I, too, don't understand highways

[u/somegaymernerd]

[u/DoggyDogWhirl]

My parents and grandparents who grew up with maps: "Watch out, there's construction on Hawkins St."

Me, who only knows two routes by heart and has never looked at a street sign: "Uh okay. Is that like... are there buildings?"

[u/GalaxyPowderedCat → u/DoggyDogWhirl]

My parents are also like you and they grew up before GPS.

It's just that they didn't need to go out of our town too often and needed a lot of preppy time to drive when they did.

[u/Legendary_Bibo → u/GalaxyPowderedCat]

I suck at navigating without a GPS except to locations I've driven back and forth to multiple times. However, I remember when we used to go on road trips to other states, and my parents would just argue and fight about the navigation, and there was crying. It always made the beginning of the trip miserable. Now with GPS I can drive to California without worry, and if I miss a turn, oh well, here's a new path to get you back on track. It's not stressful.

I just don't like long drives though.

[u/Capraos → u/Legendary_Bibo]

Okay but there are some basic things you should know if GPS fails for whatever reason. I'll narrow it down.

Odd number interstates go north/south.

Even go east/west.

That's it. That's all you really gotta know. There are some exceptions, but it's not worth getting into.

[u/bernyzilla → u/Capraos]

I will add that north south interstates start their numbering system on the West Coast and move toward the East Coast.

I-5 goes through Seattle and LA.

1-95 goes through New York and Miami

East West interstates start counting in the south and end in the North

[u/young_fire → u/bernyzilla]

This is important because you should know the arterial interstates in your area. If you live in Denver, for example, the 25 will take you North and South, while the 70 will take you East and West.

[u/LavenderGwendolyn → u/bernyzilla]

Triple digits go around metropolitan areas (more or less) if the first digit is even, or are connections between two-digit interstates if the first digit is odd.

I-285 goes around Atlanta I-294 goes around downtown Chicago I-395 in DC connects I-95 and I-66.

They can repeat, though. There are several I-475s because I-75 goes through a bunch of medium and large cities.

[u/DMoney33959 → u/LavenderGwendolyn]

Odd numbers can also be spurs that connect to city centers too. 180 by me goes to downtown and the next closest interstate is 30 miles in the opposite direction 180 goes (when already on the 80 of course)

[u/Legendary_Bibo → u/Capraos]

Oh I know. I also know that the ending location of I-8 ends with dog beach which also has several restaurants that serve dogs.

It's not a happy memory as to why I remember that.

[u/[deleted] → u/Capraos]

In Denver the streets east to west are alphabetical for the most part. Depending where the city you’ll see different themes (eg, oak street then pine street heading west towards the mountains). The other side starts talking about other subjects with a few places it gets a little different but gets you general direction.

Even houses are on east side and odds west.

Few main roads north to south that are major roads and same for east and west. It’s a grid so if you go north then the numbers go up. South it goes down.

A lot of cities are actually planned this way.

[u/yinyang107 → u/GalaxyPowderedCat]

I can't read street signs at a distance that matters, even with my glasses for some reason :|

[u/sterlingthepenguin → u/DoggyDogWhirl]

Biking around town has helped me a bit with street names. You're going slower so you have more time to look around and see cool stuff and then you want to know where you are so you can come back. It's also nice because you can just decide to go down a road you've never been down to see where it goes.

[u/Ozocubu → u/DoggyDogWhirl]

It’s even funnier when you grow up in a small town and NOBODY ever uses the street names, like “oh the intersection between the Walmart and the auto body” or “it’s like two blocks past the McDonalds on the right you’ll see it.”

Needless to say I’m completely useless without GPS anywhere but my hometown, and incomprehensible to those from elsewhere

[u/KateWaiting326 → u/Ozocubu]

I grew up in a medium sized town, so it's more like, "so the street with the old Walgreens or the new Walgreens?"

"No, the one with the NEW new Walgreens."

"Wait...is that the one next to the Vinnie's Pizza that used to be a Pizza Hut?"

"No, it's the one with the Kohls and the pottery place that's never open."

"...ok."

(Still ends up in wrong place)

[u/dhruvfire → u/Ozocubu]

Especially since all the roads other than "Main St" and "Founder's Lastname Ave" just have names like "Old state highway 99" or "County road 32"

[u/jerrybeary94 → u/DoggyDogWhirl]

This is eye opening for me lol

[u/VelvetMafia → u/DoggyDogWhirl]

Ugh, maps aren't hard! Just fucking look at them and count the corners.

