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waltereo
Oct 16, 2004, 5:26 PM
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Hi
Does someone already bought something from the guy ?
http://www.notesfromtheroad.com/Traveler/subcategory/Sport_Climbing.html
Just wanna known if he is reliable ...
Thanks a lot
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danpayne
Oct 16, 2004, 6:46 PM
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Please tell me English is your second language. I refuse to believe public schools have gotten this bad....
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chitown_coop
Oct 16, 2004, 6:55 PM
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In reply to: Please tell me English is your second language. I refuse to believe public schools have gotten this bad....
Easy, dude. Maybe you should check out people's profiles before you lash out:
In reply to: waltereo (User) Member Since: Wed Jun 11, 2003 10:28 am Last Login: Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:49 am From: Quebec, Canada |
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danpayne
Oct 16, 2004, 7:00 PM
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Lash out? Ummm, ok. Take a joke every now and then buddy, your life will get much better. Oh and just so you know, most canadians can speak english very well.
Try to make a little joke and get busted by the morality police. Sorry, and to prevent any further hijacking, I will no longer post on this thread...
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waltereo
Oct 16, 2004, 7:10 PM
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Yes my second language...
Where are the errors ?
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jv
Oct 16, 2004, 7:36 PM
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In reply to: Yes my second language... Where are the errors ?
Has anyone already bought from this shop/guy?
Does anyone have experience in buying something from this shop?
Are they reliable?
JV
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dontmaytagme
Oct 16, 2004, 8:00 PM
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Ok, so after laughing at his "broken" english, are you going to answer his question?
ja.
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kyhangdog
Oct 17, 2004, 2:25 PM
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In reply to: Lash out? Ummm, ok. Take a joke every now and then buddy, your life will get much better. Oh and just so you know, most canadians can speak english very well. Try to make a little joke and get busted by the morality police. Sorry, and to prevent any further hijacking, I will no longer post on this thread...
You're the quintessential Ugly-American.
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dontmaytagme
May 25, 2005, 3:26 PM
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[quote="kyhangdog"][quote="danpayne"]Lash out? Ummm, ok. Take a joke every now and then buddy, your life will get much better. Oh and just so you know, most canadians can speak english very well.
Try to make a little joke and get busted by the morality police. Sorry, and to prevent any further hijacking, I will no longer post on this thread...
You're the quintessential Ugly-American.
Cela va sans dire: Beaucoup de Americains ne parle pas un autre langage. danpayne, tu es la quintessenciel Ugly-American.
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landgolier
May 25, 2005, 3:39 PM
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AAAAAND back to the actual purpose of the thread...
Never bought from them or really even heard of them. Is there something on sale there, or are they carrying something special? I poked around the site and only saw all the usual stuff at full retail prices. You could probably get better deals elsewhere.
-T
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dingus
May 25, 2005, 4:01 PM
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I worked for a Canadian / American company for a spell. We had an interesting mix of accents and languages, from Cali surfer dude talk to French Canadian to Irish to North Carolina redneck. Conference calls were always a treat.
Anyway, me and this dude Dominique, currently living in Ottawa but hailing from Montreal, were working a job in Winnipeg. Winnipeggers have that flat, mid western Canadian accent, not that different from the Dakotas. Dominique spoke English as his 2nd language and on his previous job he spoke nothing but French for like 18 months straight. He was just a couple of weeks into this new position when we started working together. So he was a bit out of practice.
Now I came to delight in how he spoke and I would subconsciously pick up his speech mannerisms (like emphasis on every 3rd syl.). There were certain words printed in English that gave him fits when he tried to pronounce them.
He was a database specialist and we were conducting an architecture meeting with a team of programmers from the client in Winnipeg. Now Winnipeggers are a great people from my experience. Fun loving, friendly to a fault, with a great love of drink and laughter (a GREAT love of drink!). Our meetings were business like, but frequently interupted with bouts of laughter and side discussions about curling leagues and shit, if you can believe that!
So Dominique is reading off field names from a database, using an laptop projecter onto a screen up on the wall. One of the field names was 'hours" as in how many hours it took to do x. I was contentrating on moving the meeting along, identfying issues, documenting tnem, etc and only was marginally paying attention. I didn't care what field we were talking about, if the Winnipeggers had no objection, it was outside the scope of my concern.
So Dominique read off the label, no one said anything, but there was an odd tilt to the room suddenly. I even caught it, like some emotional current just passed through.
Pat, the Proj Manager for the client team, looked up with a gleam in his eye. Dominique, not hearing any comments, had already moved onto the next field, 'minutes.' Pat spoke up,
"Just a moment Dominique, what was that last field you read?" Now as I said, Dominique was only recently speaking English again and he was very self conscious about it, VERY, especially where his fellow Canadians were concerned. So he responded with caution,
"This one? H-o-u-r-s?" He carefully spelled it out.
