Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread

"Grinder" is definitely used along the I-91 corridor and in Connecticut. I lived in Western Mass for years and it was very common in the shops, even though most students in the area used a different term. Confusing.

iaintgotnopants wrote:
Hrdina wrote:

Who says "hoagie" outside of Philadelphia & South Jersey?

I don't know that I've ever heard anybody call a full sandwich a hoagie in real life unless they are affecting a Philly accent for comedic effect (it's fun to say that you're going to have a hoagie and water). But, I've most often heard the type of bread a sub is made on referred to as a hoagie roll.

Maybe you should make sure you're here for the next Wawa Hoagiefest.

Hrdina wrote:

Where I grew up it was strictly "sneakers", except for a brief period where (if you were cool) you specifically had "Nikes". I was wearing Air Chucks before it was a thing.

Always sneakers for us, unless you were poor like we were and then the mean kids called them "bobos", which were the $8 sneakers from K-Mart.

Hrdina wrote:

NJ (particularly South Jersey) is the land of traffic circles (and jughandles).

I was waiting for Jughandles to come up and kinda sad it wasn't in the quiz.

Hrdina wrote:

For me, I grew up right near the Delaware River, right across from Philadelphia. That's pretty close. In my case they had two very Philadelphia responses ("hoagie" and "youse"), so it was not difficult for them to figure that out.

I knew you were that area based on a conversation in another thread a few years ago. Which specific town(ship) did you grow up in? I lived in Edgewater Park (too young to remember it), then Burlington, then Delanco/Delran (Mom / Dad), then later for less than a year in Roebling with my Mom after college.

I didn't take a pic of the map when I did the quiz. It was all over the place but in the end settled on a map that looked like yours, Hrdina.

-BEP

edit: Love Tina Fey in this:

Spoiler:

A few years ago I learned the official technical difference between a traffic circle and a roundabout, so I use the correct term for the intersection in question.

bepnewt wrote:

Always sneakers for us, unless you were poor like we were and then the mean kids called them "bobos", which were the $8 sneakers from K-Mart.

Hahahaha, yes I was definitely on the receiving end of the "bobos" taunts when growing up. I had forgotten about that so thanks for reviving my buried trauma.

Did you guys have the bobos song too?

bepnewt wrote:

I knew you were that area based on a conversation in another thread a few years ago. Which specific town(ship) did you grow up in? I lived in Edgewater Park (too young to remember it), then Burlington, then Delanco/Delran (Mom / Dad), then later for less than a year in Roebling with my Mom after college.

Palmyra High School, Class of 1986.

I grew up in Riverton, but have a lot of relatives in Delran and Riverside. My aunt currently lives in Delanco.

Mixolyde wrote:

the official technical difference between a traffic circle and a roundabout...

You can drift round a roundabout using the brake pedal but you need the handbrake to make it round a traffic circle at the recommended double the speed limit.

Movie idea: Stephen King biopic in which he shouts "it's kingin' time!" and then kings the villain because also he's in a checkers tournament.

Absolutely horrible. Who's playing Stephen King and when can I buy tickets?

Can Daniel Radcliffe do a Maine accent?

You know what, doesn't matter. Daniel Radcliffe.

Fred Gwynne did a passable Maine accent in Pet Semetary, most everyone else who has tried never went further north than Massachusetts.

Well, Gwynne spent his formative years in NY and Massachusetts, so he would have been quite familiar with Maine accents. But there's a really weird thing going on that I found out while looking that up.

He's buried at Sandy Mount United Methodist Church in Finksburg, MD. His grave there is unmarked but from what I know, I'm betting they lost the record. But that was my father's church when I was born, and I lived my first 8 months in the parsonage there. :-0

It does get weirder than that, but you have to try pretty hard.

Okay, is there a "desperate begging and pleading for Steam games" thread? Cuz I got t-boned this week and it may have thrown a wrench into my "buy Super Mega Baseball 4" plans.

Youtube ads have changed from single Russian women in my area to single Ukrainian woman. I feel like this is a bit late of a change. An odd ad for a dating website but then all dating website ads as strange currently.

My favorite one is "find what you are looking for". I am very tempted to create an account and ask for grandma's mac and cheese recipe as I would love to know why my attempt doesn't come out right.

Found out today that they named Miles Morales' (Spider-Man) dad, a black man who is a cop, Jefferson Davis by accident.

