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Title: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: vladdd309 on 22 February 2015, 10:07:32 PM
Hello all,

Long time lurker, long time gamer here from Aberdeen (top right hand bit of Britain where all the oil workers travel too.)  I registered on the forum a while ago, but hadn't gotten round to posting yet, until now!

I'm a big fan of the Pendraken range and have a ton of (partially) painted ECW, Punic Wars and, most recently, early western from WWI.  Just picked up the Warband rules, so my regular gaming buddy and I are about to embark on yet another project and build some fantasy armies! Most looking forward to the new Undead range!

Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Luddite on 22 February 2015, 10:09:34 PM
Welcome vlad.   :-h
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Westmarcher on 22 February 2015, 10:25:10 PM
Hullaw rerr, Vladdd (the laddd?).  :-h
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Fenton on 22 February 2015, 10:33:54 PM
Welcome
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: getagrip on 22 February 2015, 10:49:27 PM
Welcome aboard Vlad  ;)
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: fsn on 22 February 2015, 10:52:34 PM
Evening Vlad.
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Techno on 22 February 2015, 11:06:54 PM
Welcome, Vlad !
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 23 February 2015, 12:13:35 AM
Hello and welcome Vlad! :)
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Leon on 23 February 2015, 01:47:09 AM
Hi Vlad, welcome to the Forum!

8)
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: jambo1 on 23 February 2015, 06:27:22 AM
Welcome to the forum :)
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Maenoferren on 23 February 2015, 07:07:33 AM
What ho...welcome aboard.
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Leman on 23 February 2015, 07:49:57 AM
Hello Vlad and welcome to our lair. We are only open from dusk till dawn.
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 23 February 2015, 08:01:26 AM
And now we get bloody bagpies......


Hi

IanS  ;)
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 23 February 2015, 08:04:59 AM
Ian, you need to get into Martyn Bennett!
http://youtu.be/Kd43h_y5xnU
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: SV52 on 23 February 2015, 10:38:26 AM
Fit like loon? A welcome from Banchory.  ;)
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Hertsblue on 23 February 2015, 10:47:34 AM
Hi Vladd - you're no relation to that Transylvanian chap, are you?
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Fenton on 23 February 2015, 10:50:27 AM
I knew a Vlad once

Vlad the Impala, he was a deer friend

Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Westmarcher on 23 February 2015, 11:11:24 AM
Quote from: Westmarcher on 22 February 2015, 10:25:10 PM
Hullaw rerr, Vladdd (the laddd?).  :-h

Sorry, watching Trawlermen and subsequently realised I should have said, "Ay ay, fit like, Valid Vladdd?"* (bloody autocorrect .. mutter .. snazzle . razzle ..)

Valid (grrrr....) Vladdd, is there still a hotel in Aberdeen that has an automated voice that says, "Gyaun Up" (for "Going Up") and "Gyaun Doun" (for ... well .. figure it out)?
:)

*[apparently for folks like me, the answer is 'furry boots']
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: getagrip on 23 February 2015, 11:11:40 AM
Quote from: Fenton on 23 February 2015, 10:50:27 AM
I know a Vlad once

Vlad the Impala, he was a deer friend



;D ;D ;D

Well let's not buck the trend for finding gags from nowehere
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Westmarcher on 23 February 2015, 11:13:16 AM
D'oh! #-o


Where's 'nowehere?'
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Forez42 on 23 February 2015, 03:39:39 PM
Welcom to the forum.
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: TONTON FLINGUEUR on 23 February 2015, 04:47:47 PM
Welcome to this forum
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Steve J on 23 February 2015, 06:59:49 PM
Welcome on board.
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: paulr on 23 February 2015, 07:10:22 PM
Quote from: Hertsblue on 23 February 2015, 10:47:34 AM
Hi Vladd - you're no relation to that Transylvanian chap, are you?

Over 12 hours of restraint,  this must be a serious forum  ;D ;D ;D

Or is it the new rules imposed by the Dark Lord :-\ ;)
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Vamboozle on 23 February 2015, 07:34:31 PM
Hello and welcome Vlad.