"Yes," said Pat, "that one. What did you call that again please?" He was smiling broadly at this point. Dominique realized he must have mispronounced it and as I said he was very self conscious about it, so he deferred.
"How do you say it" Pat was (and is) veryt cagey himself, and the correct pronounciation was not his goal this gloomy late November afternoon in Winnipeg.
"Never mind. What did you call it again?" Dominique tilted his head to the side and I could actually see the 'fuck it' determination as he deciced to just forge ahead (he got better and better at this as the project wore on), and loudly said,
"Whores? Is that how you say it, whores?"
Oh my god, I smile broadly at the response to this day! Those Winnipeggers literally, and I mean LITERALLY, fell out of their chairs! Guffaws, bellows, HOWLS, I am not kidding, howls of laughter erupted. Most of them started repeating it, WHORES, over and over. There was a database report associated with this field, the Hourly Sales Report, that quickly morphed into the Whorely Sales Report, I kid you not. I will bet good honest American dollars that they still call it that to this day, some 3 years later.
Dominique was a good sport about all this, despite his beet read face. We went out drinking with the team at night and of course the sods put us under the table (as they did every time).
I miss thsoe guys (but not Winnipeg). Remind me sometime to tell you about the time we rode around packed in a rental car in a Raleigh NC ice storm looking for an open stripper club when the entire city was dead and frozen without electricity...
The Whorely Sales Report...
Hah!
DMT
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henkelj
May 25, 2005, 4:12 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: Lash out? Ummm, ok. Take a joke every now and then buddy, your life will get much better. Oh and just so you know, most canadians can speak english very well. Try to make a little joke and get busted by the morality police. Sorry, and to prevent any further hijacking, I will no longer post on this thread... You're the quintessential Ugly-American.
And now we have the quintessential PC-(insert nationality) doing some good fashion name calling...sweet.
Wait, now I'm doing that, crap.....Hijacked.
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boadman
May 25, 2005, 6:48 PM
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I have a feeling the grammer police would call bullshit on your correction.
"Has anyone already bought from this shop/guy?" is missing a subject. I think it would require "bought something, or bought anything".
Never bought anything from him myself.
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sticky_fingers
May 25, 2005, 6:55 PM
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In reply to: I have a feeling the grammer police would call s--- on your correction. "Has anyone already bought from this shop/guy?" is missing a subject. I think it would require "bought something, or bought anything".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "anyone" the subject, "bought" the verb, and "shop/guy" the object?
poo-poo on you
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trenchdigger
May 25, 2005, 7:07 PM
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In reply to: I have a feeling the grammer police would call s--- on your correction.
And their colleagues, the spelling police, would have your ass for calling them the "grammer" police. :wink:
~Adam~
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sticky_fingers
May 25, 2005, 7:10 PM
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i totally missed that
nice one trenchdigger
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May 26, 2005, 12:28 AM
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In reply to: In reply to: In reply to: Lash out? Ummm, ok. Take a joke every now and then buddy, your life will get much better. Oh and just so you know, most canadians can speak english very well. Try to make a little joke and get busted by the morality police. Sorry, and to prevent any further hijacking, I will no longer post on this thread... You're the quintessential Ugly-American. Cela va sans dire: Beaucoup de Americains ne parle pas un autre langage. danpayne, tu es la quintessenciel Ugly-American.
1. I WISH schools in the US emphasized learning a second language as other countries do.
2. DanPayne most people from Quebec speak French as their first language.
3. Sorry I don't know anything about that shop
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spokewrench
May 26, 2005, 1:40 AM
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pheenixx
May 26, 2005, 4:05 AM
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In reply to: Hi Does someone already bought something from the guy ? http://www.notesfromtheroad.com/Traveler/subcategory/Sport_Climbing.html Just wanna known if he is reliable ...
Hi waltereo ~ I'm steppin up to the plate to answer your question - regardless of how it's "phrased".
I do quite a bit of shopping online. There are MNAY websites out there that are NOT exactly "storefronts". Which means - they put up a website that looks like they have the equipment when in fact their links actually point to another website that does. I looked at this URL (address). Notice that if you roll your mouse over a link - a very long address appears in the lower left hand corner of your window. Withing that long stretch of letters is buried the website name: Backcountry.com.
I have purchased from these people before and they are a legitimate web-business. I usually go directly to the website and do not use the "referral" websites. I deal directly with the source - call it "cutting out the middleman" whatever... I like to buy from local shops & I like to give people my business that actually take lots of time and $$ to make it work (not a fake link store set-up). They actually skim money from the retailer for every sale that they make when you go there and buy it through them.
..thanks for sharing Dingus - twas a wonderful story... :wink:
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