This is also allegedly why Miles goes by his mother's name, because otherwise it'd be... Miles Davis.

"Miles Davis" isn't bad. The black cop "Jefferson Davis" is far more problematic IMO.

I mean, you could have named him anything. William Du Bois, Fred Douglas, Luther King, Malcolm Xavier, Harry Tubman, Book Washington... I could go on.

But no, let's name the black cop that is Spider-Man's dad after the President of the US Confederacy.

Man, maybe Disney will larn, from the overwhelmingly positive reaction to Spider-Man 2: Electric Spoogaloo that a illustrated medium like comics lends itself best to anima...

/touches finger to ear piece

...what? What's that? They're learning absolutely nothing and continuing to go all-in on live-action everything? Ah, gotcha.

Dying of laughter that Jimmy Pesto, Sr. hasn't appeared on Bob's Burgers in a long time now because it turned out the VA is a Jan. 6er.

Yup. His last appearance aired in May 2021, and he was probably fired in March 2021 when people noticed that one of the Jan 6th suspects the FBI was trying to identify looked an awful lot like him and several people who worked on shows with him said he told them he was there. It was unofficially confirmed in December 2021, but Fox still wasn't admitting it then.

Then: Going out on a summer Saturday afternoon and not wanting to come home until well after midnight

Now: Going out on a summer Saturday afternoon and wanting to get home before sunset

Like, we live in a time of maximum content, where there is just so much stuff that, regardless of quality, I will never be able to find the time to watch.

However, I at least hear something about it.

But almost every AppleTV show feels like it's come completely out of left field on me, like I had ZERO clue it even existed until suddenly a trailer for some show with a huge financial investment drops.

I must be in a bad mood. First thing I did this morning was uninstall games I have not played in a year.

It's weird to reflect that back in the 60s somebody at a major TV network said "hey let's base our new Friday night sitcom on a series of macabre New Yorker cartoons".

Do I remember how to do long division? No.

Has the music from the opening stage of Bubsy the Cat been stuck in my head since 1993? Yes.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

I don't know that I've ever heard anybody call a full sandwich a hoagie in real life unless they are affecting a Philly accent for comedic effect

Hoagies is all we called them. It was always "Grab some hoagies on the way to the shore." There was a liquor store we always stopped at, but I can't remember the name. Or we'd grab Philly's (cheese steaks) from the place near my house in Delran. I think it was called Carmen's Deli.

Hrdina wrote:

Did you guys have the bobos song too?

Not that I remember, and I'm glad I don't remember if we did. I don't need more trauma in my past life.

Hrdina wrote:

Palmyra High School, Class of 1986.

Woulda been Delran '87 if I hadn't moved to Oklahoma.

Hrdina wrote:

I grew up in Riverton, but have a lot of relatives in Delran and Riverside. My aunt currently lives in Delanco.

This is where I lived in Delanco.

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-BEP

Today.
The bottom of glass I was holding fell off. It had ice tea.

The spice rack fell but none of the spice jars broke.

A ant was crawling on my hand. No other ants have been spotted. Bait traps have been placed.

Put together a alley backdrop to take pictures of action figures.

All in all today was good day. Didn't even have use my AK.

Oh crap I didn't do wordle and I only have 30 minutes left. My streak!

Heh. My wife recently lost her Wordle streak at 327 - not because she missed one, but because she lost interest and stopped doing it.

Meanwhile my friends and I play religiously and compare scores, and the max between all of us is 209

I was typing something while I was naked, and the typewriter hammer hit my ankle.

I couldn't find a "miscellaneous puzzles" thread, so here we go:

Toggle one pixel to make this a correct equation:
IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/YXQDYPv.png)

Several of these floating around twitter today - I think this was the first one. No unspoilered answers!

Second puzzle, same gimmick - toggle one pixel to make the equation correct.
IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/gn5Opix.png)

(I got the first one but I haven't gotten this one yet.)

Edit: okay, got the second. Neat!

Hint for anyone who wants one:

Spoiler:

both puzzles involve, say, post-elementary school math. But the solutions are straightforward, no sneaky tricks or twisted logic.

Do you think it's odd that I solved the second one well before I was able to solve the first?

Spoiler:

For the first, change the final '1' to an '!' to make it 7 factorial (=5040, 72 x 70).
For the second, change the first or second '1' to an 'i' to make the first term (1+i)^8 for complex number fun.