Oddly enough I'm a red card carrying member of the Aberdeen FC supporters club.......despite being from Sussex, as English as they come, never even been to Aberdeen and a rugby fan (what is this fascination with a round ball). Long story but always fun when they ring every year to try to sell me a season ticket.
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Orcs on 24 February 2015, 07:23:32 AM
Welcome to the madhouse
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: GordonY on 24 February 2015, 07:51:00 AM
Fit Like is more of a Fifer thingy, just across the water from me in Boanie Dundee (Sunshine Capital of Scotland).

Ye ken fit they say aboot Fifers dunt ye? Shoart Aerms and deep pockets!
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 08:06:18 AM
Quote from: GordonY on 24 February 2015, 07:51:00 AM
Fit Like is more of a Fifer thingy, just across the water from me in Boanie Dundee (Sunshine Capital of Scotland).

Ye ken fit they say aboot Fifers dunt ye? Shoart Aerms and deep pockets!

Why do Scots say how instead of why? :-\
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: SV52 on 24 February 2015, 10:14:31 AM
Quote from: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 08:06:18 AM
Why do Scots say how instead of why? :-\

Ah dinnae unnerstan' tha'
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 10:19:48 AM
Quote from: SV52 on 24 February 2015, 10:14:31 AM
Ah dinnae unnerstan' tha'

As in:

I'm not going out tonight.
How no?  (Why not).

Never understood where that comes form??? :-\
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Westmarcher on 24 February 2015, 10:33:57 AM
Quote from: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 10:19:48 AM

Never understood where that comes form??? :-\

Scotland?
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Ithoriel on 24 February 2015, 10:58:09 AM
Quote from: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 10:19:48 AM
Never understood where that comes form??? :-\

How no?

Quote from: GordonY on 24 February 2015, 07:51:00 AM
Fit Like is more of a Fifer thingy, just across the water from me in Boanie Dundee (Sunshine Capital of Scotland).

Ye ken fit they say aboot Fifers dunt ye? Shoart Aerms and deep pockets!

I've only ever heard "fit like" said seriously by Aberdonians. Often "Fit like loon?" (or "Fit like quine?" to a woman)

As a Fifer who lived in Yorkshire for four years I'd say the two have much in common:

    "Hear all, see all, say nowt! Eat all, drink all, pay nowt!" :)

Scottish dialects are hard to understand? Aye, right! Naw they're no!

Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 11:31:51 AM
Quote from: Westmarcher on 24 February 2015, 10:33:57 AM
Scotland?

;D

Quote from: Ithoriel on 24 February 2015, 10:58:09 AM
How no?


;D =D>

No-one can bloody explain it though :-\
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Ithoriel on 24 February 2015, 11:39:36 AM
Quote from: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 11:31:51 AM
No-one can bloody explain it though :-\

What's to explain? It's what's said. It's no more or less sensible than the assemblage of sounds that make up "why not?" or "pourquois pas?"
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 11:45:45 AM
Quote from: Ithoriel on 24 February 2015, 11:39:36 AM
What's to explain? It's what's said. It's no more or less sensible than the assemblage of sounds that make up "why not?" or "pourquois pas?"

Don't agree; the dialect uses two words, which Scottish people otherwise use accurately, in an inaccurate way.

That makes it worthy of an explanation.  I take your point though that such an explanation may be lost in time :-\
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: SV52 on 24 February 2015, 11:54:55 AM
Quote from: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 11:45:45 AM
Don't agree; the dialect uses two words, which Scottish people otherwise use accurately, in an inaccurate way.

That makes it worthy of an explanation.  I take your point though that such an explanation may be lost in time :-\

You make a massive assumption and generalisation that all Scots speak or use the same dialect.  That is far from the case, just as it is in the rest of the UK; e.g. where I hail from 'How no?' isn't used, rather 'Whit wye no?'
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Ithoriel on 24 February 2015, 11:58:08 AM
Quote from: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 11:45:45 AM
Don't agree; the dialect uses two words, which Scottish people otherwise use accurately, in an inaccurate way.

