Hello & A Newbie Diary

[Gordy]

use bigger glasses... saves needing to count

[Chrissie]

ROFL Jemima & Tye

[Anne (fuzzy)]

I've been unable to understand why the word 'analogue' is used in the banners instead of ciggy or fag. People like me who used to smoke rollies called ciggys 'tailor mades.'
Anyway, I looked it up in the dictionary and here's what it came up with.

Analogue/analog:
An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin. The wings of birds and the wings of insects are analogues.

[domesticextremist]

Oct 2, 2011 22:56:57 GMT Anne (fuzzy) said:

I've been unable to understand why the word 'analogue' is used in the banners instead of ciggy or fag. People like me who used to smoke rollies called ciggys 'tailor mades.'

I always called them 'straights'.

Anyway, I looked it up in the dictionary and here's what it came up with.

Analogue/analog:
An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin. The wings of birds and the wings of insects are analogues.

At risk of sounding a pedant, that is the noun, but they are using it as an adjective - an analogue cigarette as opposed to a digital one (it's a bit tenuous though):
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/analogue

analogue (not comparable)

1. (of a device or system) in which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuously variable physical quantity that can be measured (such as the shadow of a sundial)

???

[Gordy]

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=analogue%20cigarette

i've thought it as weird but everyone uses the term

if you mention fag in a US forum a ciggy isnt what springs to their minds

[tizerbelle]

Well after the saga of the missing / smoked unconsciously analogues yesterday I was, at half ten last night, feeling quite good again as I'd only smoked 3 all day.

It was time for Big Dogs bed-time constitutional and i decided before we went out I would pop to the loo, so I go the the hall, switch the stair light on and then screeeeeaaaaaammmmm like a banshee as something hurls itself at me from the top of the stairs.

No-one comes to my rescue, not the dog, not the cat, not even the neighbours (mind you they are rather elderly and deaf - bit like big dog really).

Anyway, the heart stops trying to escape from my ribcage and I look at my attacker to discover it's a ruddy great frog. I have no idea how it got in the house (never mind how it got upstairs) nor where it came from. .

So my 3 cigs became 4 as I reverted to the analogues to steady my nerves after I evicted the sodding thing.



fuzzy, I always assumed analogues was used to distinguish the "old" style cigarette from the "modern" equivalent - a bit like we did with watches when digital watches came out - we started calling watches with clock-hands on analogue watches to distinguish them.

[Jemima]

you did well to just have the one ciggy, think I'd of had abotu 5 lol

Do you have a cat flap or anythign like that ? I used to find the occasional one in the cellar that came up through the drain but they were always tiny

[HeadHunter]

Just to add my tuppence worth about the whole 'analogue' debate, I never use the term analogue, I just call 'em Cancer sticks and be done with it, after all - call a spade a spade

[tizerbelle]

Oct 3, 2011 13:42:19 GMT Jemima said:

you did well to just have the one ciggy, think I'd of had abotu 5 lol

Do you have a cat flap or anythign like that ? I used to find the occasional one in the cellar that came up through the drain but they were always tiny

Nope no cat-flat and the cat isn't a hunter at all - it's all rather beneath him - can almost hear him say "you expect ME to go out and catch my own food? I think not. Now put that posh cat-food in the bowl quick-sharp slave or you will regret it"

[Anne (fuzzy)]

Oct 3, 2011 14:26:38 GMT HeadHunter said:

Just to add my tuppence worth about the whole 'analogue' debate, I never use the term analogue, I just call 'em Cancer sticks and be done with it, after all - call a spade a spade

I'll stick to fag - and keep away from US forums!

[Gordy]

...it could have been worse

[Anne (fuzzy)]

[jerryrm]

Oct 3, 2011 0:08:55 GMT Gordy said:

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=analogue%20cigarette

i've thought it as weird but everyone uses the term

if you mention fag in a US forum a ciggy isnt what springs to their minds

Nope, it has a very different meaning, here.

[jerryrm]

Oct 3, 2011 21:42:22 GMT Anne (fuzzy) said:

Oct 3, 2011 14:26:38 GMT HeadHunter said:

Just to add my tuppence worth about the whole 'analogue' debate, I never use the term analogue, I just call 'em Cancer sticks and be done with it, after all - call a spade a spade

I'll stick to fag - and keep away from US forums!

[tizerbelle]

Oct 3, 2011 22:37:34 GMT Gordy said:

...it could have been worse

for once I am glad the speakers on this laptop are knackered