What is Your Profession?

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 30 Nov 2008 16:03

(Cheers for the explanation, 'Luv & lore!

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valys · Post by **valys** » 10 Dec 2008 03:52

Frybread wrote:Very poor journalist.

Me too!

Sports journalist, even. Never knew what I wanted to be when I grow up, and not even Indiana Jones could direct me to archeology. Actually, I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

orald · Post by **orald** » 17 Dec 2008 09:49

Nice to see I'm still remembered.

Still pumping gas, saving money for university or whatever it is I'm supposed to be saving for. Still getting shat at by stupid assholes who don't even know how to fuel their cars or think they deserve everything before everybody else.

At least the salary is resonable...for someone who works 28-31 days a month at minimum wage.

A Thing of Eternity · Post by **A Thing of Eternity** » 17 Dec 2008 15:00

orald wrote:Nice to see I'm still remembered.

Still pumping gas, saving money for university or whatever it is I'm supposed to be saving for. Still getting shat at by stupid assholes who don't even know how to fuel their cars or think they deserve everything before everybody else.

At least the salary is resonable...for someone who works 28-31 days a month at minimum wage.

I miss you. Just not the same without you here.

SandRider · Post by **SandRider** » 17 Dec 2008 15:18

me too.
I recall you left last time after a spat with the SandChigger.
I now have him on a short leash, so c'mon back.

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 17 Dec 2008 16:00

THIS is a short leash?

(Hope the computer situation resolves soon. Miss you, Cuppy!

)

SandRider · Post by **SandRider** » 17 Dec 2008 19:05

Back ! Back, you devil !
Back, I say !

Roll over ! Play dead !

Good Chigger !

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 17 Dec 2008 19:52

Back. Roll over. Play dead.

Make up yer goddammed mind already.

inhuien · Post by **inhuien** » 18 Dec 2008 08:34

^^^I must resist....

Oh btw what are you doing with a photo of my Mother in Law as your new avatar?

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 18 Dec 2008 09:02

Oh. She said you'd probably recognize it.

Unfront · Post by **Unfront** » 18 Dec 2008 21:35

Hi everyone! I am new here, however a long time fan of Dune. I am a distiller by trade. I work at a distillery in Portland Oregon and make vodka, gin and absinthe. I am in a freezing cold warehouse right now tending three pot stills.

TheDukester · Post by **TheDukester** » 18 Dec 2008 22:11

Unfront wrote:Hi everyone! I am new here, however a long time fan of Dune. I am a distiller by trade. I work at a distillery in Portland Oregon and make vodka, gin and absinthe. I am in a freezing cold warehouse right now tending three pot stills.

Welcome!

I went to college in Portland, Oregon ... where I drank vodka, gin, and absinthe. What a coincidence!

dunepunk · Post by **dunepunk** » 18 Dec 2008 22:25

Hi, I'm new here as well.

I am currently un-employed, or as I prefer to think of it, I am a full-time student working on an undergraduate degree in philosophy.

Post by **Omphalos** » 19 Dec 2008 00:09

dunepunk wrote:Hi, I'm new here as well.

I am currently un-employed, or as I prefer to think of it, I am a full-time student working on an undergraduate degree in philosophy.

Ah. A bullshit artist. So, when was the last time you bullshitted?

SandRider · Post by **SandRider** » 19 Dec 2008 00:20

Welcome. Twice Welcome. All ya'lls Water is Ours.

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 19 Dec 2008 00:40

(^^^ Originally from one of the outlying southern sietches, where they speak Fremen with a drawl.

)

Achlan wasachlan.

SandRider · Post by **SandRider** » 19 Dec 2008 00:59

I honestly didn't know how to phrase that. I was claiming the Water
of the dunepunk and that other guy.

"All ya'll" is the proper plural where I come from.

The Water of Both of You is Ours ?

I guess "Your Water is Ours" would be correct for two people, as well, but ...

Hey guess what ? I sobered up for about 3 or 4 hours, then started in
on the case of Lone Star that's been out on the porch fridge since before
thanksgivin'......

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 19 Dec 2008 01:05

SandRider wrote:"All ya'll" is the proper plural where I come from...

As is "you'ns" where I come from.

That's an enclosed or screened porch, right? Ah, southern living...ain't it da life!

SandRider · Post by **SandRider** » 19 Dec 2008 01:13

yeah, that's more a rust belt thing.

I used to be real good at telling you where you were from in the South
by your accent. Virginia & Georgia are very different from Alabama or
south Arkansas.'

the Henry Higgins of the Confederacy ...

dunepunk · Post by **dunepunk** » 20 Dec 2008 00:23

Omphalos wrote:
dunepunk wrote:Hi, I'm new here as well.

I am currently un-employed, or as I prefer to think of it, I am a full-time student working on an undergraduate degree in philosophy.
Ah. A bullshit artist. So, when was the last time you bullshitted?

