• cobysev@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          When I was a teenager, “whipping shitties” was what we called spinning donuts in the parking lots with a car.

          Although you’re correct, it could be attributed to the same shenanigans on a frozen lake.

          I remember one intersection near my high school that always got extremely icy every winter… Some buddies of mine with drivers licenses loved to “whip a shitty” through that intersection. Basically, crank their wheel hard as they’re driving through the intersection and spin in a few circles while sliding through the intersection. I dunno how we never crashed a car doing that.

          • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            Awesome, thanks for the additional context.

            spin in a few circles while sliding through the intersection

            Okay, that’s a maneuver deserving this moniker. It probably looks as hilarious as the name itself. To say nothing of being a passenger in a car that’s doing it.

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            2 days ago

            Interesting, I’ve had that sort of thing happen a bunch with my friends when I was younger, but always due to hydroplaning since we were in the south. We never had a specific name for it though, but it also wasn’t as repeatable as with ice and it was rarely intentional.

          • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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            2 days ago

            When I was a teenager, “whipping shitties” was what we called spinning donuts in the parking lots with a car.

            So you’re saying that it had another name when you did it without a car?

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      3 days ago

      Whipping shitties is when my dog has diarrhea, gets scared because it’s sticking, then runs in a circle while the poop flies around as she tries to clean her butt (think chasing her tail while diarrhea). It happened once, but that was enough.