In audial terms, the best so far, and your use of the participle "f*ck*d" is intriguing, as if the truck is actually a pure space being violated by the evil man's presence. Plus, adding the "-ed" avoids the "rock star" problem I noted in @Sojourner's entry.
Semantically, it doesn't really tell us anything Trump-specific. One advantage of "sin bin" was that it does reference a noted part of his specific image, ie. he's a bit of a debauchee. My only critique was that it's too easily misread as tribute rather than mockery.
(Granted, "Salmonella Express" is also based more on the fact of the thing being food-related rather than anything about Trump himself.)
Oh dear an oldie but a goodie. Back in the 60s and 70s every surfie boy along the New South Wales coast had a Holden panel van big enough to accommodate their boards and a grubby mattress on which to bed their female conquests. Yes, Miss Amanda exactly that (minus the ‘d).
I think that might be a little too easily appropriated to make him look glamorous.
Granted, my centre-right dad used to refer disparagingly to Batista's Cuba as a "sin bin", without even a hint of dark mystique. But outside such historical contextualization, applied to someone's personal behaviour, it could come off kinda like "Dude's really living the rock-star life." Which I believe still has a bit of appeal in more than a few separate social circles.
*cackle*
In these parts the sin bin is where players of the various football codes get sent when they cop a red card or the equivalent.
I think that might be a little too easily appropriated to make him look glamorous.
Granted, my centre-right dad used to refer disparagingly to Batista's Cuba as a "sin bin", without even a hint of dark mystique. But outside such historical contextualization, applied to someone's personal behaviour, it could come off kinda like "Dude's really living the rock-star life." Which I believe still has a bit of appeal in more than a few separate social circles.
*cackle*
In these parts the sin bin is where players of the various football codes get sent when they cop a red card or the equivalent.
Really?! Like "the penalty box"? I did not KNOW that. Thanks for the English lesson!
I think I've only ever heard it used to reference more carnal sins, as associated with eg. the aforementioned 1950s Havana or Las Vegas.
This is interesting. Punishment-related definitions of "sin bin" are hegemonic on the internet, except for the fifth definition under Collins entry...
(US, Australia, colloquial) Synonym of "fuck truck": A panel van with a mattress in the back
The closest I can find to my dad's usage is from an example sentence, albeit with no context, in which someone says it's not a good name for the athletes' sequestering areas because it used to refer to certain types of "establishments".
Also in Oz: “shag wagon” ( the orginal “waggon” having gone out of use by the mid 60s)
I think the closest I ever heard in North America was "boogie van", which I don't think referenced coitus directly, but sorta the overall lifestyle of a hippie casanova. Though the van was usually imagined to be used for seduction purposes.
Anyone else following the trials and tribulations of the USS Abraham Lincoln? I wonder if the crew are yet reduced to subsisting on maggot-covered racks of rotten meat.
(Any cinephiles wanna guess the allusion? Could take you a few "steps".)
I have no idea what movie you're talking about. I do know that the ship has been deployed since November and hasn't put into port for over 200 days. There were reports earlier this year of food shortages onboard and recent reports of sailors attempting to go overboard. All those pro-military Republicans should be ashamed of themselves.
I have no idea what movie you're talking about. I do know that the ship has been deployed since November and hasn't put into port for over 200 days. There were reports earlier this year of food shortages onboard and recent reports of sailors attempting to go overboard. All those pro-military Republicans should be ashamed of themselves.
Despite having 11 aircraft carriers in service only three are operationally deployed. The USS Abraham Lincoln, the USS George
H W Bush (both in the Middle East/Arabian Gulf region) and the USS George Washington, underway from Japan to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln.
The other eight are in various stages of maintenance, preparation for use or, in the case of USS Nimitz, making up the numbers waiting for the USS John F Kennedy to enter service next year as she sails around the Atlantic.
200 day deployments must do nothing for morale, retention and recruitment, but supposedly pro-military governments don’t give a damn about military personnel. We have the same problem in the U.K.
I have no idea what movie you're talking about. I do know that the ship has been deployed since November and hasn't put into port for over 200 days. There were reports earlier this year of food shortages onboard and recent reports of sailors attempting to go overboard. All those pro-military Republicans should be ashamed of themselves.
Ruth, FYI: Google is your friend.
Look up the 1925 film “ the Battleship Potemkin” (silent Soviet-era directed by Sergei Eisenstein): there are parallels to be drawn.
I have no idea what movie you're talking about. I do know that the ship has been deployed since November and hasn't put into port for over 200 days. There were reports earlier this year of food shortages onboard and recent reports of sailors attempting to go overboard. All those pro-military Republicans should be ashamed of themselves.
Despite having 11 aircraft carriers in service only three are operationally deployed.
Side note. This is actually quite normal, you can avoid it for short periods of time but then you really start having maintenance headaches.
