I think you were totally right in your Zagaron thread...Don't let these "toy nazi's" (my word - not his) grind you down. It can be seriously ridiculous and unfortunately can bum out the fun!

by the way...i liked your hardcore show analogy - i was living in escondido at the time and started going to hardcore shows in 1980 - it WAS a fight to survive.

unfortunately this is the internet - most of the dicks are hidden at their mom's house in the basement buried under comic books JUST IN CASE their Kaiju's turn into REAL MONSTERS. BOOH!

Kozik also had some great posts...He does post good stuff and some of you are HATERS and we think it's so obvious it's funny -- we have a good time talking and laughing about it too. so that's alright.

"show your collection" or the "gargamel" forum...??? who cares which? grow the fuck up people. and if you ARE grown up - stay a little busier with your lives for goodness sakes!

welcome to toy collecting ikk. there's really only a few pricks (kick 'em)...you won't see 'em in person anywhere - no worries for them! but there's way more tolerant, fun, non-judgemental people having a good time with you.

fuck the 12 year old bullies!

Anyone know what this rant is about?

I smell another post lockdown already!

Know what? That fight was over a while ago, and I was hoping it'd stay dead. Not trying to argue or hate or anything, but it was gone and done.

ONWARD WITH THE TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYS!!!!!!!!!!!! (and metal mixes)

On a side note, how does one actually PRONOUNCE "Rant"?

I always thought it rhymed with 'ant',
but one of my teachers used to say it like 'aunt'.

Any opinions on this? Is it a REGIONAL thing perhaps?

I'm from the Midwest so Rant sounds like Ant, but Aunt also sounds like Ant. I really don't have any accent, but those A's catch me.

Ha ha! That's funny!
In the UK, 'aunt' sounds like 'aren't' ...

(You're gonna tell me you say 'ain't', aren't you?)

i say ant for aunt also

i tried saying ont for awhile, but i felt like i sounded like a douche when no one else said it

i never say aint unless i am joking around. i dont say y'all either (you guys)

It's my gut reaction, though I try to stop myself But when I get on a rant and I'm pissed, I aint not saying aint!

My dad's from TN so I get some southern-ism mixed into my Chicago-isms too.. I say "Yall" way too much I guess.

Where on earth did you hear 'ont'?
I never heard that before!

So, do you say 'ront' then?

i didnt know how to spell it

i pronounced aunt like it is spelled as opposed to just 'ant'

and i have always said rant like ant



maybe a closer way to spell it would be ahnt?

I am from the south and I say y'all out of habit and when I stop myself to say "you guys" I feel really stupid. It just doesn't come off of my tongue as nicely. I don't think the word aint ever comes out. I pronounce rant like ant and aunt like ant.

I think yall is more proper than they way a lot of americans are starting to talk.

Creepiest. Post. Ever.

Proceed ...

After spending a mere two weeks in Texas I returned to California saying "y'all" like it was second nature. It didn't feel like an affectation, it just seemed appropriate and folksy in a nice way. I stopped myself because some people looked at me like they thought it was an affectation, or because they mistakenly thought I was making fun of Southerners. Still, I love "y'all," y'all.

I think it's rant like ant too. Rant like a crazy ant.

If you turn on any rap radio station you will know exactly what I mean.

Bizarre PM mishap.

AH!

"Y'all" is certainly charming and, as a contraction of "you all",
not grammatically incorrect (unless applied to a single other person).
I have no idea the roots of 'guys' though, other than that it's quite old now.

I used to think American English was 'wrong' - bad, lazy, whatever -
and I'd get angry if I heard the phrase 'Standard AMERICAN English'.
But after 10yrs of teaching it I've come to appreciate at least SOME of the ways you've 'streamlined' it.

So, how about 'trait' then? (As in: 'psychopathic personality traits').
Second 'T' ... silent or not?

Trait starts and ends with "T."

I honestly don't care how anyone speaks in a casual situation as long as I can follow what they're saying. I like when people with NO idea though speak in court and TRY to speak TOO properly and overdo the whole thing.

I'm pretty good at following anyone in a conversation though. I used to work in an area with a lot of European immigrants and had to translate their broken English all the time to people.

I still can't get used to referring to women as "you guys" or to a woman as "dude," but that's probably because I am over the age of 35.

Well that's totally wrong! It's "Dudettes" duh!!!!!!!!

ooops! . . .

The PM scenario doesn't necessarily account for the insults intended for the collective "you."