Large Scale Central

Why? The English language is groaning!

General Discussion
#1

I have been getting a lot of train advertisements on the regular internet for American Flyer, Lionel, Marx (Allstate), MTH, K-Line, and New Blight. Every one of these ads is preferenced with the word vintage. Seems to me, at least, that these sellers have worn this adjetive out! Are people no longer creative enough to come up with other descriptive terms?

Vexed, David Meashey

1 Like
#2

Yep. The Facebook Large Scale Swap and Shop specifically bans the words rare, vintage and collectors item in for sale posts because they are so misused.

Get ready for the AI ads that have a totally wrong AI generated photo.

My Brother and Sister in Law have recently started sharing a lot of posts from a Buffalo History page. While the text is nearly always a true account of some historical local fact, the accompanying generated photos are either totally wrong or misleading.

I really wish they would completely ban AI posts from the internet, but we know that will not happen.

2 Likes
#3

New Blight, that’s a good one. :wink:

I’ll add the word “rare” to the list, especially on ebay, and all its stupid variants like

LOOK!!! RARE!!!<<<<<<

#4

Hi Dave,
Today I bought a can of Krylon spray paint. Its color? Matte Vintage Gray.

Pray tell, what’s vintage about gray?

Cheers,
Matt

1 Like
#5

Dave, I now live on the coast, but it has always pissed me off that every single sign offering pescatarian delights proudly proclaims FRESH SEAFOOD .

That was until I went to our local pub in Broken Hill, about as far away from the ocean as you can get by car. The pub menu proudly proclaimed: “We serve the freshest thawed seafood in town!”

Of course, I have eaten SURSTRÖMMING: rare, fermented, highly experienced aged Baltic herring . In other words, fish so thoroughly matured that your neighbour down the street can tell you’ve just opened the can.

So I’ve gotten over my pet peeve about FRESH SEAFOOD , but you’ve got me thinking about other sales tactics that could be used by fishmongers:

  • Shortly Deceased Fish
  • Previously Self-Propelled
  • Never Frozen, Just Emotionally Chilled
  • Currently at Its Best
  • Seafood With Limited Land Experience

But Dave, you’ve asked for advice…

Perhaps the model train sellers could take a few lessons from the food industry:

  • From the Era Before Everything Had Bluetooth
  • Gently Aged by Several Decades of Attic Storage
  • Classic, Assuming You Define “Classic” Rather Loosely
  • Period-Correct-ish
  • Heritage Grade
  • Pre-Digital Rolling Stock
  • Historically Adjacent
  • Matured in a Basement for 30 Years
  • Previously Operated by a Child Who Is Now 83
  • Estate-Aged; Outlived Several Owners
  • Retro, But Only Because We Say So
#6

Matt, when you get older and your hair colour changes, you could just change your name to Matte, and we will all nod knowingly. :crazy_face:

1 Like
#7

You do have to read between the lines. If Miss Jenny is selling her dead grandfather’s trains, and she says “I don’t know if it runs”, probably the truth. But if Mr, HO is selling a train and says “I don’t know if it runs”, that means he spent at least an hour fussing with it and couldn’t make it move.

#8

[/quote]

Of course, I have eaten SURSTRÖMMING: rare, fermented, highly experienced aged Baltic herring . In other words, fish so thoroughly matured that your neighbour down the street can tell you’ve just opened the can.

[/quote]

Bill, just for you

https://youtu.be/nJZYieU6Cgw?is=qPLVwNWAMiUhecFn

#9

Thanks Vic!

…and while the Swedes ate their Surströmming with vodka or apple juice, Coca-Cola and beer was made available for us (the uninitiated).

You know Vic, the CO₂ in those lightly carbonated beverages don’t get absorbed, and trapped gas bubbles tend to escape from one end or the another…

Don’t take my word for it, you can get Sürstromming here and they have a challenge pack.

BTW… When’s pizza night again? I’ll bring the beer.