-inject, faynights, skinchies UK
fairy loop n. The 'loop' on the back of a boys/mans 'Oxford' type shirt. Lord knows what it's purpose was but it was fun ripping them off the victims backs! circa. 1970's USA
Fairy Tree n. Hollow tree reputed to be inhabited by fairies. If one stood inside it one could make a wish... and it came TRUE...honest!!
familia n. Semi-mythical object of great powers., later to be revealed as a circle of rubber about 10cm in diameter coated with suction pads for holding items to bathroom surfaces. origin unknown UK (SE)
family jewels n. male genitalia c.f. wedding tackle, meat and two veg UK
fanny n. womans genitalia, a vagina cf. cunt
fanny n. rear end, ass, butt, bottom, bum, situpon (contributors note:) Kind of interesting to see how word meanings can differ so greatly - remind me never to use this one in the UK!
Fanny Batter adj. Term for general lubrication provided by a woman's genitalia (fanny). If you had managed to get 'fingers' off a girl' you'd often waggle them under the noses of your mates, ask what they could smell and they'd shout 'eeurgh, fanny batter'. circa. 1970's UK (S. Wal.)
fanny, dicky fit n. variation on radge cf. radge UK (NE)
Fanny-Fart adj. Noise caused by escape of trapped air from vagina during or after coitus. circa. 1980's UK (SE)
fanny flaps n. labia cf. piss flaps
fanny parting adj. Term describing any centre parting of hair. circa. 1980's UK
fark n. Variation on pronunciation of 'fuck' usually used as an expression of disbelief or objection. "Oh faaarrrk..... my pen's broke!" circa. 1970's UK
Farmers in the meadow... poem Similar to the others of this genre - and sharing some of the words:
Farmer's in the meadow, mowing all his grass,
Along came a bee and stung him on the
Ask no questions, tell no lies,
I saw a doctor doing up his
Flies are a nuisance, bees are worse,
I saw a doctor chatting up a
Nurse your children good and well,
And that is the end of my silly little tale
Contributor said he's pretty sure there are some lines missing, and doesn't really remember it being so healthcare-orientated, but that's the way his brain decided to spew it out when he started typing!! He also remembers it being more risque but at age 10, even saying 'flies' out loud was probably risque back then. c.f. Arsehole song (and others) circa. 1980's UK
Fa ShIzi For Sure, fa shizi is used buh most rappers, nd ghetto livin people such as my self, and the iz is most common in new style language but could only be used with certain words, and not every word in your sentece e.g. fa shizi, well ima bout to " bizzonce" (bonce) [leave]! (ed: I have no idea what the frock this guy is on about! Help please!) circa. 2002 USA
fasho ad. Alright, yes, ok. circa. current UK
fart v. to break wind cf. guff, grunt
fart-arse adj. When somebody fart arses around they waste time, or only put in half the effort. For example, "He did a fart-arsed job and i had to do it again after he finished!", or "Will you stop fart-arsing and come here?" Aus.
fart knocker n. A stupid person, jerk. f. Reported to us as one of Beavis and Butthead's many wonderful insults
But now claimed to be in use as early as 1974 when claimant was in Kindergarten. He still uses it as a nostalgic reference to someone who was a complete moron. circa. 1990's USA
fass, fassy hole adj. Someone who wimps out. USed as "He fassyed out!", or "You are a fass!" circa. 2000 USA
fossie v. Insult. To diss someone. to call them a punk.a wise guy. "Dat you's a fassie", circa. 2000 USA
fat faggot n. Derogatory term used in early-mid 80's in Clifton Heights, Pa (USA). Describes anyone thought to be burnt out on drugs and/or homeless. Came about because a particular homeless burnout fellow (nicknamed 'the Blackbird') who called everyone that refused to give him money for Mountain Dew a fat faggot. circa. 1980's USA (Pa)
fat knacker n. 1) fat old tart. 2) Anyone who's generally crap.
fat pastie ph. Used as substitute for fat bastard. Can be said it front of teachers and it almost gets you into trouble until they realise what you said. circa. 1990's UK
Fatty and Skinny n.
