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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Am from NE Ohio and have never heard people driving on frozen lakes except to ice fish. We would do donuts in large parking lots. Bonus if you do it with the windows down. Bumper skiing was another one. Ah to be young and insane again...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ice fishing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Am Floridian, can confirm. Istg every few months I learn something about cold places that's terrifying like 'black ice'

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’ve heard people call doing a u-turn “whipping a shitty” and always thought it was a dumb term.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I once heard it refered as 'bang a uey' from a relative from boston and it just sort of stuck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I much prefer "flip a bitch".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I prefer whip a bitch, or pull a nut

But I'm a bit of a sadist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ripping shitties? Lol wtf Maine is way better, "ripping titties" and it makes more sense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I've always heard it called that regardless of what you're driving on. I assumed it referred to the circle of tire tracks it leaves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Ripping donies

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Maryland can be included in this. We have parking lots...and empty roads...and neighborhoods....and intersections.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Idk about the etymology of the American "whipping shitties", but seeing it's popular a saying in States where there have historically been Finns, I guess there could be a connection. Or not.

But in Finland we call it "ajaa paskarinkiä" "driving in a shit circle"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

NJ here and at no point could you drive on lakes. It doesn't get that cold. Most of the winter you cannot skate on ponds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You could a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Where? I have lived here since the 1970s and 85% of the winter it would be dangerous to skate on most of the ponds let alone bring a car onto ice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well, within 100 mi of NJ and we raced motorcycles on them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Motorcycles are lighter and 100 miles from NJ could place you in a much colder climate as you moght be in the mountains.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Fellow NJ-ian here. I have definitely driven on frozen lakes when I was a stupid teenager. TBH they were more like tiny ponds though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ND we use both. I can't even say what is more common.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

North Dakota doesn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

'Course it does, it's just left of East Dakota.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

We definitely whip shitties in WI, too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait until they learn about parking your half-tonne on it, building a hut and sitting there fishing with some beers for hours.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And having your house warm enough to fish in your underwear while drinking said beer and fishing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You know the old trope about how people in the South can't drive in snow? We do donuts on the roads unintentionally once the snow falls and refreezes to ice. No lake needed. I guess if you only have snow on the roads you have to seek out places where the car will slide around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

In the PNW, we don't get a lot of snow and it doesn't get cold enough to freeze lakes, but we do get plenty of black ice. Rain + tons of shade under evergreen trees can cause a lot of issues.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (4 children)

In Canada whipping a shitty means an illegal U turn

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's what I know it as in Minnesota. No idea where people are getting the donuts thing from.

The last time I saw a meme like this I asked around and everyone else said "whipping shitties" was an illegal U turn.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I call that flipping a bitch

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Here too in Illinois

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That's also what I've known it as in Texas

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's cuz Texans are fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

😂

I know...It's not nice to laugh, but the unexpected hostility caught me just right.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I was gonna ask "is there a term other than 'doing doughnuts' specifically for when it's on ice?" because I live where we don't drive on frozen lakes. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where you live, you apparently add extra letters to "donut" for no reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're nuts made of dough, not nuts made of do. 😌

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Y'all need to try them nuts made of d's

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