Minor things that bother you

[kphoger]

I'd honestly argue gun rights would be a more apropos answer along those lines.

Also not something you'd readily notice on a drive from one city to another, unless there's a billboard for a gun show or something.

[JayhawkCO]

I'd honestly argue gun rights would be a more apropos answer along those lines.

Also not something you'd readily notice on a drive from one city to another, unless there's a billboard for a gun show or something.

Maybe stopping and seeing someone open-carrying on Montana though if you took the opposite trip (Calgary to Sweetgrass).

[Scott5114]

I'd honestly argue gun rights would be a more apropos answer along those lines.

Also not something you'd readily notice on a drive from one city to another, unless there's a billboard for a gun show or something.

I've always wondered what foreign tourists must make of this place. (LVB north of Sahara, where it starts to get seedy, and where it technically isn't the Strip anymore)

[DTComposer]

For everyone giving Kyle crap for his sarcastic takes... Legitimately, if you crossed I-15 from Sweetgrass to Montana and headed to Calgary, other than road signage and things relating to the metric system, what is that noticeably different between the two countries?

It won't be evident unless you have to use it, but what about universal healthcare?

Healthcare isn't really part of culture. The US Healthcare system is not an integral part of the American identity.

Sure, but in this particular example, land use, flora, and fauna (the things that would largely go unchanged along I-15/AB-4) aren't part of culture either.

And while it may not be culture, I'd argue the US Healthcare system is very much an integral part of the American discourse nowadays.

[formulanone]

I'd honestly argue gun rights would be a more apropos answer along those lines.

Also not something you'd readily notice on a drive from one city to another, unless there's a billboard for a gun show or something.

I've always wondered what foreign tourists must make of this place. (LVB north of Sahara, where it starts to get seedy, and where it technically isn't the Strip anymore)

I'm on another board with lots of non-USians and they will sometimes say they visited these kinds of places to pop a cap, just for the sake of being able to so in a controlled environment safe space.

[kkt]

I mean, I'm not saying that Canada has no unique identity, it certainly does, especially Quebec, but they consume the same music and TV shows, watch the same sports, having tipping culture and car centric cities.

If it weren't for Québec, Canada would have no culture.

Wow.  Just... wow.

I mean... I got the perfect example in poutine. Poutine was ridiculed in the rest of Canada until they actually tried it, now they claim it's theirs.

That great classic Canadian children's and young adult book series, Anne of Green Gables, by an author from and mostly set in Prince Edward Island.

[kkt]

If it weren't for Québec, Canada would have no culture.

Close.  You're so close.

If it weren't for Québec, Canada would basically be the United States.

Assuming this isn't sarcasm I've read some pretty ridiculous things on here and this take the cake.

For everyone giving Kyle crap for his sarcastic takes... Legitimately, if you crossed I-15 from Sweetgrass to Montana and headed to Calgary, other than road signage and things relating to the metric system, what is that noticeably different between the two countries?

I haven't done the Montana-Calgary trip but this is my experience with Seattle-Edmonton-Yellowknife and back.

More things named after kings and queens, and prime ministers that the United States didn't have.  They did not build 4-lane limited access highways in rural areas where they were not warranted; 2-lane roads were ample.  Proportionately to their population, more refugees were accepted than in the United States.  People seemed nicer, more polite, more willing to be concerned about others.  Less litter and graffiti in the towns.  The differences are not overwhelming like night and day, but they are noticeable.  The United States had cheaper lots of things - gas, food, other goods.  This was 2012.

Universal health care absolutely is a part of the culture.  Though the United States is the outlier in lacking it, not Canada the outlier in having it.  You don't just let people suffer; it's a horrible waste to force them into bankruptcy or such serious medical problems that they can no longer to work.  And we in the states spend even more much money, we just spend it on different parties arguing about who should pay the cost of each tiny prescription or part of a procedure rather than just getting it done.

[kkt]

I'd honestly argue gun rights would be a more apropos answer along those lines.

Also not something you'd readily notice on a drive from one city to another, unless there's a billboard for a gun show or something.

I've always wondered what foreign tourists must make of this place. (LVB north of Sahara, where it starts to get seedy, and where it technically isn't the Strip anymore)

That's a real place?  I figured it must be from the Simpsons or something.  wow.

