Other terms for "stroke"?

[fisherdvm]

Stroke: A college student with brand new gears, best of the line computers, equipments, fins, etc... paid with a credit card - who laughs at my pink weight belt and snorkel.

 

[SmokinReefer]

Stroke: A college student with brand new gears, best of the line computers, equipments, fins, etc... paid with a credit card - who laughs at my pink weight belt and snorkel.

Sounds like envy to me.....

Wish I could afford all that top of line stuff too! And you could call me a stroke all you want.

 

[Jeff Toorish]

But really, derogatory words such as stroke, nail, noob, snorkle dork and the such have no place on a dive boat. They are usually indicative of someone who is NOT comfortable with their own diving and feel the need to pull others down in order to make themselves look better.

Well put, Doc.

 

[Blitz]

Oh yeah, I forgot the ubiquitous "BIR" or Bovine Instinctual Reponse.

that is one of the funniest things that I have seen in a while.

 

[anzac65]

.......but a couple of very experienced divers (one cave qualified) took it badly and insisted on diving from the "nails" boat in solidarity as a protest against the diver that made the original declaration......

Good for them.

 

[goodeatsfan]

yeeesh..... who wasn't a "stroke" when they first started diving..... I haven't met one yet.... Me, I'm just happy to go diving.

 

[Walter]

I thought that was a CVA(cerebral vascular accident.)

More your field than mine. Let's go diving!

 

[SparticleBrane]

I have started joking that they enjoy "plowing the north 40" after seeing a picture captioned that way on another forum.

 

[diver 85]

that is one of the funniest things that I have seen in a while.

You need to move to the South, that's common everyday 'English' here......GEAUX TIGERS........

 

[MSilvia]

But really, derogatory words such as stroke, nail, noob, snorkle dork and the such have no place on a dive boat. They are usually indicative of someone who is NOT comfortable with their own diving and feel the need to pull others down in order to make themselves look better.

Oh I don't know Doc... that may be true in many cases, but derogatory words can also be indicative of comraderie. There are a lot of things my close friends and dive buddies have called each other that might horrify bystanders, get posts containing them swiftly deleted from scubaboard, and illicit even less "PG" responses, but at their core they're really terms of endearment.

Unfortunately, most of the good ones are too vulgar to post here.