Hey, I know the YMMV stands for "Your Millage May Vary" but can someone explain what that actually means? In my reviews I see this acronym but I can never understand what the writer is trying to say. Can some one please clarify thanks!
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Context,with slight editing,borrowed from 'Book Guy' post on Canbest,years ago.
Mileage/SP Interaction Explanation
Generally "High Mileage" means the SP could take you further than most on your personal journey,and not that she has necessarily been around (or around the business) too long. That would just be, "Highly Travelled."I presume that some Highly Travelled ladies are Low Mileage because of their expertise and experience at the tease,thus being able to secure profit without offering High Mileage; and some Less Travelled ladies are High Mileage because of their beginner status; and some Extremely Highly Travelled ladies are also High Mileage because they'd darn well better be if they're going to earn any money at all; and then there's the really annoying combination, Less Travelled and Low Mileage, AKA b***h.
Mileage/SP Interaction Explanation
Generally "High Mileage" means the SP could take you further than most on your personal journey,and not that she has necessarily been around (or around the business) too long. That would just be, "Highly Travelled."I presume that some Highly Travelled ladies are Low Mileage because of their expertise and experience at the tease,thus being able to secure profit without offering High Mileage; and some Less Travelled ladies are High Mileage because of their beginner status; and some Extremely Highly Travelled ladies are also High Mileage because they'd darn well better be if they're going to earn any money at all; and then there's the really annoying combination, Less Travelled and Low Mileage, AKA b***h.
It means if you're rude, you lose.
It means if you're ugly, you lose.
It means if you're sexist, you lose.
It means if you're a pig, you lose.
Any more questions?
It means if you're ugly, you lose.
It means if you're sexist, you lose.
It means if you're a pig, you lose.
Any more questions?
urbandictionary.com is a great place to find what most of the terms in the industry mean.
Take a look.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=YMMV
Take a look.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=YMMV
nmohan_101 said:
What Sheik said.
It originates from the first car advertisements during the first oil crisis in the 1970's, (Arab Oil Embargo), where the car companies were desperately trying to show that their cars got good gas mileage. So what they would do is take one of their cars, strip it down to bare, tune the engine to perfection, ensure all other factors that contribute to gas usage were minimized and then put in a specified amount of gas and run it on a 'gas usage friendly course or road' and announce that their car got "X miles per gallon". Naturally the legal department realized that making such a statement would get you in trouble since almost no one would be able to replicate that test and the test was certainly not respective of normal driving habits or conditions. Thus was borne the term, "your mileage may vary," which simply put means your experience may not reflect ours.
In terms of an SP review it is much the same parallel. The reviewer may have visited the SP on a day when she was in a particularly generous mood or he gave off a vibe she liked or for whatever reason events occurred that in retrospect the reviewer may realize may not be the norm. Anyone reading that review might think that this something he'd like to partake of only to find that for any number of reasons the SP did not want to play that game. A good reviewer will attempt to identify any services or practices that are not standard to the SP and indicate that it may not be available, (very different from the activities that an SP indicates 'is available' in her advertising), thus the use of the term "your mileage may vary".
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