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It might just be me, but I'm having a hard time following your post due to these terms: > scofflaw > taking to the cleaners > juicers I normally would just

It might just be me, but I'm having a hard time following your post due to these terms: > scofflaw > taking to the cleaners > juicers I normally would just go look it up, but this is a high density of jargon/colloquialisms. Or maybe it's not and I just never heard them, but I'm just offering my data point here.

laurieg 8y ago
I think you were just a little unlucky and hit a post with a few words and phrases you don't know. Scofflaw is a pretty old word, and being a combination of scoff and law many people could work out its meaning. Take someone to the cleaners is a fairly common idiom. Juicers seems to be slang related to the people who charge up the scooters, but again, juice + er is a pattern many people can pick up on.
- ardy42 8y ago
  > Juicers seems to be slang related to the people who charge up the scooters, but again, juice + er is a pattern many people can pick up on. It probably is. Saying something is "out of juice" to mean "out of power" has a fairly long history. It's a pretty straightforward to extend that slang to someone who restores power to things by recharging them.
robkop 8y ago
Juicers is a lime only term afaik (it referd to someone who charges lime scooters) and the rest are reasonably common Australian expressions (maybe scofflaw is a little less common).
- walshemj 8y ago
  Juicers I would read as drug addicts given its an Australian
- masonic 8y ago
  In U.S. vernacular, "juicer" generally connotes someone using performance enhancing drugs.
ggm 8y ago
> scofflaw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofflaw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofflaw > taking to the cleaners https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_to_the_cleaners https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_to_the_cleaners > juicers https://www.reddit.com/r/LimeBike/comments/89tpqy/is_anyone_working_as_a_juicer_recharging_limebike/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LimeBike/comments/89tpqy/is_anyone_... Apologies.
reaperducer 8y ago
One of the things I enjoy most about HN is learning the idiomatic language of other cultures, even if I have to look a word up. I don’t think that asking people to use bland, lowest common denominator language is an incentive for smart people to participate. This isn’t the Simplified English version of Wikipedia.
el_dev_hell 8y ago
Straya at its finest

laurieg 8y ago

I think you were just a little unlucky and hit a post with a few words and phrases you don't know. Scofflaw is a pretty old word, and being a combination of scoff and law many people could work out its meaning. Take someone to the cleaners is a fairly common idiom. Juicers seems to be slang related to the people who charge up the scooters, but again, juice + er is a pattern many people can pick up on.

ardy42 8y ago
> Juicers seems to be slang related to the people who charge up the scooters, but again, juice + er is a pattern many people can pick up on. It probably is. Saying something is "out of juice" to mean "out of power" has a fairly long history. It's a pretty straightforward to extend that slang to someone who restores power to things by recharging them.

robkop 8y ago

Juicers is a lime only term afaik (it referd to someone who charges lime scooters) and the rest are reasonably common Australian expressions (maybe scofflaw is a little less common).

walshemj 8y ago
Juicers I would read as drug addicts given its an Australian
masonic 8y ago
In U.S. vernacular, "juicer" generally connotes someone using performance enhancing drugs.

ggm 8y ago

> scofflaw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofflaw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofflaw > taking to the cleaners https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_to_the_cleaners https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_to_the_cleaners > juicers https://www.reddit.com/r/LimeBike/comments/89tpqy/is_anyone_working_as_a_juicer_recharging_limebike/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LimeBike/comments/89tpqy/is_anyone_... Apologies.

reaperducer 8y ago

One of the things I enjoy most about HN is learning the idiomatic language of other cultures, even if I have to look a word up. I don’t think that asking people to use bland, lowest common denominator language is an incentive for smart people to participate. This isn’t the Simplified English version of Wikipedia.

el_dev_hell 8y ago

Straya at its finest