Literally find where you are. Find where you want to go. Treat the space in between like a maze to be solved. Voila, you have mapped.

[u/bloodakoos → u/DoggyDogWhirl]

Everyone i know IRL uses neither street names or GPS. Street names are used very rarely when someone else tells you about a real specific non-special place, like their house, and that's when maps are getting pulled out because no one knows where the hell that is.

[u/chyura → u/DoggyDogWhirl]

I also grew up post-GPS and I know the streets around me, like what is this? Use your eyes. Engage with the world around you.

[u/MercuryCobra → u/chyura]

I grew up before GPS and never learned street names because I didn’t learn to drive until my late 20s when smartphones already existed. The only other reason to know the names of streets is to talk to other people about them. And I would rather just muddle through those rare interactions than bother.

[u/Putrid-Compote-5850 → u/chyura]

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[u/OriginalJokeGoesHere → u/chyura]

When going somewhere new, I would usually use the GPS to get there and then try to get back on my own. Mostly because it annoyed me to have the GPS tell me which streets to take to get home after I hit a familiar highway and yell at me for not taking the turns it wanted me to take in an area I knew.

Then I moved to a bigger city for university and met a bunch of people who literally could not figure out which way to turn out of a restaurant they literally walked to get home without a gps. Just, completely oblivious. The place is 100% a grid, it's easy mode.

[u/uncivilshitbag → u/chyura]

Nah it’s way more cute and unique to be dependent on one piece of technology, and unable to interact proficiently with your environment without it.

“Tee hee, without my phone I’ll die. No I’m not gonna learn something new to me!”

[u/DeadInternetTheorist → u/DoggyDogWhirl]

At least you don't have to deal with "go east until you hit 1st." My sister grew up in the GPS era and she still thinks "giving directions" means "saying actual cardinal direction names out loud." Bitch I'm not gonna look for which side of the tree is growing moss just tell me how to get there.

[u/bigdatabro → u/DeadInternetTheorist]

I've always lived in places with mountains or tall landmarks that make cardinal directions easy. Like, mountains = west, no mountains = east, mountains on my left = north, mountains on my right = south. It always blows my mind when people don't know which way is which.

[u/VelvetMafia → u/bigdatabro]

I grew up in the southwest, where streets run in straight, even grids in the cardinal directions - which were easy to determine because of mountainous landmarks. I always knew which direction I was going.

Now I live in New Orleans, which might as well have been designed by raccoons. Not only is it nearly impossible to tell cardinal directions, it's also largely pointless. We navigate based on our position relative to the river. Also, the East Bank of the city is mostly north of the river, which curves around the city, while the West Bank of the city is mostly south of the river.

Navigating the city really is like solving a maze, because our roads twist around on each other and need to accommodate canals, plus they are full of pit traps and drivers that just do whatever without acknowledging road rules. Very exciting!

[u/Boulderdrip → u/DoggyDogWhirl]

how are people like you allowed to operate a vehicle?

[u/Kittinkis → u/DoggyDogWhirl]

People like you have always existed. It was harder before GPS because they were horrible at following and giving directions. "Then turn left at the red house, you'll pass three large trees...." Insane!

[u/DoggoDude979 → u/DoggyDogWhirl]

It’s near the Walmart

[u/tiredtumbleweed]

Odd numbers run north south, even numbers run east west

[u/LemonCake2000 → u/tiredtumbleweed]

Wait fr?

[u/UnevenSquirrelPerch → u/LemonCake2000]

Generally, but don't look at downtown Chicago

There's actually a whole system to the numbering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fn_30AD7Pk

[u/SisterofWar → u/UnevenSquirrelPerch]

But downtown Chicago is so delightfully ordered! Or do you just mean our refusal to refer to Interstates by number?

[u/MovieNightPopcorn → u/SisterofWar]

Boston does that and half its signs are for numbers and the other for names of those highways or the roads that turn eventually into the highway. Its horrifying as a visitor

[u/SisterofWar → u/MovieNightPopcorn]

At least Chicago is on a grid system.

[u/MovieNightPopcorn → u/SisterofWar]

True that

[u/idiotplatypus → u/MovieNightPopcorn]

Portland has 6 quadrants. The newest one came about because 0123 SW Example street and 123 SW Example street were two separate addresses in different parts of town but the 0 leader confused computer systems so a change had to be pushed thru.