[1995hoo]

And I guess we shouldn't forget the French Canadian among us:

[Max Rockatansky]

Yesterday I was reading this thread at work.  Okay cool, yeah Quebec and French Canada is a thing but there is also significant French influence in Louisiana.  One of my employees is from Louisiana and can speak fluently in the Cajun variant of French. 

Out my way in the American Southwest there is significant Spanish and Mexican influence on every aspect of day to day life.  My wife group in a household where Spanish is the primary language.  Me personally I'll eat authentic Mexican food any day over the traditional European-American style cuisines seen in the U.S. and Canada. 

[Scott5114]

Every once in a while someone will run a bot on one of my ecommerce websites, where they try to run a bunch of (I assume stolen) credit cards through under various names. This doesn't really affect anything because the cards all decline, but it does lead to two minor things that bother me:

- Now the order results page has 30 failed orders on it, which are in my way when I'm trying to, you know, actually take care of the legitimate orders, which sometimes get scrolled to another page. So I have to take a couple of minutes deleting all the failed orders.
- The failed orders all get assigned order numbers, so now the order numbers of the legitimate customers aren't consecutive.

[formulanone]

Scrolling social media...

Accidentally pressed an advertisement link...

"Making Sure You're Not a Robot, please wait."

It's two insults conveniently rolled into one.

[Max Rockatansky]

Scrolling social media...

Accidentally pressed an advertisement link...

"Making Sure You're Not a Robot, please wait."

It's two insults conveniently rolled into one.

Good thing robots are incapable of feeling insulted...

[formulanone]

Scrolling social media...

Accidentally pressed an advertisement link...

"Making Sure You're Not a Robot, please wait."

It's two insults conveniently rolled into one.

Good thing robots are incapable of feeling insulted...

Which is why need to go back to electroshock therapy, since Zeus has missed a lot of targets lately.

[hbelkins]

After having seen an example of it upthread here and in several other threads recently, I'll say this...

Ridiculously long quote strings or quote trees bother me.

[Rothman]

After having seen an example of it upthread here and in several other threads recently, I'll say this...

Ridiculously long quote strings or quote trees bother me.

The random double quote is not helping matters in that regard.

[Roadgeekteen]

After having seen an example of it upthread here and in several other threads recently, I'll say this...

Ridiculously long quote strings or quote trees bother me.

HB has been deported from and banned from leaving Alanland.

[DTComposer]

This could go in the Google Maps thread, but...

Street View has the tendency to label highways by obscure honorific names. I was looking for something in L.A. the other day, and rather than I-405 or the San Diego Freeway, it was labeled the Nathan Shapell Memorial Highway.

[Plutonic Panda]

After having seen an example of it upthread here and in several other threads recently, I'll say this...

Ridiculously long quote strings or quote trees bother me.

Who holds the record on this site for creating the longest quote stream?

[Max Rockatansky]

After having seen an example of it upthread here and in several other threads recently, I'll say this...

Ridiculously long quote strings or quote trees bother me.

Who holds the record on this site for creating the longest quote stream?

I believe the actual limit was reached in the latest locked thread on the Suggestions board.

[Molandfreak]

This could go in the Google Maps thread, but...

Street View has the tendency to label highways by obscure honorific names. I was looking for something in L.A. the other day, and rather than I-405 or the San Diego Freeway, it was labeled the Nathan Shapell Memorial Highway.

Even worse when the name has to be split up when giving directions, such as the "Wisconsin Firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians Highway."

[kphoger]

Who holds the record on this site for creating the longest quote stream?

Alan Johnston^[1].  That's why he received the Onion of the Alan, after all.

[LilianaUwU]

Capeshit and redditor bait in Magic: the Gathering. No, I don't want Marvel or The Office, I want the characters that were designed for the game!

[freebrickproductions]

Capeshit and redditor bait in Magic: the Gathering. No, I don't want Marvel or The Office, I want the characters that were designed for the game!

To quote tokujoe.bsky.social:

Magic is just cardboard funko pops at this point.

https://bsky.app/profile/tokujoe.bsky.social/post/3lzrczt5nls2x

[Roadgeekteen]

That Megan Trainor State Farm ad