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Started by ajgs500, January 13, 2006, 05:06:47 PM

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What do you call them???

Turn signals
16 (61.5%)
Directionals
1 (3.8%)
Blinkers
7 (26.9%)
Other
2 (7.7%)

Total Members Voted: 26

Voting closed: January 16, 2006, 05:06:47 PM

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ajgs500

January 13, 2006, 05:06:47 PM
Apparently after a conversation with a specific Upstate New Yorker, I learned that what I call turn signals can also be called directionals.  So the question is what do all of you call them???

scratch

#1
January 13, 2006, 05:11:01 PM
You forgot "Flashers", as they're known in England.
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ajgs500

#2
January 13, 2006, 05:12:54 PM
Ok so I am a bit ethnocentric!!!

scratch

#3
January 13, 2006, 05:16:12 PM
No you're not. Did you know that they're called flashers in Britain?
The motorcycle is no longer the hobby, the skill has become the hobby.

Power does not compare to skill.  What good is power without the skill to use it?

QuoteOriginally posted by Wintermute on BayAreaRidersForum.com
good judgement trumps good skills every time.

ajgs500

#4
January 13, 2006, 05:21:36 PM
No i didnt.  I wasnt really thinking about Britain.  But that is exactly the reason I made the "other" option.

annguyen1981

#5
January 13, 2006, 05:23:55 PM
Now Now Kids...  No more arguing...   :laugh: :laugh:

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ajgs500

#6
January 13, 2006, 05:25:36 PM
We werent arguing!!!  Trust me I argue much better than that!!

annguyen1981

#7
January 13, 2006, 05:30:09 PM
 :laugh:

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RVertigo

#8
January 13, 2006, 05:46:43 PM
Turn Signal usually...  Or Signal...  Like, "Oops, I forgot to use my signal."

Sometimes blinker...

I call Hazards "Flashers" sometimes...

ajgs500

#9
January 13, 2006, 05:48:26 PM
Quote from: RVertigo on January 13, 2006, 05:46:43 PM
Turn Signal...  Or Signal...  Like, "Oops, I forgot to use my signal."

I call Hazards "Flashers" sometimes...

Exactly what I call them!!

Phaedrus

#10
January 13, 2006, 06:55:09 PM
Quote from: ajgs500 on January 13, 2006, 05:25:36 PMTrust me I argue much better than that!!

Yup, she can.  :laugh:

Anyways, I don't have a specific term, either. I'll call them turn signals OR directionals. Your certain Upstate New Yorker is right though, calling them "directionals" is really common around here. I dunno why.  :thumb:
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ajgs500

#11
January 13, 2006, 07:07:09 PM
Yeah I was completely lost in that intial conversation for like 5 minutes.... I finally had to ask what the hell she was talking about!!! :laugh: :laugh:

Onlypastrana199

#12
January 13, 2006, 08:59:43 PM
 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Thanks Phae for confirming that I'm not the only freak that calls them directionals...man I get it for calling em directionals and my weird upstate pronunciation of "elementary"
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ajgs500

#13
January 13, 2006, 09:03:00 PM
Hey I am the one with the accent!!!!! LOL :laugh: :laugh:

Phaedrus

#14
January 13, 2006, 09:55:34 PM
How about "tail" / "tale", a lot of people from out of state say we say that funny too.
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#15
January 13, 2006, 10:18:22 PM
Well down here they're called indicators, buggered if I know why  :cookoo:
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ajgs500

#16
January 13, 2006, 10:50:15 PM
Personally I dont think Upstaters have an accent at all.  But if you really want to hear some good Indiana accents a stop at the local Village Pantry will give you an earfull!! LOL

mastrind

#17
January 14, 2006, 12:53:00 AM Last Edit: January 14, 2006, 12:54:40 AM by mastrind
ok....now that we've got that settled :dunno_white:....onto more pressing and important matters.....


what do you call these:

....jimmies or....

....sprinkles....





(....I'm from S Jersey.....& they're jimmies to me....)
PETE: It's four in the funking morning!

SHAUN: It's Saturday!

PETE: No, it's not. It's funking Sunday. And I've got to go to funking work in four funking hours 'cos every other funker in my funking department is funking ill! Now can you see why I'm SO FUNKING ANGRY?

ED: Funk, yeah!

ajgs500

#18
January 14, 2006, 12:55:09 AM
Sprinkles.  Jimmies r condoms.

annguyen1981

#19
January 14, 2006, 07:40:44 AM
Definitely Sprinkles

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