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Thoosies...Why the hate?

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rob666

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Double word of the week winner, general term for coaster enthusiast, but much, much hated within the "community".
I love wordplay, try to be a cunning linguist with puns and new words coming into our sweet lexicon, and have done a little quiet research into the word's roots and derivation.
Seems to have popped up over the water in the states.
Why the hate?
Moodie ******* thoosies.
I thought the Tavern (Card only, **** off to another park with your fiver for a bottle of brown, you old *******) may be the appropriate place for such a debate, especially with the onset of early New Year's Eve drinking...and a place for any posts mentioning the dreaded word to be confined to, separate, away from concerned eyes, censored in all but name, cancelled in what was once an accepting community of freaks, geeks and happy (occasionally) clappers.
Happy New Year to come, please don't take the "create new thread" button off me.
 
Thoosie is just short for “enthusiast” which is clearly what all of us here are, coaster and theme park enthusiasts. I too don’t get the hate for the T word.

Now “goon” on the other hand, can’t stand it. The doesn’t seem to have anything to do with coasters and the dictionary defines it as a “stupid, foolish, or eccentric person”. I don’t get why someone would want to refer to themself as a “coaster goon”?
 
My own personal preference is for happy clapper.
Goon also has mobster/thug connotations.
Geek is better but non specific.
Freak is more apt for me personally in so many other ways, my best friends kids just know me as the freak, which is nice.
An offer to go visit the freak is rarely declined.
 
Thoosie to me is very happy clappy American (and probably came from a certain forum site with a certain owner) and just sounds cringey to me.

A lot of the terms depend on which forum you frequented and when you were involved.
 
Pretty much every shitty nonsensical contraction or *******isation of a name or word of theme park related things make me want to cringe myself inside out and not engage with the community ever again. Thoosie is just about the worst of the lot. It thinks it's cute but it just makes the user sound dumb, and has no relevance to what we are enthusiastic about.

Blivvy, nemmy, poccy. Eeeeeeew. **** off.

I'll forgive Chessie because its proper name is so unnecessary long and it distinguishes it from the town. Goon and the like are legitimate words with a relevant meaning, the definition given here certainly fits, if you don't think this is at least eccentric you've lost your grasp on reality.
 
Each to their own, of course, but I’ll admit that I’ve never really subscribed to shortened terms or nicknames for things in general. I just say “enthusiast” rather than “thoosie” or “goon” or similar. Similarly, I say “Nemesis” rather than “Nemmy”, “Oblivion” rather than “Blivvy” and “Apocalypse” rather than “Poccy”.

I must admit that there is something about the word “thoosie” that I’m not entirely sure on… that is just my opinion, though, and I have nothing against those who do choose to use “thoosie”.
 
Can’t say I have or will ever use the term thoosie. Isn’t that another word for a tart/slapper/man wh*re?

Doesn’t bother me though it’s not much different to people calling football ‘footie’.

Edit - Realised that’s a floozy not a thoosie!
 
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In a forum where I repeatedly see the Americanised (spelt with an S not a Z please note) word 'Gotten', which is not a British (real) English word, I'm surprised this whole Thoosie thing offends so many.

I also hate abbreviations of words like 'Nemmy' when it takes no longer to just type 'Nemesis'. Typing 'TWODW' instead of just calling it Walliams World is also a pet hate of mine. But then I am a miserable hate filled man so I just have to have a word with myself and tell myself that it doesn't really matter and I should stop being such a prick and get over it/get with the times. Even if that does mean that we accept the destruction of our own language from a country who throw mentally ill people out on the streets, let the poor die of disease and value ones right to posses a gun above another person's right to not be shot.

Saying that, I use mild forms of Cockney rhyming slang despite living nowhere near London, rarely pronounce an 'H' or a 'T' and can't spell or string a sentence together properly. So I'm probably just being miserable and cantankerous (is that spelt right?)
 

Thoosie​

A roller coaster enthusiast who is realllly into roller coasters. Like, never ****** a *****-level nerdom.

Can often be spotted obsessing over non-important aspects of roller coasters, amusement parks, and entertainment industry, wearing cargo shorts, park pins, and a handheld digital camera.

Fury 325, Steel Vengeance, and Orion shirts are also popular.

"Damn, that Thoosie could only talk about his coaster count while waiting in line."
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And this is why 🤣

No Thank You GIF by Karen Civil
 
Well done Joel, I had seen that one, but I'm not clever enough to do links.
One of the reddit discussions linked hard into the autism/nerd debate as well.
 
The reason it seems especially grating to our British ears is probably that it's not a contraction of our pronunciation - I don't know about you but I'm an enthusiast, not an enthoosiast.
 
I was under the impression that Thoosie specifically related to the circle of younger generation 18-24 year old fans, most of which studying that one uni course that involves interning at Towers, that approach enthusiasm from an aesthetic/ironic point of view
 
"Thoosie" to me sounds like someone trying very very hard to give themself a nickname.

I also think it's poor. Someone at some point has had a conversation like this.

"what are you into?"
"Well my friend I'm a thoosie!!"
"What's a thoosie!"
" Well I'm into roller coasters and (insert long description of what that word actually means, but I am struggling to hold it together so won't at this stage!")
"Are right, so you like theme parks!"
"Yes"

It's lazy.
 
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