I have no idea what movie you're talking about. I do know that the ship has been deployed since November and hasn't put into port for over 200 days. There were reports earlier this year of food shortages onboard and recent reports of sailors attempting to go overboard. All those pro-military Republicans should be ashamed of themselves.
Despite having 11 aircraft carriers in service only three are operationally deployed.
Side note. This is actually quite normal, you can avoid it for short periods of time but then you really start having maintenance headaches.
Having three or four of eleven deployed is one thing, but why are personnel deployed for over six months? That indicates a shortage of personnel, which is a shortage in the British armed forces, principally because of poor retention.
Those of you knowledgeable in naval matters may well have thoughts on this, but I do wonder if perhaps Trump would like to go back to the good ol' days of sail, wooden ships, and cannon worked by gunpowder...
I saw the movie in a college Russian history class, and I only remember the steps sequence. One of many classics I was made to consume when I was too young, immature and inexperienced to appreciate them.
I saw the movie in a college Russian history class, and I only remember the steps sequence. One of many classics I was made to consume when I was too young, immature and inexperienced to appreciate them.
When I was a kid, I got up early one morning and turned on the TV just at the moment a PBS station from Spokane was showing the steps scene, which I found kinda freaky. Later found out the context(and saw the tribute in The Untouchables), but I never got around to watching the full movie until I was in my mid-40s, on a DVD at a Korean video bang. Despite it being a relatively recent screening, the rotten meat, the antisemitic agitator(Hello, Candace Owens!) and, of course, the steps are all I really remember.
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In audial terms, the best so far, and your use of the participle "f*ck*d" is intriguing, as if the truck is actually a pure space being violated by the evil man's presence. Plus, adding the "-ed" avoids the "rock star" problem I noted in @Sojourner's entry.
Semantically, it doesn't really tell us anything Trump-specific. One advantage of "sin bin" was that it does reference a noted part of his specific image, ie. he's a bit of a debauchee. My only critique was that it's too easily misread as tribute rather than mockery.
(Granted, "Salmonella Express" is also based more on the fact of the thing being food-related rather than anything about Trump himself.)
*cackle*
In these parts the sin bin is where players of the various football codes get sent when they cop a red card or the equivalent.
Really?! Like "the penalty box"? I did not KNOW that. Thanks for the English lesson!
I think I've only ever heard it used to reference more carnal sins, as associated with eg. the aforementioned 1950s Havana or Las Vegas.
The closest I can find to my dad's usage is from an example sentence, albeit with no context, in which someone says it's not a good name for the athletes' sequestering areas because it used to refer to certain types of "establishments".
I think the closest I ever heard in North America was "boogie van", which I don't think referenced coitus directly, but sorta the overall lifestyle of a hippie casanova. Though the van was usually imagined to be used for seduction purposes.
Catering Truck One, as opposed to Air Force One?
EVERYTHING is violated by his presence. Even hell will be.
Yep. Catering Truck one
Why, this is Hell - nor are we out of it...
I think we have a winner!
(Any cinephiles wanna guess the allusion? Could take you a few "steps".)
Despite having 11 aircraft carriers in service only three are operationally deployed. The USS Abraham Lincoln, the USS George
H W Bush (both in the Middle East/Arabian Gulf region) and the USS George Washington, underway from Japan to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln.
The other eight are in various stages of maintenance, preparation for use or, in the case of USS Nimitz, making up the numbers waiting for the USS John F Kennedy to enter service next year as she sails around the Atlantic.
200 day deployments must do nothing for morale, retention and recruitment, but supposedly pro-military governments don’t give a damn about military personnel. We have the same problem in the U.K.
Ruth, FYI: Google is your friend.
Look up the 1925 film “ the Battleship Potemkin” (silent Soviet-era directed by Sergei Eisenstein): there are parallels to be drawn.
Side note. This is actually quite normal, you can avoid it for short periods of time but then you really start having maintenance headaches.
Having three or four of eleven deployed is one thing, but why are personnel deployed for over six months? That indicates a shortage of personnel, which is a shortage in the British armed forces, principally because of poor retention.
Yep. Musing on the possibility(remote, I know) of a mutiny.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/trump-aircraft-carriers-steam-catapults
Those of you knowledgeable in naval matters may well have thoughts on this, but I do wonder if perhaps Trump would like to go back to the good ol' days of sail, wooden ships, and cannon worked by gunpowder...
Scooby-Doo: The Mystery of the Reflecting Pool.
When I was a kid, I got up early one morning and turned on the TV just at the moment a PBS station from Spokane was showing the steps scene, which I found kinda freaky. Later found out the context(and saw the tribute in The Untouchables), but I never got around to watching the full movie until I was in my mid-40s, on a DVD at a Korean video bang. Despite it being a relatively recent screening, the rotten meat, the antisemitic agitator(Hello, Candace Owens!) and, of course, the steps are all I really remember.
KSPS? Our go to station.
That's the one.