So what the problem with being a Scooter owner/rider??
I own two and have had 4 in the last 5 years and I love em... will never go back to a manual gear changing bike again.. anyway the 500 will leave most bikes for dead
leave most bikes for dead?? huh, um what? have you ridden many actual motorbikes?
Scooters are death traps, a big part of being in control of a bike is through your feet and knees, dont even get me started on the small diameter of the wheels
Scooters go down between the cars in the traffic, then take off holding the cars they have just pushed infront of up, causing a very negative opinion of ALL two wheels riders.
I have to get out of this scooter section it really boils my blood that scooter riders/owners think they are or have anything to do with motorbike riders.
Erm, that post was made in 2006. That guy dosen't post here anymore.
If you don't like scooters, then don't click scooter posts. It's simple. Plenty of people here like scooters, so stop being a nonce.
What’s the date of the post got to do with it? or are you assuming his opinion might have changed?
and how does me not liking scooters make me a child sex offender? or do you actually have no idea what nonce means? Or are you trying to be cool and hip and make up trendy words by shortening nonsense?
I would like to stand up for myself here and say in no way have I ever thought of or have anything to do with sexually assaulting children in any way.
It seems that neither of you actually know the meaning, and neither did I:
Macquarie Dictionary, 2004.(The pre-eminent Australian dictionary.)
nonce
/nons/
noun
1. the one or particular occasion or purpose.
phrase
2. for the nonce, for this one occasion only; for the time being.
[ME nones, in phrase for the nones, originally, for then one(s), lit., for the once]
nonce word
/'nons werrd/
noun a word coined and used only for the particular occasion.
Only Wikipedia and various forum posts seems to think it is slang for a child sex offender, and wikipedia isn't a dictionary: "In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term nonce (sometimes spelled "nonse") is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender and/or child sexual abuser."
Although it does acknowledge: "Although the term nonce traditionally refers to sex offenders, it is also sometimes used as a general term of abuse, typically with "idiot" as its intended meaning."
You may also want to check http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/n.htm
The slang comes from Not Of Normal Criminal Ethos, and is therefore an accronym, rather than a word. It refers to a section of jails in the UK reserved for sex offenders.
Personally, I have always used it to refer to a fool or idiot myself, and I'm half English! I think that this was the way MitchRohr intended it. Does that make you feel better?
It seems that neither of you actually know the meaning:
Macquarie Dictionary, 2004.(The preeminate Australian dictionary.)
nonce
/nons/
noun
1. the one or particular occasion or purpose.
phrase
2. for the nonce, for this one occasion only; for the time being.
[ME nones, in phrase for the nones, originally, for then one(s), lit., for the once]
nonce word
/'nons werrd/
noun a word coined and used only for the particular occasion.
Only Wikipedia and various forum posts seems to think it is slang for a child sex offender, and wikipedia isn't a dictionary: "In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term nonce (sometimes spelled "nonse") is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender and/or child sexual abuser."
Although it does acknowledge: "Although the term nonce traditionally refers to sex offenders, it is also sometimes used as a general term of abuse, typically with "idiot" as its intended meaning."
You may also want to check http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/n.htm
The slang comes from Not Of Normal Crimnal Ethos, and is therefore an accronym, rather than a word. It refers to a section of jails in the UK reserved for sex offenders.
Personally, I have always used it to refer to a fool or idiot myself, and I'm half English! I think that this was the way MitchRohr intended it. Does that make you feel better?
Isn't the English language a marvelous thing?!
haha I appreciate you having to look it up, then comment. I should really enter the realm of the keyboard warrior and start looking things up, but alas I would prefer to use what I know.
Credit due for your reply, although you didnt actual know the response, you looked it up. so thanks but really no thanks.
It is also used as a term from memory, or as you would, slang for Not Once. And that is the extent of my knowledge of Nonce, short of me trying to make other people look stupid via copying and pasting from the dictionary, indicating that I would know nothing of said word either and putting forward the fact that I did, hence the slang for people like this Keyboard Warrior.
Oh I knew what I thought it meant:
Head, as in "I hit my nonce on the dashboard."
Fool or Idiot, as in "You are such a nonce."
I said as much, and didn't portray that I knew better than you, just that none of us knew the actual meaning, me included.
I just had never seen the meaning you attached to the word used, so I looked it up, for my own edification. Then I shared what I found.
I used to think it came from a shortening of "Nonsense", which some references did allude to. But it does indeed come from "then one(s)" or "then once". The dictionary meaning has nothing to do with the slang acronym.
I find it useful to look stuff up that I don't understand, and that is especially easy to do while reading on the web, since I use the Macquarie WordGenius electronic dictionary on my PC, and all those web sites are so readily available. It never hurts to learn something new. You only stop learning when you die, after all.
So thanks for the appreciation, . . . err, well maybe not. It wasn't really very positive at all, was it!
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Oh I knew what I thought it meant:
Head, as in "I hit my nonce on the dashboard."
Fool or Idiot, as in "You are such a nonce."
I said as much, and didn't portray that I knew better than you, just that none of us knew the actual meaning, me included.
I just had never seen the meaning you attached to the word used, so I looked it up, for my own edification. Then I shared what I found.
I used to think it came from a shortening of "Nonsense", which some references did allude to. But it does indeed come from "then one(s)" or "then once". The dictionary meaning has nothing to do with the slang acronym.
I find it useful to look stuff up that I don't understand, and that is especially easy to do while reading on the web, since I use the Macquarie WordGenius electronic dictionary on my PC, and all those web sites are so readily available. It never hurts to learn something new. You only stop learning when you die, after all.
So thanks for the appreciation, . . . err, well maybe not. It wasn't really very positive at all, was it!
Yeah I knew what it meant, thought id trail the conversation off a little bit, you did well, and don't worry I had looked it up also.
What can I say it’s a slow work day.
I guess I had figured I would get a reply from someone on what’s good about scooters and really explain the positive points, isn’t that how an argument works? Instead I got, shut up stop being a nonce.
Maybe we should see how many words we can get out of it using the same letters?
