Question about Amish Culture

• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  RAKE FIGHT!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• THE4RINGZ

  

  I see the rake fight is at Old Man Yoder's Barn. In the Amish culture you would have to be more specific, say something like "the fight is at Eli Yoder's Barn, that is Jacob, Noah's, Eli." Unless this old man Yoder has a nickname like Roofer Eli, then people would know who you are referring to. If you leave it at Old Man Yoder's Barn as the location of the fight, people will show up at about 23 different barns to try to see the fight.
• FatHobbit

  

  majorspark;977604 wrote:Speaking the traditional language is very big to them. Even those that have left the Amish teach their children "dutch" as we call it.

  Actually dutch is Deustch (German) with a lot of Bavarian mixed in. My dad is friends with a bunch of Amish and my wife speaks Bavarian and German so they are all shocked when she can talk to them.
  

  majorspark;977604 wrote:But when you can understand enough to be dangerous you can really mess with them.

  The look on their faces when she starts talking to them is priceless.
• Bigdogg

  We have had a Amish cleaning lady for the past several years. We have been to Amish weddings and their culture is very interesting. I still struggle with Christmas presents. They give us sweet rolls. We usually give them gift baskets of tea and candy. Any other suggestions?
• Sykotyk

  

  LJ;977209 wrote:What part of WNY?

  
  Somewhere near Randolph, I believe.
  
  As for Amish, my dad gets his firewood from a mill a few miles from his house. My one aunt's family used to be Amish (that was when she was a kid) but has a lot of family members that are still Amish that I've visited at times during big family outings. The one funny thing is 'shunning'. Some Amish do it, others don't. My friend has only seen his parents once after leaving. That was a year or two ago (this was 7 or 8 years after leaving) and he was accepted with open arms. EXCEPT he couldn't sit at the table for dinner. He sat at a separate table/shelf/etc in the kitchen.
  
  He's had a few brothers or sisters leave, but a few are steadfast Amish and try like crazy to 'bring them back' to the way. So, he tends to keep his distance from those ones.
• Mr. 300

  

  Love the nicknames....my dad was born in Mt Hope.....gpa's was "piney", dad's was "yowzer", uncle was "lefty".....I'm Yowzer's Matt.
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  THE4RINGZ;977754 wrote:I see the rake fight is at Old Man Yoder's Barn. In the Amish culture you would have to be more specific, say something like "the fight is at Eli Yoder's Barn, that is Jacob, Noah's, Eli." Unless this old man Yoder has a nickname like Roofer Eli, then people would know who you are referring to. If you leave it at Old Man Yoder's Barn as the location of the fight, people will show up at about 23 different barns to try to see the fight.

  I'm sorry. I thought it was pretty self explanatory that each Old Man Yoder was having their weekly Friday Night Rake Fight. I mean, that is what Amish people only do, right?
• password

  

  Bigdogg;977805 wrote:We have had a Amish cleaning lady for the past several years. We have been to Amish weddings and their culture is very interesting. I still struggle with Christmas presents. They give us sweet rolls. We usually give them gift baskets of tea and candy. Any other suggestions?

  Condoms
• 1_beast

  

  Sam Mullet and his crew may be coming for you....keep fucking around
  
  
  
  
• FatHobbit

  

  1_beast;977970 wrote:Sam Mullet and his crew may be coming for you....keep fucking around
  
  
  
  

  The guy in the top right looks like grumpy
• Timber

  Last year around this time my daughter's pre-school class was working on learning about Thanksgiving and the traditions involved. My wife took her shopping out to Western T-County and Holmes County. She asked my wife why all the Pilgims were here. LOL... Priceless
• THE4RINGZ

  

  Timber;978035 wrote:Last year around this time my daughter's pre-school class was working on learning about Thanksgiving and the traditions involved. My wife took her shopping out to Western T-County and Holmes County. She asked my wife why all the Pilgims were here. LOL... Priceless

  That is funny.