Ask a foreigner

[LuckiLee]

This is our climate change.

 

[Shaylee]

Do you have this where you live?

Yuppers, but we live near a helicopter flight school, 2 small airports, an Air Force base and an international airport.

 

[Freida]

bad pilots!

 

[Shaylee]

bad pilots!

I am completely and thoroughly disappointed I did not get to review their artwork.

 

[Rose White]

Related to @Freida ’s bad pilots link, I heard that people in England spray paint ’s around potholes in to get the city to fix them faster—brilliant! Potholes are a problem in my city so maybe I should spread the word!

 

[Rose White]

For anyone curious about America’s complicated relationship with guns, how and why the nation got to where it is today, I recommend this podcast called The Gun Machine.

‎The Gun Machine on Apple Podcasts

‎Society & Culture · 2023

podcasts.apple.com

 

[Teasel]

This cap here is virtually a medical aid for me. Bright lights, even being outside much at all is painful for me and this lil cap is my favourite for reducing glare. I lost it last week but thankfully it is still available so I just received a new one today.

But I was just wondering about the brand, I can't find any info on their website about the brand. Have you heard of it? Do you know anything about it? Thanks

https://www.asos.com/columbia/columbia-roc-ii-cap-in-beige/prd/203550979

 

[somerandomguy]

Columbia is a well known "outdoorsy" brand here in the US.

 

[Teasel]

Thanks @somerandomguy for some reason I thought it might be a University

 

[somerandomguy]

It is! I Columbia University is an Ivy League school in NYC. But they are two separate things. Your hat is repping the brand, not the university.

 

[Freida]

If you live in the pacific nw you probably have half a dozen things from here in your closet-- they are an awesome company for all things outdoors!

Here's the actual website columbia sportswear

 

[Friday]

If you live in the pacific nw you probably have half a dozen things from here in your closet-- they are an awesome company for all things outdoors!

Here's the actual website columbia sportswear

Outdoor Research… OR… all the way!

The “better” (by a thousand miles) than McColumbia or McNorth Face. Always in NatGeoSoc, and worn by service members whose branch or MOS actually has a budget.

The founder -astrophysicist / adventurer ticked off by the BS available retail- was killed in an avalanche in the early aughts, but was bought by Dan Nordstrom (the serious outdoorsman in the fam) in the wake of. his death. So it’s no longer all made in the USA with annual salmon BBQs at Ballard Park for every employee… but? Still owned by someone who actually lives/loves/works/survives outdoors.