Disney wokeness

[mirkwood]

I do the same with people unfamiliar with Utah.

[pam]

5 hours ago, zil2 said:

Person probably assumed outsider would know Salt Lake but not Holladay, so they kept it simple and said "Salt Lake".  I've done that just so I don't have to explain where my little part of Salt Lake County is.  But I definitely do not consider myself to live in (or even that close to) Salt Lake City.

I used to do the same when I lived in Sandy.  

[Backroads]

I often say the name of my actual city rather than "Ogden", mostly to confuse people. It's actually become almost cruel in local needs/buy nothing groups with lousy geographic boundaries, but that's mostly because it's "not Salt Lake" but everyone assumes my city is some region of the Salt Lake valley. 

[Vort]

Wikipedia, FWIW:

Salt Lake City metropolitan area

Coordinates: 40.7608°N 111.8910°W

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Location of the Salt Lake City–Provo–Ogden CSA and its components:

  Salt Lake City, UT MSA

  Ogden–Clearfield, UT MSA

  Provo–Orem, UT MSA

  Heber, UT MSA

The Salt Lake City metropolitan area is the metropolitan area centered on the city of Salt Lake City, Utah. The Office of Management and Budget and the United States Census Bureau currently define the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area as comprising two counties: Salt Lake and Tooele.^[1] As of the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 1,257,936. The Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area and the Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan Area were a single metropolitan area known as the Salt Lake City-Ogden Metropolitan Area until being separated in 2005.^[2]

The metropolitan area is part of the Salt Lake City–Provo–Ogden, UT Combined Statistical Area, which also includes the Ogden–Clearfield metropolitan area, the Provo–Orem metropolitan area, and the Heber City, Utah micropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, this CSA had a population of 2,701,129, comprising 82.6 percent of Utah's then 3,271,616 residents.

Counties[edit]

• Salt Lake
• Tooele

Communities[edit]

Incorporated places[edit]

Alta Bluffdale (partial) Cottonwood Heights Draper (partial) Grantsville Herriman Holladay Midvale Millcreek Murray Ophir Riverton Rush Valley

Salt Lake City Sandy South Jordan South Salt Lake Stockton Taylorsville Tooele Vernon Wendover West Jordan West Valley City

Unincorporated places[edit]

Copperton (township) Dugway (census-designated place) Emigration Canyon (township) Erda (census-designated place) Granite (census-designated place) Kearns (township)

Magna (township) Pine Canyon Snowbird Stansbury Park (census-designated place) White City (census-designated place)

Demographics[edit]

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1900	77,725		—
1910	131,426		69.1%
1920	159,282		21.2%
1930	194,102		21.9%
1940	211,625		9.0%
1950	274,895		29.9%
1960	406,576		47.9%
1970	486,031		19.5%
1980	655,297		34.8%
1990	768,075		17.2%
2000	968,858		26.1%
2010	1,124,197		16.0%
2020	1,257,936		11.9%
U.S. Decennial Census[3]

[zil2]

1 hour ago, Vort said:

Wikipedia, FWIW

blah, blah blah blah.

[mirkwood]

4 hours ago, zil2 said:

blah, blah blah blah.

We should revolt and make our own small county so we don't have to associate with those heathens.

[zil2]

8 hours ago, mirkwood said:

We should revolt and make our own small county so we don't have to associate with those heathens.

Amen, brother!

[NeuroTypical]

On 8/12/2023 at 5:28 PM, Vort said:

Wikipedia, FWIW:

 

Consider the chuckles endless, from just about everybody, on that one.

Wendover is on the Nevada border, half the town exists in Utah, half in Nevada.   If you live in SLC (no matter how you define it), and you want to legally gamble, Wendover is your shortest drive to casinos and sin.  

My father was a massive gambler, and "family vacations" to Wendover happened at least 3-4 times a year as I grew up.   This was his escape from being surrounded by mormons, a critical and regular need for him.

 

This was pretty much a holy pilgrimage when I was a kid.  Across the Utah Salt Flats, home of the land-speed world record.  As they improved I-80 to 2 lanes in both directions, I learned to drive at 14 on the old abandoned I-80 road, now a frontage road, sometimes 2 inches underwater, depending on what the Great Salt Lake was doing. 

President Carter's 55MPH national speed limit was a frequent source of swearing.  Then the evil republicans and Newt Gengrich made it 65, and life was better.  I think the record was 98 minutes, on the tour busses.  To get from SLC to wendover on a tour bus for free, you just had to show up, and prove you had $200 in cash on you.  They gave you round trip travel, and several coupon books for free drinks and cheap food and whatnot.  They initially let minors like me ride with an adult, until someone got mad and they passed a law.

My dad would drop $20 in quarters on me, and I'd go spend the day at the arcade.  In the '70's, casinos had not discovered children yet, so I'd be on the Utah side at Ivan's Fun Palace: Pinball and pool until they invented Space Invaders and Donkey Kong.  I'd walk from the Utah side of Wendover, across to the NV side.  It really was like the air and sun felt different.   Immigrants and poverty and the abandoned air force base on one side, then you take one step west, and it's all glitter and lights and raucous loud laughter and alcohol.  Then in the early '80's, the US discovered how much $$ kids are worth, and all the casinos finally developed "family centers", and I had an arcade in every casino.

