I am from the West [C):-)] Nice quiz!!!
Good little test. It identified me as being from Boston or possibly from New Hampshire or Maine. I’ve lived in Connecticut for over 30 years so I guess my Cleveland, OH accent has been erased.
Again poor Ian has been left out of the fun.
Walt
SRS 4501, I think your idea is great. The problem with this forum is that too many people disagree with others ideas, so they get mad and tell you that you are wrong and stupid. This then causes people not to use their imagination and post their ideas, because they will be called stupid and wrong. Okay, back to this issue. Right now we have people post things like “great model” or “nice”. So what difference does it make if we have post “ranks” or not. Truthfully, I think it would be great to have a post rank for those who are trying to help other people. So, SRS 4501, put me down as a YES.
Bill; where did you get that quiz from, i would like to contact them and offer my results; confusing to say the least. However i do see some sense in it. I would like to see Kim do the same test and see how he goes. In retrospect it must be heading in the rifght direction though. What do thers think ?
I am an Australian livbing in SE Queenslandand, i have a distinct Sydney style of talking, rather than an accent as such. Anyway i came out as from Inland North, almost a full North easter or from Philly.
Interesting huh.
Rgds ian
This post shows my main point. SRS 4501 posted an idea and what are we talking about now: What accent we have. WHAT THE HECK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING. True, taking a quiz about your accent is interesting, but that is why you start a new post. This happens waaaay too much. We do not help people by changing the question into an open post. You want to do that, then lets copy the Classic Trains forum and start a open post to allow us to just talk about things besides trains. We are NOT helping people by posting random stuff that interests only you on a post that a hobbist started to seek advice.
Maybe we can have a “coffee shop thread” [}:)] No, that was a disaster along with the star ratings. Maybe we can not post on a post when we don’t like what was posted? Like what I just did. Look Ma, I gotta 'nuther star! How has my post added to any knowledge? It didn’t, but I’m one up on my post count.
If everybody wants a rank system, then go ahead and have at it, it does not affect me one way or the other. BUT- not having one keeps the nonsense posts down to a minimum. Put me down for a NO, SRS4501
We tend to drift off topic often on this forum, when that happens the thread dies a natural death and we move on.
Gotta run, time to clean track, run some trains, and winterize the garden.
Ian, you are showing (again) your ignorance. Gandy-dancer was commonly used in SAR as a term for fettler, also frequently quoted in the Commonwealth Railways archives as a name for gangers. It is also widely known among ALL modellers who have ever picked up a book or reference that dealt with railways outside of your small sphere.
Read first, open mouth second. Why do you have to paint us Downunderers as bigotted idiots? Learn that with the internet this is a small globe. Any word-expression you don’t understand is as close as Google for an explanation. I reckon it’s time you pulled your head in.
Snoq. Pass, Go back and read the thread, it wasn’r hijacked; it took a logical bend about verbage and it’s usages.
YO! ~ Bill C, The test very accurately got my “Sout Joisey” ( and since you will know whereof I speak, “Wilewood”) origins and the fact that I have lived all my 66+ years in the Delaware Valley, on one side of the “crick” or the other, despite my close contact with folk from all over the world in my many years afloat.
Forget the post count, there have been folk ejected from some of these train fora for that very reason. Others who used various aliases to project nonsense, and some who thought that they might someday get some reward by boosting a post count have also been removed.
I abhorred the coffee shop thread when it was here!
I kinda like it the way it is, and as TJ said, it will die a natural death when nobody comes up with a new angle or something else to add to a subject. It tends to be self - policing in that when someone gets just too out of line, someone makes some caustic remark that tends to ground everybody; and you will usually find that to be the last posting on that subject.
I think its time for this thread to die, don’t you? You don’t want postings to be tied to Forum Rank, that is OK by me. It was just an idea to spark some interest in the forum and I do belive it did just that…
Unfortunately, once started threads are like Frankenstein’s Monster; they refuse to die!
The originator’s have even tried to change the name of a thread to no avail. Their creation keeps on going, and going, and going. Just like the battery bunny and even IT changed trademarks!!
Now watch, this addition will either breathe new life into this thread or, perhaps, give it the kiss of DEATH.
Phil you are showing your lack of understanding of the written word and the english language ingeneral. Not at any time did iindicate that i did not know what a gandy dancer was; as in fact by shere chance i do. Back a long long time ago, a song came on the hit parade called the Gandy Dancers Ball. My brother Bob contatcted the American Consul in Sydney who sent us out some written inforamtion on what is was.
If i remember crrectly after 50 years, it was to do with a Gandy Dancer which was a labourer on the old western railways in particular ones that lifted the rail into place. The load was so heavy that the many men involved had to develope a particular gaite to get the job done. This gaite was said to be like that of a gander which i understand is a male goose. Hence the term gandy dancer.
They say only the good die young and my brother bob died of cancer back in 1965 he was only 35 years of age; so it was quite a while before that, that he gave me this information.
Rgds Ian
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And I show a lack of understanding of the written word & the English language in general?
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Guys want post count, they already have Post Count!
I was just fooling around and happened to check somebody’s profile and Lo and Behold! I had completely forgotten about it! Right there at the bottom, guess what’s there for all to see?
POST COUNT
Now, go look at the heading of each Post and what is right there below your name?
POST COUNT
I would rather read one post from K. Strong than 3,000 from a coffee shop poster with nothing to say.
TJ, You da man! Couldn’t have said it better or more completely myself!
I’m not sure if Capt Bob is yelling or not but his posts are sure easier to read in BOLD FACE than this terrible faint grey on lighter grey. And when you do a preview of your post, it gets even fainter.
INCREDIBLE.
But this is progress, no? So much better than the old stuff that worked so nicely. Reminds me of the junk stuff out of Redmond.
Art