Fatty and Skinny went to the Zoo
Fatty got lost in the Elephants poo
Skinny went home to tell his mum
But all he got was a smack on the bum,
Also this from contributor who says the rhyme was in use before the 1970's: Fat and Skinny sleeping in the bed. Fat rolled over, now skinny is dead. circa. 1960's - 80's UK
faynights, fainites a "shout" (often accompanied by crossed fingers) created temporary immunity from being made "it" when playing sticky toffee, stuck in the mud, tag, etc. cf. skinchies UK (NE)
fazebon n. side of the head - temple, cheeks. (ed: ok, but why sent it in?? Is it slang? If so - why?) circa. current USA
feck n. used as punctuation variant of 'fuck' to avoid opprobrium. circa. 1970's UK
fed adj. Nice looking, e.g. "That car is fed!" circa. 1980's USA
feesham n. A dumb blonde. circa. 1890's Scand.
felch, felching n., v. Impossible to describe tactfully. Felching is a real grossout term for the incredibly grotesque act of orally extracting (sucking, slurping etc.) semen from someone's anus after anal intercourse without a condom. Generally used as a derogatory statement about homosexuals. "that guy is a real root smootcher, I bet he felches, too". circa. 1980's USA (W)
fencing v. Describes a vicous and nasty punishment for 'first year' boys where they were lifted by all four limbs and repeatedly slammed into the end of a fence in the school playground so that the fence hit them between the legs. circa. 1985 UK (SE)
ferret n. a homosexual
ferret face n. Insult aimed at someone with "precious" beard and/or moustache growth UK (NE)
felt adj A term of abuse to describe a person from a poor family you know, Tesco trainers, Oxfam clothes, smelt bad and always, always seemed to eat egg sndwiches which added to the general bad aroma! c.f. pikey UK (SW)
fesize n. funny c.f. shamk USA
Fezzer n. A fezzer is a Ford Fiesta car. All Ford Fiester's are called Fezzers in Essex, UK. Especialy by Gary boys and Kev's! circa. 1990's UK (SE)
f.h.b. n. Term used in Sandbach School, Cheshire, UK for "future head boy" - a real swotty, swot destined to be headmaster's favourite chum boy. c.f. chum, chummy UK (SE)
field
fesize n. The field was not just the grass playing field, but anything green (apart from the walled shrubbery at our school which was out of bounds anyway). Every year around April you'd wait for the whisper to go around - "field!" - which meant the caretaker had decided we could go on the grass again. In a wet spring you might wait until late May, and Field was banned again by late October most years. Ditch, however, was out of bounds all year around, and thus the cool place to hide at all times. Going Ditch in winter was the ultimate in "hardness", although you always got found out because of the mud. circa. 1970 - 80's UK (NW)
fighty time n. Cautionary announcement that mass wrestling is to commence at break-time. UK (SE)
finger v. A post-pubescent (usu.) behind the bike sheds favourite pastime. Involves inserting your finger(s) into the genitalia of female (if willing). Act often followed by the "fingerer" running over to his mates and inviting them to "Smell my fingers !!" as proof of having done the dirty deed.
Cryptic message from Jacqui, who suggests under Finger/Fish fingers, we could add the explanation of Finger Pie, as found in The Beatles' Penny Lane, and blithely sung by many people unaware of the "fingering" meaning to this Liverpool piece of slang. Would someone like to explain what she means please? c.f. fish fingers UK
finger (flipping the... ) v. making a fist with the index finger extended and making an motion upwards with vigorous action. Intended to signify the insertion of the digit into the anus, it has become regarded in many countries (especiallu the USA) as the penultimate insult - second only to "flicking the vees", i.e. using the "two fingered salute". c.f. flick the vees UK
finger puppet audition v. masturbation UK
fink n. v. someone who rats on a friend or another child by passing information relating to a misdemenour of some sort to an adult, e.g. "You rat-fink!!" (a supposedly more mature term). As verb, e.g. "You finked on me!!" cf. tattle-tale US
Fireball n. A brand of gob-stopper (sweet). A largish gob-stopper laced with cayenne that became quite hot after a while. UK
fire pie adj. Referring to ginger, or red-head's pubic hair, mostly in the cases of females. circa. 1990's USA
fish n. derog. A surrealist derogotary name for an excessively stupid or unpleasant person. UK (SE)
fish bits n. the long bits of hair at the back of a mullet hairstyle cf. mullet UK (SE)
fish-fanny, fishy fanny n. dirty unclean girl, sometimes accused of either fanny farting or a boy could be a fannyfart UK (NW)
fish fingers adj. name given to personwho incessantly "fingers" girls but neglects to wash the boiled anchovy smell off his hands afterwards
