This would be a lot funnier if there were enough pixels to differentiate the colors in the legend…
What is wrong with some of you?
Submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Halosheep@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sorry, it’s moldy
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah. I’m red/green color blind, so the colors coupled with the tiny boxes makes this pretty useless for me. Can anyone share what area of the country calls it the devil one?
SCB@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Like 5-8 towns each from Louisiana through alabama
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’m not colorblind and it’s just not visible. Most of the country is red, and then NY/Philly area is blue. Also southern florida where the NYers live, northern Minnesota for some reason, and sparely throughout new england, all also blue. Majority of country is red but with an unexplained shading that goes from low saturation to high.
eldoom@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I call it the devil beating his wife if that helps.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
The devil one is green, I think the Bible Belt is just barely tinged green.
FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Devil beating his wife sounds deep south as fuck…
teft@startrek.website 10 months ago
The devil is married?
MyDogLovesMe@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
A few minutes before the services started, the townspeople were sitting in their pews and talking. Suddenly, Satan appeared at the front of the church. Everyone started screaming and running for the front entrance, trampling each other in a frantic effort to get away from evil incarnate.
Soon everyone had exited the church except for one elderly gentleman who sat calmly in his pew without moving, seeming oblivious to the fact that God’s ultimate enemy was in his presence.
So Satan walked up to the old man and said, “Don’t you know who I am?” The man replied, “Yep, sure do.”
“Aren’t you afraid of me?” Satan asked.
“Nope, sure ain’t,” said the man.
“Don’t you realize I can kill you with a word?” asked Satan.
“Don’t doubt it for a minute,” returned the old man, in an even tone.
“Did you know that I could cause you profound, horrifying, physical AGONY… for all eternity?” persisted Satan.
“Yep,” was the calm reply.
“And you’re still not afraid?” asked Satan.
“Nope.”
More than a little perturbed, Satan asked, “Well, why aren’t you afraid of me?”
The man calmly replied, "Been married to your sister for the last 48 years!!..
contextual_somebody@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m from the Deep South. You couldn’t tell by my accent. I moved away for college and lived overseas and on both coasts. I didn’t know what a “sun shower” was until I was in my mid/late twenties and said “the devil is beating his wife” in front of my friends. That’s the only term for it I had ever heard up to that point.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 months ago
i was like 55% certain that this was a shitpost and no one actually said that until i read your comment
damn
we almost got a shitpost on c/shitpost. maybe it’s not too late to get a meme on c/meme
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Are you me? This is very similar to my story regarding this phrase. I have just heard the phrase associated with the situation. Not that rain falling while the sun is out is CALLED the devil is beating his wife. Rather, it’s just the indicator somehow.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes, that is why it happens
Limeey@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is a terrific example of where a choropleth (Ideally by county) would have been much more effective than a heat map.
Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Fuck yeah let’s convert some sunlight to … oh you said… nevermind
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I grew up in the CA bay area and always called them sunshowers. I didn’t make that up: I called them sunshowers when I was a kid because the people around me called them sunshowers.
As an aside, I also taught linguistics at the university level for about 10 years. I do question the accuracy of many of Katz’s charts because they very often do not match people’s expectations, and beyond the level of “you expected this because you didn’t know any better”. I would take them with a grain of salt. That’s not really a dig on Katz, either: difficult to study anything at this scale.
Psythik@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Same for AZ. This map sucks.
janAkali@lemmy.one 10 months ago
In russian we have a phrase “грибной дождь” (mushroom rain) for light warm rain in the sunshine. It’s the best weather for mushroom growth and is therefore a sign to go harvest them in the woods soon.
radix@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I like this a lot. It’s cute-sounding and has a history.
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Grew up in Georgia. My mom would refer to it as the devil beating his wife. She got it from her mom who presumably got it from her parents. I have no idea why that expression, never got an answer for that.
Freitag@feddit.de 10 months ago
Here is the answer www.theidioms.com/the-devil-is-beating-his-wife/
Roundcat@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Meanwhile, me and my siblings: “It’s raining sunshine!”
Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Verizon coverage map links up with this data. Coincidence??
Squander@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And Josh what is your thesis about? Urrmmmm ahh umm What do you call it when rain falls when the sun is shining? Josh youre studying statistics. Yeah, naw Im going to graph it.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I guess Hawaiian sunshine is just a thing my family uses…
SharpMaxwell@lemmy.world 10 months ago
green, I dont live anywhere near that area tho, i just remember someone talking about it online when i was young and it stuck with me
Lexica@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Theodd1sout maybe?
Crapattf2@feddit.uk 10 months ago
In the UK , well the part of the UK I live in we say “it’s a monkey’s birthday”
Well more actually most of the time we don’t say anything about it all
Psythik@lemm.ee 10 months ago
This map is inaccurate. I’m from Arizona and “sunshower” is commonly used here.
QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 10 months ago
Yup. SE Texas and it's "Devil is beating his wife" here.
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 10 months ago
I’m also from Arizona and I have no word for this.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 10 months ago
I’ve mostly heard some variation on sunshower in Texas because while they’re not common, they’re not super rare either. We also rarely get “sun-derstorms” (dunno what else to call it) in Texas.
meanmon13@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
It happens very frequently in Florida, I know of it as a sunshower. It not unheard of for your FoV to be filled with blue sky but it’s actively raining… that is when people mention sunshower. I’ve heard the devil is beating his wife but only rarely.
OkToBeTakei@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’ve heard the devil is beating his wife but only rarely.
I heard it, I think, once from a very old lady in Alabama who also used the n-word like she’d drop dead if she stopped. it formed a negative association for me.
Genrawir@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Apparently I’m from an area that uses sunshower, but I’ve always heard it called the devil beating his wife
MooseLad@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We’ve always called them sunshowers, but according to the map we’re in an area that has no name for it.
NeighborOfTheBeast@kbin.social 10 months ago
I'm going with "rainshine" but maybe thats just me
ItsMyFirstDay@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Monkey’s wedding.
anarchyrabbit@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I thought this was the only one. TIL…
ox0r@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Where I’m from we say it is ‘carnival in hell’
JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com 10 months ago
The devil what?!?
Chais@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Heard it called fox-rain.
columns_columns@lemm.ee 10 months ago
We always said it was the devil’s daughter was getting married.
Aremel@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I felt like I was taking crazy pills until I came across this comment. I’ve always heard this one instead of the “beating his wife” one.
I’ve also heard some variations of this one like “a witch is marrying the devil” or “a witch is getting married”.
I personally call them sunshowers.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve never heard any word or phrase for this, but sunshower just seems intuitive to me
callyral@kbin.social 10 months ago
it is the birth of rainbows
PetteriSkaffari@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Rainbow weather.
db2@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
ngwoo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have a theory that this has a special name less frequently the further you get from the equator because it’s a phenomenon that’s less rare when the sun spends less time overhead
Skoobie@lemmy.film 10 months ago
So it’s from the French who took it from a poem about Greek gods. So the Christians stole from the pagans yet again lol.
ZagnutInSpace@literature.cafe 10 months ago
I’ve decided I hate the domestic violence one. One I heard a while back is “a monkey’s wedding” and that has a much better mental image.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I just call it raining. There doesn’t need to be a certain term for everything ever, we’re not German lol
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Am german. We do not have a word for this either. It’s just raining.
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Ah, a glimpse into the German agenda!
snor10@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It’s funny how german always caught this flack online when the nordic languages are the exact same, we concatenate words on the fly all the time.
Solskensregn in this case, sunshine rain.