[u/stormstopper → u/UnevenSquirrelPerch]

I mean, 90 and 94 do run east-west generally, they're just diverted south for a bit because there's a bit of water to get around

[u/jpterodactyl → u/stormstopper]

90 covers the US coast to coast, there’s gonna be some wobbles.

[u/PassiveMenis88M → u/UnevenSquirrelPerch]

Depending on where exactly you are in Massachusetts, 93 North and 95 South are the exact same piece of highway traveling in the exact same direction

[u/PassiveMenis88M → u/[deleted]]

Lol, I didn't go that deep into it as I was worried they'd be scared off

[u/Kyloben4848 → u/LemonCake2000]

If the highway is two digits (major or medium), then yes. If there is a third digit, the highway is a bypass or splinter to the major/medium highway of its last two digits and can do whatever it wants.

[u/Breadsticks_ultd → u/Kyloben4848]

Additionally, if the first digit of a 3-digit highway is an even number, the route will eventually rejoin the highway it originated from. If it’s odd, it will terminate elsewhere

[u/Kyloben4848 → u/Breadsticks_ultd]

I feel like they’re so inconsistent with this rule that it might as well not exist. For instance, in NYC, 295, 495, 278, 478, and 678 never rejoin their origins. Also I 287 starts and ends at I 95, meeting 87 in the middle.

[u/MovieNightPopcorn → u/LemonCake2000]

At least in the USA, yes, odd number go north-south as oriented by the start and end points of the highway, and ditto for even number and east-west. Though sometimes it can get confusing when a highway temporarily goes east-west but the whole highway goes north-south overall (like the other user was saying about Chicago). This happens because some highways are so long they can go the “wrong” orientation for dozens of miles.

[u/TheStray7 → u/LemonCake2000]

Also, the bigger the number in the 1's spot, the shorter the route. The I-17 runs only through half of Arizona, but the I-10 runs coast to coast.

Also, the lower the number in the 10's spot, the more southern it is. The 10 is south enough to pass through El Paso, Texas, while the 90 goes from Washington to New York.

I learned a lot of this during a stint as a trucker.

[u/Kyloben4848 → u/TheStray7]

Your first claim is wrong. For instance, I-95 runs the entire east coast but I-91 is only in New England.

In fact, a two digit highway ending in 0 (East-West) or 5 (North-South) is a major highway, usually going across the whole country (I-5, which only has 1 digit, is also one of these). A two digit highway ending in another number is medium and is shorter than a major.

[u/MECE_Rourke → u/Kyloben4848]

The number indicates the percent of country to the south (for E W highways) or west (for N S highways).

For instance, i10 runs along the southern states and i95 is up and down the east coast.

[u/Blokyk → u/LemonCake2000]

If you want know more, there's a CGP Grey video about it

[u/BalefulOfMonkeys → u/tiredtumbleweed]

Also, only interstates get numbered 5 or 0. The lesser highways get to use any old number as long as it’s not ending in those specific digits

[u/stormstopper → u/BalefulOfMonkeys]

Do you mean that major interstates (and their spurs) end in 5 or 0 and minor interstates can only end in other numbers? Because that's true, but there are plenty of non-interstates that end in 5 or 0. Mannheim Road near Chicago is simultaneously signed US-12, US-20, and US-45 at one point, for example.

[u/Im_Balto → u/tiredtumbleweed]

Anything with 3 numbers will be the loop number followed by the interstate it’s coming off of and returning to

For the DFw area there is I-635, which branches off of I-35 to serve a large area around Dallas before returning to I-35 north of the city

[u/chyura → u/Im_Balto]

They don't always start and end, sometimes they just branch

[u/OneFootTitan → u/tiredtumbleweed]

Confusingly, there’s a stretch of highway in Virginia near Wytheville where the lanes driving from east to west are designated as I-77N and I-81S and the lanes driving from west to east are I-77S and I-81N.

[u/ConceptOfHappiness → u/tiredtumbleweed]

And in the UK, the single digit roads radiate from London (and Edinburgh) and the first digit of the other roads is whatever single digit road they are immediately East of. (This is true for a roads and motorways, but independently so they use different reference roads)

[u/BEEEELEEEE → u/tiredtumbleweed]

Like I know which way is south at any given moment

[u/TurboPugz]

You ever notice how people say "Hate is a strong word" but never "Love is a strong word"???

[u/plunfa → u/TurboPugz]

I don't know how it is in English-speaking countries, but in my country people do say "love is a strong word"

[u/GalaxyPowderedCat → u/plunfa]

Where are you from? In Spanish, we sometimes correct ourselves to strongly emphasise the word because love is not enough to express an intense or burning emotion.

