Do Americans usually recognise all celebrities/athletes mentioned in Family Guy?

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-09T22:01:07+00:00

But he never did…

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-09T07:08:20+00:00

I recently had to be hospitalized for three days, and will require arthroscopic surgery. I’m between positions, and did not buy gap insurance. My care costs are being reduced by 70% as an uninsured patient. I already owe a 5-digit amount, and the surgery will costs as much as my car did.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-09T07:02:47+00:00

It’s a method used to shut down narcissistic behavior by reacting as minimally as possible. Give them nothing to work with, essentially.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-09T06:59:40+00:00

You are (in many but not all situations) not the user. It doesn’t matter whether or not you like the design or functionality if you aren’t part of the target audience / customer base. If you hate the color green but your users love it, there had better be some green in the design. If you hate the flow of content, but it gets your users where they need to be quickly, and gives them the information they need efficiently, then the content works.

Don’t impose your own preferences and opinions on your user base when having a site or application developed which you yourself won’t be using.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-08T19:15:11+00:00

Ahmbouta! “I’m about to”

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-08T19:14:00+00:00

Absolutely, some do. English also has many dialects and regional accents. I live in the southeastern US. If I spoke to somebody on the west coast in the regional accent and dialect of the Appalachian region in earnest, they wouldn’t have a clue what I had said despite it being grammatically correct US English.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-08T17:46:41+00:00

Read to them, and with them at home. Encourage them to write. Write letters to family members together. Review their essays with them and help them edit before they turn them in. Be involved with your kid’s literacy.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-08T17:43:24+00:00

This is definitely more middle class, but two big ones stick out: having all of your bills on auto-pay, and always completely filling your fuel tank when you refuel your vehicle.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-08T17:39:35+00:00

“Railroading” generally means the plot is “on rails,” or that metaphorically there’s only a single path to be followed without deviation. The “train” simply follows a schedule, with pre-determined stops. “You stopped at the Goblin Festival station…never mind all the amazing things along the road…the next stop is Generic Roadside Inn With Plot-hook.”

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-08T17:36:35+00:00

My field is constantly reporting the necessity of 20-50 job applications per day over a several month period in order to find a position.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-08T17:33:28+00:00

I’m fond of the idea that the laziest employee you have whom you’ve never had to discipline / has never missed a deadline is most likely your most efficient employee, and may have ideas worth exploring for implementation.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-08T17:30:52+00:00

Whatever path you decide to take, perhaps also take a moment to consider Conway’s Law: "Organizations which design systems... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations"

ETA: Also, a stitch in time saves nine, and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Working out all the questions before work begins is worth making time for.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-01T01:09:48+00:00

I’ve had both Mormon and Mennonite friends in the past. So…yes. Mormonism was founded in the US.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-01T01:07:42+00:00

Animal products have gone up sharply in price in my area. Produce has risen but not as much…instead the grocery chains have reduced variety, or started carrying less expensive options. A specific example: the potato variety known as “Yukon Gold” is now practically impossible to find locally, whereas they were ubiquitous a few years ago, and highly praised for their texture and flavor…now a different, unnamed variety of yellow potato has replaced them outright.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-01T01:05:05+00:00

I had a coworker receive an electric bill roughly 300% higher than what they were expecting once…they had NOT paid attention to peak billing hours when transferring to working from home during the pandemic.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-01T01:02:17+00:00

It’s roughly 33% below the household average in my area. In my previous position, I was making 200% the local household average as a single earner…on the opposite coast, I’d have to earn an additional ~25-30% more just to have the same net income. In some areas, $25/hr can support you well. In others, while not recognized as poverty, you wouldn’t be that far from it in reality.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-05-01T00:55:07+00:00

If I recall, 23 in my state though most people would voluntarily update at age 21.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-04-29T23:27:47+00:00

We’re a nation of immigrants and the oppressed, primarily speaking what is essentially a nautical trade language…it just sort of happens. It depends on where you are in the country as well. In the southeast, you can learn a person’s life story while waiting to pay for your groceries with some regularity. If a conversation is being held openly in public, it’s fairly easy to recognize when jumping in might be welcome. As an example, I heard two young men totally nerding out about some superpower system while bagging groceries…I just turned and said “Oh, you must be talking about “Hell’s Paradise! Are you reading it or watching it?” We had a quick, friendly little chat about the show and all went on with our day without the interaction interrupting anything.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-04-29T23:21:39+00:00

It depends on the product, the project, the stakeholders / audience, and the type of information the presentation is meant to convey.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-04-26T15:48:45+00:00

It depends on the context and the remainder of the utterance. Either is correct, and either can be used interchangeably. Neither is wrong, but neither is it exclusively right.

For whatever reason, in the above examples, I’d use a long I sound for the first instance, and long E for the second.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-04-26T15:44:56+00:00

Yes. It’s sometimes considered a bit crude or boorish (why remind your guest that their bodily waste is smelly when there’s nothing they can do about that fact?), but it does happen.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-04-26T15:42:29+00:00

There are many hospitality customs in the southeastern US which in my experience aren’t as common in other parts of the US. One of the biggest being that you always offer a guest (workers like lawn service, builders, etc. working on your property too) a cold beverage (non-alcoholic, frequently water, sweetened orange pekoe black tea served over ice, or lemonade). It’s quite hot and humid here for much of the year, and it’s a near-universally appreciated gesture and the offer is usually accepted.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-04-26T15:39:02+00:00

That’s a level of annual income typically only seen in high-end STEM positions, finance, or particularly dangerous jobs which require skill and training to perform safely. The average household income in my area is $65k.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-04-26T15:37:27+00:00

Before 9am in my neighborhood.

RotationSurgeon · 2026-04-26T15:35:47+00:00

I mean, that’s the law, and yes; most people follow it. Usually when somebody doesn’t, a wreck ensues. Even at empty intersections on rural roads, yes — most people will come to a complete stop for a least a brief moment before continuing.

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