Daily conversation: What is the worst possible answer?

[kphoger]

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[ModernDayWarrior]

05 OCT 2026

What additional forum setting should users be able to change?

A button that will show you only those posts that are just someone stating an opinion without justifying it.

[kphoger]

05 OCT 2026

What additional forum setting should users be able to change?

There are currently two options for how posts are displayed in a thread:  newest at the top, or oldest at the top.  There should also be a "randomize" option.

There should also be the option to open up your posts to editing by other users.

[vdeane]

10/6/2026 - What year will New Hampshire switch to mileage-based exits, and how will they accomplish it?

[vdeane]

10/6/2026 - What year will New Hampshire switch to mileage-based exits, and how will they accomplish it?

And since I had an answer prepared yesterday before the question got yanked, here's mine:

Starting next year, after the feds decide that withholding federal highway funding from states still installing signs with sequential exit numbers is a great idea (for predictably political reasons, considering what the sequential states have in common), New Hampshire is forced to begin installing mile-based exit numbers.  In protest, they only do this as signs are replaced.  Spot replace a sign?  It, and only it, gets a mile-based exit number.  Replace the signs for three exits?  Those three exits, and only those three exits, get mile-based exit numbers.  The result is a mis-mash of exit numbers when driving on any interstate in New Hampshire for decades to come.

[Mav94]

10/6/2026 - What year will New Hampshire switch to mileage-based exits, and how will they accomplish it?

2034, after a brief but failed experiment with vibes-based exit numbering.

[JayhawkCO]

10/6/2026 - What year will New Hampshire switch to mileage-based exits, and how will they accomplish it?

2234. They will breed herds of Coos County Inchworms, lay them all down alongside the highways, count the worms, and divide by 63,360.

[Mapmikey]

10/6/2026 - What year will New Hampshire switch to mileage-based exits, and how will they accomplish it?

Never. Instead they will institute exit-based mileage by redefining a mile as equal to one exit. Mileposts will appear only at the exits.

[kphoger]

My answer is similar to Mapmikey's.

10/6/2026 - What year will New Hampshire switch to mileage-based exits ...

By the end of 2026.

... and how will they accomplish it?

Redefining the mile by statute.  The definition will vary by location, with each location having its own sub-section in the statute.

[I-57/Route 66 Fan]

10/6/2026 - What year will New Hampshire switch to mileage-based exits, and how will they accomplish it?

The exact moment i quit the forum, by stealing signs from Illinois.

[Big John]

10/6/2026 - What year will New Hampshire switch to mileage-based exits, and how will they accomplish it?

2112, they are in no "Rush" to do it.

[Declan127]

10/6/2026 - What year will New Hampshire switch to mileage-based exits, and how will they accomplish it?

Never because they're stupid

[1995hoo]

10/6/2026 - What year will New Hampshire switch to mileage-based exits, and how will they accomplish it?

1984. They'll fully change their terminology so as not to use terms like "exit" or "mileage-based." The people will initially find this newspeak confusing, but they'll get used to it and eventually forget there used to be a different way.

[GaryV]

10/6/2026 - What year will New Hampshire switch to mileage-based exits, and how will they accomplish it?

In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find

[xonhulu]

10/6/2026 - What year will New Hampshire switch to mileage-based exits, and how will they accomplish it?

They're still waiting for Old Hampshire to do it, and then show them how. So probably never.

[TheCatalyst31]

10/3/2026: Pick a 4-digit number and assign it to a currently unnumbered road.

Northside Drive, the main road to Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, doesn't have a number, so in honor of the Falcons I'm assigning it 2823.

It carries US 19/29/41 and its associated GA 3.

Oops, that's what I get for checking Google Maps instead of OSM. Pretend I said MLK Drive, which seems to actually be unnumbered.

10/6/2026 - What year will New Hampshire switch to mileage-based exits, and how will they accomplish it?

However long it takes for them to build enough new exits to have one exit per mile of freeway. I imagine it'll be a while, especially for I-89 and I-93 northwest of Concord.

[I-57/Route 66 Fan]

10/7/26
When it comes to a subdivision, what is the worst theme to have streets named after?

[NE2]

10/7/26
When it comes to a subdivision, what is the worst theme to have streets named after?

Streets in adjacent subdivisions.

[Big John]

10/7/26
When it comes to a subdivision, what is the worst theme to have streets named after?

negative numbered streets.

[xonhulu]

10/7/26
When it comes to a subdivision, what is the worst theme to have streets named after?

STI's.

[PColumbus73]

10/7/26
When it comes to a subdivision, what is the worst theme to have streets named after?

Corporate speak

[GaryV]

10/7/26
When it comes to a subdivision, what is the worst theme to have streets named after?

So since we're supposed to give the worst answer, the worst "worst theme" should be the best theme, right?

Answer: no theme at all.

[1995hoo]

10/7/26
When it comes to a subdivision, what is the worst theme to have streets named after?

TV theme songs. A "theme theme," as it were.

[wanderer2575]

10/7/26
When it comes to a subdivision, what is the worst theme to have streets named after?

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."  (Bill Vaughn)

[Declan127]

10/7/26
When it comes to a subdivision, what is the worst theme to have streets named after?

Presidents (you see, this is one of the most common answers, thus likely the best, which means in this case its the worst)