Slaphappy
“Slaphappy” is not universally known to mean “less booze for drunk customers.” I made this up. You bartenders out there… does this sort of thing happen?
AND, if there exists “secret code” for situations in your workplaces… please share!
“Slaphappy” is not universally known to mean “less booze for drunk customers.” I made this up. You bartenders out there… does this sort of thing happen?
AND, if there exists “secret code” for situations in your workplaces… please share!
A number of bartenders I’ve known have had subtle codes for watering down drinks a bit (or a lot). My favorite two are ‘make it heavy’ (add a lot more ice than normal) and ‘less color’ (obvious, I hope).
In bodyguarding, at least with my clique, we have a number of codes both color based and numerical, but we also have some slang we’ve built up unofficially such as ‘bell ringer’ (an idiot mark who goes for your chest if you’re a woman, assuming bodyguard also means plaything…… my current mark is a bell ringer), ‘mark’ (the guarded person), ‘paper tiger’ (someone who thinks they know how to handle weapons or dangerous situations, but doesn’t), and the much dreaded ‘missed the mark’, meaning to have lost contact with the mark or that the mark has slipped away from you. My personal favorites are ‘Liquid Dead Weight’ (a drunk mark) and ‘glass’, used in the term of neutralizing a threat by putting them down, typically with a stun gun or quick blow that cripples them or proves they don’t want to continue being a threat…. the specific term comes from busting a bottle on someone’s head.
In the computer service area, there are many, but my two favorites are PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair) and “Short in Operator Headset”
Just gonna make extra green for the bar.
Two other computer slang terms for users who are operating in tech over their heads would be “ID ten T” Error and OSI Layer 8 Problem.
ID Ten T spells out as ID10T.
OSI Layer 8 – There are only seven layers of the OSI model. (How computers communicate.) The user is the so-called eighth level.
As a ‘non-Drinking’ Irishman, (yes, we DO exist) I frequently served as “Designated Driver” for slightly ‘sloshed’ friends. Another friend who could be classified as a “Professional Drinker” always called this “Amatuer Night” and avoided his usual Bars since they’d be overrun by hoards of “Wanna-Be” Drinkers who he found ‘Amusing.”
Jenn… “Make it heavy” … I like this… it means something other than what you think it would mean. And “Glass’… probably a wine bottle…. I don’t think someone could survive being hit on the head with a Jaegermeister bottle… those things are THICK!
… and goodness… I have never known anyone to be in the body guarding business… you surprise me!
Rich… Ah…yes, chair and computer… this would be something Mouse would say for sure! Ha ha!
Jack… the mark up on drinks is astronomical to begin with! This is were restaurants make most of their money…
Pete… Hahahhahah! Idiot!ha hahahahaha….
Leo… wow, non-drinkin’ Irishman….?
oKay… this is beginning to sound like a joke… “A bodyguard and a non-drinking Irishman go into a bar…”
The punchline “… with a Jaegermeister bottle.” You fill in the rest.
By the Way…. Happy St. Pattie’s Day, All!
A “Green Goblin” is when you throw a blonde girl off of a bridge and then get impaled in the chest by a rocket-powered mechanical bat.
Don’t knock it ’til you try it!
Dada….. Hmmmm…. I will take your word for it. Don’t drink too much green beer tonight… and NO IRISH CAR BOMBAs… !!!!
Brig, I have long thought it preferrable to learn from observing the mistakes of those around me, thus avoiding the damage and pain of “experiencing” for myself the deleterious consequences of foolish behavior. There were many Drinkers and Smokers in my family; thus I do neither. There are other examples, but those serve to make the point.
Leo… it is wise to observe and respond. Some are not as fortunate as you to be able (for whatever reason) to respond…. and are doomed to repeat behaviors of those before them.
Like Pete, I knew a guy who would sometimes call his coworkers for assistance with an I-D-10-T Interface Problem.
Hmmm… I would suspect that a Green Goblin would involve absinthe…. but the first idea that came to mind for it was… disgusting. (Mint and absinthe should never, ever be shared in the same thought, let alone the same drink….)
The Auld Grump, wearing a Loki’s Absinthe tee for St. Patrick’s Day… sends a bit of a mixed message….
Leo: I wish I had your common sense. The only way I learn from mistakes is after they’ve led to surgery, most times.
Brig: I’m still trying to puzzle out the rest of the joke. It sounds more like a twilight zone episode!
Lady Jenn,
I’m sorry for your pain, only been “under the knife” a few times but it’s NEVER pleasant. (Even if sometimes the painkillers ARE!)
Leo: It’s not so bad the…… hm…… eleventh time around? The painkillers they used to use I’m tolerant of so you can only imagine the wacky stuff they give me now!
Actually, don’t imagine that. It’s freaking weird….