Things that confuse ordinary people in the 3I

[LeperColony]

What are some modern day practices that you think might survive to the Third Imperium, but that because the origin has become obscured, confuses people?

I think people would be confused as to why the universal sign for rolling down your air/raft windows is a circular hand motion, like turning some kind of crank.

 

[nobby-w]

What are some modern day practices that you think might survive to the Third Imperium, but that because the origin has become obscured, confuses people?

I think people would be confused as to why the universal sign for rolling down your air/raft windows is a circular hand motion, like turning some kind of crank.

I like the notion that during docking manoeuvres it's traditional to play a particular old Terran musical piece (apparently about a river) over the PA system. Nobody has any idea why it should be this particular piece was but it's traditional.

In a setting that predates the psionics suppressions, psi sensitives are disparagingly called 'spoon benders.'

 

[Condottiere]

Aslan videos.

 

[Xerxeskingofking]

I like the notion that during docking manoeuvres it's traditional to play a particular old Terran musical piece (apparently about a river) over the PA system. Nobody has any idea why it should be this particular piece was but it's traditional.

In a setting that predates the psionics suppressions, psi sensitives are disparagingly called 'spoon benders.'

ok, this must be some American thing, cos I have no idea what your referring to? is this the "breakaway music" the U.S.N. players at the end of UNREP? I thought that was different for every ship?

my suggestions:

the practice of putting the driver of an air/raft on the left side of the vehicle, rather than in a central position with better views on both sides. This has been traced back to Terran rules imposed onto the vlani in the Rule of Man, and was apparently standard on terra since at least the early ISW era, but it is unclear when and why this became standard.

A common solomani good luck gesture, of touching the head, lower stomach, and the two shoulders with your dominant hand, all in quick succession. Believed to be have had a religious connotation, but the exact meaning is lost.

 

[nobby-w]

ok, this must be some American thing, cos I have no idea what your referring to? is this the "breakaway music" the U.S.N. players at the end of UNREP? I thought that was different for every ship?

No, I was referring to the Blue Danube, as seen in 2001: A space odyssey and various incarnations of Elite. Most folks just know it as 'The Docking Music'.

2001: A Space Odyssey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muPNlnm_i44

Elite: Dangerous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvum2N5pdAU

 

[Grav_Moped]

ok, this must be some American thing, cos I have no idea what your referring to? is this the "breakaway music" the U.S.N. players at the end of UNREP? I thought that was different for every ship?

my suggestions:

the practice of putting the driver of an air/raft on the left side of the vehicle, rather than in a central position with better views on both sides. This has been traced back to Terran rules imposed onto the vlani in the Rule of Man, and was apparently standard on terra since at least the early ISW era, but it is unclear when and why this became standard.

A common solomani good luck gesture, of touching the head, lower stomach, and the two shoulders with your dominant hand, all in quick succession. Believed to be have had a religious connotation, but the exact meaning is lost.

They'd probably remember it on Regina.
Regina/Regina (SM 1910) "...was first settled in 75 by an expedition from Aiere (1108 Core) financed by a religious order called the Sisters of St. Regina, which belonged to the New Catholic Faith."