- Deme ( @Deme@sopuli.xyz ) 33•10 months ago
Imagine not knowing your bearings at all times…
Also imagine not looking like a sailor…
- Windshear ( @Windshear@lemmy.ca ) 8•10 months ago
Right?!? When I give directions I do both. Eg. turn left(north) on the 887. Far too many people have gotten lost trying to find my place. It’s 3 turns at well labelled intersections.
- Semi-Hemi-Demigod ( @Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ) 21•10 months ago
Right?!?
I think you mean “starboard?!?”
- Colour_me_triggered ( @Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee ) 2•10 months ago
My youngest have red and green hats. They also have assigned seating when sitting in the double stroller.
- Blackmist ( @Blackmist@feddit.uk ) English31•10 months ago
In the UK we put pubs on most corners just to make directions easier.
Left at the Dog and Duck, go past the Swan and Tomato, and it’s first on the right after the Nonce and Swallow.
- drathvedro ( @drathvedro@lemm.ee ) 5•10 months ago
That’s pretty much how they navigate in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia. There are technically streets and building numbers… somewhere in the utility bills. But people instead use logos on buildings to navigate, which are abundant and prominent because who wouldn’t want an entire street be referred by their brand name.
- Rob Bos ( @rbos@lemmy.ca ) 1•10 months ago
I do most of my drinking at the Naughty Satsuma these days.
- GissaMittJobb ( @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ) 26•10 months ago
I’m normally against body shaming, but I make an exception against people who have malfunctioning internal compasses.
- Auk ( @Auk@kbin.social ) 15•10 months ago
It’s pretty easy to figure out which way is which and using cardinal directions can result in less ambiguous/confusing instructions, I think more people should use them.
- grahamja ( @grahamja@reddthat.com ) 8•10 months ago
I intentionally have north is always up on my map app. It is easier to recognize cardinal directions while doing terrain association, and it makes passengers upset.
- Anony Moose ( @anonymoose@lemmy.ca ) English4•10 months ago
I clued into this many years ago and my sense of direction has been massively upgraded ever since. I always have a mental image of the Google Maps (facing North) of a place, even when I’m visiting a new place. As a result, it is much faster for me to plot new places in my mental map. Definitely a skill worth developing!
- Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ ( @Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•10 months ago
I also do this and am also ostracized and condemned by passengers for my behavior. Worth it.
- glibg10b ( @glibg10b@lemmy.ml ) 2•10 months ago
You have converted me
- Poggervania ( @Poggervania@kbin.social ) 15•10 months ago
OP: “Ohhhh, east? I thought you said weast.”
- pedz ( @pedz@lemmy.ca ) 10•10 months ago
But then you realize their north is not the same as physical north, like Montreal, where west/east follows the river instead or real cardinal points.
So if you ask directions in Montreal and someone tells you to go north, it means to go NW. And if you’re told to go east, you have to NE. It’s easy once in the city because the grid follows that “convention” but you always have to be aware of that detail. We just like to add a layer of complexity.
One quirk of common Montreal parlance is that directions (north, south, east, and west) along the street grid are sharply skewed relative to the actual compass directions. The St. Lawrence River is taken as flowing west to east (even though it flows north or northeast past the island), so that directions along streets parallel to the river are referred to as “west” and “east,” and those along streets perpendicular to the river, “north” and “south.” In much of Montreal, “north” is actually northwest, and in some areas such as Verdun and Pointe-aux-Trembles it is actually due west.
- AltheaHunter ( @AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English10•10 months ago
More like “my memory is dogshit and my pocket computer will give real-time instructions with visuals so please stop wasting my time.”
- MBM ( @MBM@lemmings.world ) 1•10 months ago
If you don’t want directions, don’t ask
- Colour_me_triggered ( @Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee ) 7•10 months ago
Rolls eyes in islander
Look at the big dipper. The two stars furthest from the pan handle part point to the north star. Or just look for the sun at mid-day.
- deegeese ( @deegeese@sopuli.xyz ) 6•10 months ago
That is normal in the Guugu Yimithirr language of aboriginal Australians.
They don’t have egocentric directions like left/right, but express everything in cardinal directions.
- Diabolo96 ( @Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•10 months ago
I usually use countries location to remember what they mean. The USA is a western country and China is an eastern country. West is left and east is right. Easy.
- TexMexBazooka ( @TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ) 3•10 months ago
Peoples modern inability to read a map or know basic directions never ceases to amaze me