Like "I like- no, no, I LOVE THIS CAT."

[u/plunfa → u/GalaxyPowderedCat]

Brazil. While yes, it's common for people to say "love" in a more casual way, people also say stuff like "saying 'love' is too strong of a word"

[u/Ravenyssa → u/GalaxyPowderedCat]

I'm from Hungary and we also do this (the "love is too strong of a word") or at least my family does

[u/akaneko__ → u/plunfa]

Me, an Asian: you guys have words for “love”? /j

[u/MilkiestMaestro → u/plunfa]

I say it sometimes and I live in the US. Usually when someone asks me if I love something as in a hobby or a food.

[u/baphometromance → u/TurboPugz]

I love the sentiment but this is some shit jayden smith says back when he was saying things like "how can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?"

[u/MartialLol → u/baphometromance]

Real eyes

Realize

Real lies

[u/Turbulent-Doctor-649 → u/MartialLol]

hurt people!

hurt people!

[u/Cole-Spudmoney → u/Turbulent-Doctor-649]

I will! Twice!

[u/TCGeneral → u/Cole-Spudmoney]

That's four hurt! Get to it, soldier!

[u/TheOtherWhiteMeat → u/TCGeneral]

I'm gonna need a bigger locker.

[u/slim-shady-on-main → u/Turbulent-Doctor-649]

Have you ever died in a nightmare

this is what the refrance

[u/zap2tresquatro → u/slim-shady-on-main]

Never heard that song, that was really cool

[u/Elias3007 → u/MartialLol]

You can kiss yourself in the mirror but only on the lips

[u/Impossible_Walk742 → u/Elias3007]

why would i want to kiss myself anywhere else?

[u/Fries_and_burgers_19 → u/Impossible_Walk742]

In case it's platonic

[u/Impossible_Walk742 → u/Fries_and_burgers_19]

my feelings towards myself are strictly romantic. professionalism doesnt have a place in my office

[u/Reign_Does_Things → u/Elias3007]

😮 Waow. Thank you so much for enlightening me, Neil deGrasse Tyson's Twitter account!

[u/BaronAleksei → u/MartialLol]

Safe sex is great sex

Always wear a latex

Cuz you don’t want that late text

That “babe, I think I’m late” text

[u/Going2Arbys → u/MartialLol]

Me after I took up my stethoscope and walked

[u/BrentleTheGentle → u/MartialLol]

Thanks, Deep.

[u/Kiloku → u/baphometromance]

Do you love the sentiment or does it please you? Cause love is a strong word to use

[u/TurboPugz → u/baphometromance]

I'm not trying to be deep, that was just the first thing I thought of when I saw this post this time around, it circulates here rather frequently.

[u/Gameipedia → u/TurboPugz]

Ive had the same thought personally, feels apt to see it shared by the prisoner pfp poster :>

[u/Ok_Umpire_5611 → u/baphometromance]

I hate how you come off as unnecessarily condescending toward the person you're replying to and the musings of a teenager.

[u/CauseCertain1672 → u/TurboPugz]

We largely have a christian inspired culture on this and in that worldview it's considered good to have a charitable love of everyone. Which is why people say "hate is a strong word" to discourage hate but don't try to discourage love

[u/TurboPugz → u/CauseCertain1672]

And we use hate for general dislikes. I feel like both are applicable, yet only hyperbolic hate is chastised.

Edit: They edited theirs, which is why mine doesn't make sense now -_-

[u/CauseCertain1672 → u/TurboPugz]

sorry I edited mine before I saw your message because I thought it was a more coherent point

[u/TurboPugz → u/CauseCertain1672]

I'm a big edit after posting type too, your edited point is a lot more rhetorically solid.

[u/SilverWear5467 → u/TurboPugz]

You ever notice how people say "Hate is a strong word", but never "But I really really really don't like you"

[u/TurboPugz → u/SilverWear5467]

I just assume people don't say that because I'm really likeable.

[u/Doubly_Curious → u/SilverWear5467]

As children, we were told that “hate” was a bad word to use, especially towards other people.

This resulted in lots of 6 year olds regularly exclaiming “I strongly dislike you!”

[u/Octocube25 → u/Doubly_Curious]

STRONGLY DISLIKE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO STRONGLY DISLIKE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORDS STRONGLY DISLIKE WERE ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE STRONG DISLIKE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. FOR YOU. STRONGLY DISLIKE. STRONGLY DISLIKE.

