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carbon unit

A low-grade worker; a peon. A dumb person doing a dumb job, often in retail, food service, or warehousing.
"I'll get a couple of carbon units to come round tonight and take that junk away."

"One of the carbon units in Goods Inwards tripped over a cable and smashed his arm. "
by Eighth of Seven January 15, 2007
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Suicider

Very, very strong rough cider, sometimes as much as 10% alcohol by volume - 8% is not uncommon. Can range in taste from innocuously fruity and bland to eye-wateringly sharp.
"What do you want ?"

"I'll have a pint of Bideford Brainblaster".

"Are you mad ? That stuff's suicider !"
by Eighth Of Seven February 18, 2009
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floor show

1. A minor fight or fracas, usually in a drinking establishment or other place of public entertainment. The actual level of violence is low, due to the participants being inept, inebriated or both. Hence the incident is entertaining rather than frightening to the onlookers.
"I was in <drinking establishment> last night - there was a terrific floor show. Some drunk guy got chucked out by the doormen."
by Eighth of Seven January 15, 2007
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Scruttock's "Old Dirigible"

A fictional type of Real Ale, of allegedly lethal alcohol content and the tendency to produce a barin-crushing hangover the next day.

See also "Suicider"
"Christ, you look rough ! What have you been doing ?"

"Awwww..... the usual .... went out with the lads last night and had eleventeen pints of Scruttock's "Old Dirigible", then a curry..... got any aspirin ?"
by Eighth Of Seven February 18, 2009
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handle jammed forward

To push an aircraft's engines to emergency full power. May cause permanent engine damage if prolonged beyond a few minutes.

Used to denote someone who is going all-out.
"You busy ?"
"Yup, got the handle jammed forward"
by Eighth of Seven January 8, 2007
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Beer Gorilla

The Beer Gorilla is, despite its size and strength, a remarkably stealthy creature. Beer Gorillas only come out very late at night or in the early hours of the morning. They stalk their prey - invariably, intoxicaed males - with great cunning, folloing them to their place of dwelling.

The Beer Gorilla then waits patiently until all the occupants of the preisesare asleep and/or uncosncious before commencing its rampage. Sometimes the Gorilla will have sneaked in to the house after the drunken humans, and concelaed itself; on other occasions, it will employ its remarkable cimbing skills to enter via an upstairs window, or in extreme cases, a chimney - like a sort of Sith Santa Claus.

Once inside the premises, the Gorilla proceeds to trash te place. Typical activities incude:

- Eating every item of food in the premises and leaving the open containers scattered around (sometimes the Gorillla will order in a takeaway if insufficent cmestibles re to hand.

- Leaving a kettle, or a suacepan containing eggs, on the stove to boil dry

- Vomiting in a wide range of locations

- Mis-connecting hi-fi equipment in an attempt to access encrypted satellite channels without the proper equipment

- leavng refirdgerator and freezer doorsope just enough to ensure the contents spoil

- Depositing turds of gargantuan proportions in lavatoies, then failing to flush. Often, muc work with a spade, chisel and bilhook is needed the following day to disrupt the structure of thse megaturds to the point where they will pass the U-bend, st hey have a tendency to set like cement.

- urinating in beverage containers

- Using an electric razor on domestic pets in a way that amuses intoxicated h8umns, but not the pets involved.

- Arranging items of street furniture (moveable or fixed) in various artistic patterns trougout the property

- Placing a complete stranger, in an unconscious and partially or completely unclothed state, on a couch, floor or sofa. Often the Gorilla will swap such individuals from other locations

they visit, ensuring that when they awake, niether they nor the normal occupants have any idea of how they came to b there, or where their clothing and posessions are.

The Gorilla will also damge houehold fiztures andfittings in peculiar and inexplicable ways, and introduce substances such as floor polish, multisurface cleaner, and talcum powder into the mouths of sleeping residents, then disposing of any fruit juice or other beverages which might be used to disperse the resultant dry mout and awful taste.
They will also conceal or destroy all stocks of tea, coffee, and medications suitable for relieving hangovers.

In the process of performing the above tasks, the Gorilla will also overturn furniture, strew clothes around, and cause utter chaos, like a quiet but extremely thorough Poltergeist.
"Who are you, and wha are you doing on my sofa ?"

"Search me .... the Beer Gorilla must have broght me. Say, where's my clothes ?

"Oh my GOD !"

"SHIT ! That bloody Beer Gorilla's followed us home AGAIN !"
by Eighth Of Seven May 29, 2009
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redlining

Running a piece of equipment, most often an engine or other powerplant, way beyond it's rated maximum, usually in an emergency situation.

Usually, denoted by taking the engine revs or temperature up into the red area on an indicator dial, risking permanent damage or catastrophic failure.
"How fast will that thing go ?"

"One fifty five, but after one forty you'll be redlining"
by Eighth of Seven January 8, 2007
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