Random thoughts that are pointless and too dumb to say anywhere else thread! **2025**

[GAME05]

I appreciate the offer. I'd be able to make room indoors for some equipment. Even just an adjustable bench and some dumbbells is enough to hit every muscle group. But it was hard enough to get in the routine of lifting with my stuff right there under my carport, which I suspect would be even harder if it were right there in another room. What's most convenient is easiest to put off. Oddly enough I suspect a more cumbersome drive would actually make me more consistent. 

[LouisEly]

On 10/24/2025 at 11:57 AM, GAME05 said:

I appreciate the offer. I'd be able to make room indoors for some equipment. Even just an adjustable bench and some dumbbells is enough to hit every muscle group. But it was hard enough to get in the routine of lifting with my stuff right there under my carport, which I suspect would be even harder if it were right there in another room. What's most convenient is easiest to put off. Oddly enough I suspect a more cumbersome drive would actually make me more consistent. 

They're bodyweight workouts.  No equipment needed. 

Think pushups, situps, planks, squats, lunges, high knees, etc.

[Brian]

This is to dumb to say anywhere else. 

The official population of Luckenbach, TX. is often cited on a sign in the area as,  "Population 3 and one dog". 

[GAME05]

My co-workers are giving me crap for pronouncing "milk" more like melk. They say I'm wrong but I tell them I come from the land of melk and therefore I'm the expert and I'm right. The harder i sound just seems off and weird and wrong, kinda like how you know someone isn't from Wisconsin if they pronounce the il in Milwaukee instead of with an uh. 

[tmwiese55]

1 hour ago, GAME05 said:

My co-workers are giving me crap for pronouncing "milk" more like melk. They say I'm wrong but I tell them I come from the land of melk and therefore I'm the expert and I'm right. The harder i sound just seems off and weird and wrong, kinda like how you know someone isn't from Wisconsin if they pronounce the il in Milwaukee instead of with an uh. 

I've never been given grief for it, but I say it the same way. And I've noticed it over the years and try to say it correctly.        Good point you make though, its the same logic when people try to tell me Oregon is pronounced Ora-ghin or Missouri is pronounced Missoura because thats what locals say. People have argued with  me about that in the past adamantly saying what locals say is default right (no matter how clearly wrong they are and really its just an accent).   Same logic would apply to what you say here

[TURBO]

Wait, I do hear people saying MELK, but have never heard Milwaukee pronounced Muhwaukee in my entire life...

[tmwiese55]

Never noticed the Milwaukee thing either, but now that you say it I think its right.  At the very least there isn't a hard L or ILL in it.   I've said it a few times to myself now and realized I barely include an L if at all. 

[hawing]

Locals say it more like M'waukee.  

[Samurai Bucky]

13 hours ago, GAME05 said:

My co-workers are giving me crap for pronouncing "milk" more like melk. They say I'm wrong but I tell them I come from the land of melk and therefore I'm the expert and I'm right. The harder i sound just seems off and weird and wrong, kinda like how you know someone isn't from Wisconsin if they pronounce the il in Milwaukee instead of with an uh. 

Some other fun ones:

Eggs vs. Aggs

Wisconsin vs. Wesconsin

Then there are the Canadians -- what's that all aboot?

 

[CheezWizHed]

Also realize that Madison/Milwaukee has an accent that isn't in the rest of Wisconsin... YET WE ARE STILL FROM WISCONSIN! 

No, I don't say "bubbler". I didn't hear anyone say "Wes-consin" until I went to MSOE for college.  No, Tomah is not "Up North". Yes, the bears still suck.

#ProudlyRepresentingTheNorthWoods

[nate82]

2 hours ago, CheezWizHed said:

No, I don't say "bubbler".

Blasphemous heretic!!!!!! 

[owbc]

When I first moved out of Wisconsin about 15 years ago I remember going back and seeing my friends/family and being like "holy **** I used to talk like that?!?!?!" I especially was shocked by hearing the ones who lived up north, which I agree is clearly distinctive from the larger cities. Charlie Berens (who happens to be a high school classmate of mine) has a good bit on how he discovered his Wisconsin accent when he started out in the news biz. 

Now that I'm out west, the easiest way to spot Midwesterners is to ask them to pronounce Oregon. They all say "Or-ee-gon" instead of "Ory-gun". 

Personally I hold on to "bubbler" which is awesome but the rest is long gone. 

[GAME05]

2 hours ago, owbc said:

Personally I hold on to "bubbler" which is awesome but the rest is long gone. 

I never said it as a kid but have only recently started using it. Think I've latched onto it since it's somewhat-uniquely Wisconsin.

Few years ago went back home and had a visit with an uncle who had a very northern-WI accent. Don't think I really noticed it until then and had already been living out of WI. Really liked the accent and was kinda sad I didn't have it.

