Other terms for "stroke"?

[GA Under Water]

I never minded being called those names as long as it was all in good fun. Just like Matt said, there was still respect and camraderie.

My name was - and I can't recall it exactly - but it was from the Star Wars movie. Any Star Wars fans to help my memory?

Boss Nass?? The Gungan King??

http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/bossnass/

 

[waynel]

Wow! Tell someone they "suck at diving?" Do we new divers now need exposure suits for our psyche as well as for the water?

Question: as dangerous as an inexperienced dive might be to others, is it possible that an experienced diver with a "you suck" attitude might be just as dangerous? Would they be willing to save a life, even if it "sucked" at diving? Thank God, 99% of the divers I dove with from the very beginning have offered advice and encouragement. And for you experienced divers who are willing to tell another diver "you suck at diving", remember this...when you're 90' down and you have an equipment problem and you're at the end of an exhale with no air supply...you gonna ask the closest diver how many dives they've logged and if they suck before accepting their octo, or would you rather bolt for the surface and take your chances? You might have 1,000+ divers logged but it's still not your world and the only thing down under sharing that world with you is another human being. For all your equipment and all your experience, there may come a time when that "stroke" is all that's between you and death.

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

I don't have an attitude towards new divers at all. I'm still a new diver. But I've encountered new divers who are stubborn about their ignorance and refuse any help or good advice that people might offer. And to their detriment, I might add.

 

[Thalassamania]

I have made a career of strokery. I love it. I often dive in stroke disguise just to irritate techies. It is great sport. I also love to get on a dive boat and after "feeling" out the group flavor with all my beat up junk gear that is decades old and ask stupid questions like --"where does this go" or maybe "what does this do" or "why does your regulator have only one hose" etc. N

Nemrod, you are are a wonderful atavist, I love what you do. You're a time capsule in every post and you never fail to take me back to those wonderful days of yesteryear, when sex was safe and diving was dangerous.

 

[Adobo]

I had a biology teacher way back in the day that said I was suffering from cranial rectumitis. I'm not sure what he meant though.

 

[Gombessa]

WOW the PC Gaming world has moved to Diving also???? N00b N Zero Zero b started in the gaming world with a game most have heard the name of, "EverQuest" next thing ya know we'll have a Zerg of Divers screaming Woot as they come off the boat.

This thread got me wondering whether the term "noob" predated the online generation. Because it, like "l33t-speak" well-predates the mainstream internet (we were all trying to convince oursevles of our !337n355 (at the expense of "newbs" and "l4m3rZ") back in the early 90s while dialing distro sites over 2400 baud. :14:D

 

[Ice9]

Because it, like "l33t-speak" well-predates the mainstream internet (we were all trying to convince oursevles of our !337n355 (at the expense of "newbs" and "l4m3rZ") back in the early 90s while dialing distro sites over 2400 baud. :14:D

I dunno, but it just kinda seemed like it caught on around 1988 or so. Before that, I don't remember seeing it. w0rd!

 

[GA Under Water]

This thread got me wondering whether the term "noob" predated the online generation. Because it, like "l33t-speak" well-predates the mainstream internet (we were all trying to convince oursevles of our !337n355 (at the expense of "newbs" and "l4m3rZ") back in the early 90s while dialing distro sites over 2400 baud. :14:D

AHHHH The Days of MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons) My first encounter was 1994 on a Zenith 286 with 20 mb HDD and 256k (YES i ment Kilobytes) of memory. We couldn't even load Windows 3.11 on it so it was a DOS 6.22 machine and we had a Sat shot to the states and internet access. OHHHH the days before Hyper-text and the World Wide Web was just being recognized and started growing. L33t got HUGE when IM, Chatrooms, and Text messaging became afforbable to the masses. before then not many knew what was going on

Leet sp34k r0Xorz n pwns jU!!!1111

 

[nkydiver]

AHHHH The Days of MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons) My first encounter was 1994 on a Zenith 286 with 20 mb HDD and 256k (YES i ment Kilobytes) of memory. We couldn't even load Windows 3.11 on it so it was a DOS 6.22 machine and we had a Sat shot to the states and internet access. OHHHH the days before Hyper-text and the World Wide Web was just being recognized and started growing. L33t got HUGE when IM, Chatrooms, and Text messaging became afforbable to the masses. before then not many knew what was going on

Leet sp34k r0Xorz n pwns jU!!!1111

If I remember correctly, our first computer was a 486/66 with a 40 meg hard drive and 2400 modem... and cost close to three times what my computer today cost me. I can remember keeping a list of local BBS's that we'd call in and try to get bumped up from n00b to elite access so we could get to the good files for download, then spend all night downloading a 2 or 3MB file...

 

[djanni]

I think one of the other issues here is that people are too afraid of hurting someone's feelings. If someone sucks, they suck. No way around it. Instead of coddling them, telling them that they're the best thing since sliced bread, tell them that they suck. Don't lie to them about it; that's the worst thing to do. They should accept that they suck and try to better themselves. All these terms for "stroke" are basically just saying that someone sucks at diving, and they're most likely a potential hazard to themselves or others.

If someone tells you that you suck at diving, or calls you a stroke (or whatever else), ask them why they say it instead of refuting it immediately or calling foul. If it's a valid concern, try and fix it. Many times, divers don't know what they're doing unless they see it on video. They'll deny it like you wouldn't believe, until they watch themselves do it.

The word is: PRIG

A prig is anyone who uses derogatory words to describe another.

Websters' defines a PRIG as: One who offends or irritates by observance of proprieties in a pointed manner or to an obnoxious degree.

Your Marine Master Sargent friend can call you a stroke all day long and maybe he's your comrade but if he calls a new aquaintence a stroke or says they suck then he's a PRIG.

If you choose to refrut the words or not the individual is still a Prig.

Being a Marine had nothing to do with his behavior either.