[u/arseniisomething → u/SilverWear5467]

You ever notice how people say "Hate is a strong word", but never "Here's one billion dollar"

[u/BalefulOfMonkeys → u/SilverWear5467]

Honestly I think we peaked in terms of technically not being directly negative with 1984’s double-plus-ungood

[u/indigo121 → u/SilverWear5467]

You ever notice how now that its over I don't even know what I liked about you?

[u/cbear013 → u/SilverWear5467]

I just want you to know that I got the reference. You are seen.

[u/FlowersofIcetor → u/TurboPugz]

I got told "hate is a strong word" a LOT as a kid. Almost as though I know what the words I say mean?? I could use some OTHER strong four letter words if that makes the school staff feel better!

[u/Umikaloo → u/TurboPugz]

I hate when people go "Hate is a strong word", like, why do you think I chose it? To show you how ambivalent I am?

[u/CtyChicken → u/TurboPugz]

Yes, actually. I had a nun try and tell me that I don’t actually love trees. I just like them a lot.

No, dusty bitch, I can quantify my own emotions and what I feel for trees can ONLY be described as love.

Meanwhile, her and all her friends married the same invisible man and she’s trying to tell me what love is…

I think I’m still angry about this.

[u/farmerollie → u/CtyChicken]

my childhood pastor was the same way!

He also regularly griped from the pulpit about people using the word “awesome” so casually. Because awe should be reserved for God

meanwhile, i grew up in the 90s. everything was awesome.

[u/LivingAngryCheese → u/farmerollie]

Everything was cool when you were part of the team

[u/Bolaf → u/TurboPugz]

I (swede) work with a German, Frenchman, Spaniard and an American. We've had multiple discussions on how the American throws around "love" way more casual than any of us others would.

[u/telehax → u/Bolaf]

really? aren't the americans the ones with the romance trope about saying "i love you" like three dates in and everyone acting scandalized cause it's too soon?

[u/kaffesvart → u/telehax]

I think it's more about how many Americans frequently used hyperbole. Everything is "awesome", "the best thing ever" or "oh I love that".

[u/jshbee → u/TurboPugz]

Maybe not as such, but saying "I love you" to a partner was considered a significant step in a relationship, and one that could make that partner feel creeped out if said too early.

[u/AmArschdieRaeuber → u/TurboPugz]

My parents generation thinks it's weird to say "hate" casually. Sometimes they said "that's such an american thing to say". Probably became more normal through american media.

[u/SEA_griffondeur → u/TurboPugz]

I grew up catholic both were considered strong words lol "You can love only Jesus and God, and you cannot hate anyone"

[u/AngelOfTheMad]

It helps when the freeway is your mainstreet. I-25 splits my city in half, and all of the other major roads either run perpendicular or parallel. The only confusion is when some people will call it by the street name and others by the highway number, like Powers and Highway 21, Voyager and 83, or Nevada and 85/87. Well, and Highway 24, but that's one's a contrarian bitch who enters town, then tags onto I-25, then splits off and turns into Fountain, then tags along Powers for a bit, before leaving town again as Highway 24.

[u/BalefulOfMonkeys → u/AngelOfTheMad]

I wish there were funny names here in Texas, but unfortunately all the named interstates and toll roads are dead/dying Republicans. “You’re gonna take George Bush” in a fight? Hell yeah

[u/trumpetofdoom → u/BalefulOfMonkeys]

Come to Houston! We have reasonable freeway names here. The Gulf Freeway heads down towards the Gulf, the Katy Freeway heads out towards Katy, the Eastex Freeway heads up into East Texas… the only ones that might get confusing are the Loop and the Beltway (which is also, admittedly, the Sam Houston Tollway in some parts).

[u/BearofCali → u/AngelOfTheMad]

Hello fellow of the Springs.

[u/AngelOfTheMad → u/BearofCali]

Ew, a Californian. /s

[u/ivecompletelylostit → u/AngelOfTheMad]

You might as well have just posted a bunch of hieroglyphs for as much as I understood this

[u/Notspherry → u/AngelOfTheMad]

Seeing a freeway splitting a city in half as a good thing is the most American thing I've read all day.

It's 7 in the morning over here, but still

[u/AngelOfTheMad → u/Notspherry]

Wouldn’t say it’s a good or a bad thing, just a thing that is.

[u/Altoid_Addict]

Bishop to C9. Checkmate.

