Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[billd91]

When the New Orleans Jazz got moved to Utah, they retained the “Jazz” part of the name. Despite not impacting the quality of the team, some people still mock them for this, decades later. On a certain level, it reflects an unwillingness to blend in with the local culture. Wouldn’t something like “Mountaineers” be a popular change?

Maybe? But there have also been plenty of cases of sports franchises moving without changing their names too. And now Jazz sticks out like a proud nail, a point of distinction even though Utah doesn't really give off anything like a jazz vibe.

 

[Willie the Duck]

When the New Orleans Jazz got moved to Utah, they retained the “Jazz” part of the name. Despite not impacting the quality of the team, some people still mock them for this, decades later. On a certain level, it reflects an unwillingness to blend in with the local culture. Wouldn’t something like “Mountaineers” be a popular change?

On a certain level, maybe. On the flipside it is also accepting an established precedence on the matter. The Minneapolis Lakers (from 'the land of 10,000 lakes') moved to Los Angeles* 19 years earlier and did not change their name.
*a city within a state where neither is especially known for lakes, although bother certainly have them

 

[RealAlHazred]

Names just don’t signify that way to me. But I recognize that they do to others, across a whole spectrum of intensity. Thanks - that’s a help to me in interpreting others’ reactions.

 

[payn]

Award worthy wall o text there.

 

[TiQuinn]

Award worthy wall o text there.

It was basically a filibuster.

 

[RealAlHazred]

It was basically a filibuster.

I've often thought of writing a wall of text ahead of time, in Notepad++, and dividing it up based on post size. Anticipating objections and comments and working up responses and writing those up as well. And then posting, one after another, for a page or two.

It seems like a lot of work to impress randos on the Internet. As one of the aforementioned randos, I'm not sure it would have the impact many people seem to think it would. Just basically annoying.

 

[dragoner]

I'm not reading all that! The other annoying habit are replies that break up posts.

 

[payn]

I'm not reading all that! The other annoying habit are replies that break up posts.

I got a rule of no more than three break ups of a single poster. No more than two quotes from two posters.

 

[Ryujin]

I'm not reading all that! The other annoying habit are replies that break up posts.

Well when people put many separate points into a post, it makes sense to reply to them individually.

With that said, the chance that I will actually read a post is inversely proportional to its length.

 

[prabe]

Well when people put many separate points into a post, it makes sense to reply to them individually.

With that said, the chance that I will actually read a post is inversely proportional to its length.

Yeah. If you're actually replying to different points, or at least replying differently to different things, it's probably fine. If you're carefully and precisely destroying all context to pick something apart, it's probably not.

It's definitely easier to read a short post, innit?