Minor things that bother you

[Scott5114]

Whatever happened to saying "C'mon, man?"

It gets you free admission at a Nevada movie theater for political reasons.

[1995hoo]

The words "bro" or "bruh" when calling someone out on an action. I just find those terms annoying. Whatever happened to saying "C'mon, man?"

Monday Night Countdown dropped that bit a couple of years ago. Too bad, it was usually the most entertaining part of the show.

[webny99]

Unfortunately, in the 12 years that I've lived in the Capital District, I had forgotten just how cloudy the Rochester area is.  I'm used to having a few clouds high in the atmosphere, while Rochester's weather is prone to low-hanging overcast skies, so a similar percent chance of clouds leads to a very different experience.

Yeah, a friend/family member of mine who moved from the Toronto area to Rochester found that the constant cloudy skies in Rochester (especially from November to April) was the single hardest and most surprising adjustment  - and that's saying something considering the cultural differences between the two places. (Of course, she was already familiar enough with the area that most of the cultural differences weren't a surprise, but actually living through ~6 months a year of barely seeing the sun hit different.)

87% ain't 100%

I am aware.  I've also experienced nighttime.  A couple of minutes of midday darkness is not something I'd plan a vacation around.

That's a massive oversimplification. Sure, the midday darkness is cool, but the transitions (starting at around 90% and especially from 99% to 100%) is what really makes it a unique experience. The building twilight, the speed at which it transitions to total darkness, the 360° sunset, etc... and that's without even getting into the astronomy.

For me, partial eclipses are like, —Hey, look, an eclipse is happening.  That's kind of neat.—  And then I just go on about my day.  For the recent one in 2024, I thought it was kind of nifty while driving home from work, but then I just went inside when I got home.

FTFY 

[roadman65]

The fact that derelicts now dont flop in urban areas, but in suburban middle-class neighborhoods.


Or is that only here in Florida?

[Max Rockatansky]

The fact that derelicts now dont flop in urban areas, but in suburban middle-class neighborhoods.


Or is that only here in Florida?

Around these parts derelicts floop.

[kphoger]

The words "bro" or "bruh" when calling someone out on an action.

I don't mind "bro".  But "bruh" should be banned.

C'mon

I knew a German exchange student in high school who said that, when he was learning English and saw that word in print, he assumed it was something we had borrowed from French.

[vdeane]

Yeah, a friend/family member of mine who moved from Toronto to Rochester found that the constant cloudy skies in Rochester (especially from November to April) was the single hardest and most surprising adjustment  - and that's saying something considering the cultural differences between the two places. (Of course, she was already familiar enough with the area that most of the cultural differences weren't a surprise, but actually living through ~6 months a year of barely seeing the sun hit different.)

And it happened again for the partial eclipse last week.  Albany had a clear view.  Rochester saw nothing.

IIRC according to the climatology data I was using when scoping out the 2024 eclipse, the two only have a cloud percentage difference of 2%.  I'm seriously questioning the accuracy of that data now.

On a side note, I'm curious about those cultural differences between Rochester and Toronto.  I must not be familiar enough with Toronto.

[webny99]

On a side note, I'm curious about those cultural differences between Rochester and Toronto.  I must not be familiar enough with Toronto.

Besides the differences between US and Canada in general, the big ones are Toronto being way more multicultural, having a much more diverse food scene (the GTA features cuisine from roughly 2/3 of the world's countries, so from a Torontonian perspective, Rochester's food scene is basically just pizza, chicken wings and trash plates), a better shopping scene (the types of malls and plazas that are struggling here are booming there), being much less affordable (though it's getting slightly better after a post-Covid peak), and having way more traffic to deal with. A big part of why the traffic is so much worse stems back to population density and land use - Toronto is extremely compact, tends to build up instead of out, and new greenfield development is heavily regulated, so it ends up being very densely clustered, resulting in stark urban-rural contrasts while "exurbia" as we define it in the US doesn't really exist.

