Pet Peeves

Plastic Baseball cap brims?
I don't like the way they make baseball caps now with that stupid plastic in the brim. Any boomer kid can tell you that the idea of wearing your cap (of course not backwards) is to wear it in and get the curve of the brim and the peak of the front just right. Sort of like breaking in a baseball glove. The problem with the plastic brims is they are too curved for one thing, and you can't change the shape. No personality.

You would fit the cap to your head, and each time you take it off or adjust it, you give it a little curving, a little bending, and you work on it from time to time when you are just fiddling. The cardboard in there had a memory. If it wasn't shaping up, you could get it wet and let it dry with some newspaper stuck in it to help block it.

The sad thing is that I worry about this, but almost never wear a cap.

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Centigrade vs Celcius??
When I was a kid, you had farenheight and centigrade scales on thermometers. If push came to shove, I think we might have known that celsius was another name for centigrade, but the media and everybody today has forgotten about centigrade and switched to celsius. Who did this and why? And why didn't they ask me?

I bet Mrs.Fortmiller, my H.S. math teacher would not believe that I still can on paper convert back and forth. Tc=(5/9)*[(Tf-32)] . . . . .Tf=[(9/5)*Tc] +32


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And when did they start calling the planet Ur a'nis Ur' uhn is? It seems to me it was because people didn't like the snickers when they mentioned the rings around Uranis. Understandable, but we shouldn't let the jokesters force us to change our whole language.

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While I am on words, how about "Pointsettia?" In the old days we knew that there was an "i" in there when you spelled it, like for spelling bees, but the i was silent! As I remember it, everyone said "point-set-a" without fear of mispronouncing it. Then the ignorants took over and in a mistaken effort to look smart, started pronouncing the "i" to prove they were literate. Enough people were embarassed to pronounce it the old way, so the "i"s took over.

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Update: Oh, yeah, Leah reminds me that "There's no point in poinsettia" Ummm, Should I use my bad memory excuse or my ignorance excuse? Umm . . . let's see.