Sure, but how often does foot-“ball” contact occur? (And I don’t mean the players’ testicles, I mean that oblong thing the players carry around the field and occasionally throw around).
At some point you’ve got to be honest with yourself and admit that football isn’t an appropriate name for the sport.
Rugby did it, gridiron can too.
Sure, but that’s usually much less poetic, North by Northwest notwithstanding.
Most Mediterranean cultures used to have names for at least eight winds, each at 45 degrees from each other. Greeks (and therefore Romans) used twelve, at 30 degrees.
Here’s a classic navigator’s wind rose, for instance, with 32 different directions based on eight named winds (might be a bit hard to read on dark backgrounds, here’s the original SVG):
without being too many to remember
People used to have no problem remembering the names of at least eight winds, depending on the direction…
Here are the ones used in Catalonia, for instance; we were taught them at school:
Though, to be fair, llevant means where the sun rises and ponent where it sets, migjorn means midday, which makes sense given the other two, and everyone already knew tramuntana, cause it’s a headache when it blows, so it’s mostly the other four we have to remember… the Greek one seems quite harder, though, then again, I’m not Greek…:
If the four cardinal points bother you, better not look up wind roses or rhumbline networks…
If I could get a phone without one I would.
I don’t recall ever having used the damn thing, all it does is stick out like a wart making the phone unsightly and unnecessarily thick.
And the other, even more useless one is just poking an extremely irritating hole on the screen.
They’re probably scratched beyond any usability anyway, since for some reason cases and screen protectors refuse to cover them.
There’s also an intelligence test, where you need to score below a certain level.
are we going to destroy every camera we find in the wild?
Yes.
It’s called gridiron, it’s always been called gridiron, no need to change its name, just stop calling it football. 🤷♂️
It’s probably at least a bit wrong when you realise “Bubba” was the name of Maxwell’s horse, though…
Dubya. Bush II, electric boogaloo. Dodger here, on your left (his right):
I don’t get it.
I’ve tried McDonalds food.
It’s more expensive than much better alternatives, it doesn’t look good, and it tastes worse, like the cheapest ultraprocessed crap you can find in the kind of budget supermarket that only carries foreign brands you’ve never heard of.
I can find better and cheaper food in seedy bars I’d never willingly go to, or by buying the cheapest brands (even the good brands or fast food joints, or buying natural ingredients, wouldn’t be significantly more expensive) and cooking at home.
It really boggles my mind. Is it like smoking? Do people start eating it due to peer pressure and never stop because they get addicted?
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.
Windows
This, but with only four toes, all the same size.
I know it’s bad for me.
I’m just too tired to care.
This is a conversation about computer interfaces, not about whatever unrelated issue you’re attempting to shove in.
It’s been known since probably the seventies that normies have trouble with hyerarchical file systems.
I was evidently using the term (in quotes, if that wasn’t clear enough) the comment I was replying to used for… frankly, I don’t know what; people who aren’t born knowing about hierarchical file systems, I suppose? (in any case, if you have issues with that term it’s not me you should be preaching to), and pointing out that we all start not knowing about them, and that they’re not that esoteric or arcane a thing to learn through usage, or education.
Because here’s the thing: much like you seem unwilling to read or incapable of reading the thread you’re replying to before replying to it with a non sequitur, 99% of the supposed “trouble” people have with computer interfaces and concepts stems from their irrational refusal to read the fucking screen, think for a second about what it’s saying, and fucking learn what it’s telling them.
That’s the only issue with what the comment I was replying to referred as “normies” and as I said it’s easily fixable through education, and removing the information from the screen so that not even the people willing to read it can evidently won’t solve anything and will only make the problem worse.
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I mean, it’s the time to get an inspector off of bed, on the road, to the site, and for them to go “yup, bridge’s still there” and call back…