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has apparently been added to the 'banned words' list.

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by hal 9000

[b]Whiskey, Tequila, Firewater[/b]

But then again I used to hang out with a guy who got done from Drunk Driving going to a party after not drinking for 3 days. ;)

Col

by jp85257

I just saw a headline stating that point and though it would fit with Foxtrot and Tango. I personally think all reality shows are a waste.

by ansugisalas

The south has an amazing and diverse culture that just can't be kept down... Whoever says it's down must be wearing their spectacle the wrong way around :D
BTW. I have no idea if it (y'all) can actually be used like I did - but I feel like "you" is first a singular, and only then a plural, so I like to use y'all instead for specific plural address ;)
P.P.S. I am Danish (the non-pastry variety - unless I've let myself go) but I do live in Finland

by jamesrl

But I'm from the South of Ontario.....

Seriously, I've worked with teams from North Carolina and Texas. At one point I was managed by someone in Raleigh, so I spent much time there.

by gsg

You'uns, or even better Y'uns.

Hey, are y'uns goin' to mule days? They's gonna have some of them jumpin' mules!

(Yes, we really have mule days with a mule jumping competition... look it up on youtube)

by hal 9000

Doesn't that really stand for

[b]Want That Furniture?[/b]

At least according to one add I saw here that's what it's supposed to mean. :D

Col

by jck

We should just all communicate in radio phonetics from now on. :^0

by cmiller5400

Tango Hotel Alpha Tango - Whiskey India Lima Lima - Bravo Echo - Foxtrot Uniform November.

Mike Alpha Kilo Echo Sierra - Foxtrot Oscar Romeo - Sierra Oscar Mike Echo - Victor Echo Romeo Yankee - Lima Oscar November Gulf - Tango Yankee Papa India November Gulf - Tango Hotel Oscar Uniform Gulf Hotel ]:)

by ansugisalas

I'd a'thunk that "all y'all" is for specifying an absolute plural (all-encompassing), sort of you "every one of you (is going down!)".
But it's fascinating. BTW, now that you're explaining, is it possible to say "y'alls" like I did or was that just completely wrong?
Anyway, I still like to use y'all when I wanna talk to more than one, but not necessarily all of the potential recipients

by ansugisalas

Whiskey Hotel Echo Romeo Echo - India Sierra - Tango Hotel Echo - Alpha Papa Papa - Foxtrot Oscar Romeo - Tango Hotel Alpha Tango ?

by seanferd

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by seanferd

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But they will, you know. That's how offended people operate. Offended people, tone trolls, and concerned parents.

by jck

exactly how rusty I'd gotten with Morse Code after 20 years of not doing any. :(

I need to get my 2m/440 and 10m rigs working again.

by nicknielsen

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Usually sent with the headlights. The second I save for truckers want to pull out... B-)

by charliespencer

an app for that. :D

I can't stand the phonetic substitutions used where I work. Part numbers beginning with "M" and "N" are "Mary" and "Nancy". "J" parts are just "J numbers"; no phonetic equivalent.

by ansugisalas

I had it pretty good on both counts (although y'all's/y'alls is contested), now I will do my happy dance. Y'all may avert y'alls eyes (ouch - somehow I think that last one ran afoul of a distributive reading :D ).

by ansugisalas

It's like we hand them a coconut, and they spend all damn day opening the damn coconut... with the swearing and the hitting of the fingers with the hammer and all.
And then they get the coconut open, and inside there's this ugly troll doll - which pees on them, ballistic-like.

What's not to love about that setup? :D

by seanferd

Making people who are searching to be offended work for their payoff is always fun. There's a certain minor bit of shady-frood involved. It highlights their hypocrisy and keeps them busy working on one thing, rather than ten others.

Its when the rule-maker's behavior is to default to appeasing the whiners (as a result of a complaint, or preemptively) by banning all sorts of things that it becomes truly offensive infantilizing of adults.

Not saying that I'm terribly annoyed by the bannination of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. I'm just hoping that it isn't a continuing trend, especially if it starts extending beyond mere "foul language".

Just for clarity, I'm speaking of a wider world beyond TR here. I know TR is what it is, and why, mostly. But if Whiskey is offensive enough to be filtered, then so is crap pseud-logic, lies, made-up stuff, and poorly examined opinion presented as fact that is constantly in these fora. That, and the constant spam.

But whatever. I can ignore most of it (besides the high spam level and its effects) and read thing I find worthwhile like an adult. (Although adults have no monopoly on this ability, it is a common turn of phrase, based on the assumption that "adults" are "mature" and that these mean anything other than in a biological sense.) So, "as a reasonable person" would probably be a better choice.

by ansugisalas

There will always be ways to foil those that have their minds in the gutter... Like HAL said it means "Want That Furniture?".
Or "Watch that Football!"
Or "Welders take first" ... cake, obviously.

And did you know that a scumsucker is an amphibian?

by ansugisalas

That there is a culture you can't keep down :D
Not to mention the 90% of all new music styles of the twentieth century...

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