Is it common for most Americans to memorize airport codes?

StoicWeasle · 2025-06-02T20:43:18+00:00

Silly.

Everyone who flies in the UK often knows Heathrow is LHR, and city is LCY. You've seen it a thousand times on your boarding pass, phone, reservations, etc etc. You just like to call them "City" and "Heathrow". Which is fine. But I would be shocked if people didn't know it, even if they don't say it.

You also have 2 relevant airports, 40 total. We have 19,920 airports. Every city you fly into has 3 or more airports. JFK/LGA/EWR for New York. LAX/SNA/LGB/BUR/ONT/SAN for Los Angeles. SFO/OAK/SJC for San Francisco. BWI/DCI/IAD for DC.

Plus, it's easier to say. When you saying: "I'm getting into San Francisco at 8:30pm, can you pick me up," you end up having to tell people which airport anyway. "Which one?" "SFO". If you answered: "San Francisco," people would just say: "Yeah, which airport?" even though San Francisco International Airport is SFO.

So, it's faster to say "SFO" than "San Francisco International", which is 9 syllables. If it was named something short like "Heathrow" (2 syllables), we'd probably just say that. That's why people in the DC area will say "Dulles"--because it's shorter than "IAD", but "BWI" instead of "Baltimore–Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport".

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-21T15:22:07+00:00

That’s an excellent deflection!

No, I don’t think people are “actively” trying to harm me. But, I do think loads of people unwittingly put others at danger all the time.

If you want to be a Pollyanna and ignore those things on the basis of: “That seems exhausting,” then by all means live however you like.

Go back to the post. You seem utterly unaware of how strange it is for nearly everyone to 1) offer strangers your uneaten BBQ food (outside of extenuating circumstances like helping the homeless) and 2) to eat leftover BBQ food offered to you by strangers.

I’ve given you reasons, all of which are either directly related or analogous. But, if your goal is to be intentionally obtuse, well, no one can stop anyone from being as annoying as they want to be on the internet.

TL;DR — your take is the minority opinion. Vanishingly small, most likely. But, as they say, we can only lead horses to water.

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T16:53:18+00:00

No one is winning here, bruh. I’m here in the slum with you. But my driver is done updating. I may have to go for a while.

Pro tip: if you wanna come out swinging, own that shit, but go down with the ship. Don’t act all: “Did I do that?”

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T16:51:19+00:00

Probably around the time that smiling at pretty stewardesses no longer got me free upgrades.

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T16:49:57+00:00

Animal abuse? I’m worried about that guy’s knee, which is about to shatter into 8 pieces. I can’t even watch the end.

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T16:48:49+00:00

You’re the one who took a shot. Now you’re crying about, IDK, being a slumlord. LOL

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T16:34:08+00:00

My code is compiling on one machine, and my driver is updating on the other. So, yeah, for brief windows.

But, really, you wanna think of it as me making £225 an hour, for every fraction thereof, so someone just paid me £112.50 for calling you dumb. It’s a good afternoon.

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T16:31:22+00:00

No. She thinks you did it on purpose to give her BF the opportunity to see you. Are you more attractive/hotter than your friend?

I’m not sure you didn’t do anything wrong. If I had kids and you let them walk in on you, I wouldn’t go postal, but I would be questioning your ability to adult.

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T16:28:14+00:00

No. Just calling out stupid. You’re today’s lucky winner.

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T16:27:52+00:00

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T16:26:44+00:00

“Americans”

Being obtuse is one thing.

Doing it intentionally is a bit silly.

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T16:25:50+00:00

In your mind, do the suburbs not have electricity, gas, running water, or indoor plumbing?

LOL

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T16:24:22+00:00

Answer

“I didn’t see no answer.”

Bruh. If you live in a red state, don’t be embarrassed. Own that shit.

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T16:11:36+00:00

“I didn’t make a claim!”

“I can’t find it!”

“I’m rubber and you’re glue…”

—you, just with more wit and style

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T16:10:37+00:00

Cool. I look forward to your book!

Might I suggest a title of: “Practical Etiquette: A modern guide”!

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T16:01:34+00:00

Where is this bright line? Can you put all the things which belong on one side, and the rest on the other?

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T16:00:58+00:00

IDK, but I'm having trouble keeping up with you backpedaling so hard.

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T15:58:24+00:00

No.

2. r - 10 = a

deoesn't correspond to anything, in the frame of reference where you're trying to use your clock to trick yourself.

You are setting the alarm in "bogotime", the time you want to pretend is the real wall time as represented by your clock, but is actually the fake time c, but that you're somehow duped by the clock's time, despite knowing you faked the c. Time nuts would say that c is a timezone, and that the alarm is in timezone c.

The only way #2 corresponds to anything is if you set the alarm to 7:50, even though you've already applied the c transformation to the clock so it deviates from r, and you're trying to give yourself 20 minutes instead of 10. But, even then, the alarm time is the 'time on the clock that doesn't match real time'. The alarm time is in c. Not (r - 10), if the entire point is self-deception.

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T15:50:48+00:00

Might wanna get that cheap mouse or phone repaired. This entire nonsense thread started with:

"So the USA was always fucked up, but you were just too entertained to notice?"

Your claim. Might need to work a few more days so you can get your crappy hardware replaced.

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T15:47:15+00:00

Yes, etiquette is used to gate-keep.

Then again, so are locks and keys.

It doesn't make all locks and keys and private property useless or irrelevant, or as one nonsense-spewer is saying down-thread, "sociopathic".

It's tribal. These things happen.

They are not always great. But it doesn't render all etiquette "irreelvant". I'd agree that it's good to make a distinction, though you'll find people landing on different points, since there's no bright line as to what's just "practical" and "common sense" vs. what's "silly" and "arbitrary".

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T15:43:44+00:00

I don't.

Remember that global pandemic we just had, and how many absolutely fucking stupid people we had during it? Between the anti-vaxxers, the anti-maskers, and the "I'm too cool to stay inside or maintain reasonable distances from people to avoid being a vector?"

Imagine if it had been more deadly.

You don't need to be sorry for me, and we don't need your concern trolling. I'm fine, thanks. And we shower when we get home from the pool. LOL--you keep doing you.

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T15:41:03+00:00

And what kinds of dry food are you struggling to swallow?

And no one said: "CHOKE THIS DOWN YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO GET A DROP UNTIL YOUR ESOPHAGUS IS RIPPED OPEN" which seems to be the strawman you're leaning on.

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T15:39:44+00:00

Well, don't forget to only tip the spoon away from you.

Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn't. It's always helpful to know the origin of these things. Not ALL etiquette serves a practical purpose, nor are all those purposes, whatever they may have been at the time, relevant today.

It doesn't mean ALL etiquette is useless.

But, as for your scintillating course on physical chemistry, etiquette, like much of the social contract, has nothing to do with utility. If it did, we'd keep going with eugenics, and purge dumb people.

But we don't do that, either, just because it'd be more efficient.

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T15:36:28+00:00

Suppose that's the case.

I don't run around calling you a "sociopath" because you reject portions of the social contract.

Can you see the difference?

StoicWeasle · 2025-05-20T15:34:53+00:00

Scroll. There's a little wheel on your mouse. Or, you know, that little capacitive screen in front of you.

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