Stupid & uninteligable abreviations that we use

[austinisuseless]

LSD:- not the dubious substance from the 60's, but Limited Slip Differential

As English is not my first language,this third meaning of LSD from Trickeys 60s
tuning book tok me a year or so to figure.Anyone old enough to explain?

Tulka

Pounds Shillings & Pence

Yes, in the days when we had proper money, 240 pence to the pound, 20 shillings to the pound, 12 pence to the shilling, and when a sixpence was a sixpence, and not 2 1/2p, and with thrupenny bits? - don't get me started! From the days when money made sense, maybe...

[YMJ]

GOB = good old boy (in Bedfordshire)

paradoxically the expression "old boy" here, actually means a male of 18 years or below.

During the trials held at the Old Bailey following the 1990 World Cup riot in Bedford, the judge had to get a translator in not for Italian/English but for Bedfordshire/English (I'm not making this up!)......

"........Well, this bunch of old boys turned up at the Cross Keys and this young old boy (12-14 probably) hit this other old boy (Italian, 16-17) with a ratchet spanner. Then a whole load of old boys poured out of the snug and started on this other bunch of old boys......."

[madaboutcherry]

FUBAR- f****d up beyond any repair.
US- unservicable.

[nick@dunsdale]

c.r..................... compression ratio

MK1.....................Mark 1

1275 GT...............1275 Grand Tourer

Cooper S............. Special/Sports

C.O.B................... Clear Over Base (paint)

GL........................ Grand Luxury


couple of rude ones..... i wont post the equivalents, in case any body is offended lol


M,I.L.F.

B.J.


Internet chatter.

P.I.T.A. .............................pain in the ass

i.m.h.o. .............................. In my humble opinion.

A/S/L................................. Age/Sex/Location

IMBO .................................In My Biased Opinion

KMA....................................Kiss my A*#

[alexdenevers]

Hey, I've got some !

ONO : Or Near Offer
OVNO : Or very Near Offer
WHY : What Have You (For exchange)

[austinisuseless]

One from dating sites usually, GSOH - good sense of humour. Also needed when you find out that that car you bought to restore might take a bit more than a couple of months to be back looking as new. Also required by saids wife/husband/partner(!).

[66S]

A good one for A series owners, VSR (valve seat recession)

Al

[YMJ]

my personal favourite.... NFI


not fucking invited


'happens quite a lot.....

[Craig]

The tire company we dealt with at work would mark some of our tires NWR.

NOT WORTH REPAIR

Jens , I will email you in the morning .

Craig

[littler]

cfm - air flow mesurement init

co - how good it is , and also a precentage used in tuning?


a few aston ones we have at work

iwat's - inner wheel arch trims

udt's - under dash trays

spankies - spinners

fubar - fucker up beyond all recognition ( usualy used when inspecting proper mashed up engine internals secretly thanking god there not out of my mini engine!! )

[vegar]

The armed forces have always been well into acronyms. The one that sticks in my mind is KISS - keep it simple and stupid. And there is also 7P's - piss poor preperation produces piss poor performance. All good stuff.


edit - 7P's it is, not 6P's, memory probs.

I think the oil industry are even worse

[Austin Costin]

POM; Prisoner Of Motherland. A strange saying as you only ever get called it when you've left

POSH: Port Outbound, Starboard Home.

And a good technical term FT.; very tight!

[RS6]

ROBOT SH*T = swarf

[littler]

ROBOT SH*T = swarf

[austinisuseless]

CONDEM, as in unrepairable, as in condemned, as in call in the scrappies, as in "it was an ambitious restoration project anyway, after all!".

[ceejam]

Failed Under Continuous/Controlled/Customer* Testing = FUCCT

* Delete as appropriate

Advanced Reality Systems Engineering = ARSE

[InimiaD]

R.T.F.M.--------- Read The Fek#n Manual. Heard today from an Instructor.

[Mini4Ever]

Mini = BMC/BL Mini

MINI / BINI / Bini = BMW MINI

WTF / WTH = expression when being amazed about DPO's 'restoration' skills

Bjulee (or any other ways to spell it) = National Mini Cooper Day in Beaulieu, New Forest, UK

FJ = Formula Junior - identification detail for first 1071S engines

163, 177, 333, 1805, 521, D-tops, FJ, ... = anorak abbreviations for Mini part identification

848, 970, 997, 998, 1071, 1098, 1275 = I'm not going to explain these

33EJB, 621AOK = the only Mini's that non-Mini enthausiasts may know about

Bay = Ebay

KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid! - well known by engineers of many disciplines to stress that complex solutions to a problem are not always the best. Example: BINI

The earlier mentioned RTFM is a well known abbreviation as an answer to all computer / electronic device related problems even if the 'M' is non-existing or on a CD / the internet that you cannot access because you computer is not working properly.

[graeme1293]

POM; Prisoner Of Motherland. A strange saying as you only ever get called it when you've left

POSH: Port Outbound, Starboard Home.

And a good technical term FT.; very tight!

POM is actually Pom - a shortening of pomegranate - the red coloured fruit that British people turned into when they came to our sunny climes. POSH is the sunny side of the ship each direction

My favourite abrieviation is K - a shortening of OK for the txt generation. Really saves time that one!

[vulcanbb18]

I have CRAFT disease!

Can't Remember A Frakking Thing!

cheers

Jacob