Poll: What do you call your USB drive?

[Brutal Peanut]

If I am in a hurry, or I am bothered then anything that needs to be plugged into something else, both items are called 'things' and the words are accompanied by hand-gestures.

Observe: "Plug the thing into the thing, and put it on your computer if you want it so badly."

If you are around me long enough, you'll start to understand. They all do eventually. O_O

If I'm not rushed, or need to really explain what it is, I'll just call it by it's name; and in this instance, that would be, DUN DUN DUN - FLASH DRIVE!

 

[MartianWarMachine]

T-800. Most of my tech follows a naming scheme from The Terminator. Skynet is my computer and T-1000 is my cell phone. still trying to think of something for my PS3...

It's big and black and a "god console"

name it HAL

(now could you fill me in on the skynet thing, every time I try and look it up all I get is memes)

You win a "Get out of the Martian invasion free" card. *Hands card*

And Skynet is the evil supercomputer from the Terminator series that goes to war with humanity.

 

[Sir Strange Of The House Lycan]

I call mine Doris.
Isn't that what we're talking about here?

 

[The Night Shade]

USB port

 

[Amalith]

It's a flash drive. There are millions of USB devices, a flash drive is just one of them (I have heard it called a thumb drive before as well, but those other options baffle me). SD reader would also be appropriate, but that's a completely different device, and no-one really uses SD cards except for in phones and cameras anyway.

 

[Tigurus]

I call it a "memory pin".

No idea why really. I, however, like to call it that way

 

[WOPR]

T-800. Most of my tech follows a naming scheme from The Terminator. Skynet is my computer and T-1000 is my cell phone. still trying to think of something for my PS3...

It's big and black and a "god console"

name it HAL

(now could you fill me in on the skynet thing, every time I try and look it up all I get is memes)

You win a "Get out of the Martian invasion free" card. *Hands card*

And Skynet is the evil supercomputer from the Terminator series that goes to war with humanity.

Ahh, never watched those movies (never had much interest) all I knew about Skynet was all the nerds at our school kept referring to Google as "Skynet"

...now I feel I should watch those movies.. **adds to Netflix list**

 

[vrbtny]

....Well isn't it obvious?

Spoiler

Fred

^^^^Super, uber secret name for USB sticks.^^^^

 

[loc978]

Dead. never let me touch a flash memory stick, it will stop working within 24 hours (I've even tried it with an anti-static wrist strap on. No dice).

...closest thing I own now is a PSP... and I let my brother put in the memory.

 

[namewon'tfitin]

Slick Stick.
fuckyeah

 

[Stoic raptor]

I call it USB.

Long ago, I used to call it Thumb drive.

 

[FamoFunk]

USB


...

 

[MartianWarMachine]

Snip

You NEED to see the Terminator films. From the beginning. And try not to focus on the fact that the Terminator is a puppet in the first film.

 

[Kakashi on crack]

I call actually memory sticks, as in the SD card types memory sticks

I call USBs poker chips though, since they're like gambling when you use them for homework, or putting a game on a school computer without permission XD

 

[Stryc9]

I call them flash drives my favorite is the Sony one I got a couple of weeks ago that has a clicky cover on it, it clicks like a clicky pen.

 

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

I call it the Porta-Data-Potty because I keep all my shit on it.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

I have never heard them called nerd sticks before...

Tend to opt for a hybrid, something along the lines of 'USB memory stick thingy drive'

 

[Johnnyallstar]

USB, Pen Drive, Zip Drive, Flash Drive, etc etc.

Pen and Zip were what they were called in the 90s, and I still have the habit.

 

[Ruzzian Roulette]

This is my flash drive.

I call it the Slave 1.

 

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

Nerd stick?

Go-go-gadget bullshit social dynamics. We call it a flash drive.

I do find it hilarious that the jocks and other "upper class" (aka pricks of the school) call them nerd sticks when they're the ones with them

...and I'm still trying to find the point of carrying around a 1 TB hard drive...

well... I suppose that "Garry's mod" being a part of the video game design course MIGHT have something to do with it, but I don't know...

...they're also trying to add minecraft to the curriculum but "shockingly" won't get supported on that one

Funnily enough, it's true and 99% waste of time.