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Northern NJ - Goosey night
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Jun 8, 2013 18:25
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For what it's worth, "Mischief Night" still exists in parts of northern England, but it's 4 November, not 30 October - the night before Guy Fawkes' Night/Bonfire Night.
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Jun 8, 2013 19:51
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Kainser posted:I don't want to harp on Hungary any more, but I found this map kinda funny. Reminds me of this 
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Jun 8, 2013 20:57
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I don't want a revision, those dirty Hungarians* don't even speak German! *there is actually no slur against Hungarians in German.
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Jun 8, 2013 21:03
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Aside from "Hungarian"
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Jun 9, 2013 00:25
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I've been following the train-wreck that is the NSA leaks and The Guardian have released supposed screen grab from the NSA tool Boundless Informant Other than putting myself on a list somewhere for posting this I found it pretty fascinating. Related story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining tl;dr - it's a heatmap of where they're mining data, "The tool allows users to select a country on a map and view the metadata volume and select details about the collections against that country"
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Jun 9, 2013 00:37
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Growing up in Northern VT we called it 'Cabbage Night.' No idea why...maybe at some point rotting cabbage was thrown around in addition to TP, eggs, etc? Also, what's up wit hthis one:  Do you non New Englanders (and Chicago-ians) really not have crullers?
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Jun 9, 2013 01:14
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Yeah, I don't know if I get that map since I heard people use the term cruller regularly here in Oregon. Maybe it is the different between the old fashioned version and the mass-manufactured form? I mean you can find them in most doughnut shops.
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Jun 9, 2013 01:28
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DrBouvenstein posted:Growing up in Northern VT we called it 'Cabbage Night.' That's Milwaukee, not Chicago. The "pop" map had a similar distribution pattern with Milwaukee not adopting the word from the rest of the mid-west.
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Jun 9, 2013 03:03
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I grew up right outside Chicago and we totally have crullers here.  
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Jun 9, 2013 04:20
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I'm a Texan and I had no clue what a cruller is.
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Jun 9, 2013 04:22
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Sex Hobbit posted:I grew up right outside Chicago and we totally have crullers here. That's the BAD kind of cruller. This is a real cruller: 
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Jun 9, 2013 04:34
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Yeah, the New England variety are more similar to I guess German crullers while the mass-market version are called "French crullers" but I don't if that is a made-up pastry or not. I have only seen the "bad kind" on the West Coast.
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Jun 9, 2013 05:07
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Those speech maps are blowing my mind. It seems my area of the country has a surprisingly high amount of localized terms.
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Jun 9, 2013 05:42
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Get with the program, Philadelphia.
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Jun 9, 2013 05:46
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Random pockets of the north east - Grinder and/or Wedge
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Jun 9, 2013 05:48
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Real hurthling! posted:Random pockets of the north east - Grinder and/or Wedge I thought grinders were a subclass and were only the heated kind. That's how it's used up where I live (central Alberta); I've only heard grinder used to refer to hot sandwiches on toasted bread, while submarine applies to whatever. Even then it's a rarer word.
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Jun 9, 2013 05:54
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It's crazy that y'all don't have brewthrus at least somewhere in your state.
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Jun 9, 2013 06:02
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Prism posted:I thought grinders were a subclass and were only the heated kind. That's how it's used up where I live (central Alberta); I've only heard grinder used to refer to hot sandwiches on toasted bread, while submarine applies to whatever. Even then it's a rarer word. No in CT a grinder is any sandwich that a New Yorker would call "hero" or a Philadelphian would call "hoagie"
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Jun 9, 2013 06:11
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Love the Louisiana poboy region.
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Jun 9, 2013 06:14
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Prism posted:I thought grinders were a subclass and were only the heated kind. That's how it's used up where I live (central Alberta); I've only heard grinder used to refer to hot sandwiches on toasted bread, while submarine applies to whatever. Even then it's a rarer word.
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Jun 9, 2013 06:25
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Real hurthling! posted:Random pockets of the north east - Grinder and/or Wedge Yeah, CT being dark red on that map is BS. Everyone I know around here calls them grinders. Here's the original dialect map for sandwiches: http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_64.html Here's where everyone calls them grinders:  GreenCard78 posted:It's crazy that y'all don't have brewthrus at least somewhere in your state. The fact that drive-thru liquor stores exist anywhere blows my mind. The whole concept sounds like a punch line.
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Jun 9, 2013 06:40
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lonelywurm posted:It must be. I'm from Alberta and have never heard that term before. I'm actually from Ontario but I've lived here for ~10 years. I've heard it maybe a couple dozen times. It's not common. Every time it was a hot sandwich though. I didn't know it was more general elsewhere. I'm always disappointed when these maps don't include Canada.
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Jun 9, 2013 06:49
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Rhesus Pieces posted:The fact that drive-thru liquor stores exist anywhere blows my mind. The whole concept sounds like a punch line. Haha yeah totally the only place I recall seeing such a thing was in Mexico and at the time I thought it was a pretty hilarious and unique thing. Apparently not! Definitely don't have those in California.
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Jun 9, 2013 07:16
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 Outer Banks, North Carolina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH52RWXYzSY That's the well known chain. There's a local one in College Park, Maryland I used to go to which was a plain looking liquor store except it had a window on the side and you could pull up.
