Glossary | An A-Z of #cuseemesex terms and definitions |
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Aardvark - A furry, powerful, well endowed in the tongue department, ant-eating, mammal. What has it to do with #cuseemesex? Ask HotGirl.
AFK - literally 'Away From Keyboard'
Age/Sex check - What clueless AOLers ask for in the channel.
Arrogance - Those (men, usually) who think that they are so 'hot' looking that everyone should be fighting amongst themselves to connect with them. On the whole they tend to resemble accountants.
BBL - 'Be Back Later'
BBW - a 'Big Beautiful Woman', or someone who's gravitationally challenged.
Bi-Fem without a cam - A man without a camera looking to see women. Basically no-one believes them, yet every man who tries it thinks that they are the first to have thought of it. Saddos.
Bitch - What HNG's call women when they refuse to connect to them.
Bloater - a non-PC way of referring to BBW's .
Cam - Shorthand for 'camera', so the message 'u f with cam?' means 'Are you a woman with a camera'. It also means that the person sending the message is a HNG .
CD - A Cross Dresser, a man who dresses up as a woman. Usually you can spot them as they will include the letters 'CD' in their nickname in an obvious place, like Staci-CD.
Chicks - A method of referring to women that makes you sound like a 14 year old.
Children - What we don't want on our channel or on our reflectors. Ever. Over 18's only.
Couples - The top of the CU food chain, and can usually get to see anything they want to.
Credit Card - The only way you are guaranteed of seeing naked women is by having one of these handy and following this link. Of course it does mean you can see flesh without having either a cam or a personality, so that's a bonus.
Crotch-Cams - Where HNG's routinely point their cameras in the mistaken impression that it will 'impress the ladies'. It won't.
CU - Shorthand for 'Cu-SeeMe', pronounce it as 'See You'.
CU-Doodle - A program that allows people without cameras to send video from their windows desktop. Doodlers are considered evil by reflector operators and are killed on sight (and it's usually very easy to spot it).
CU-SeeMe - An internet video conferencing program that works remarkably well all things considered.
CU-SeeMe Grey - The standard way of sending video, in 16 shades of grey. Every version of CU can see this, and it is also usually the fastest for everyone.
DC - Not the opposite of a CD, but rather 'Direct Connect', a 1 to 1 connection between two people on CU without using a reflector. A DC with a woman is what HNG's want the most (and fail to get most of the time). If you DC someone without there permission you will be banned from the channel for 48 hours, as it's about the rudest thing you can possibly to to someone short of killing their cat.
DCC - A method of either sending files or chatting to someone bypassing normal IRC servers. Both of these are deeply annoying if they weren't asked for.
English - The primary language of the channel, others are allowed, but you're better off keeping it to private messages (assuming of course you can understand this).
F - Shorthand for 'Female'
Fat - Another politically incorrect way of referring to 'BBW's.
Female - A way of referring to women that makes them sound like cattle.
G-Rated - A reflector (or anything else) that is meant to be available for all, including children. Any adult activity is specifically not allowed, and will result in you being banned
GeekTalk/GeekPC - A method of chatting to someone privately on CU using an external program for the Mac/PC respectively. The latest versions of CU have this facility built-in. It is considered bad form to private chat someone on a ref if they cannot talk privately back. Some reflectors ban it's use.
HNC - Horny Net Couple, a couple who don't bother talking or getting to know people, but instead behave just like a HNG in asking for a DC as almost their first message.
HNG - Horny Net Geek, the clueless men (they are always men, even if they're pretending to be a woman) who has the personality of a newt and is typing with his spare hand. They're fun to taunt, try it, you'll enjoy it.
Hung - How men with smaller than average penises describe themselves.
Humor - The wrong way of spelling 'humour'.
Humour - What you really need to get along on the channel, without it you are doomed to a fairly miserable existance.
Impostor - A program for the Mac that allows non camera owners to send pictures and therefore get on sender's only refs. Very obvious when in use, and will result in the user being banned from most refs without pause.
