On 12/28/2013 11:39 AM, Danny D'Amico wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 11:08:32 -0500, Juan Wei wrote:
>
>>> Actually, that only works for those in two of the three provinces
>>> in New Jersey.
>>
>> New Jersey has counties, not provinces.
>
> I wasn't talking politics; I was discussing culture.
> Counties are meaningless when it comes to the cultural differences in NJ.
>
> But, if you must discuss counties, rest assured that Sussex County (which is
> in the northwestern province) is absolutely nothing like Bergen County (which
> is in the city corridor), both of which are not even remotely similar in
> culture to the familiar Atlantic County "Jersey Shore"...
>
> Basically, the Joisey accent everyone is familiar with comes from the
> northeastern provinces (do you know what a Benny or Shoobie is, from a
> cultural standpoint?), and not from the northwestern province.
>
>> Exit numbers on roads -- and I think that this true in general in the US
>> -- are either "mile markers" or simply consecutive numbers. For example,
>> the NJ Tpke uses consecutive numbers starting at 1 at the NJ-Delaware
>> line, and the GSP uses mile markers; each is "miles from Cape May".
>
> What is striking is the contrast, where, in California, until very
> recently, at least where *I* have driven in California, mile markers
> are really difficult to find (as compared to back east);
White 4x4 posts a few feet high stuck in the ground with stenciled black
numbers, sometimes vertical just to make it more fun. We used to look
for them on vacation because my husband liked to calculate the mileage
we were getting as a function of steady speed over a given time
interval. He's a physicist. Bite me.
> and, more
> to the point, exit numbers didn't even exist in California until very
> recently, as SMS and other natives can attest to.
They're only adding them as signs are replaced, which isn't happening
all that fast. Cheap bastards don't even replace the lightbulbs on the
freeway signs -- you have to drive with your high beams if you want a
hope in hell of reading the sign in enough time to actually make the
turnoff.
> It's just different out here, where, it's harder to follow a GPS
> which says "take exit 15" simply because there is usually no exit
> 15 marked - and - worse yet - you can't find nor read the mile markers.
>
> If you've never driven out here, and if you're from the east, you
> can't imagine how different it is. On the other hand, people are
> so polite on the road you wanna kill them out here - but that's an
> altogether different topic.
Ah, you saw that guy too -- the jerkoff who STOPPED IN MOVING TRAFFIC ON
THE FREEWAY to let a guy in from on on-ramp. I mean 'moving' = 45-65
mph. There are a lot of people shose heads I wouldn't mind seeing blown
off with a shutgun, but he heads the list. I can just hear him asking
"Why are those idiots honking?"
Today I asked CoPilot to find Fry's Electronics in Burbank. It found a
lot of places called something like "electric electronics shop" and the
second one in the list was the correct one. Sort of like the prople
whose corpus colossum has been severed and they can only name an object
if they look at it with their right eye which goes to the left
brain...or vice versa...
--
Cheers, Bev
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