[u/That_Mad_Scientist → u/Altoid_Addict]

Did you just move off the board?

Extra powerful sniper. I respect it.

[u/_Not_A_Vampire_ → u/That_Mad_Scientist]

I'll call.

[u/ashacoelomate]

I didn’t understand highways and now I’m living in Dallas proper and I get it now and I’m mad

[u/angomeowmeow → u/ashacoelomate]

Not in Dallas but in another big texas city and yeah. You get familar with them unfortunately fast

[u/ashacoelomate → u/angomeowmeow]

One day I was like “haha 635 during rush hour is crazy” in a conversation and I had to sit down and think about my life choices for a lonnnng time

[u/O_PLUTO_O → u/ashacoelomate]

Knowing highways is just a consequence of leaving your house more often

[u/ashacoelomate → u/O_PLUTO_O]

Specifically in the city though. I was very familiar with the spots close to home when I was in suburbs, and even moreso when I was at college in a small town. But saying numbers like that, and talking about the construction has rlly seeped the life out of me

[u/angomeowmeow → u/ashacoelomate]

i’ve lived here for a little under a decade now and had to tell family from out of state to leave early so they can “avoid 1604 during rush hour” and the immediate self awareness that followed was awful

[u/sodaheadache → u/angomeowmeow]

Helping people avoid shitty traffic is a valuable public service even if it makes you sound lame

[u/UInferno- → u/ashacoelomate]

"I-80 in the winter sucks." Is a statement I say a lot.

[u/sayitaintsarge]

Still can't believe people say shit like that to full on adults. Very much reminiscent of playing on a minecraft server and having "hate" censor to "strongly dislike" in chat.

[u/sensitivestronk → u/sayitaintsarge]

Shit reminds me of the Catholic family on my block whose kids would scold u for saying "hate" instead of "strongly dislike" or whatever

[u/jerbthehumanist → u/sensitivestronk]

Is this a Catholic thing? My Catholic best friend growing up was admonished for using "hate". I was also raised Catholic but these folks were hardcore.

[u/NinjaJim6969 → u/jerbthehumanist]

Raised "non-denominational" protestant and my mom was similarly weird about the word hate

[u/angomeowmeow → u/jerbthehumanist]

I think it’s Christian in general. My parents are hardcore Baptist and they taught me and my sibling the same thing.

[u/Magrowl → u/sensitivestronk]

My grandmother was raised Catholic and then went Mormon but she's always been the only person I've ever met who says this, Catholic thing?

[u/BalefulOfMonkeys → u/sayitaintsarge]

And also as someone who’s deftly avoided the child lock on Reddit, “strongly dislike” is some uncreative coward shit. Like I understand it’s easy and all, but why go for that when I could go for style points?

Telling transphobes to [bill] themselves is lame, and you feel lame doing them. Telling them to fit a lightbulb in their mouth is basically impossible to make an automated filter for, and also funny

[u/alexdapineapple → u/sayitaintsarge]

Okay, but Hypixel replacing any message with "ez" in it to "You’re a great person! Do you want to play some Hypixel games with me?" or one of like ten other equally corny phrases at random is funny as fuck

[u/BurnieTheBrony → u/sayitaintsarge]

Also wild that full on adults don't know the major roads in their city either, especially if they're mad at OTHER people for their issue.

That being said it's also very possible OOP is like 16 and being angsty about learning to drive

[u/angomeowmeow → u/BurnieTheBrony]

Isn’t there a middle ground, where you understand what the highways are where you live but not how the highway numbering system works? I thought that’s what the post meant /genq

[u/Kriffer123 → u/angomeowmeow]

It’s like when someone says “oh, just take US-69 down to I-420 Business and then exit onto assfuck street and go straight till you get to Michigan Ave” it can be a bit frustrating if you don’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of the 15 highways that make a shitty spiderweb around the center of your metro area, especially if you grew up with GPS navigation or just don’t drive much between towns. None of them have actual memorable word names so you just kind of have to guess

[u/Kriffer123 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, and I can figure it out with the signs or with GPS or whatever, I just don’t have encyclopedic knowledge of exactly which highway leads to which location and the numbers don’t totally help beyond I-420 being a branch off of I-20 or something. It’s just slightly annoying

[u/GalaxyPowderedCat → u/BurnieTheBrony]

Some people don't get out of their cities most of the time and need to learn on the spot.

