What does "fixtures" mean

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People always mentioning this at random points during a thread and I would like to know the reason why.

Thanks in advance.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Fixtures.

 

[Gritt23]

It means "it's been asked or said already".

 

[Muzzy]

When someone posts a new thread that has already been started previously!

 

[Gritt23]

It stems from YEARS ago, when it just seemed that barely a day went passed without someone (re-)asking "when are the fixtures coming out?"

 

[Moshe Gariani]

it means the stuff being posted has already been on NSC (comes from posts about fixture lists a few years ago)

edit: FIXTURES....!!!!!

 

[SK1NT]

Fixtures.... Kanchelskis was the other from years ago

 

[Scampi]

People always mentioning this at random points during a thread and I would like to know the reason why.

Thanks in advance.

It's an "hilarious" injoke. Basically during the summer there are multiple threads asking when the fixture list will be published. Fixtures has therefore come to denote a duplicate thread. So for example if you were to start another thread today about Vokes signing someone would inevitably post fixtures on it to denote that the topic has already been discussed.

 

[Giraffe]

Has this now been adopted as a dictionary definition meaning for the word "fixtures" as if not it should be. Campaign should start here.

 

[MattBackHome]

'Fixtures' isn't used nearly as much as it should be. Maybe it's my rose tinted specs, but I seem to remember people being fixtured on pretty much every thread going. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be etc.

 

[xenophon]

f*** sake

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Ringtones - GOSBTS

 

[Woodchip]

Owen is signing

Sent by the power of 1000 turtles

 

[Norman Potting]

I like "Binfest" as well -the global interweb defines it as "An argument on an internet mesageboard that soon spirals out of control with everyone getting involved, and in the end no-one really knows what the argument was about !!!".

I believe that there are some on this site who consider that the word is an NSC invention - is there evidence for this and are the mods able to identify when it was first used? Be nice to get it in the OED if it isn't there already.

"Vincente, will he play/is he injured again" is another one but I don't think this will ever get into the OED.

 

[Lewes Seagull]

Looks like the fixtures answer has been fixtured, several times

 

[Gazwag]

Urban Dictionary: fixtures

 

[Everest]

Fixtures!

Fixtures?

 

[Boris Yeltsin]

Kanchelskis?

 

[MattBackHome]

In case anyone under the age of 18 needs GOSBS for their Nokia 1210:

Ringtone Sussex by the Sea

 

[Simster]

Ringtones - GOSBTS

Wise words. Was actually the forerunner to fixtures. Fixtures and GOSbtS ring tones were both being asked for REPEATEDLY on here in the same summer (1999 I think).