All its equipment was spotless and functional, unlike most places, where they have a minimum of working equipment, the infrastructure is crumbling, and unloading is done by "lumpers," independent contractors who work for cash, without benefits or insurance. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There, it's said that there are two types of biologist: the "lumpers" and the "splitters". ❋ Unknown (2005)
There had been heroism in the passive struggle of six months before, when the seamen left the boats at the wharves for the sake of others and when the "lumpers" threw their coats over their shoulders and stood by the seamen and when the miners came up from the mines so that no coal should go to help fight comrades they had never seen. ❋ John Maurice Miller (N/A)
Six lumpers at the warehouse filed a class-action lawsuit on the heels of the state investigation. ❋ Unknown (2011)
"By the end of the day, your body hurts so bad," says Dickerson, who was among a small minority of females working as lumpers at the warehouse. ❋ Unknown (2011)
And, last of all, are the unskilled laborers, the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the ditch-diggers, the men of pick and shovel, the helpers, lumpers, roustabouts. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But on most days the warehouse teemed with lumpers, many of them wearing different colored t-shirts to signify the different agencies they worked for. ❋ Unknown (2011)
As one of the relatively few female lumpers, she says she was often fending off crude overtures from male co-workers. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A little later, in another department of the Wilmax Cannery, lumping as a fruit-distributor among the women, he essayed to carry two boxes of fruit at a time, and was promptly reproached by the other fruit-lumpers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
His pay had risen to $14 an hour -- still not a living wage for the area by some measures, but more than many lumpers will ever see. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Officials allege most of the lumpers were being paid on a piece rate plan that many of them couldn't understand, in what officials have described as a "concerted effort" to cheat the workers out of their wages. ❋ Unknown (2011)
"In this world, there are lumpers and splitters people who are fine with finding important overall pieces and people who try to identify every subgroup imaginable, like they're botanists looking for new plant species," Mr. Munkacsi said. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But then, this sounds like the taxonomists "lumpers and splitters" argument and just respectfully disagree with the central tenet that "novelist" is sufficient to describe the range of new writing, while at the same time agreeing that experimental is in no way an effective or useful term. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I think the hairless apes are lumpers or sorters by nature, and that most of us have never come to terms with the wisdom of insecurity. ❋ Steve Perry (2009)
Biologists are sometimes divided into sorters or lumpers, which speaks to how they classify things -- kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, as I recall. ❋ Steve Perry (2009)
But there is less criticism of those systematists termed ‘lumpers’: those who synonymise species and/or genera and are prepared to accept considerable variation within their concept of species and genera. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)
It is often written that hominin taxonomy is contentious, with “lumpers” and “splitters” arguing about where to draw lines and what counts as a fossil “species.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
With that framing, my wild speculations on power relationships seems a lot more demanding, disregarding the lumpers vs splitters ideas. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The lumpers are those biologists who try to lump together as many sub-species into a single unit as possible; whereas the splitters are those who think that there's at least two groups of lumper. ❋ Unknown (2005)
I delivered to a shit hole [grocery] [warehouse] and they didnt even have any [lumpers] to hire. ❋ SirDiesAlot (2008)
The guy is a [gypsy] [of sorts], and finds occasional work as a lumper at truck stops across [the nation]. ❋ Etch (2007)
[The trucker] didn't have a lot of time to spend [unloading] his haul, so he gave he [lumper] a blowjob so he would unload the trailer more quickly. ❋ El Duce (2004)
PERSON1: [Do you] think he is [cute]?
PERSON2: Yeah, in a lumper [way]. ❋ Valenciaroolz (2007)
[Tim] was so [excited] that he went to pass-gas, and to his [suprise], felt a "lumper". ❋ KMA (2004)
Lumpers are [poeple] who "[lump]" you into their [distribution] list when sending jokes and other viral email. ❋ Susana Avila (MK) (2009)
"That's [a funny] [lumper]!"
"You're such a funny lumper."
"[I love] my funny lumper!" ❋ Maaan (2006)
Wow, rebel [wolf] really [lumps] [funk]. Such a funk lumper ❋ MrGingerRock (2022)
