Cultural Oddities

[ouryL]

@groman

What the hell is wrong with you people on that coast? Do you just not know how to drive or are you expecting NYC traffic across the entire damn continent? If I can drive to Vancouver from San Jose and back and still have plenty of time to enjoy my four day weekend, you can most definitely go see the Rocky Mountains from Ontario in freaking two weeks and have an awesome holiday.

Some time ago when I was still in High School, I went on a road trip with my family. The route was San Francisco Bay Area -> Reno -> Salt Lake City -> through Wyoming (Can’t for the life of me think of a single town there) -> Denver (two full days in Denver) -> Colorado Springs -> Santa Fe -> Albuquerque -> Flagstaff (one full day here, Grand Canyon and all) -> Las Vegas -> Los Angeles -> Bakersfield -> San Francisco Bay Area. This took about 8 days and included plenty of sight-seeing including getting lost in Salt Lake City, visiting some giant hole in the ground in New Mexico, a flyover of the Grand Canyon, the Hoover Dam, avoiding the strip in Vegas, visiting the museum of natural history in LA, and a lot of really really boring driving.

I take it you guys have no finding in your buttocks.

[tbdi]

@Tamex

I had licorice ice cream

That reminds me that in the RI area a big favorite is coffee ice cream as well as coffee syrup for making milk shakes and cabinets. mmmmmm… coffee ice cream…

[tbdi]

And yet another RI area quirk: the thing you get a drink of water from is a bubbler. A water fountain is something in the middle of a park or town square and you would never drink from it.

[fachverwirrt]

@tbdi

And yet another RI area quirk: the thing you get a drink of water from is a bubbler. A water fountain is something in the middle of a park or town square and you would never drink from it.

That’s true in other parts of New England too. I grew up with bubblers (south central NH).

[Tamex]

@kushiel

Did you ever go up into Saskatchewan when you lived in Montana? I’ve always been curious to know how similar the two places are. I’ve never actually gone that way, we’ve always gone from BC into Washington state.

No, I’ve never been to Saskatchewan, but I have been to Alberta, which is very similar to the western mountainous part of Montana that I am from. I would guess that Saskatchewan would be more like eastern Montana or North Dakota.

[Tamex]

@BobLibDem

Michiganders will describe the location of something in the state by pointing to a spot on their right palm. It could be worse, we could be Floridians.

My husband does the same thing for Wisconsin–just stick the thumb out at more of an angle.

He was born in Milwaukee, and bubbler (for drinking fountain) is alive and well there. He even got our daughter saying it for a while, but now she knows better!

[Anaamika]

@BobLibDem

Michiganders will describe the location of something in the state by pointing to a spot on their right palm. It could be worse, we could be Floridians.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. It’s been 20 years but recently at a Dopefest someone asked me where in MI I was from and I immediately did the glove thing.

[Tamex]

Wait a minute…wouldn’t you need two hands to make Michigan? What do you point with, your tongue?