Zompist Bboard Again

Qwynegold wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 12:06 pmI have a question for the Americans here. I bought this sarsaparilla drink. I was thinking "now I finally get to know what sarsaparilla tastes like". When I opened the bottle I was taken aback by the smell of dentist clinic. And it tasted like flouride wash. Or a little bit like chewing gum. Is this what sarsaparilla is supposed to taste like? What abour rootbeer?

Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:05 pm Today, I saw the best billboard I've ever come across.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:05 pm Today, I saw the best billboard I've ever come across. Some context is, however, required.

Traffic cameras are almost totally prohibited in the Ohio state constitution. The sole exception to this is if there's an officer physically present with the camera to verify and issue the citation. For most localities, this is sufficient to deter them from using traffic cameras because money.

Linndale, however, is not among them. A small community that's about three blocks wide, they apparently found it in the budget to station an officer by their traffic camera. There's an infamous stretch of road where the speed limit suddenly cuts by ten miles an hour for all three blocks, and that's where the camera is. For obvious reasons this is widely viewed as an underhanded cash grab. I've never had occasion to pass by there (so far as I know) but I know a couple people who've been stung by this stealth speed trap.

The next community over from Linndale is Brooklyn, and there happens to be a billboard stationed on the Brooklyn side of the border just down the street from where the camera is. So, this. I love everything about it. The dystopian cyberpunk undercurrent. The fact that they're giving a heads-up to motorists who might otherwise be clueless. The middle finger to the Linndale PD. The sponsor plug. I've been cracking up about this for the past six hours and I just had to share.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 12:11 pmI've never had sarsparilla, but root beer doesn't taste anything like the flavors of mint that mouthwash typically come in to me.

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 4:11 pmNow I'm kind of intrigued to taste your fluoride wash.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 11:33 am Traffic cameras contribute to law enforcement designed as a source of revenue over actually contributing to safety, e.g. deliberately (often illegally) shortening yellow light intervals where there are red light cameras and speed traps such as this one. The only way I would not disagree vehemently with traffic cameras would be if, say, the state or federal gov't confiscated all fines from them and donated them to charity to prevent them from becoming a source of revenue for local police dep'ts and local gov'ts and thus reduce the motivation for them to engage in such activities.

MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 10:37 am Billboards are awful things as a rule.
Banning traffic cameras does not seem a good idea to me considering they contribute to significantly reducing traffic deaths. Vaping contributes to creating deaths.
But I suppose Linndale should be signposting it themselves.

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 5:26 pm Very recently, I came across a variant of The Acronym Formerly Known As LGBT that included the letter "U" somewhere in it. I could tell what each of the other letters in that particular variant of the acronym stood for, but I drew a blank at "U". If it helps, the variant of the acronym appeared in a German text, but as far as I could tell, all the other letters stood for English words, so I assume the "U" did, too.

sangi39 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 3:36 am Quickly searching for it in on Google, seems to stand for "unsure", seperating out the two version of "Q", "queer" and "questioning" into "QU" for "queer" and "unsure"