Probably my final paper for my philosophy class. I wrote it in defense of a compatibilist view of free will (i.e. free will as compatible with a deterministic universe). haha

dunepunk · Post by **dunepunk** » 21 Dec 2008 08:32

Baraka Bryan wrote:
dunepunk wrote:
Omphalos wrote:
dunepunk wrote:Hi, I'm new here as well.

I am currently un-employed, or as I prefer to think of it, I am a full-time student working on an undergraduate degree in philosophy.
Ah. A bullshit artist. So, when was the last time you bullshitted?
Probably my final paper for my philosophy class. I wrote it in defense of a compatibilist view of free will (i.e. free will as compatible with a deterministic universe). haha
lol who was it that said something about even thse believing in fate and a deterministic universe still look both ways before crossing the street?

I don't know, but that's a good one!

orald · Post by **orald** » 21 Dec 2008 10:33

You should partly ignore my last post here, I was a tad angry and depressed for a week, 'tis almost over now. Still hate my boss, but that's usual. She's a lying, bigotted bitch.

Did you know? Listening to Rammstien's Rammstien while swinging an axe indoors(also while going amock) may result in broken furniture! Be ye warned!

Well, it was half broken before anyway...

Tleszer · Post by **Tleszer** » 21 Dec 2008 13:36

orald wrote:Did you know? Listening to Rammstien's Rammstien while swinging an axe indoors(also while going amock) may result in broken furniture! Be ye warned!

Well, it was half broken before anyway...

Thanks for sharing; I've been thinking about doing that for a while now.

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 21 Dec 2008 15:49

Try to find one of those mini chainsaws.

What remains ofttimes creates ... interesting patterns.

Post by **Freakzilla** » 22 Dec 2008 17:35

SandChigger wrote:
SandRider wrote:"All ya'll" is the proper plural where I come from...
As is "you'ns" where I come from.

That's an enclosed or screened porch, right? Ah, southern living...ain't it da life!

It's "y'all" not "ya'll" and it's already plural.

y'all vs. all y'all

Correction: In Texas (and most of The South), "y'all" is singular, and "all y'all" is plural.

I'm a native Texan (raised in Arlington, home of the Texas Rangers baseball team), and "y'all" is plural, and "you" is singular. -- KeithRay

My wife is Texan, from Fort Worth, and one of her friends said "only a Texan really understands the difference between Y'all and all y'all. Both are plural, and as far as an Englishman can tell "y'all" is just a plural "you" whereas all y'all means something like "each and every one of you" but with some difference in shade of meaning which is "Just beyond anyone not native to Texas...". Maybe a Texan could comment...

Sure. "All y'all" is short for "all of y'all" (e.g. "all y'all are under arrest."), just like "sum y'all" is short for "some of y'all" (e.g. "sum y'all will not grad-u-ate.") -- KeithRay

Fascinating. I was born in Mississippi, am living in Alabama, and until this moment had never noticed the usage of "all y'all". It's not something I say frequently, if ever, but I definitely recognize it. Anyway, plain-old "y'all" is definitely plural. And in the really rural parts of Mississippi, it is pronounced "gray-j'ate" -- Richard Rapp

[more recently moved from SingularThey]

This is not unique to Texas. Here in North Carolina, we also have singular "you", plural "y'all", and plural "all y'all" (meaning "each and every one of you"). This "y'all is singular, all y'all is plural" is a common misconception that was perpetuated by a stupid joke e-mail (Now you've gone and let the yankees in on the joke.) that went around for a few years. The confusion probably arises because you can use "y'all" when speaking to a single person, but it is understood to mean "you and the group with which you are commonly associated". For example, if I end a conversation with my friend with "y'all have a good weekend", it means "you, your wife, and your kids have a good weekend". -- EddieDeyo

One of the biggest differences between "y'all" and "all y'all' can be seen in the following question. If I were to ask a group of people "Do y'all have a car," I would most likely mean do you have a car between you all. If I were to ask "Do all y'all have a car," I would be asking if each person in the group owned a car. Or if I were addressing a crowd, I might ask "Do y'all have parents in the military?"... I would want the people with parents in the military to answer affirmatively. If I were to ask "Do all y'all have parents in the military?" I would be either asking for a response from any individual who might be able to answer for the whole crowd (if every single person had parents in the military) or I would be asking for people who did not have parents in the military to speak up. I am implying that I think that most people in the audience have parents in the military with the question. There are dozens of contexts here, so to some extent, you need to be a native Texan or Southerner to really understand the different variations. For the most part, "y'all" could replace "all y'all," but "all y'all" will not replace "y'all" in all situations. From that standpoint, "all y'all" carries a more specific meaning than "y'all" --Carter Mayfield

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