Tales from the LBS.... When the day starts like this you KNOW your in trouble..

[Geonz]

Translation, please?

Ask mr. google and she sends you to

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...Spit+the+Dummy

Australian Term: To indulge in a sudden display of anger or frustration; to lose one’s temper. The phrase is usually used of an adult, and the implication is that the outburst is childish, like a baby spitting out its dummy in a tantrum and refusing to be pacified. (Dummy is a pacifier)

Snork... so it's kinda spitting the dummy to accuse somebody of spitting the dummy...

[Cataboo]

So I'm confused as to who is spitting the dummy. RM or other people?

But I have noticed a disturbing tendency lately for any topic that's over 2 pages lately to degenerate into crankiness or to be shut down by a couple cranky people that can't take threads with the lightness they were intended to have. There seems to be an inability to debate or discuss something without crankiness or posturing. And that's pretty sad.

[PamNY]

So I'm confused as to who is spitting the dummy. RM or other people?

What a great sentence. I think that's my new favorite sentence.

However, I have the same question -- who is spitting the dummy?

[Cataboo]

What a great sentence. I think that's my new favorite sentence.

However, I have the same question -- who is spitting the dummy?

I volunteer to spit the dummy for now, till we figure out who else has been spitting up dummies.

[Possegal]

Is dummy a word most Americans know for a pacifier? This came up when watching the Tour one day, when Phil used the term. My family uses it, but Mum was Canadian and that is where it came from for us. My sister commented that she didn't think it was a word most Americans would know as a pacifier. But I wasn't sure. Just curious.

[Cataboo]

Is dummy a word most Americans know for a pacifier? This came up when watching the Tour one day, when Phil used the term. My family uses it, but Mum was Canadian and that is where it came from for us. My sister commented that she didn't think it was a word most Americans would know as a pacifier. But I wasn't sure. Just curious.

I think it's more a british english term. I haven't really heard it in the US. My british relatives use it though.

[Possegal]

Yeah, that's what we figured. And Canadians use a lot of Brit words, so that's why my mother used it. Most of the time I notice the things I say that the kids I grew up with didn't. I guess I hadn't noticed that one before.

[witeowl]

Ask mr. google and she sends you to...

Oh, my goodness! I genuinely thought that there were multiple words missing from that sentence, and the idea that it was an idiom worthy of googling never even entered my mind! Thanks for the help.

Is dummy a word most Americans know for a pacifier?

I don't know that any Americans (besides you, I presume) would know it for a pacifier. A dumb person, a crash-test dummy, a mannequin... All those, sure. A pacifier? I just can't see it. Well, what do you expect from people who make the storage area of a car share a name with a type of shoe?

[channlluv]

I interpreted "spitting the dummy" to mean saying something stupid, a la Red Foxx on Sanford and Son yelling at Lamont and calling him a dummy.

I like the "tales from the lbs" stories, too. And most of the time the stuff you ladies talk about is way over my head. I just read on and try to soak it in and learn.

When I first found TE and was welcomed here, I was asked what kind of bike I had. "Well, it's lavender with white trim," I think was my response. Yes, really. I still feel like a clueless noob much of the time, although I now know I ride a mtb and I can change a tube and adjust my own brakes and clean her up all by myself. I can even identify some parts - cool sounding stuff like "top tube" and "rear derailleur" (is there a front derailleur?), although I'd still call the seat thingy a seat post.

So much to learn, so much to learn.

The only things I buy online are books (usually from Amazon) and bike stuff from TE.

Roxy

[PamNY]

I volunteer to spit the dummy for now, till we figure out who else has been spitting up dummies.

Excellent! I'm going for a ride in 96 percent humidity and weekday traffic, so I'll probably be in a mood to spit dummies when I get back.

[Zen]

I call mine a binky.

[kenyonchris]

I volunteer to spit the dummy for now, till we figure out who else has been spitting up dummies.

I wish a few people would use them (dummies) on the badly behaved kids in WalMart. Buying unsafe bikes. With parents in stretch pants.

[Veronica]

I think babies should not be allowed on red eye flights.

Veronica

[kenyonchris]

I think babies should not be allowed on red eye flights.

Veronica

Ugh. I am perpetually next to a) a baby or b) a badly behaved child. Babies I can take (sort of), badly behaved children, no. Mainly because I know (having two) that babies are sometimes crabby...but it is not hard to teach children how to behave.