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Jun 9, 2013 07:28
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GreenCard78 posted:
Oh, we had one of these in the Piedmont of NC, but I guess it didn't sell liquor, it was named Cruz Thru.
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Jun 9, 2013 08:12
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The term Hoagie's from Philadelphia, and has a lot of theories of it's origin. The most prominent theory is that they were called that because of the consumption of the previously unnamed sandwiches at the shipyards on Hog Island, which currently is the home of Philadelphia International Airport. Other theories involve peddlers called "hokey-pokey men" making one one night, it was scaps for people "on the hoke" and the Italians called it hoagies, it was a reference to the Irish shipbuilders (Hogans), refered to the pork on the sandwhiches, or my personal favorite it was the shorthand for "honky sandwich" because white people at them. EDIT: I'm tired and just wrote way too much about a loving sandwich.
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Jun 9, 2013 08:36
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GreenCard78 posted:
How is this legal? In my province it's illegal to have alcohol in reach of the driver, it must be stored in the trunk/box. Yet in the video, they hand it to the driver and they just keep it in the cab? Is there a problem with drunk driving there? I imagine lots of people go through the liquor store than as soon as they're out they start drinking.
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Jun 9, 2013 21:01
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Terex posted:How is this legal? In my province it's illegal to have alcohol in reach of the driver, it must be stored in the trunk/box. Yet in the video, they hand it to the driver and they just keep it in the cab? Is there a problem with drunk driving there? I imagine lots of people go through the liquor store than as soon as they're out they start drinking. In most of the US the only rule is no open container in the passenger compartment of the vehicle. In SOME parts of the US it's just no booze in the driver's hand. I forget if it's OK or TX but one of them your passenger can be chugging a bottle of whiskey and it's a-ok. Why he'd never give you a taste! that's crazy!
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Jun 9, 2013 21:04
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I think in most places it just can't be opened if it is in the passenger compartment. You can keep newly-bought bottles of anything up front, but if you are bringing a half-finished bottle home from a party then it has to go in the trunk.
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Jun 9, 2013 21:20
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Real hurthling! posted:In most of the US the only rule is no open container in the passenger compartment of the vehicle. In SOME parts of the US it's just no booze in the driver's hand. I forget if it's OK or TX but one of them your passenger can be chugging a bottle of whiskey and it's a-ok. Why he'd never give you a taste! that's crazy! That seems so backwards, especially since there are still dry counties to this day, many of which seem to be in the same areas (like North Carolina).  Red are dry counties, yellow are mixed and blue are wet.
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Jun 9, 2013 21:20
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withak posted:I think in most places it just can't be opened if it is in the passenger compartment. You can keep newly-bought bottles of anything up front, but if you are bringing a half-finished bottle home from a party then it has to go in the trunk. That's the law in Texas, and Oklahoma apparently meets some standard of open beverage law called the TEA-21. e: It looks like you're thinking of Tennessee.
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Jun 9, 2013 21:23
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It's unclear from your post so for clarity; "Dry" just means no purchase edit: ^^^^^ poo poo i was wrong about which state it was where a buddy can pass you the flask when you're driving! Sorry OK/TX for implicating you. Real hurthling! fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Jun 9, 2013 |
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Jun 9, 2013 21:23
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Terex posted:That seems so backwards, especially since there are still dry counties to this day, many of which seem to be in the same areas (like North Carolina). What exactly can yellow mean here? I grew up in a yellow county (Gratiot, Michigan) and the only restrictions I remember are no sales between 2AM and maybe 8AM and no sales before noon on Sunday. Is it just stuff like that?
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Jun 9, 2013 21:24
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Soviet Commubot posted:What exactly can yellow mean here? I grew up in a yellow county (Gratiot, Michigan) and the only restrictions I remember are no sales between 2AM and maybe 8AM and no sales before noon on Sunday. Is it just stuff like that? Yellow means everything that's not "buy whatever whenever" and "you can't have a liquor store in the county".
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Jun 9, 2013 21:26
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Yeah Bergan County NJ is up there and they aren't dry. They have sunday blue laws that close most non-grocery shops, but you can still buy booze from anyone with a licence that stays open so essentially the yellow can mean anything Also, why is there no data from LA?
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Jun 9, 2013 21:28
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Soviet Commubot posted:What exactly can yellow mean here? I grew up in a yellow county (Gratiot, Michigan) and the only restrictions I remember are no sales between 2AM and maybe 8AM and no sales before noon on Sunday. Is it just stuff like that? It supposedly means that there's one or more municipalities/townships that ban liquor stores. I grew up in a yellow county right next to you though, and I can't think of anywhere that bans liquor sales.
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Jun 9, 2013 21:30
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computer parts posted:Yellow means everything that's not "buy whatever whenever" and "you can't have a liquor store in the county". You can't order alcohol in new york before noon on Sunday, so by that definition shouldn't it be yellow?
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Jun 9, 2013 21:33
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KernelSlanders posted:You can't order alcohol in new york before noon on Sunday, so by that definition shouldn't it be yellow? That's only in a few counties though. in the city the mimosas flow from 8 am
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Jun 9, 2013 21:36
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Christ, if you live in the middle of the southern border of KY, you are pretty much hosed trying to buy booze, aren't you? Even the first few counties you cross over into in TN are dry.
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Jun 9, 2013 22:06
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