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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 10, 2022 20:53:39 GMT -5
One random thing I have observed here that reinforces to me we are generally an older crowd than some other online communities is at least on the threads I subscribe to, posting activity plummets around close of business eastern time. Everyone is off work and doing family stuff now, haha. Love it. Might be a total coincidence, but I'm amused. I had noticed that there is not much traffic on this forum but , when people do post, it’s always gems and great subjects.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 12, 2022 6:51:38 GMT -5
I see that there is no secret Santa this year.
I want to thank @mrp for putting together the event for this forum in previous years. I get that maybe the economy and other factors has it canceled this year. To be honest, there are things happening in my household that has me not feeling the Holiday season as well. I'm hoping that the 12 days Classic will wake me up a bit.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2022 7:46:43 GMT -5
I thank @mrp for organising it in previous years, too. I think I took part twice. I particularly liked doing it as when I worked in offices, attempts to get Secret Santa off the ground failed, so it was nice to partake in it here.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2022 7:50:34 GMT -5
Saw this advertised on Facebook: Company description: Is there *really* a lot of bread being produced that is shaped “incorrectly”? Enough to warrant a box like this? Plus, a box like that would not suite a solo apartment occupant like me. Incidentally, I was surprised to read that a lot of supermarkets won’t accept wonky fruit/vegetable, due to customer complaints. That has never bothered me. So what if potatoes or carrots might not look perfect. As long as they are edible, that is all that matters, surely?
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Post by Calidore on Dec 12, 2022 10:16:03 GMT -5
I've gotten great deals on books that got a bit dinged in transit and were sold as damaged.
Bread's a bit tricker, though. For example, as everyone knows, a sandwich cut diagonally tastes better than one cut straight across.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2022 12:14:23 GMT -5
I see that there is no secret Santa this year. I want to thank @mrp for putting together the event for this forum in previous years. I get that maybe the economy and other factors has it canceled this year. To be honest, there are things happening in my household that has me not feeling the Holiday season as well. I'm hoping that the 12 days Classic will wake me up a bit. I wasn't going to be able to organize or participate this year for a number of reasons. I let Shax know back around the end of October that I wasn't going to be able to do it, and I meant to try to ask around to see if someone else wanted to organize it, but I never got around to that, so my apologies. -M
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2022 14:42:31 GMT -5
I’ve watched a lot of American films, TV shows and documentaries. And something dawned on me recently. Do roundabouts not exist in the United States? I only ever see footage/pictures of traffic lights. Also, here in the UK, a bus is, well, I don’t need to explain, but we also have coaches, which are a bus (I guess they are a form of bus) that do inter-city and long distance travel. Yet I can’t say I’ve heard an American use the word “coach” for such things. I’ve watched stuff where a character might say, “I’m jumping on a bus, heading for Chicago, might take 2 days.” Then there’s the fact that I have never seen double-decker buses in any American footage/photos. Tell me you have an equivalent of this over there:
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 14, 2022 14:50:40 GMT -5
I’ve watched a lot of American films, TV shows and documentaries. And something dawned on me recently. Do roundabouts not exist in the United States? I only ever see footage/pictures of traffic lights. Also, here in the UK, a bus is, well, I don’t need to explain, but we also have coaches, which are a bus (I guess they are a form of bus) that do inter-city and long distance travel. Yet I can’t say I’ve heard an American use the word “coach” for such things. I’ve watched stuff where a character might say, “I’m jumping on a bus, heading for Chicago, might take 2 days.” Then there’s the fact that I have never seen double-decker buses in any American footage/photos. Tell me you have an equivalent of this over there: Roundabouts are pretty rare in most places in the U.S., though I think they are becoming more common. We don't have double-decker buses anywhere that I'm aware of. All buses are buses here.
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 14, 2022 15:40:19 GMT -5
You can find double-decker buses in both New York and Los Angeles catering to the tourist trade. Roundabouts are surprisingly common in Tacoma, where they are used a way to keep traffic slow on residential streets. There are at least four wirhin a few blocks of my apartment. But a coach here in the States is the head of an athletic team, not a motor vehicle.
Cei-U! I summon the Americanisms!
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Post by impulse on Dec 14, 2022 15:41:01 GMT -5
We have roundabouts here. They are relatively new-ish at least where I go, but far more common than even five years ago.
A bus is a bus is a bus here, except maybe a school bus and a short bus.
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Post by Calidore on Dec 14, 2022 15:44:44 GMT -5
We have double-decker tour buses in Chicago.
Generally, a bus is called a bus, but we'll use "coach" if we're distinguishing the style of bus. One of our public transit systems, Pace, uses both regular and coach style buses.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2022 15:48:45 GMT -5
We had bendy buses in some UK cities, but not sure if they’ve now been scrapped:
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2022 15:56:08 GMT -5
But a coach here in the States is the head of an athletic team, not a motor vehicle. Cei-U! I summon the Americanisms! It’s not fair on any Brit who might order a DVD of the TV series Coach. We’ll be expecting a series about the journeys of people travelling on a bus across the United States, but will instead get Craig T. Nelson playing the head of a university football team. We should get a refund…
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 14, 2022 16:24:39 GMT -5
In Massachusetts we call them rotaries. I've just recently heard the term roundabouts, but those seem to be used for smaller rotaries. Either way, watching how people navigate them is another way to separate the locals from the tourists. There's usually an incident every summer down here with tourists going the wrong way in a rotary. It's not an urban legend. I've seen it happen. Here's the Bourne Rotary that you encounter as you get onto the Cape via the Bourne Bridge. (The truck is entering from the bridge.)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2022 16:34:17 GMT -5
We had bendy buses in some UK cities, but not sure if they’ve now been scrapped:
I hate bendy buses. One split in 2 locally, it's amazing no one got killed because it happened on the highway. They imported the damn thing from China....waste of time.
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