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 2 years ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Halosheep@lemm.ee 2 years ago
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
Like 5-8 towns each from Louisiana through alabama
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 years 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 2 years ago
I call it the devil beating his wife if that helps.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Sorry, it’s moldy
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 years ago
The devil one is green, I think the Bible Belt is just barely tinged green.
teft@startrek.website 2 years ago
The devil is married?
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 2 years ago
To a women no less
jkmooney@kbin.social 2 years ago
"His wife" could be a....let's say, "euphemism" for something else. In which case, that ain't rainwater falling.....
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 years ago
He beat pee pee?
MyDogLovesMe@sh.itjust.works 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
Yes, that is why it happens
FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Devil beating his wife sounds deep south as fuck…
Limeey@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
Fuck yeah let’s convert some sunlight to … oh you said… nevermind
febra@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Funny, but we use the same thing about the Devil beating his wife in Romania as well. At least in Transylvania we do. It’s surprising to see this being used in the US as well. I wonder where it originated from.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
That’s interesting… because those green areas are all old French settlements.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years 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 2 years ago
Same for AZ. This map sucks.
Hazdaz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I think we first have to introduce some parts of the western half of the country with this term called “rain”.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 years ago
You keep that devilry to yourself
Hazdaz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Gladly!
ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 years ago
I believe it's a Golden Shower
janAkali@lemmy.one 2 years 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 2 years ago
I like this a lot. It’s cute-sounding and has a history.
RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Wait, others don’t say the devil is beating his wife?
GhostsAreShitty@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Right? I’m in the great lakes region and that’s what I’ve always called it.
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I’m in the Great Lakes region and have never heard this in my life.
dragoness@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
Backwoods Virginian and that’s what we called it.
Bobert@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Southeast here and have heard it said the devil’s beating his wife commonly
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
Here is the answer www.theidioms.com/the-devil-is-beating-his-wife/
Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
What is this “rain” you speak of.
robocall@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Hello southwest
VonReposti@feddit.dk 2 years ago
What is this “sun” you speak of.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 years 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.
Squander@lemmy.world 2 years 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.
Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Verizon coverage map links up with this data. Coincidence??
Roundcat@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Meanwhile, me and my siblings: “It’s raining sunshine!”
Psythik@lemm.ee 2 years ago
This map is inaccurate. I’m from Arizona and “sunshower” is commonly used here.
QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 2 years ago
Yup. SE Texas and it's "Devil is beating his wife" here.
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 2 years ago
I’m also from Arizona and I have no word for this.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I guess Hawaiian sunshine is just a thing my family uses…
SharpMaxwell@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
Theodd1sout maybe?
Crapattf2@feddit.uk 2 years 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
ItsMyFirstDay@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Monkey’s wedding.
anarchyrabbit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
I thought this was the only one. TIL…
meanmon13@lemmy.zip 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
Apparently I’m from an area that uses sunshower, but I’ve always heard it called the devil beating his wife
ox0r@jlai.lu 2 years ago
Where I’m from we say it is ‘carnival in hell’
NeighborOfTheBeast@kbin.social 2 years ago
I'm going with "rainshine" but maybe thats just me
JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com 2 years ago
The devil what?!?
Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Heard it called fox-rain.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
Am german. We do not have a word for this either. It’s just raining.
AwwTopsy@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Doch, dh ja Sonnenregen!
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 years ago
– Mark Twain
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Ah, a glimpse into the German agenda!
snor10@lemm.ee 2 years 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.
hglman@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I call it, its raining and the sun is out