fit v. To lose one's temper (esp. applied to teachers). Used as e.g. "When Chapman sees that he's gonna fit on you"; "I chucked a paper aeroplane in Chapman's class and he fitted on me." f. violent actions associated with epileptic fits circa. 1980's UK (NE)
fit adj. To describe someone attractive. Used as "Wow.. that bird is fit!". circa. 1987 UK (NE)
"Five by Five" n. Affirmative response. Used as a complete interjective sentence ("Five by Five!") or as an adjective ("I'm five by five with that"). Meaning: everything's okay, under control, copacetic, hunky-dory, etc. Earliest usage I can actually find for sure is in the movie Aliens (1986). The way it is used there suggests a military evolution; it may have been the invention of the writers but I doubt it. The phrase was also a hallmark of the character "Faith" from Buffy: the Vampire Slayer, which marks its passage into general understanding. (ed: we are interested in knowing if the phrase is any older than 1986?). circa. 1986+ UK, USA
five-finger-discount n. stealing, usu. shoplifting AUS
Five-finger-spread n. Highly counter productive attempt to suppress vomit with the hand. Introduced unceremoniously to the English language by ex-pat Aussie, Barry McKenzie in his infamous but brilliantly funny comic strip published in Private Eye. c.f. hughie circa. 1960's AUS, UK
five-oh n. Police: could be spelled numerically as "50". Five-oh is 50 is like "Hawaii 50", the TV show. It means cops, police, law enforcement. Ghetto slang for the police. I hope the five-oh doesn't read this. US
fivestar n. Sharp slap to the back leaving a red hand print of your five fingers., Great for slapping friends around
"five stones" n. Game which involved selecting 5 even sized stones, and one larger stone. The idea of the fame was to balance one stone on the back of the hand then throw it into the air, picking up the larger stone, and catching the thrown stone in the same hand. This would be repeated adding one stone at each throw until all five stones were thrown into the air off the back of the hand, and they and the larger stone were all caught/picked up in the same hand. UK (NE)
flake adj. Weird. Unbalanced, Probably certifiably insane. Indulging in strange behaviours circa. current USA, UK
flambasted n. When a person is extremly intoxicated, usually by a combination of alcohol and marajuana. From 'flam' Flaming drunk and 'Basted', i.e. body saturated head to toe with intoxicating substances.e.g "Oh God, I was so trashed last night, I was totally flambasted." USA
flabby labby adj. Exceptionally large and 'floppy' vaginal entrance. circa. 1980's UK (Mid)
flamer n. homosexual, excessivley flamboyant individual. circa. 1980's UK
flasher n. person (usu. male) who wears a long mac which he whips open to expose his genitals to women and young children - esp. girls UK (W)
Flat out like a lizard drinking adj. ph. Extremely lazy. Note: Lizards aren't known for their high levels of water consumption. circa. current AUS
flatties n. African Clawed Toads (Xenopus) known by Afrikaans as "platanna - i.e. "flat anna". Flatties are used as bait by schoolboys (and adults) when fishing. Hence "He caught one hell of a barbel using flatties!". S. Africa
Offtopic but...
/. readers using Linux:
I found this and I thought I would share with
1000 TrueType Fonts for Linux users
1) I haven't had a girlfriend in a looong... well, okay. I've never had a girlfriend. Where can I get one?
http://thehun.net/
I've noticed a peculiar aroma emanating from my body at times, especially around the under arms area. Why is this?
It's cuz you never bathe, you stupid git.
3) One night I ran out of Mountain Dew and I collapsed on top of my keyboard. When I woke a few days later, ants were crawling all over me and eating the Doritos crumbs from my crotch. They are still there. What do I do?
Put them in your armpits, kill two birds with one stone, as it were.
4) My "Got Root?" shirt is turning yellow. It's a nice color, but where can I get nice, white one?
Use the "curves" dialog in photoshop to eliminate unwanted color casts!
Well, I hope these tips helped you out. Now quit wasting time on slashdot, and start pulling that pud!
Alright, this is very off-topic, but I'm just curious. Was there some kind of big hoopla about cnet having com.com that I missed or something. I hadn't noticed it before, but it seems like all the references people are using to news.com and download.com are now *.com.com.
And a good thing too, since the graphical version should be considered broken since it uses absolute pixel counts rather than percentages when defining table widths.
:-)
CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M
Nick cave is an ugly fucker, and his music sucks. He also ways looks so serious! "ooh, look at my furrowed brow! Thats the furrowed brow of a real artist, that is! I suffer for my art, so that you may be entertained in this crazy world."
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