[TURBO]

Born and raised in Southwest WI, now live in the Fox Valley.  I never heard the term "bubbler" until I moved here, and it makes no sense.  There are no bubbles.  We called it a drinking fountain, or water fountain, and that is what I still call it.  Bubbler to me is the kind you see in an office,  The kind where there is a large replaceable water container, and you push the button to have water dispensed into a little cone shaped drinking glass.  When you push the button, bubbles rise to the top inside the water container, hence "bubbler."

A drinking fountain, which to me is the correct terminology, makes sense because when you push the button for water, it comes out in a small fountain which the user drinks from.

This bubbler thing is just whacky...imo.

[homer]

https://www.jsonline.com/story/life/green-sheet/2020/02/25/why-bubbler-what-water-drinking-fountain-called-wisconsin-milwaukee/4793730002/

Although "bubbler" and "drinking fountain" seem to have been used interchangeably, "bubbler" is the word that stuck in Milwaukee's cranium — and, as important, in our self-identity. By the early 1960s, news reports highlighted the fact that calling a bubbler a bubbler was the sure sign of being a Milwaukeean. 

"Why Milwaukee uses this term … is hard to say. Possibly it is a survival of the old German habit of making words sound like what they represent," the Racine Journal-Times wrote in a 1963 editorial reprinted in both The Journal and Sentinel. "But the word has a certain charm, and we hope Milwaukee keeps it."

 

[tmwiese55]

Not an accent thing but on the mispronunciation topic is comfortable being pronounced cumf-ter-bull.   Almost everyone says it wrong, even pro talkers in tv/movies/news, as its just easier that way.   I naturally say it that way too but consciously try not to now 

[homer]

16 minutes ago, tmwiese55 said:

Not an accent thing but on the mispronunciation topic is comfortable being pronounced cumf-ter-bull.   Almost everyone says it wrong, even pro talkers in tv/movies/news, as its just easier that way.   I naturally say it that way too but consciously try not to now 

"Frigerator"

[young guns]

https://onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/bubbler-a-secret-code/

 

Basically, like kleenex, a bubbler is call a bubbler because that was the brand name way back in 1888 from kohler.

[SeaBass]

On 11/20/2025 at 2:08 PM, TURBO said:

Born and raised in Southwest WI, now live in the Fox Valley.  I never heard the term "bubbler" until I moved here, and it makes no sense.  There are no bubbles.  We called it a drinking fountain, or water fountain, and that is what I still call it.  Bubbler to me is the kind you see in an office,  The kind where there is a large replaceable water container, and you push the button to have water dispensed into a little cone shaped drinking glass.  When you push the button, bubbles rise to the top inside the water container, hence "bubbler."

A drinking fountain, which to me is the correct terminology, makes sense because when you push the button for water, it comes out in a small fountain which the user drinks from.

This bubbler thing is just whacky...imo.

Do you say Kleenex or facial tissue? If you say Kleenex that's why bubbler is a thing. I will never drink from a water fountain because that sounds about as palatable as drinking from a fish tank. Drinking fountain is ok I guess but still too many syllables.

Honestly though, I think it's been decades since I've actually used one, whatever you want to call it. Maybe it's just not that important what people call it.

[Brian]

Frank “Sugar Chile” Robinson still loves the Brewers Braves at age 86.

 

[Brian]

On 11/23/2025 at 2:10 PM, SeaBass said:

Do you say Kleenex or facial tissue? If you say Kleenex that's why bubbler is a thing. I will never drink from a water fountain because that sounds about as palatable as drinking from a fish tank. Drinking fountain is ok I guess but still too many syllables.

Honestly though, I think it's been decades since I've actually used one, whatever you want to call it. Maybe it's just not that important what people call it.

A Kleenex is for Cub fans to wipe away tears for another heartbreak season. 

[tmwiese55]

On 11/13/2025 at 1:38 PM, hawing said:

Locals say it more like M'waukee.  

Funny, they just had this discussion MLB network, almost as if pulled from this site.   Matt Vasgersian pointing this one out. 

[Baldkin]

On 11/23/2025 at 2:10 PM, SeaBass said:

Do you say Kleenex or facial tissue? If you say Kleenex that's why bubbler is a thing. I will never drink from a water fountain because that sounds about as palatable as drinking from a fish tank. Drinking fountain is ok I guess but still too many syllables.

Honestly though, I think it's been decades since I've actually used one, whatever you want to call it. Maybe it's just not that important what people call it.

Fountains are where you throw coins

[Jim French Stepstool]

On 11/20/2025 at 7:38 PM, young guns said:

https://onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/bubbler-a-secret-code/

 

Basically, like kleenex, a bubbler is call a bubbler because that was the brand name way back in 1888 from kohler.

Sorta like Jello. I'm sure a lot of people think it's a generic identification. It's a brand name for gelatin. Dates back to 1897.

[Jim French Stepstool]

On 11/13/2025 at 1:38 PM, hawing said:

Locals say it more like M'waukee.  

Years ago my sister & her family had neighbors who moved here from Kentucky. That was the first time I heard reference to the City of Louavl.