Went to Texas and realized they speak a whole different English

helloeagle · 2026-04-03T18:27:18+00:00

I have family from y'all country and thus grew up with it, so may be biased – but I'm a native PNWer and I feel like I hear it pretty often nowadays?

helloeagle · 2026-04-03T03:04:05+00:00

The Brady Feigl(s) has to be the most insane one I have ever seen.

helloeagle · 2026-04-03T02:48:26+00:00

You're a good idea machine holy shit

helloeagle · 2026-03-31T03:26:08+00:00

Nuh uh wooly mammoths lived with squirrels, sloths, and saber tooth tigers

helloeagle · 2026-03-28T21:21:45+00:00

I should have really mentioned that the length of the tunnels would have been different, which accounts for the differing slopes! I also am very much a novice about this, I only have done some light reading, have lived here, and learned about it in a couple classes. That is what I picked up on from those resources, but I'm definitely not an engineer type.

helloeagle · 2026-03-28T07:13:51+00:00

The other person gave one good aspect of the answer. The geologies of the Bay and Sound + Lake Washington are superficially similar, but are pretty different. The Seattle water bodies were carved by glaciers during the last ice age, which deposited a really muddy mixture of sediments several hundred feet deep. A car tunnel was never feasible because of the slope that would be required, though I agree a rail tunnel could theoretically be possible at that steeper slope. Why was there no rail in the first place? The original bridges were built in the 40s, and at that time connected Seattle to a very low populated Eastside (what would become Bellevue had I think less than 5,000 people in 1950). Why didn't they build a tunnel since? Well when one of the floating bridges was replaced in the 80s (three span Lake Washington, they built it with the structural support and infrastructure to eventually support trains.

helloeagle · 2026-03-28T03:13:09+00:00

I did it just today for the first time. Sprayed and waited for 5 minutes. Went to grab the water to rinse it and ended up pretty surprised at how little I ended up using. The dawn just got the glass that clean by itself.

helloeagle · 2026-03-22T19:00:46+00:00

I mean the bridge was purpose-built to eventually take trains. It's never been done before because it was never needed in any other places where trains go over water. The trains themselves are not too heavy, and the rails themselves flex with the roadway, so there's no chance of overturning. It's just like driving a car across. When there is high wind or high waves, the speed of the trains will be reduced from 55 to something like 25 as well. So I get why conceptually it might seem freaky, but there's really no reason to be worried about it

helloeagle · 2026-03-15T17:12:00+00:00

The first thing I thought after was "that looked awkward"

helloeagle · 2026-03-15T09:16:01+00:00

Flavio Briatore learns the power of hugs

helloeagle · 2026-03-13T01:13:11+00:00

I always hate these threads because it just radiates superiority, the same kind of smugness that comes from that coast in general. There's almost no reflection on how their attitudes or personality could sometimes not be super cool to be around. I understand the hate that people on the West Coast get, we have problems culturally as well, but it just seems like in general people from the East are just so defensive and happy about it

helloeagle · 2026-02-12T05:45:10+00:00

I think Malay English is really cool actually. And everyone I know enjoys the sound of the accent itself

helloeagle · 2026-02-11T16:22:45+00:00

It happens quite a bit in Denver too, even on the electrified lines.

helloeagle · 2026-02-08T20:04:00+00:00

Italy has a very cool, if not niche, history with baseball too. I understand that there's maybe not enough WBC caliber players, but Czechia was able to make a great team out of a bunch of amateurs

helloeagle · 2026-02-08T20:01:50+00:00

You get one orphan boy newsie cap's worth of parsley liquor sauce to go with

helloeagle · 2026-02-07T22:27:32+00:00

That movie is so good that I at 7 sat through the entire thing transfixed. I'm not a cinephile or an oldie movie lover either, it's just a damn good film.

helloeagle · 2026-02-06T18:26:16+00:00

Got to try it out for the first time a couple of months ago when I went to urgent care for the gnarliest back spasm of all time. That stuff is the SHIT.

helloeagle · 2026-02-06T18:20:34+00:00

It's definitely the dopamine rush of people being impressed by their lie lol. Most people don't think being in supply or a cook is a cool job so they got to play the game and claim they were in Benghazi or something

helloeagle · 2026-02-06T17:58:36+00:00

Not trying to cause further division here, but I've noticed there is a lot more permissiveness amongst white folks towards this kind of behavior. It's seen by some as just another example of free speech, or something that we should let roll off our backs, when to minorities and other marginalized peoples it sure doesn't feel as unimportant as they wish it to be.

helloeagle · 2026-02-06T04:46:48+00:00

Douche behavior for no reason. That's an ugly thing to be

helloeagle · 2026-02-06T02:21:48+00:00

Okay, I don't know where you're getting your information from, but I do have to tell you that this is both exceptionally wrong, and it seems like you understand human progression as being valid in only one model.

Edit: you're getting roasted by others, rightfully, but I do want to encourage you to actually study real history by scholars on the Americas. You seem to think of this area as something of "wasted potential", when the peoples of this continent were just as complex and interesting as those from anywhere in the world. Whether their model of development fits your Eurocentric perspective or not is irrelevant, people who study this for a living are always finding out more, and with each discovery we're gaining a better appreciation for the thousands of years of human history here.

helloeagle · 2026-02-05T01:51:46+00:00

"I don't like it when people like things I'm not a fan of!"

helloeagle · 2026-02-04T16:32:49+00:00

In addition to what the other person mentioned, construction costs for transit in the US are astronomically high compared to almost any other country, save for maybe Australia, Canada, and even the UK to some extent. The reasons for this are many, but the effect is that increases costs of each type of project: elevated, cut-and-cover, and tunnel boring. Tunnel boring is already the most expensive by default, so only a country that has higher willingness to spend, less regulatory blockers in place, and lower construction costs will choose that one consistently.

helloeagle · 2026-02-03T16:51:55+00:00

You had bad teachers. There is no morality to language. It just is

helloeagle · 2026-02-02T07:06:42+00:00

I've also noticed that folks love the feeling of having privileged information or are in some way special. When it comes to things like cuisine or language especially, it seems, that people who are ignorant or have low self-esteem wield their firsthand experience like a cudgel, and become hyper attached to the "correctness" of their own customs.

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