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carpet professioanlly installed
In those circumstances stales, the fee is usually higher than if it was installed by a non-professional. Oft times the results are the same.
What does a car being professionally detailed mean?
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Hey this is odd. My post appeared twice with the same info in it and when I tried to delete one post an empty box showed up instead. Oh well.
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re "Detailed"
Must be a local term....means getting some guy to give your car the big once over. Wash, polish, vacuum, clean the engine & engine bay etc etc. Costs PP$150 - PP$200 (PP = Pacific Peso, ie the A$) so usually reserved for the day before you sell the car!
What's this process called elsewhere - may I suggest another thread as it has nothing to do with the professional theme.
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I agree with wsieber - the word has become so commonplace as to be meaningless.Precisely why I asked you folks' opinion redarding its meaning! Being single, I am given to reading the "lonely hearts" adverts, wherein one is bombarded with women writing hackneyed phrases such as "Professional, attractive divorced female, loves dining, dancing, walks on the beach..." So, she's professionally attractive? (A hooker, perhaps) Or professionally divorced? (A gold digger, perchance?) Sounds like the type to avoid, to me!  Thanks to all for your insights! Geoff
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stales, I have never heard that before! Where did it come from, she said, rather dreading the answer?
And as to detailing--that is used here, too, for what you explained it as, but you need to have a context for it, because it can also mean one of those decorative paint jobs
on vehicles.
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members of the ancient "learned professions."
Them'd be *learnéd professionals, Geoff. And I disagree that the term has become meaningless. Call learnéd professional a retronym, if you will. To me, a professional is someone who gets paid to do something others often do for free or the love (amateur) of doing it. You rarely hear of professional garbage collectors (dustmen) because nobody would do that simply for the love of the job. Professional tennis players, yes, because many do it simply for the love of the sport.
My pululation and micturation on the word professional is in the opposite direction. That would be saying that minor league baseball players, e.g., are *not professional.
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That would be the US gom'nt folks!
The US Federal Wages and Hours people class reporters as "Exempt Professionals" meaning we got paid overtime for any work done after the 40 hour work-week.
How-some-ever,as an Editor - Professional - I got NO overtime pay for putting in nearly twice the hours and -fer' sure- twice the work, I was "salaried."
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okay, so major-and-minor league ballplayers are professionals, 'cuz they get paid. little leaguers and HS/college players are (supposedly) amateurs. and then there are semiprofessionals -- used to wonder what the heck *that meant (only being half-good and half-paid?). around here there are a lot of semipros playing 'town ball'. they get paid but it ain't their full-time occupation.
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geoff, the best person i met via a personal ad, was the guy who placed it the week he was un employeed--and said "un employed" by the time i met him, he had a job, but he said response to his ad was very low..
in personal ads, "professional" mean a person who has (or who thinks they have!) a "better" job.. as pointed out, there are no professional garbage collectors (dustmen) because no one would think to do it for a hobby. and a cashiering at a local food store? in the same catagory as garbage men.
i actually think is it sad. plumbers, electricians, telephone line managers, welders, -- any number of professions require intellect, even if they are physical work. but there exist a bias against them. women who call them selves professional are advertizing to say, i am not interested in anyone--i am only interested in meeting people with white collar jobs.. (or I am a snob and a bit of gold digger, i have a job, but i want to meet met men who earn even more money than i do, and i want them to spend a good portion on me!)
you should learn who's is the resident match maker here at AWAD, and get them working for you... met another word lover-- you'll start out with 2 things in common, love of words and AWAD...
its not me!, and i am not in the market for someone!
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