Explain To Me "Inflation" Again?

knot4u said:
Were you listening to those broadcasts in Phoenix? You spent some time doing traffic reporting from an airplane didn't you? I'd imagine studying up on what was happening in the bigger radio markets was probably smart. There might've been some smoke and mirrors back then. I'm not going to say who, where or any other identifying info but I might've worked in a hangar that might've also rented space to a news helicopter and sometimes when the June gloom set in it was not uncommon to walk by their office and hear helicopter noises and someone pretending to yell into a headset about a traffic jam 30 miles away, I'd look over the wall of the mezzanine and see the aircraft sitting on its pad in the hangar and just shake my head and continue on with whatever I was doing.
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I used to listen to Bruce Wayne when I was in high school and would go out to California every so often in the summer. After he was killed in the plane crash at, I believe, Fullerton, Mike Nolan took over. When I later became a traffic pilot for KTAR radio in Phoenix, I’d listen to Nolan’s reports to get a feel for how they were done, but by the time I was flying the line, we had a reporter along with us. Ironically, I was hired, replacing the previous KTAR traffic pilot, Mike Kneutzman, who was killed when his R22 helo crashed into a house in north Phoenix, about 8 miles soutwest of Scottsdale airport, for reasons that were never really determined. All nearly 32 years ago.
 
MikeD said:
Name all of the greater LA freeways by their given name, from memory only.
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Fun fact that you may already know, that’s where the SoCal definite article for freeways came from.

You wouldn’t call it “Santa Monica Freeway”, but “THE Santa Monica Freeway”. And so on. Since LA was something of a pioneer when it came to car culture and the heavy use of freeways connecting the sprawl, the names more or less preceded the numbering. Or at least widespread usage of numbers.

The numbers came later, and the article stuck.
 
knot4u said:
I think the fact that all of the freeways in SoCal have actual names is the reason why people historically didn't refer to a freeway numbers very often and if they did it would feel awkward to say it that way, everyone grew up referring to the Ventura freeway (101), the Foothill freeway (210), the Harbor freeway (110), the Golden State freeway (I-5) or any other freeway by their name and not their number. These days many folks don't even know the names of the freeways and refer to them by their numbers but they still use the old vernacular of "the". Sometimes it makes no sense, when the 118 was built it was named the Simi Valley-San Fernando freeway, that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue so everyone just referred to it as the 118, in '94 unbeknownst to almost everyone that didn't commute daily on it the name was changed to the Ronald Reagan freeway. Simi has always leaned a bit conservative with a higher than average percentage of first responders and other conservative folks so I'd suspect the majority of the folks commuting were not put off by the name change. The Ronald Reagan freeway, boy I'll bet that gets some people salty these days.
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Rosstafari said:
Fun fact that you may already know, that’s where the SoCal definite article for freeways came from.

You wouldn’t call it “Santa Monica Freeway”, but “THE Santa Monica Freeway”. And so on. Since LA was something of a pioneer when it came to car culture and the heavy use of freeways connecting the sprawl, the names more or less preceded the numbering. Or at least widespread usage of numbers.

The numbers came later, and the article stuck.
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I never did know that; but that is a cool fun fact indeed. Love these neat tidbits of historical info!
 
MikeD said:
Ooh! I hadn’t noticed those details. Rerun episodes are on in the middle of the night here, I’ll have to watch some of them.

Always have to have the episode opening sequence with the mass vehicle accident that usually involves some 1970s custom van in some dramatic rollover accident that causes a mega pileup. 😂
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It’s particularly noticeable in seasons 1 and 2. Not so sure on the later years.
 
JordanD said:
Going to sound like a “damn kid” but I think almost 20 years is enough. But I remember in 2005 in Kentucky 100LL being somewhere around the $5/gallon mark, I was actually shocked to see it roughly still the same price if not within a couple dollars.
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We underpay for gasoline compared to Europeans. Don’t tell Billy Ray with his MAGAmobile that, though.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
We underpay for gasoline compared to Europeans. Don’t tell Billy Ray with his MAGAmobile that, though.
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And our inflation is downright laughable compared to theirs.

I’ve always considered inflation one of those “rich people problems”. Many people have so much money, the price of everything goes up. This continues until people stop spending, and prices freefall.

Which is to say, people super suck at moderation…
 
Toobdrvr said:
And our inflation is downright laughable compared to theirs.

I’ve always considered inflation one of those “rich people problems”. Many people have so much money, the price of everything goes up. This continues until people stop spending, and prices freefall.

Which is to say, people super suck at moderation…
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“Starbucks costs $6!”

“Look at the line out the door, demand hasn’t softened at that price and Starbucks is maximizing shareholder value”
 
Minuteman said:
Wooow. Deprogramming is complete!

Man referred to a highway in California and applied no definite article to its name.

Welcome back to society; where do ya wanna go eat?
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In NOLA, you went to the hardware and went to make groceries.
 
MikeD said:
Then; there was Randi Oakes as Officer Clark.
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TIL:

Father:
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The one thing about CHiPs that never made sense was CHP motor officers have never ridden in pairs. The premise of the show was John Baker was a seasoned veteran assigned to be fiery young Frank Poncherrelo's training officer, but they never separated. I've seen a lot of CHP motor officers over the years, but I've never seen them patrolling as a pair, they're always solo. I'd imagine if you asked any current CHP officers to parade around side by side like Ponch and John they'd probably politely decline the invitation. I don't know if any of those folks are partnered up but I've never seen any evidence of it. Maybe that's when they figured out the solo biker outlaw ex-cop fighting to clear his name leaving a wake of criminals in handcuffs was more believable, hence the TV show Renegade. I never watched it but Lorenzo Lamas learned to fly at the same place I did and he put his brand new Warrior on leaseback at the school as a rental, you weren't just allowed to book time in it. You almost had to be invited, everyone loved me so I was invited. It still had that brand new airplane smell, a leather interior and maybe most importantly it had air conditioning. I remember once during the dog days of summer I went and flew it in the afternoon and then went to go work on the Bearcat that night, I was talking to Lyle and mentioned I'd gone flying earlier in the day and he said "It must've been miserable in this heat.". He was flabbergasted when I told him it wasn't bad with A/C. That system was not perfect or really that effective but it was better than one of those plastic gizmos that flop out of the vent window. If I recall correctly it would run after engine start and the throttle had a switch that at full power would suck up the condenser pack hanging out off the belly and shut the compressor off during take-off and then it would just turn on again when you backed off the throttle. I met Lorenzo a couple of times and he was always a pleasure to be around.
 
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