Weird shit I have had to adjust to, here on the Left Coast

In Central time, the late local news is on at 10:00 PM, prime time shows start at 7:00, and most folks eat dinner around 5:30 PM. NFL football games on Sundays begin at 12:00 noon, which is frankly early enough.

In Pacific time, the late local news is on at 11:00 PM, prime time shows start at 8:00, and most folks eat dinner around 7:00 PM. NFL football games on Sundays begin WAAAAYYY too early at 10:00 AM.

That Pacific time zone was hard to live with, I couldn't sleep.

I was tired all the time I was there.

I thought you were going to say that people in Central time eat breakfast the night before.

:rofl:

the samew coast "Oh were you sleeping?".

When I was an over-the-road trucker the west coast was my favorite place to go because I would get to drive through all of that beautiful country. Now days I stay in Ohio for my job, but I still get the occasional yearning for a west coast run.

We went to Miramar today and took the inland route...the highway we took to get inland was AMAZINGLY beautiful, but part of it had suffered a recent mudslide, so we did not take that way back home.

Lived here for 15 years, and if you've seen one cornfield with a small hill next to it, you've seen them all.

Ive lived in this void known as ohio for 10 years... Driving through Kansas is much, much worse then ohio...

I feel sorry for sports fans who move left-to-right. You wind up in Eastern Time and you're still a fan of your Left Coast ball club, their home games don't even start until after 10 p.m.

I think it'd be cool watchin' baseball that late, but not as a rule.

Weird thing is...I was more of a night owl in Central Time than I am in Pacific.

:shrug:

:(

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Teh OC would put anybody to sleep, I reckon. :P



Or is it the soft, relaxing lull of traffic on

?

And I have started to talk like that too...

"I am going to LA, should I take the 5 or the 405?"

"Oh honey, don't take the 5, there is a big construction project just outside of Commerce and traffic is a cluster fuck!"

"Oh, that is good to know, I will take the 405 then. Or should I take the 405 to the 605 to the 5?"

etc.

If you don't talk like the natives, they'll peg you as an Alien. :scared:

Hey, you hear about the huge wreck last night in the tunnel on The 5 at Newhall? Nasty, nasty.

So far 2 confirmed fatalities.

They are expecting both directions of The 5 to be closed until at least Tuesday.

Thank Dog I don't have to travel up there anytime soon.

that caused the 580 approach to the Bay Bridge to collapse.

In a tunnel, though — that's worse. :scared:

If this were the '80s, there'd be a teevee movie about it by Thanksgiving.

and his Unfeasibly Snug Trousers.









And Desi Arnaz Jr. as the Beaver.

He was playing Danny in some touring production of "Grease." Everybody was yelling "Ponch! Ponch!"

I didn't see any catamites in tow, much to my disappointment.

Thanks for making my day with an unusual but perfectly good word.

I was very proud of my college kid when she called another female a "trollop" instead of some common insult.

In high school people who got on her case were called "wankers" and told to "bugger Off', which baffled them completely in Texas!!! :rofl:

They didn't know they were being insulted.

two men and an infant.

Of course, the CNN story about it doesn't mention the fatalities and injuries until paragraph #5

:eyes:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/14/tunnel.fire.ap/index.html

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I think there are still people laughing at me.

Well, no one else calls it "tonic"!!!

I call it what it is — usually Dr Pepper, which comes out of my mouth as "Durp." :)

Hey, that's what we used to call soda in California when I was growing up ... :blush:

One of the coolest maps I've ever seen:

At least 50% of people in Boston call it "tonic".

(except of course for the mixer tonic water)

is in th 50-80% soda category -- so that's about right.

I'm from there, and most people say soda, but you do hear tonic sometimes...

More "soda" in Newton, but lots of people there weren't natives.

:eyes:

the misspelling of "respondent." :D

I dunno why this is. Perhaps because in Southern California, all the freeways had (or still have names) that begin with "The".

The Harbor Freeway, The Santa Monica, etc., but the newer ones got badged with Interstate Numbers, so you get The 405, etc.

Up North, we did give the Freeways names and still do, The Bayshore, The Nimitz (now 880), etc. but any numbered routes are strictly, 80, 680, 101, etc.

It took me a while to state calling state and county roads out here "highways" instead of "routes".