[1995hoo]

There is a storm coming. Sky is super-dark, wind is picking up, and we are under a tornado watch. So, naturally, the idiot across the street just put her trash out for tomorrow's pickup and she put the can directly next to someone else's parked car. I do not understand why anyone would do that. It won't cause the garbage men to come any earlier tomorrow.

And it just started raining as I typed that paragraph.

[Scott5114]

There is a storm coming. Sky is super-dark, wind is picking up, and we are under a tornado watch. So, naturally, the idiot across the street just put her trash out for tomorrow's pickup and she put the can directly next to someone else's parked car. I do not understand why anyone would do that. It won't cause the garbage men to come any earlier tomorrow.

And it just started raining as I typed that paragraph.

I would imagine some people think the times I choose to put the trash out are puzzling, but they all correspond to 1) when my wife is gone (because our garage is so small it's a pain in the ass to get the cans out if both cars are in the garage) and 2) I remember to do it.

Also it seems like there's some sort of conspiracy here for Monday night going into Tuesday morning—when trash day is—to always be the windiest day of the week.

[1995hoo]

The woman across the street doesn't park in her garage, so I have no idea what her thought process is.

[kphoger]

I have no idea what her thought process is.

To put the trash out the evening before trash day.  Does it have to be any more complicated than that?

[Scott5114]

Speaking for myself, thinking "I should put the trash out...no, I can't right now because X, I'll do it later" is a recipe for forgetting to ever do it.

[elsmere241]

Speaking for myself, thinking "I should put the trash out...no, I can't right now because X, I'll do it later" is a recipe for forgetting to ever do it.

That's why it took me so long recently to get the mower out for our lawn.  I finally did this last Saturday, working in the dark, after putting it off a few times - starting the previous Saturday.

[1995hoo]

I have no idea what her thought process is.

To put the trash out the evening before trash day.  Does it have to be any more complicated than that?

She doesn't put it out in the evening. She rushes to do it in the afternoon.

[kphoger]

She doesn't put it out in the evening. She rushes to do it in the afternoon.

Yes...  before she forgets.  See the previous conversation about doing things before you forget.

I too put the trash out as soon as I get home from work, before dinner, if I think there's the slightest possibility I'll forget later on in the evening.  And, if there's stormy weather coming, then I'm especially likely to put it out sooner, so I don't have to slog through the soupy grass with a dumpster in tow.

[Scott5114]

It's also possible she just threw something stinky away (old food from the fridge, contents of cat box, dead animal found in yard, etc.) I've put the trash out on the curb a few days before it's collected just to keep something like that from stinking up the garage.

[tchafe1978]

I have a set routine of when I get the trash together and set it out so I don't forget. I always set it out the night before pickup so I don't have to remember to do it in the morning as I'm heading out for work in a hurry, because then I'd surely forget. Some things are just better left to routine.

[LilianaUwU]

Why the fuck can't the people who make non-English subtitles and the people who make non-English dubs ever communicate so both match?

[vdeane]

Why the fuck can't the people who make non-English subtitles and the people who make non-English dubs ever communicate so both match?

This happens with English subtitles/dubs too.  In my experience with Anime, subs are usually accurate to the original, while dubs aren't necessarily.  Often they'll change things to match the values of the local market (the 90s dub of Sailor Moon removed references to homosexuality, while the Viz dub went the opposite direction and removed a couple homophobic remarks from the main characters).  They'll often also adjust dialog to more closely match lip movements, since having what you hear and what you see be out of sync can produce an uncanny valley effect.

[1995hoo]

... Often they'll change things to match the values of the local market ...

Heh. Back in the 1970s, the Star Blazers adaptation of Space Battleship Yamato changed the ship's name to the Argo because of World War II issues, changed references to sake to "spring water," and eliminated the phenomenon of faster-than-light travel causing women's clothes to disappear. The American adaptation aired on weekday afternoons (we rushed home from the school bus stop to see it each day), whereas the original Japanese movie was not primarily aimed at children.

[GaryV]

Why does my printer sound a quiet beep when the job is done printing? As if I couldn't figure out that the job was done when the ca-chunk-ca-chunk-ca-chunk sound of the printer had stopped. That little quieter beep tells me nothing I don't already know.