Go slang/terms

[ozbob]

Go card is permeating all our lives, no doubt it will endear a sub set of slang  

To begin ...

Go grief - where many find themselves at the moment

Go Christmas tree -  the colourful light display that one sometimes sees on readers as multiple colour flashes ...

Go mess -  serial fixed fares ...

Go silent - no beeps

Go broke - not paying attention to touches

Go fog - new user trying to peer at a moisture effected screen

Go glare - light, usually sun preventing screens to be read, complicated greatly if Go silent and/or Go fog is around at that time

Go back - you remember you didn't touch off at 9pm at the station, and when you wake up in a cold sweat at 1am and realise the fact you 'Go back' and touch off ..

Go slow - what happens at peak when you line up to touch off ...

Go fade - screens on the readers out in the sunlight have degraded and gone opaque and white ...

Some more from colleagues ..

Go jump – quick backwards leap onto bus steps, performed when realising the lights flashed red as you tried to touch off on your way out the door ..

Go underground – the refusal to register one's Go Card due to privacy concerns

[Derwan]

Go Figure - when you can't work out what in the hell is happening (re touches, messages, etc)

Go Between - what Translink does when you need to request a refund.

Go Out (or Go Free) - when none of the touch machines are working.

Go On - when everything is working.  (Most people won't have heard of this one.)

[ozbob]

 

Few more from colleagues ...

Go shoulder – an injury sustained from repeatedly twisting backwards to complete the touch off, especially at train stations, whilst maintaining forward momentum through the barrier.

Go crush – the situation at the barriers at Roma St station in the morning peak time.

MyoGoCardial Infarction – Heart attack triggered by rushing along a train platform in search of a working machine to touch on before your train leaves.

Go rage .....  ( already been observed by a number of correspondents ..   )

Go Cars – something people will return to if we don't eventually get something better.

Happy Go Lucky – not bothering to claim back any excess charges, being satisfied that with free bus trips due to faulty equipment it all evens out ...

Go Kardma – the universe's way of paying back those who are pushy and rude about touching on or off, and those who are kind and helpful to new users

[bladesplace]

Go Vacuum - the feeling one gets when topping up a card yet again due to the fare increase.

Go Stop - when the fare gates glitch and don't open properly or at all.

Go Go Stop - the dance when the fare gates open but glitch and stay open, only to close when another person walks up and attempts to exit.

Go Limbo - the period between after one tops up their card online, to when the top up successfully downloads onto ones card. (My longest ever limbo period was 8 days, with multimodal trips on each day),

Go Away - when one is on hold and waiting, and waiting, and waiting to speak to someone at TransLink to get a Fare fixed (caused by any combination of Go Silent, Go Fare, Go Glare and/or Go Figure. Potential to cause MyoGoCardial Infarction).

Go Mad - trying to understand the new fare structure.  

[bladesplace]

LoiterGoing - hanging around the station waiting for clear access to the readers due to Go Slow or Go Crush.

Gofittii - vandalism to anything with Cubic on it.

[WTN]

No Go - when your go card runs out of credit and you can't touch on.

[Fares_Fair]

Go Cash . . . What you do when you discover that the train station doesn't yet have go cards and the EFTPOS only applies to the non-existent go card !

[p858snake]

Go Cash . . . What you do when you discover that the train station doesn't yet have go cards and the EFTPOS only applies to the non-existent go card !

Or when you only have coinage and the station isn't attended or the queue is already packed and your in a hurry (whoever decided it was a good idea for no coin top-up whilst using AVMs........).

[bladesplace]

Go Think - a concept alien to TransLink and Cubic.