New York is NYC. Washington is DC.
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The heating and cooling question was a bit difficult for me. I don’t “keep” my house at a certain temperature. It varies. If I feel like it, I’ll crank up the AC and enjoy a cool house. Another day I might open the windows and deal with 80 degree weather. Same for winter, although we probably don’t have too wide a range.
How are these not “keeping it your ideal temperature year round and it’s not expensive to?”
Would you ALL be just as comfortable opening a window, or would YOU be just as comfortable?
I grew up without AC because my mother didn’t believe in it. But she also never overheated. She did get chilled. When we sold her house, the agent was concerned the AC didn’t work (and the house would be hard to show) but she’d just set it to a really high temperature, and once we adjusted the settings, all was well.
I spent many an unhappy summer evening feeling sticky and uncomfortable, and having trouble getting to sleep. There’s no way I’ll ever move to the southern states, and that’s not about politics.
As for “New York”, it depends who I’m talking to. I generally mean the city when i say “New York”, but i have friends from other parts, some of whom use the phrase to refer to the state.
For Washington, that’s a state to me. The city is “DC”.
Our house doesn’t have central air conditioning, but the landscaping helps keep things pleasant most days. Shade trees make a huge difference.
My gf was having horrible hot flashes years ago, so I picked up a window air conditioner for our bedroom. We use it now for the handful of nights that are really hot.
These are correct. Nobody here except tourists and recent transplants call it “Washington.” It’s “The District” or “DC.”
I’ve always liked the pre-Civil War phrase, “Washington City.” Granted, it’s more syllables.
(Too late to edit) The most recent Best Picture I’ve seen is from 1999 (American Beauty), and I haven’t been to a cinema at all since 2015 (The Martian).
“Going to The City” means you are going to NYC.
“Going to New York”’means you are going to NYC.
Both usually mean Manhattan. If going to one of the other boroughs that is usually specified.
If you are going to another place in the state you name it specifically.
That comes from living 30 miles from NYC.
Somebody who says they’re in “Washington” is on/near one coast or the other; but without further context I don’t know which. They’re not in the middle.
Somebody who says “New York” may mean the state or the city. If I know where the speaker lives and the context, I can probably tell which. Without that info, I can’t tell. In places like this message board where people reading are from various places, I spell out which one I mean. – somebody who says just “the City” might or might not mean New York City. If they live near but outside Rochester or Buffalo or Syracuse or even someplace the size of Ithaca, they might mean that city.
I’m not sure whether a previous partner years ago “committed infidelity” – both in that I’m not sure whether he started sleeping again with a previous partner before he broke up with me, and in that I’m not sure either of us would have thought of it as infidelity - we were certainly going together, but we hadn’t vowed monogamy.
I know where I am right now. (I’m right here!) I’m uncomfortable if I don’t feel oriented. I don’t orient via GPS and don’t feel oriented if I have only usual GPS info; I want to have a clear idea where I am on both a fairly small scale and a fairly large scale map, and in an area I’m not already familiar with I orient best with paper maps. GPS doesn’t take any mystery out of life for me; it leaves me still disoriented even if it tells what exit to take. And I don’t know what’s meant by “I have an expansive sense of where I am.”
– what happened to the preview pane? there’s nothing in it. I wonder whether this will post.
If I am talking to someone and they say, “I’m from New York” or “I’m from Washington”, without the “state” qualifier or something similar, I assume they are from the city. It may not be fair, but it is the nearly universal convention for communication of the answer to the question without an extended conversation aimed at pinning down the exact meaning.
I thought I’d seen all the Best Picture winners in the 2000’s, but I missed both A Brilliant Mind and Crash and have never had the desire to catch up on them.
Mr. Legend has always liked it colder than I do, so the “ideal” temperature is one we can both live with. This turns out to be between 74 and 78 in the summer and between 68 and 70 in the winter.
Because Albuquerque is in a high mountain desert, it gets colder in the winter than a lot of people realize, and it’s pretty hot and dry in the summer. Most of the houses here built before 1990 or so have evaporative (“swamp”) coolers, and ours is no exception. It’s a two-story house, and the cooler is on the roof; the outlet is in the upstairs hall ceiling, so we have to crack windows in the areas we want cooled. This works really well most of the year, as long as the humidity doesn’t get high and the outside temperature isn’t over 100 F. We have hot water baseboard heat, and that does an adequate job of keeping the house warm enough as long as it’s not both under about 30 F and windy. When it comes to winter temperatures, I’m firmly in the “put on a sweater” camp, but there’s no corresponding thing to do when it’s too hot, and his cancer treatment causes hot flashes, so I’m not inclined to argue about where he sets the cooler.
“Washington” makes me think of the state just because that’s usually the one people around here are visiting.
And the infidelity poll makes me realize that there are actually a few subjects I’m not willing to discuss with all you fine people who already know all the is and outs of my family life and medical history!
The “I have not seen any of them” option disagrees with you.
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3 seconds, no way I can get my phone out of bag, or unlock the screen, and take a shot. Especially considering it may take 1-2 seconds for me to even realize what I’m looking at (Bigfoot, Nessie) and the importance of getting a shot.
8-10 seconds, sure. Not 3.
69 in the summer, 71 in the winter. I have a relatively small well insulated place so utility costs are not very high. If I had the temp higher in the summer the bedroom temp would be oppressively high. The thermostat is downstairs the bedrooms are upstairs with more sun exposure.
I guess it’s because it’s not me keeping it at an ideal temperature except on rare occasions. I usually passively depend on the weather and go with the flow. Maybe that was not a broad enough interpretation of the question. Shrug.
Every time I see you refer to “Mr. Legend,” I think – “Cool! Crissy Teigen posts on the Dope!”
I was surprised the favorite Oscar winning movie was The King’s Speech. I thought it was treacly dreck. And boring on top of it. More like an old “movie of the week” type movie.
She might! Chrissy Teigen gets around.
I sometimes kind of regret creating a username based on an inside joke on another board and then doubling down by using it everywhere, but I’m too used to it to change now. If my spouse would just join the SDMB, as I often encourage him to do, that would solve the problem of what to call him!
Reading the list of Oscar winners just makes me realize how few movies we see nowadays. But I know so much about all of them that I’m not inclined to go find and watch them now.
Most widely seen is not the same thing as favorite. Probably some of those who have seen it did not in fact enjoy it – case in point: you saw it, and thus were compelled to (or should have) checked the box but did not regard it favourably.
I liked TKS a lot, but I’m a rabid Anglophile, a history nerd and very interested in the British monarchy. I can certainly understand why the film isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.
I was about to take @eschereal to task for suggesting a menstrual period could ever make someone happy, but then I realized in some contexts it definitely beats the alternative.
I’m Team Love all the way, baby.