Blindeye posted:

What about Milan, OH, pronounced My-Lan?

The US has proud traditions of loving up names and not bothering to correct people for it. My third-generation italian immigrant family stopped pronouncing their family name correctly in the 1960s.

d3lness posted:

In Providence, RI there is a Thames Street. Everybody pronounces it Thayms. I'll just leave here Worcester, MA and let the OSHA content be the bare knuckle brawl that is bound to break out.

sharkytm posted:

Char­gogg­a­gogg­man­chaugg­a­gogg­chau­bun­a­gung­a­maugg: pronounced Webster Lake because gently caress that

sharkytm posted:

Oh boy. New England is full of poo poo like that.
Warwick, RI: pronounced War-ick

Tyson Tomko posted:

Same here in Illinois with Cairo and El Dorado.

Sagebrush posted:

Come to beautiful Milan (mile-in), Ohio, birthplace of Thomas Edison

sharkytm posted:

Oh boy. New England is full of poo poo like that.
Warwick, RI: pronounced War-ick
Leominster, MA: pronounced Le-mon-ster
Billerica, MA: pronounced Bill-rick-a
Wareham, MA: pronounced Ware-um by many
Worcester, MA: pronounced incorrectly by all

Phanatic posted:

Versailles, Kentucky, gives me fits of rage every time I hear it pronounced.

(Vur-sales)

Bad Munki posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRCTc6stICc

MisterOblivious posted:

It's not his off color jokes that bother me, it's the holier-than-thou-art bullshit.
He literally used to pretend like he cared about the newbie that didn't know all the stupid technical euphemisms. All the "gotchas" every industry has to berate new folks. Those things you don't know until you're already in the industry.

Then. He invented his own. You literally can't watch one of his videos, excuse me Vijayoes, if you don't already know how to translate them into english. Every single video is jammed packed with a bunch of bullshit word-replacement that you literally need an AvE-to-English translator for. It's quite literally the exact thing he used to rant against.

I could give you a list of a dozen machinists, actual machinists, on youtube that don't need to make up their own language

KoRMaK posted:

d3lness posted:

So talking about RI reminded me of a past job there. In the office area, there were these tiny three foot long mini hallways that lead into each restroom. One of the restrooms on the top floor has a large breaker box sticking out of the wall right next to the entrance. People would routinely put their cups of drink and bottles on top of the breaker box. They eventually put a sign on it telling people to cut the crap. Nobody ever stopped putting their drinks on it. Still hasn't been an accident to this day that I'm aware of somehow.

sharkytm posted:

Oh boy. New England is full of poo poo like that.
Warwick, RI: pronounced War-ick
Leominster, MA: pronounced Le-mon-ster
Billerica, MA: pronounced Bill-rick-a
Wareham, MA: pronounced Ware-um by many
Worcester, MA: pronounced incorrectly by all

Wingnut Ninja posted:

Guys, it's only your food that you're supposed to hang up while camping so that bears don't get into it. This is going way overboard.

Cartoon Man posted:

doubletake.gif

https://i.imgur.com/5x5A297.gifv

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Hello. As a former Oklahoma resident, I'd like to ask what the gently caress this rear end in a top hat is doing outside in that weather.

Splode posted:

Getting ready to go to Oz

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Hello. As a former Oklahoma resident, I'd like to ask what the gently caress this rear end in a top hat is doing outside in that weather.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Hello. As a former Oklahoma resident, I'd like to ask what the gently caress this rear end in a top hat is doing outside in that weather.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Hello. As a former Oklahoma resident, I'd like to ask what the gently caress this rear end in a top hat is doing outside in that weather.

Warthog posted:

I bought a multimeter based on EEV's recomendation but I loving hate his voice.

PathAsc posted:

Storm beers and watching the poo poo roll in is more important than staying alive

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Oqfhey9.mp4

Hector Delgado posted:

Yeah this is a friendship ender, no way would I put up with some Jackass bullshit like this.

MisterOblivious posted:

Uhhh, if AvE is is a homophobe that's a whole different conversation than I've been a part of. I was talking about his earlier stuff.
Please don't drag me in to that. I have my own problems with his modern videos.

OR: I'm possibly missing your point completely, again. Post/Username.

I grew up in an area of poorly translated French words for Native American names.

I'm from a place called La Qui Parle. We undoubtedly pronounce it wrong, in French. We have our own pronunciation in English. It's the Lutefisk Captial of the World. In the French translation of the native name it means something like "lake that speaks" which I guess means we kill a lot of geese there every year. No seriously, "Lake That Speaks" means we have a lot of geese on the lake and we want to make those loving speaking geese shut the hell up with our shotguns because gently caress GEESE."


Seriously. Goose killing is a serious business here. You literally rent land for decades in prime goose killing land if you can, and buy specialized goose killing guns, and pay extra for the permit to kill geese there, and set out goose decoys so you can kill goose easier. It's like the goon-ideal. We would do everything in our power to legally kill as many geese as legal. (never enough)

boar guy posted:

looks incredibly staged, though

Lobsterboy posted:

I had a buddy from Ohio move out to OK for a job with Boeing, and he said that his apartment neighbors took pity on him and invited him over to their storm watching parties, which included many beers and porch / patio chairs. He explained it as, 'they know whats coming for them and what isn't.' Sounds fun (and terrifying).