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Post by Bannanachair on Mar 6, 2018 12:22:40 GMT -4
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Post by Bannanachair on Mar 6, 2018 12:36:44 GMT -4
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Post by Bannanachair on Mar 6, 2018 12:56:08 GMT -4
"What do you call a drive-through liquor store?"
Why the fuck is that a thing? It is literally encouraging drunk driving. It is the most idiotic thing I have ever heard of.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 13:20:45 GMT -4
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Post by Bannanachair on Mar 6, 2018 13:24:25 GMT -4
I looked at your least popular map and despite my results I have no term for when the rain falls and the sun is shining. It tends to produce a spectrum of light (due to the raindrops refracting the sunlight) that I refer to as a "rainbow", but that refers specifically to the refracted light caused by the weather phenomenon and not the whether phenomenon itself. Edit: The California part is probably Hollywood's fault, by the way. Everyone probably has a bit of LA slang just due to where all the movies and television we watch are made: You know that beeping sound that a phone makes when the other person hangs up? Yeah, that doesn't happen in real life, only in movies, unless you happen to live in LA or the immediately surrounding counties. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Mar 6, 2018 13:29:47 GMT -4
Also, why do you have a word for the night before Halloween? That's like having a special word for the 23rd of December, Christmas Eve Eve. Halloween itself is the night before a holiday (All Saints Day, or All Hallows Day, with Halloween being a shortening of Hallows Eve). This isn't a criticism, it's actual legitimate curiosity: What about where you live gave rise to the night before the night before a medieval Catholic holiday mostly celebrated by people in central Europe having its own name? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 13:30:13 GMT -4
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 13:31:51 GMT -4
Also, why do you have a word for the night before Halloween? That's like having a special word for the 23rd of December, Christmas Eve Eve. Halloween itself is the night before a holiday (All Saints Day, or All Hallows Day, with Halloween being a shortening of Hallows Eve). Teenagers go out and smash pumpkins sometimes. It's why my parents never put ours out until Halloween; one year they got squashed in the road overnight. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 13:34:19 GMT -4
I looked at your least popular map and despite my results I have no term for when the rain falls and the sun is shining. It tends to produce a spectrum of light (due to the raindrops refracting the sunlight) that I refer to as a "rainbow", but that refers specifically to the refracted light caused by the weather phenomenon and not the whether phenomenon itself. Yeah, same. Phones only make booping sounds when you call someone and they haven't picked up yet. I was always confused why television and movies had that at the end of a call. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Mar 6, 2018 13:36:06 GMT -4
If you look at the heat-map it's only slightly more California than Detroit. That said, why do you call sneakers tennis shoes? I'd use the term tennis shoes only when describing shoes that were specifically designed for tennis, just like how my brother's basketball shoes were designed specifically for basketball (they have high ankles and other stuff) and my golf shoes are designed specifically for golf (they have spikes in them that allow for a better stance). How do you distinguish shoes designed specifically for tennis from your generic rubber-soled shoe commonly used for athletic activity? |
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Post by Bannanachair on Mar 6, 2018 13:36:55 GMT -4
I looked at your least popular map and despite my results I have no term for when the rain falls and the sun is shining. It tends to produce a spectrum of light (due to the raindrops refracting the sunlight) that I refer to as a "rainbow", but that refers specifically to the refracted light caused by the weather phenomenon and not the whether phenomenon itself. Yeah, same. Phones only make booping sounds when you call someone and they haven't picked up yet. I was always confused why television and movies had that at the end of a call. Movies are made in California, and that's a thing unique to the area around Los Angeles and Burbank. |
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Post by Benzo on Mar 6, 2018 13:40:42 GMT -4
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 13:46:35 GMT -4
If you look at the heat-map it's only slightly more California than Detroit. That said, why do you call sneakers tennis shoes? I'd use the term tennis shoes only when describing shoes that were specifically designed for tennis, just like how my brother's basketball shoes were designed specifically for basketball (they have high ankles and other stuff) and my golf shoes are designed specifically for golf (they have spikes in them that allow for a better stance). How do you distinguish shoes designed specifically for tennis from your generic rubber-soled shoe commonly used for athletic activity? It's kind of a funny story, actually. Tennis shoes isn't even what I call them; it's just the closest to it. I was raised calling them tennishoes. No separation. For the longest time I thought it was just one word. And it really doesn't make sense to call them all tennis shoes. They're not all for tennis. But tennishoes makes perfect sense, because it's one word and it's what my mom always called them. Of course, by now, I've thought about it and realized it was incorrect to use it as one word (I figured out a while ago that spell check doesn't think it's real), so for most purposes, I just call them shoes and don't make a distinction. I answered that question that way because they were asking about those shoes in particular, so I made the distinction this time. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Mar 6, 2018 13:47:52 GMT -4