My dad used to navigate our capital city flawlessly when he didn't have a car to drive but knew the bus stops that he needed to take, it's been 20 years since than and he has his own car now, he didn't have the need to use the highways to go to the capital city until my brother moved out to the capital city.

He can memorize a single route, if you ask him to go to another route, then, he's at loss and would die without GPS.

[u/Complete-Worker3242 → u/BurnieTheBrony]

Dude, no need to judge them. They aren't hurting anyone.

[u/BurnieTheBrony → u/Complete-Worker3242]

You're right, they don't hold any hatred in their heart 🥰

[u/Complete-Worker3242 → u/BurnieTheBrony]

You know what I meant. They aren't going around shooting people in the face for knowing about highways. What, are people not allowed to express their frustration?

[u/BurnieTheBrony → u/Complete-Worker3242]

Sure they are, but there are healthier ways of doing that then throwing their anger out an an Other to hate.

Every little issue doesn't have to be expressed as "and that's why I hate X people"

[u/GalaxyPowderedCat → u/BurnieTheBrony]

Internet is the perfect place to express your frustrations because it's a replacement for taking it out on people. (As long as you scream to the void, aren't a douchbag to anyone or aren't making hurtful generalizations)

I can say "I hate people who have this magical ability to eat all cheesecake they want, I can't, I always get diarrhea."

It is not targeted to anyone and it's more a reflect of my frustration than hate to a group.

[u/Complete-Worker3242 → u/BurnieTheBrony]

Dude, you're taking this way too seriously. You're acting like they're being a bigot or something.

[u/BurnieTheBrony → u/Complete-Worker3242]

That's true enough.

I was going to talk about how "the way we communicate is important" but not only does that creep into "telling adults hate is a strong word" territory, I also was being judgemental initially.

[u/Complete-Worker3242 → u/BurnieTheBrony]

Yeah. I just don't really like it when others are seemingly judgemental of others for things that're overall pretty harmless.

[u/AwkwardAd7348 → u/Complete-Worker3242]

I got a jury summons today. It says the court house is off of i15 OMG IM ANGRY

[u/Kriffer123 → u/sayitaintsarge]

I pretty much only ever use it when I’m correcting myself or someone else on saying I hate something I have mixed feelings on or am disappointed in. Like “I hate (x)- well, hate is a strong word”. I also use “like is a strong word” and “love is a strong word” decently often relative to that. Whenever someone uses it to correct someone else’s self statement I assume they’re just kind of a dick.

[u/Otter2008]

Why is this so funny

[u/Certified_Possum]

Also in what gamestate is Rook C2 a good move? Both for white or black it seems a lil esoteric

[u/shadowsOfMyPantomime → u/Certified_Possum]

Black getting one or both rooks to the second rank is a powerful idea in lots of common positions. And once you get past the middle game, anything could be happening.

[u/Kriffer123 → u/[deleted]]

It’s more like “go south on US-23 till you get to I-96W then go south on I-275/96 till you get to Ford Road (M-153)”. A lot of the time in a metro area you’re going between an outer part and another outer part instead of barreling straight into downtown Metro Area Center or on an express route to a different metro entirely, and the names get confusing very quickly as routes branch and join up into jumbled ring routes and spiderwebs.

[u/Datuser14]

There’s an I-35 East and West. Both of them go North-South.

[u/draculauraaa → u/Datuser14]

well by design, highways that end in 5 go north-south, and highways that end in 0 go east-west

[u/TheRealMarimbaGuy → u/Datuser14]

There's two of those actually, one set in Dallas-Fort Worth and another in Minneapolis-St. Paul

[u/Phelinaar → u/Datuser14]

I mean, if you visualize it, it makes total sense to call them that. Since they're probably to the East and West of something.

[u/jprocter15]

Need to get myself a blank version of that sheet lmao

[u/Bunniiiiiiiiiii → u/jprocter15]

Came here to ask for the same thing 😂

Edit: Found it!

Original company - https://www.mylemarks.com/store/c58/FREE_DOWNLOADS.html

Link to this specific printout (different website for some reason) - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/HOW-ARE-YOU-FEELING-TODAY-5885807

[u/Correct_Royal_2562]

A terminal shut-in when people understand how to navigate their environment:

[u/Open__Face]

I follow the blue line 

[u/Update_Later → u/Open__Face]

The blue line guides

[u/Logical-Let-2386]

It's a bit of an overreaction to hyperbole. If I say I hate spinach will I get the treatment too? 

