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« Reply #150 on: May 23, 2012, 07:34:25 am » |
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I will attempt to translate from "American" into English:
"Currently a part-time Home Guard Sergeant, on the dole also, as I just left the regular forces"
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« Reply #151 on: May 23, 2012, 08:34:03 am » |
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Currently a part-time Army National Guard NCO, also collecting unemployment because of leaving the active Army.
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"Currently a part-time Home Guard Sergeant, on the dole also, as I just left the regular forces"
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« Reply #152 on: May 23, 2012, 09:23:26 am » |
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« Reply #153 on: May 23, 2012, 09:29:22 am » |
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Dante Coal
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« Reply #154 on: September 13, 2012, 09:41:29 pm » |
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
I understand that there are certain 'professions' that are synonymous with the Steampunk culture, but i was wondering what else is out there...
Please Don't misunderstand me, I have no qualms with the archetypal Air Pirate or Intrepid Adventurer. Nor do i see a issue with the Scientists, Inventors or Mechanics. I understand that these sort of people not only fit in a Steampunk world, but to an extant, are needed. They have become such a main theme in the culture that it would be completely different without them.
I was simply curious as to what else people do.
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« Reply #155 on: September 13, 2012, 11:49:20 pm » |
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I write, though I'm not sure you could quite say I make a living at it, I do get by.
Normally the person who starts this sort of thread should go first though, so it's your turn.
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Visit my blog for the free web-serial, Orphans of the Celestial Sea, chronicling the the adventures of Tom Cain and his misfit crew as they seek to unravel the mysteries surrounding their airship Hecate and the plague of psychosis-inducing Mist which is slowly destroying human civilization. Episode 4 up now, at http://brassbolts.blogspot.com/ |
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« Reply #156 on: September 13, 2012, 11:55:20 pm » |
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I try to raise awareness for people living with mental disorders via my YouTube channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/InfiniCalendar?feature=mhee
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« Reply #157 on: September 14, 2012, 01:03:31 pm » |
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I'm tour driver for The Members & Rat Scabies. I come from a history of the 'other' type of punk and alternative music and I still go to a lot of shows. Next big driving job is the French, Italian, Swiss tour in November. I'm also a happy but unpaid chauffeur for my Mother-In-Law and her old 'cronies' when they go to thier regular clubs and bingo. I have to bite my tongue at some of the 'casual racism' inherent in people of a certain age but they can't help being born in another era. I'm the 'house husband' that does the cooking, washing etc. Although my arthritic wrists mean the ironing is a problem. Drip-dry and Stay-pressed are my favourite clothes labels. Apart from that I'm a complete wastrel.  |
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Dante Coal
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« Reply #158 on: September 14, 2012, 01:38:47 pm » |
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Ah yes, I suppose I should have shared a bit about myself first. My apologies.
Personally I am currently attending school for a degree in welding technologies, spending most of my time working at the college or trying to finally finish my motorcycle project. Aside from that i also write from time to time and fence with the SCA.
Though i think my question was taken the wrong way (not a problem, as the current discussion should be interesting as well), but i was more aiming at the "persona's" that it seems many members develop.
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« Reply #159 on: September 14, 2012, 10:48:56 pm » |
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A good many of us are simply us, being us, we never felt the need to develope a persona, just be our normal well rounded personalities. Rockula is a case in point, he is an eccentric but proper person not a character and feels very at home in the UK steampunk community because he can be himself, as we are all eccentrics at heart. Perhaps this is the wider British acceptance of eccentricity.
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« Reply #160 on: September 15, 2012, 04:42:33 am » |
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I am a customer service representative. It's a livin'... |
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« Reply #161 on: September 15, 2012, 07:59:50 am » |
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I'm a clerk at a pet store and work guest services at the National Civil War Museum, as well as still pulling the occasional odd job, largely in construction or landscaping.
I also have started my own business.
The way it is looking this week selling antiques, reenacting gear, and being a milliner is actually going to surpass my pay check from the pet store. If you factor in a trade valued at about $60, it may even surpass my pay from the museum. (neither is saying much...part-time just above minimum wage is hardly worth the trip to work)
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« Reply #162 on: September 15, 2012, 08:53:29 am » |
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I am a customer service representative. It's a livin'... Oh you poor damned soul! |
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« Reply #163 on: September 15, 2012, 09:38:31 am » |
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I'm a freelance emergency medical technician and volunteer firefighter, House builder and sometimes blacksmith.
and oddly enough, so is my persona, more or less. Or is it the other way around?
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« Reply #164 on: September 15, 2012, 11:53:35 am » |
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I'm a freelance emergency medical technician and volunteer firefighter, House builder and sometimes blacksmith.
and oddly enough, so is my persona, more or less. Or is it the other way around?
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« Reply #165 on: September 15, 2012, 04:08:02 pm » |
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Although my arthritic wrists mean the ironing is a problem. Drip-dry and Stay-pressed are my favourite clothes labels. You need to invent an automatic ironing system, based on a knitting machine system (or something of that ilk?) |
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« Reply #166 on: September 15, 2012, 04:25:41 pm » |
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I'm an artist, I make games.
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« Reply #167 on: September 15, 2012, 06:39:02 pm » |
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So it's every hand to his rope or gun, quick's the word and sharp's the action. After all... Surprise is on our side.
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« Reply #168 on: September 15, 2012, 07:11:29 pm » |
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Engineer (civil and structural). But in addition to this laptop, I carry enough in my briefcase to carry on should the current technology fail. Appropriate, since I started with that slide rule, paper (!) formula folders, portable tri-rule, and the like.
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« Reply #169 on: September 15, 2012, 09:49:09 pm » |
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« Reply #170 on: September 16, 2012, 12:59:11 am » |
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« Reply #171 on: September 16, 2012, 01:27:27 am » |
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None of my team are steampunks. Woe.
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« Reply #172 on: September 16, 2012, 01:50:23 am » |
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Americorps NCCC volunteer.
None of my team are steampunks. Woe.
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« Reply #173 on: September 16, 2012, 12:26:53 pm » |
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Americorps NCCC volunteer.
None of my team are steampunks. Woe.
... yet!Perhaps. Some are so deeply sunk into shameful pop-cultural infection as to be irredeemable. And, to be fair, I wouldn't want steampunks whose every other word is mothef***er. Quite, the correct steampunk term is matercopulator. I do dislike people who use the wrong word. |
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« Reply #174 on: September 16, 2012, 01:01:51 pm » |
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Actually the harshest word that should pass a gentleman's lips is "dash", as in "dash it all" - and I want all you motherdashers to remember that...
Seriously the fox-word predates us all.
One my favourite notations in the collected Kipling for "The M.I." is to fill the dashes in the verse 'as appropriate to the audience'.
Alright, after that tangent, I should contribute on track:
Fairley is a retired S'arnt-Major and Ordnance technician and budding author - I'm a few years and a few chapters short of both
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