The only thing that your map tells me is that you're not from Louisiana. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Mar 6, 2018 13:50:42 GMT -4
If you look at the heat-map it's only slightly more California than Detroit. That said, why do you call sneakers tennis shoes? I'd use the term tennis shoes only when describing shoes that were specifically designed for tennis, just like how my brother's basketball shoes were designed specifically for basketball (they have high ankles and other stuff) and my golf shoes are designed specifically for golf (they have spikes in them that allow for a better stance). How do you distinguish shoes designed specifically for tennis from your generic rubber-soled shoe commonly used for athletic activity? It's kind of a funny story, actually. Tennis shoes isn't even what I call them; it's just the closest to it. I was raised calling them tennishoes. No separation. For the longest time I thought it was just one word. And it really doesn't make sense to call them all tennis shoes. They're not all for tennis. But tennishoes makes perfect sense, because it's one word and it's what my mom always called them. Of course, by now, I've thought about it and realized it was incorrect to use it as one word (I figured out a while ago that spell check doesn't think it's real), so for most purposes, I just call them shoes and don't make a distinction. I answered that question that way because they were asking about those shoes in particular, so I made the distinction this time. In fairness all shoes have funny names. Flip-flops and sandals, oxfords and derbies with brogues, spectator shoes, penny loafers and monk straps, and that's just men's shoes, not even getting into boots. |
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Post by Benzo on Mar 6, 2018 13:53:21 GMT -4
The only thing that your map tells me is that you're not from Louisiana. Really? It's clearly darkest in Wisconsin and northern/central Illinois. Although there definitely is a lot of red just in general. Which I suppose makes sense since the Midwest sucks and just blurs together as corn state after corn state. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 13:56:09 GMT -4
It's kind of a funny story, actually. Tennis shoes isn't even what I call them; it's just the closest to it. I was raised calling them tennishoes. No separation. For the longest time I thought it was just one word. And it really doesn't make sense to call them all tennis shoes. They're not all for tennis. But tennishoes makes perfect sense, because it's one word and it's what my mom always called them. Of course, by now, I've thought about it and realized it was incorrect to use it as one word (I figured out a while ago that spell check doesn't think it's real), so for most purposes, I just call them shoes and don't make a distinction. I answered that question that way because they were asking about those shoes in particular, so I made the distinction this time. In fairness all shoes have funny names. Flip-flops and sandals, oxfords and derbies with brogues, spectator shoes, penny loafers and monk straps, and that's just men's shoes, not even getting into boots. The only ones I'm familiar with from those are flip-flops and sandals. The rest sound like you took them from old-fashioned Britain or something. Also, there are lots of boot names that make sense: Hiking boot Work boot Rain boot ...Boot Okay, the word boot itself does sound a little funny. But the modifiers make sense. |
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Post by Duck14 on Mar 6, 2018 19:46:12 GMT -4
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Post by Baise-moi on Mar 6, 2018 20:44:11 GMT -4
Wisconsin or Minneapolis for me.
Granted it auto-skipped two questions for whatever reason, but I doubt it'd have changed much.
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Post by Tikobe on Mar 7, 2018 0:56:19 GMT -4
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Post by Tikobe on Mar 7, 2018 0:58:37 GMT -4
And for some reason it's showing Tim's. Oh well, you're just gonna have to take my word that it's suppose to be Long Beach, Glendale and Corona. |
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Post by Duck14 on Mar 7, 2018 1:00:07 GMT -4
And for some reason it's showing Tim's. Oh well, you're just gonna have to take my word that it's suppose to be Long Beach, Glendale and Corona. Exactly what happened to my link. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 6:46:48 GMT -4
And for some reason it's showing Tim's. Oh well, you're just gonna have to take my word that it's suppose to be Long Beach, Glendale and Corona. Exactly what happened to my link. You need to click share or it doesn't save. It happened to me, too. |
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Post by passion fruit on Mar 24, 2018 0:51:56 GMT -4
this is neat, said im from honolulu, but seattle was still dark red so i guess it was close. nyti.ms/2G5nuxx |
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