And I screwed up in Connecticut. I think I called Route 8 "Highway 8, I mean, Route 8" :-)

All my online friends go to bed by 9pm my time. So I just go to bed, too. Pathetic, I am. :)

my undergrad school's basketball team made it to the NCAA playoffs. The first round was in Boise, and the games started at like midnight or 1 am. Of course, after a couple of games, it was all over any way. But it made getting to 8:00 am Systematics unpleasant for a couple of mornings!

instructors or employers who didn't expect and understand lateness are just sucky Mer'kins.

Seriously — if I lived in Boston and got to work late tomorrow and the boss gave me a hard time, I'd just go, "The game went 11 innings, you putz!" :eyes:

(Illinois State) where none of my grad school faculty would've heard of it, nor cared. If I'd stayed up that late to watch BC, I could've slept in the next morning for sure!!

Well, forget "stayed up." They'd prolly sack you just for being an infidel. :D

That is rather early, isn't it? :hi:

:hi:

10 am is hard to get geeked up for football

:silly:

People get up earlier (partly because financial markets open at 6am Pacific time. They eat dinner later due to long commutes and for people to get together, they have to meet and that takes time, whether inside or out of the home.

I think a lot of West Coasters go to bed a lot earlier than East Coast people and go to work earlier too. Always seemed like when I'm back east that everyone is up until 11:30 at least and I can't get over how many stay up to watch a full Monday Night Football game.

Interestingly enough, in the Bay Area a number of years ago in the early 90's, most of our stations pushed prime time back 1 hour, not exactly sure why, so shows were beginning at 7pm, news was at 10pm and Carson (yeah, that's how long ago) was at 10:30. For some reason this experiment failed miserably and they went back to the 8-11pm primetime scheduling.

In Arizona, it's most complicated though. Mountain time, so primetime is 7-10pm but no daylight savings time either (who needs an extra hour of sunlight in the evening when it was 110 while the sun was shining?). So, although we never had to change our clocks, Monday Night Football began at 6pm until daylight savings everywhere else ended, then Monday Night Football began at 7pm for the remainder of the season. Also, National shows on cable moved an hour later because the feeds changed with daylight savings but we Zonies didn't, so you had to remember those shows were on at different times.

Oh yeah, and the Navajo Reservation in Arizona (1/4th of the state) observes Daylight savings time, so part of the year, they are 1 hour ahead of the rest of the state. Don't forget this if you are doing an excursion to Antelope Canyon.

No daylight savings time, just daylight wasting time.

oh well.

That is rather early, isn't it? :hi:

there's a 10 AM too?

We're an hour ahead of Eastern time, so everything starts an hour later... Of course, in Newfoundland, they're HALF an hour ahead of us, so everything significant starts at half past whenever. No wonder Newfies are weird.

Of course, if you have satellite TV, you can watch channels from all over the damn place. I could watch the same Jeopardy! episode five times a night... :silly:

Fuck that shit. :D :D

I (mostly) love the east coast.

that everyone wants to watch them :P

my significant other is out on the west coast watching football after breakfast in a sports bar. it sounded so funny to hear that!

:D

The population is too low to really dedicate a national mountain broadcast, so as a result local stations have primetime at 7-10, news at 10, etc, but cable stations either show the pacific broadcast, or in a few cases, the eastern broadcasts!

I understand the whole point of "10, 9 central" is so that half the country can be covered by just one broadcast, but I don't see why they can't have a second western broadcast that's as uniform as the eastern half...

witchy

make them all change

no more life on life's terms, life on KW's terms :P





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Wow, how does that work? Rainbow colors? Spirals? Mr. Hanky comes to life? Some sort of weird earthquake-proof toilet throwing your balance off?

:shrug:

I hear they don't show it on the west coast.

The Left Coast has to adjust to you, too.

The Left Coast rules!

said a famous resident of San Francisco

:rofl:

years....and it still is strange....

Yep...and every morning I say...I have to go to bed earlier.

We don't do the time change thingy.

So our cable tv times change (most noticeably, Olbermann). Half the year we are with California's Pacific time, the other half with Mountain time.

We don't have to worry about changing times, but one day around the first of November I'll miss Olbermann by an hour and realize it's time to adjust my inner clock.

We lived in the Northwet for a while and it was just weird.

You have me over here...

What more do you want?

:rofl:

We were at Miramar yesterday for the Air Show. (Yes, I know, not politically correct, but I like to watch airplanes do crazy maneuvers, and my husband was an Air Force brat.)

They had to do the flat show because of the cloud cover. :(

:hi:

You can get stuff done later on!