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1) When an off-road cyclist is able to negotiate a regular route without thinking about it, he is able to "flow".
2) The way a racing track for off-road mountain bikers is planned and prepared; it must have good "flow".
2) The way a racing track for off-road mountain bikers is planned and prepared; it must have good "flow".
"I'm getting the flow of the route now."
"The trail rolls and winds through
beautiful open fields and wooded areas and generally has a nice flow."
"The trail rolls and winds through
beautiful open fields and wooded areas and generally has a nice flow."
by Nupe January 6, 2004
Get the flow mug.A simple term which means the same as, but avoids having to say, "artists, photographers, sculptors, painters, designers, architects, crafts makers..." etc.
"Creatives can't afford to stay in that part of the city now that the developers are moving in and renovating the old properties."
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1970s: An individual or band who took up punk too late after its mid-70s birth, and so simulated the general look of late punk but little of the original ethos. Most 'plastic punks' were fashion-oriented, in it just because it meant they could finally start wearing something non-hippy. A minority had some of the original punk attitude too - but it was directed as violence against other punks and against the teddy-boy revivalist of the time. Often the latter 'plastic punks' caused a lot of the violence at gigs in '78/'79.
1990s onwards: the term is still being used in the USA and UK, to deride "punk" bands who use the music style to spout mainstream liberal 'politically-correct' attitudes.
1970s: An individual or band who took up punk too late after its mid-70s birth, and so simulated the general look of late punk but little of the original ethos. Most 'plastic punks' were fashion-oriented, in it just because it meant they could finally start wearing something non-hippy. A minority had some of the original punk attitude too - but it was directed as violence against other punks and against the teddy-boy revivalist of the time. Often the latter 'plastic punks' caused a lot of the violence at gigs in '78/'79.
1990s onwards: the term is still being used in the USA and UK, to deride "punk" bands who use the music style to spout mainstream liberal 'politically-correct' attitudes.
1970s: "In the incident Joe Strummer, of The Clash had smacked a member of the mob with his guitar, was arrested and released after it had been established that he wasn't pissed. The band were, however, pissed off by this element at their gigs. Yet again, the result of a plastic punk attitude."
1990s, USA: "...forget those impressions of the East Bay as being a politically-correct plastic punk world. The bands featured here are the underground of the underground."
1990s USA: "Perhaps predicting, predating and being too iconoclastic for plastic punk chic, it's unlikely they are going to be on the cover of The Face quite yet."
1990s, England: "Goldsmiths Tavern is only good for a stabbing or a puking plastic punk."
1990s, USA: "...forget those impressions of the East Bay as being a politically-correct plastic punk world. The bands featured here are the underground of the underground."
1990s USA: "Perhaps predicting, predating and being too iconoclastic for plastic punk chic, it's unlikely they are going to be on the cover of The Face quite yet."
1990s, England: "Goldsmiths Tavern is only good for a stabbing or a puking plastic punk."
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"We got to the gig only to find that the car-park was full of bloody twitchers looking for some fr*ggin' cuckoo."
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Get the twitcher mug.One who tells lies. Use usually implies a certain amount of affection on the part of the one using the word of another.
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Get the fibber mug.Servalan was a lead baddie in the UK sci-fi TV series Blake's Seven. Used by British men of a certain age to refer to a particularly glamourous but cruel & haughty woman.
"Servilan!" (said to a companion, of an action by a glamourous woman that shows her to be heartless and aloof).
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