IP - An internet address, a series of 4 numbers separated by full stops, ie, 127.0.0.1 and it is your ip that uniquely identifies you on the internet.
Jerk - The kind of person who will never get a connect, ever.
Kumquat - A fruit with a semi-amusing name.
Lesbian - Something else HNG's call women when they refuse to connect to them.
LOL - 'Laughs Out Loud'
Lurker - One who doesn't posses a camera and is therefore invisible. They should have no chance of seeing anyone, but there are plenty of HNG's who will connect to anything that they suspect is a women.
Love Shack - Slang for 'Whore house', song by the B-52's, and in a misspelled form an IRC channel who's web-pages are so appalling it makes you want to commit random acts of violence (probably against the perpetrator of the aformentioned HTML abortion).
MJPEG - The latest way of sending colour video on CU, and when it works it works very well indeed. Only the newest versions of CU from White Pine and Cornell for Windows95/NT can see it. (Oh, and the OS/2 version :)
Nickname - How you are identified on IRC and CU. Men with nicks like 'HungWell' and 'NineInch' are actually hung like lamp switches.
Norks - Breasts, tits, mammary glands, hooters, boobs etc.
Op - Channel Operators are the people who can boot you off the channel, recognise them by the funky little '@' in front of their nicks.
Os - A person who spends far too much time creating web-pages and worrying why people think this nick should be spelled "O's" when it blatantly isn't.
Private - When referring to a reflector it means one that has a limited and controlled membership, and to gain access you must be invited. Passing out private reflector ip's will get you banned unless you are the reflector operator.
Public - When referring to a reflector it means one that is open to all, and you will usually find it's ip on web-pages.
QuickCam - The most popular type of camera used by CU-ers. Get more info from Connectix's web site.
R - A sad way of shortening the word 'are'.
Reflector - A computer running special software that allows multiple people to see and be seen, they are the focal point of CU interactions beyond IRC channels.
Room - What former AOLers call IRC channels.
Screen cap - The act of taking a 'snapshot' of a CU window and saving it to a file. Doing this without permission is considered very bad indeed, and those found swapping them or posting them to Usenet will be banned permanently from as many refs and channels as we can. This is not an idle threat.
Sex - Something that adults do with other adults, and what HNG's think #cuseemesex is only about. They are deeply wrong of course.
Shit Shed - #cuseemesex slang for 'Love Shack'
Shutter - Something that a quickcam doesn't have, so it can't get jammed closed if it's dropped.
Swearing - Something you probably won't get away with on the channel for long.
Test - What newbie's ask for when they've just downloaded the software, and they usually only ask women too. Ho hum. Needless to say they don't get one.
Tits - See 'Norks'
TS - Transexual, usually a man who is going through the process of becoming a woman, may be pre- or post-operative, distinguished by the letters 'ts' in their nickname, ie, 'Sandy-TS'.
TV - Television, exactly the sort of picture quality you will not get from CU.
TV - Transvestite, a man who is dressed up as a woman (with varying degrees of success). Usually distinguished by the letters 'tv' in their nickname, ie, 'Sandy-TV'.
U - Shorthand for 'you', considered by many to be a sign of low intelligence and/or one handed typing.
Undernet - The IRC network that #cuseemesex resides on, more information can be gleaned from their web-pages.
Virgin - How most HNG's will remain until their dying day.
White Pine - A company who has taken CU as originally produced by Cornell and made it the bloated bug-riddled ugly mess it is today. They probably hired their programmers from Microsoft.
White Pine Color - A method of sending colour video on CU which usually results in the person resembling a Jackson Pollack painting, or the pavement outside a bad roadside cafe.
Xylophone - A musical instrument useful for filling the 'X' section of glossaries
X-Rated - In reference to reflectors, places where all the HNG's want to be. There are surprisingly few reflectors that actually qualify as 'X' rated, and the majority are private.
Yeti - A semi-mythical creature from Nepal. HNG's stand more chance of seeing one of these that getting to see a woman naked. Also, the amount of body-hair the typical 'bi-fem without a cam' has.
Zero - The chance that HNG's get of seeing norks.
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