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brands hatch
- noun When someone stacked
with goodies plus one lit brand enters the
swamp, they blow up. This is a brands hatch,
so called because of the race ('Brands Hatch' is a motor-racing circuit) to
get back before anyone else nicks the fruits of your hard labour (although it
also evokes imagery of T "hatching" from an egg,
just waiting to be picked up and swamped). The term
can refer to the event, eg. "I lost the lot at a brands hatch" or
to the pile of expected goodies which remains:
"The LS? Oh, I got it in a brands hatch". Brands hatches
usually occur at the rapids, but can happen elsewhere. It is considered
cheeky, but inoffensive, to pick up the T from a brands
hatch and swamp it before the previous owner can
get back ("Sorry, was it yours?"), as it serves them right for being
so careless in the first place (especially if they were playing in
macro mode at the time). However, it is very bad
form not to leave the poor victim their kit, so they can
continue playing. Surprisingly, there is no term used to describe the
situation where you pick up a brands hatch in its entirety,
including the offending lit brand, then zw
to the swamp and blow yourself up. See race,
stick man/woman.
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