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

[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.

[Cataboo]

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.

It adds character. Canada with respect to gardening, fish & chip shops, etc., seems to be much more "British" than the US.

[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

[Biciclista]

language doesn't really have to make sense to the uninitiated!

boy is this thread drifting or what?!

[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.

[OakLeaf]

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.

I wonder how hard it is to teach 250# men not to put their arms three inches past their arm rests.

Those are the ones who are always seated next to me.

I'd rather have a screaming baby. I wear earplugs to drown out the engine noise, anyhow.

[crazycanuck]

Whoops, RM didn't spit the dummy, someone else did.

Our PM, Kevin Rudd spat the dummy a few months ago & made a stewardess cry Then he couldn't have a hairdryer while visiting troops overseas

I think that women with prams should be banned from footpaths!!! UAGHGHGHGH. They take up 1/2 the footpath , walk too slowly & spend most of their time talking to thier poopsie woopsie friend beside them who has a double pram!!! AGHGHGHG.

If you have a small child, do you mind not taking up half the space in small cafes with your pram? There are other people around!!!