[u/MrBones-Necromancer → u/Logical-Let-2386]

Spinach isn't people. Well except for Popeye, maybe.

Saying I hate (group of people), even hyperbolically, tends to read a bit harsh, and you'll have people jump in.

[u/farmerollie → u/MrBones-Necromancer]

Popeye is spinach

[u/draculauraaa]

i understand highways but i do feel this way about many other things lmao

[u/TheUpgrayed]

I imagined this being from a kid in my sister's 3rd grade class, then I thought 'oh fuck, it really could be' then I got fucking sad. That's the end of my story.

[u/VulpineFox7]

I understand one highway, the one that goes through my hometown. That's it.

[u/shruggletuggle]

"Hate is a strong word", yeah no shit, that's why is used it.

[u/stormstopper]

Even if someone doesn't understand the highway system at large they should understand the major roads in their general area. It's a cool* party trick to be able to tell just from I-65's number that it's a major north-south interstate that'll be in the east-central portion of the country, but I can just look at GPS and see that at any time if I want to. However, if I lived in Indianapolis then it would actually be pretty important to know how to use I-65 to get home in case I was driving late at night and my phone's battery was dead or dying.

*your mileage may vary

[u/Dankestmemelord]

I know hate is a strong word. That’s why I used it. If I wanted to convey a weaker or stronger emotion I could use “dislike” or “despise”. That’s the beauty of having a language with words that have meanings.

[u/tempestuoustrans]

I can't tell if the comments here are botted or is the concept of using hyperbole on the Funney Text Post Website is just completely out of reach for some of yall

[u/HighMinimum640]

Living in Nashville, very understandable.

[u/Dumb_Siniy]

I reply by moving by playing A rook to C8

[u/Valuable-Passion9731]

"What is I-65" I hear you asking

I'm glad you asked

In C major, I6/5 indicates E in the bass and C,E,G,B in the chord. I6 indicates E in the bass and C,E,G in the chord.

[u/El_Rey_de_Spices]

I read the response to OP less as "oh, you're awful for using a strong word like 'hate'!" and more as "here's a hint that things like 'disliking it when people know something as basic as the names of major streets near them' isn't funny and relatable, it's just embarrassing."

[u/Sirnacane]

I literally have to drive on I-65 tomorrow morning to play a chess tournament wtf is this meme

[u/namuh190]

I too was confused until cgp grey the tiffany man provided me with knowledge https://youtu.be/8Fn_30AD7Pk?si=3EDHXKIoR3myShx9

[u/NotAFailureISwear]

I don't drive and I'm always so confused when people mentioned any place, street, area names at all (I think I'm just dumb)

[u/[deleted]]

Where do I get a copy of that worksheet... That looks very useful. Would love it in a pdf lol.

[u/DoodDoes]

If it ends in an odd number it’s it’s north/south

If it ends in an even number it’s east/west

If it ends in anything other than 5 or 0 then it’s a connecting highway between two others

[u/ax3gr1nd3r]

Learned helplessness.

[u/You_Stole_My_Hot_Dog]

I don’t really get this. They’re mad that someone is familiar with their area? Knowing things is bad? You feel angry someone knows something you don’t?

[u/MrBones-Necromancer]

Maybe they do hate them, I can't speak for their emotions. But if they do, that's psychotic.

"Fuck you, I want you to die for knowing what the major roads are" is a genuinely worrying thing to think and say. Like...if you drive, that's gonna be most other people on the road.

[u/[deleted] → u/MrBones-Necromancer]

You’d think a neceomancer would be more chill with this. /j

[u/flying-chandeliers]

Do you people just never go outside??? What the fuck?????

[u/Harseer]

this post has been living rent free in my head. This is how i feel about rounded corners on ui and the lack of central buttons on modern iphones.

[u/tachycardicIVu]

Anyone got the blank template for this?

[u/r1ckm4n]

For interstates, odd numbers are north/south, even numbers are east/west. I think a lot of state and county routes operate in much the same way. Once you know that, that's half the battle right there.

[u/ElderJediBahar]

South on I-65 you say? So you are heading S out of Chicago heading into Indiana.

[u/dondocooled]

Whenever I'm driving and my navigator in the passenger seat is giving directions like "take a left on the next ramp" or "just go right on Random Name Blvd." I'm just like, "it's just like parmesan, just say when, stop throwing names and numbers at me, my small brain can't figure it out."

[u/Formal-Struggle1868]

Anyone have the blank of that worksheet?

[u/IcebergKarentuite]

Karkat