... and there's your problem :)

"Scottish people" speak several different dialects and those (mainly those from the West Coast/ Glasgow) who say "how?" or "how no?" will use that form all or most of the time.

Some of us may use the term for effect, of course.

Particularly when talking to Weegies or English people :)
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 11:59:00 AM
Quote from: SV52 on 24 February 2015, 11:54:55 AM
You make a massive assumption and generalisation that all Scots speak or use the same dialect.  That is far from the case, just as it is in the rest of the UK; e.g. where I hail from 'How no?' isn't used, rather 'Whit wye no?'

Yeah, did come across like that. ;)

Some of the Scots I've met say it and I'm curious as to why?
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: FierceKitty on 24 February 2015, 12:02:53 PM
I wish someone would give me a hint how to let my Glaswegian colleague know that I have no @#%$% interest in metaphysics, Theosophy, the international mega-industrial-military conspiracy, or Chinese herbalism. Plain statement doesn't have any effect, and satire passes unnoticed by that deadly Scottish earnestness.
I don't want to offend him, but if I have to ride the coach back to town once more with a near-unintelligible Celt gibbering in my ear about how much more sense the world will make to me when I give up logic, I may have a Haggicide on my conscience.
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 12:03:20 PM
Quote from: Ithoriel on 24 February 2015, 11:58:08 AM
... and there's your problem :)

"Scottish people" speak several different dialects and those (mainly those from the West Coast/ Glasgow) who say "how?" or "how no?" will use that form all or most of the time.

Some of us may use the term for effect, of course.

Particularly when talking to Weegies or English people :)

Yeah, get it completely ;) but it's a very strange grammatical construct. :-\
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: SV52 on 24 February 2015, 12:10:04 PM
I've just realised that as this discussion (no matter how interesting it may be) has nothing to do with the OP, it's a bit of a hijack so no more from me :-[
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Ithoriel on 24 February 2015, 12:11:11 PM
Logic, FK, is much overrated. It is the attempt to overlay structure and meaning on a world that is random and chaotic, to construct a framework with which to navigate the nothingness and void that is existence ....

WILL YOU SHUT THE F**K UP YOU WEEGIE TOSSER!!! <glasgow kiss>

That should do it :D
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 12:12:42 PM
Quote from: Ithoriel on 24 February 2015, 12:11:11 PM
Logic, FK, is much overrated. It is the attempt to overlay structure and meaning on a world that is random and chaotic, to construct a framework with which to navigate the nothingness and void that is existence ....

WILL YOU SHUT THE F**K UP YOU WEEGIE TOSSER!!! <glasgow kiss>

That should do it :D

;D ;D ;D

If that's not a hijack I don't know what is ;)
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Ithoriel on 24 February 2015, 12:15:00 PM
Oh ... wait ... this is an introduction thread .... err ... Hi Jack!
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: vladdd309 on 25 February 2015, 09:50:47 AM
Thanks for the welcomes everyone!

And thanks for letting me know the standard of banter your get on here!

Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: nikharwood on 25 February 2015, 11:07:39 AM
Welcome, Vlad  :)
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 25 February 2015, 11:08:34 AM
Quote from: vladdd309 on 25 February 2015, 09:50:47 AM

And thanks for letting me know the standard of banter your get on here!

Terrible in it. Just remember don't  mention a 1950's British Tank, or a human sacrificing American tribe and you should survive...

IanS  :D
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Vamboozle on 25 February 2015, 07:40:14 PM
Conqueror and Mayans?  #:-S
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 25 February 2015, 07:57:31 PM
You're getting the idea! ;D ;)
Title: Re: Hello from the Granite City
Post by: getagrip on 25 February 2015, 08:06:31 PM
Quote from: Vamboozle on 25 February 2015, 07:40:14 PM
Conqueror and Mayans?  #:-S

No, chie...Oh, wait, I see what you did  =D>