What is a “wizzbang”

Dickodownunder · Guru

What is a “wizzbang”

Explorer · Guru

Dickodownunder wrote:
I have read on many occasions this term wizzbang on this and other forums.
Here is a recent reference...
http://thegreynomads.activeboard.com/t63308753/greenbushes-wa/
so who fits this description??

-- Edited by Dickodownunder on Sunday 31st of December 2017 10:27:58 PM

Geoff, The sliding door of a campervan as it opens "whizzes" then "bangs" as it hits the stops. Normally this happens 18-20 times per night.

Mike.

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

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Sheba · Guru

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Gaylehere · Guru

Ah. Remember well. Back in the 1980"s we had a Kombie Camper and it definitely was a Whizz Bang when opening and shutting the sliding door. We didn't need to get out 18-20 times during the night though and didn't leave wet spots around camp either. Cheers.

Desert Dweller · Guru

It's a sliding door with no insect screen. The people sleeping inside love mozzies & flies.

Dickodownunder · Guru

Hahaha....thanks folks.

I now know from experience what you people are refering to.
Cape Hillsborough was the last place I came across one.
I recon the young couple must have gone to the loo at least 20 times during the night and then left just before sunrise.

Wizzbang biggrin biggrin

outlaw40 · Guru

"What is a wizzbang

ANNOYING !

Ron-D · Guru

Sheba wrote:
I have one, and when I'm in for the night, I don't open up 'till morning. I'm organised not to have to go out to the 'loo during the night. Don't know why every-one can't do the same.
Cheers,
Sheba.

I think with backpackers there usually a few of them in a small space so they need to use that noiey door often.

Izabarack · Guru

I have wizzers both sides on the campervan. I get double the fun going out one side and in the other.

In turn about, I often have to put up with old farts too stingy to put new batteries in the hearing aids so play the TV at pop concert volume well into the night. Being an early riser, I must sound like the 1810 Overture in the morning as I pack up ready to move off. The rear hatchback sounds like a cannon going off as I give that one a good slam to make sure it is properly latched.

Had a mate once with OCD. He had to close every door three times before he was ready to move on to the next one. And don't interrupt him or he needs to start at the front all over again.

Iza

Ron-D · Guru

Izabarack wrote:
I have wizzers both sides on the campervan. I get double the fun going out one side and in the other.

In turn about, I often have to put up with old farts too stingy to put new batteries in the hearing aids so play the TV at pop concert volume well into the night. Being an early riser, I must sound like the 1810 Overture in the morning as I pack up ready to move off. The rear hatchback sounds like a cannon going off as I give that one a good slam to make sure it is properly latched.

Had a mate once with OCD. He had to close every door three times before he was ready to move on to the next one. And don't interrupt him or he needs to start at the front all over again.

Iza

Strange in all the years we have been caravanning I have never heard other peoples Tvs at all,that statements weird..

Woody n Sue · Guru

Well in the farming world when making reference to a wiz bang machine, it is one that whizzes along very quickly then goes Bang and you have to stop and fix it ,,, hence Wizz-Bang

Woody

Dickodownunder · Guru

I was just reading Iza's reply and now I am wondering if there is a word within the caravan and RV venacular for a person with a loud TV? biggrin biggrin

Over the last year I have heard quite a few Wizzbangs but like Ron-D I can't say that I have ever heard anothers TV. biggrin biggrin

-- Edited by Dickodownunder on Monday 1st of January 2018 04:21:44 PM

Izabarack · Guru

Dickodownunder wrote:
I can't say that I have ever heard anothers TV.

-- Edited by Dickodownunder on Monday 1st of January 2018 04:21:44 PM

Perhaps yours is so loud that you cannot hear the one next door. biggrin biggrin No hearing aid batteries or a generator at full bore are other things that might explain?

Iza

Ron-D · Guru

I suppose you can hear a flea fart Iza biggrin

Dickodownunder · Guru

Izabarack wrote:
Dickodownunder wrote:
I can't say that I have ever heard anothers TV.

-- Edited by Dickodownunder on Monday 1st of January 2018 04:21:44 PM
Perhaps yours is so loud that you cannot hear the one next door. No hearing aid batteries or a generator at full bore are other things that might explain?

Iza

Settle Iza

My original question was not directed at you.

I have perfect hearing for my age and very rarely use a gen set and if I do it is only when required.

In fact if you could be as considerate with your doors as I am with my TV volume then I am sure we would all be happy campers. biggrin biggrin

landy · Guru

Izabarack wrote:

I have wizzers both sides on the campervan. I get double the fun going out one side and in the other.

In turn about, I often have to put up with old farts too stingy to put new batteries in the hearing aids so play the TV at pop concert volume well into the night. Being an early riser, I must sound like the 1810 Overture in the morning as I pack up ready to move off. The rear hatchback sounds like a cannon going off as I give that one a good slam to make sure it is properly latched.

Had a mate once with OCD. He had to close every door three times before he was ready to move on to the next one. And don't interrupt him or he needs to start at the front all over again.

Iza

Hi Iza just a thought that might help. If you can hear your neighbors TV maybe your camped to close to them. biggrin

Landy

msg · Guru

Its not the wizzzz bang that annoys me its the getting out peeing in the grass and parking so close they block you so you cannot leave. and.. then there is the tipsy giggling for half the night.

I'm like Sheba and I never open my wizzz bang door after dark. The dog even knows that's a no no.

Desert Dweller · Guru

msg wrote:
Its not the wizzzz bang that annoys me its the getting out peeing in the grass and parking so close they block you so you cannot leave. and.. then there is the tipsy giggling for half the night.

I'm like Sheba and I never open my wizzz bang door after dark. The dog even knows that's a no no.

If they park too close to us we tell them that we spotted a 2 meter venomous snake right where they plan to set up, just half an hour ago. It works a treat, they ALWAYS move somewhere else.

We'd rather get a pimple on our tongue than not much sleep. Mind you we don't have anything against BP's they're fine, just not right on top of us.

-- Edited by Desert Dweller on Tuesday 2nd of January 2018 07:22:00 AM

Izabarack · Guru

Ron-D wrote:
I suppose you can hear a flea fart Iza

I wish my hearing was that good. Too many years around high speed jets gets me a military pension of very little to not much, for industrial hearing loss.

CPs force you to park so close that hearing the neighbours fart, and worse, much much much worse, cannot be avoided.

Iza

Paull · Veteran Member

They carry a few people in them, not just the one. Backpackers know how to get the most people crammed in to a small space.

Lancelot Link · Senior Member

A wizzbang is a Military Training Aid to frighten the living daylights out of new recruits. It goes wiz and then bang. Saves on live ammunition and dead recruits. Would love some when kids are around in caravan parks annoying the living daylights out of me. Scratch the cap and throw it, wiz and then a big bang. I think a hand grenade with kids would be better, but that would be over kill and a wiz bang would be better! Joking of course!

Happywanderer · The Master

My van is a wizzbanger.
The noise it makes when I close my sliding door.

spida · Guru

my Kiwi niece and her partner have a wizzbang and did 6 months around WA. Their main comment was how people in caravans totally ignored them. Were quite shocked at the attitude. They are a couple of hardworking, clean, tidy late 20's 'normal looking' blondes. I guess they were seen as 'those europeans' ..... just a comment in passing :)