I spent hours sitting on bar stools at the entrance to the casinos, watching my dad play craps.   I got good at looking sad, and cocktail waitresses would take pity on me and bring me a Coke.  It didn't dawn on me until my mid-'20's why that worked, but the story has been getting consistently funnier ever since. 

Yeah, Wendover and SLC have much to do with each other, but I doubt you could find a single human who thinks Wendover is a part of SLC, "Combined Statistical Area" notwithstanding.

Edited August 14, 2023 by NeuroTypical

[Vort]

Well, I did say FWIW. I didn't say it was actually worth anything...

[NeuroTypical]

Oh, nothing directed at you Vort.  I was just teleported back to my childhood and wanted to share.

[Ironhold]

7 hours ago, NeuroTypical said:

Yeah, Wendover and SLC have much to do with each other, but I doubt you could find a single human who thinks Wendover is a part of SLC, "Combined Statistical Area" notwithstanding.

Here in Texas, we have the situation where third parties often forcibly graft the Bryan / College Station metropolitan area onto the Waco / Temple / Killeen metropolitan area despite the two areas being far enough apart that they have their own local NBC affiliate (both owned by Tegna). A few TV stations from the two metropolitan areas are a part of each area's cable package to round things out, but otherwise they're quite different.

In particular, WTC is flavored by Interstate 35 and Fort Hood / Fort Cavazos, while BCS is flavored by the flagship campus of the Texas A&M system. 

[mirkwood]

I had much more regular trips to Wendover than @NeuroTypicalhad in the same general timeframe.  We kept going after stopping for lunch in Wendover (I-80 icon on the map) to Elko and our cabin (arrow from Elko.)

 

 

 

 

[Ironhold]

As MatPat notes, Disney's constantly mining and re-mining their IPs for more content is destroying these IPs just like a kid destroys their toys through rough play. 

He believes that Disney could stand to learn from YouTube channels like his own when it comes to advanced planning, forming release schedules, and so forth in order to deal with a number of what he sees as easily preventable problems. 

[LDSGator]

Some humor. 

[Vort]

The cognoscenti have long realized that Bambi is a nickname for Baphomet.

[NeuroTypical]

As someone who occasionally hangs out around goats, I can confirm they are portals to the nether realm, posing as cute little animals.

Ἅιδης eννομ γέεννα tαρταρόω!!!

 

[LDSGator]

8 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said:

As someone who occasionally hangs out around goats, I can confirm they are portals to the nether realm, posing as cute little animals.

Ἅιδης eννομ γέεννα tαρταρόω!!!

 

The daughter of a friend of min took care of a goat for a 4H activity. Apparently the only thing the daughter learned was that goats really stink. 

[Vort]

A screaming goat sounds exactly like a screaming person. It's a Venn intersection of bizarre, terrifying, and hilarious.

Edited August 17, 2023 by Vort

[NeuroTypical]

4 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

The daughter of a friend of min took care of a goat for a 4H activity. Apparently the only thing the daughter learned was that goats really stink. 

Billy goats get "in the mood for love" by chewing on their own wee-wees until their beards smell like urine.  

Don't tell the daughter until she's older. 

[Edit - if the daughter learned goats in 4H, she probably knows this already, and just doesn't talk about it, waiting until the grown-ups are mature enough to hear it.  ]

Edited August 17, 2023 by NeuroTypical

[LDSGator]

2 minutes ago, Vort said:

A screaming goat sounds exactly like a screaming person. It's a Venn intersection of bizarre, terrifying, and hilarious.

Fishercats sound the same. @Grunt, being from New England have you ever heard them scream? It’s bone chilling to me. 

[LDSGator]

Just now, NeuroTypical said:

Billy goats get "in the mood for love" by chewing on their own wee-wees until their beards smell like urine.  

Don't tell the daughter until she's older. 

Lol. Yeah, I’ll keep that one to myself! Lol. 

[Vort]

[Ironhold]

1 hour ago, LDSGator said:

Some humor. 

Where I live, if Disney does make their Bambi movie about half of the audience where I live will be cheering for the hunters. 

[zil2]

46 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said:

As someone who occasionally hangs out around goats, I can confirm they are portals to the nether realm, posing as cute little animals.

My ink review story (The Adventures of Quin and Makhabesh) had a goat adventure (part 3).  Ricky Cha - an obnoxious little goat - was one of the most popular characters.  The goats were let by the goat wizard, Kri Nachi, the Ancient of Goats.

And if you're lacking for entertainment, you could do worse than "Angry Ram destroys a punching bag":

 

[LDSGator]

11 minutes ago, zil2 said:

My ink review story (The Adventures of Quin and Makhabesh) had a goat adventure (part 3).  Ricky Cha - an obnoxious little goat - was one of the most popular characters.  The goats were let by the goat wizard, Kri Nachi, the Ancient of Goats.

And if you're lacking for entertainment, you could do worse than "Angry Ram destroys a punching bag":

 

That ram is better on the bag than I could ever dream of being!