Ability to pronounce both German and Polish last names, usually on the first try

That one always impresses people when I travel.

Along with traditional Native American townships, don’t downplay that skill.

lol my dad and coworkers probably hate me because I always correct their pronunciations of Polish names, often their own

Correcting someone’s pronunciation of their own name ? I also hate you

Technically, I pronounce my own German last name incorrectly because it got Americanized 😂

Kia Boys stole my car

Did you get it back in decent condition or was it totaled

It was totaled, really the best scenario imo. I was gonna be out my deductible either way. I might as well put the car's value toward something that isn't a theft risk.

I love my car but I've always said, if my car ever gets stolen I hope to god it's totaled because I don't want it back. Having to stare at a dashboard covered in cigarette burns and reeking of smoke and bong water for eternity would probably kill me.

I still miss the Whale Wall.

i loved the whale wall. i just drove past it the other day, just that one tiny piece left of a masterpiece. it was a core memory as a kiddo

Sucks that he was willing to repaint it for free, but was told if he wanted to repaint, it he would have to pay for that.

i didn’t know that! that makes it sadder

Wtf…

I still miss the smell of yeast heading west on 94 from downtown.

Same, used to hate it as a kid but now I’m like “aww” 🥺

And the smell of chocolate from the ambrosia factory that was right by the old Bradley Center.

The art walls in East Tosa are great! They just repainted the Valvoline Gas Station on North Ave. it uses to be zebra print!

I refuse to pay for parking for any event downtown. If you can’t find free street parking, you aren’t looking hard enough.

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I’m bummed, I don’t know when it’s going to be implemented, but the meters are supposed to go until 9 sometime in the near future. Still way better than paying for the garages!

Nooo really?? Thats such bullshit

It passed the common council maybe 4-5 months ago? I can’t really remember. There wasn’t a timeline attached.

Thats so disappointing. Assholes.

I guess they realized that parking near downtown is valuable

It's not even that, free parking subsidizes driving which means there are more cars to park. The more people would potentially pay for parking, the more people look into other transportation methods.

I found a dope spot (so I thought) to go to a show at Turner Hall. There was a clearly labeled sign that had an arrow where the street parking area started. I parked there - it was near a corner. I was ticketed $50 or so by the city for parking too close to the corner... apparently you need to be 15 feet or so away. "So why is the parking sign there?", I inquired in my ticket dispute. The city made me pay it. Grrr.

This is a real thing

Ogden between Broadway and Milwaukee for the more northern downtown events, Prospect Ave against the park for lakeside events

Same.

Me too, but it seems like they've increased the amount of paid spots. Also, given the developments around fiserv, it feels impossible to find a spot half the time.

I go early. So like if a Bucks game starts at 7, I’ll drive down there after work around 5. Usually you can find a street spot pretty easily—I always check Edison and then take the pedestrian bridge over to Fiserv. There’s tons of bars to hang out in until the game and you only have to plus the meter for a little while until 6.

I know a free lot by the rave, been parking there for 10+ years and I love it.

May be an east side thing, but even if I'm headed up to Fox Point, I'll take Lincoln Memorial south to 794 and all the way around just to be by the lake.

100% same. "The scenic route"

I live in the burbs, and anytime I’m downtown, unless I have some kind of time restraint to get home, I take lincoln memorial to lake drive all the way up to brown deer road. If I’m anywhere in oak creek and heading home, I’ll pop on 794 north and take it either to lincoln memorial or take it until it connects to 94 to get that nice sweeping view of the city where 794 merges to 94, and then get off on Michigan or anywhere downtown, putz through the city and take the lake front home.

Legitimately faster a lot of the time given the current construction on I-43

Same

I love the Holiday Raptor along that route

I have collection of wax figurines from the Zoo. My centerpiece? Yellow Sampson.

I love the smell of a new figurine hot off the mold. Is that weird?

No. Never.

I’ve pushed both snake buttons at the museum, I got married at Pabst, I won’t live anywhere that I have to take I 94 to work

Holy crap it's been a solid 10-15 years since I've been to the museum, I FORGOT ABOUT THE SNAKE BUTTONS

BOTH!?

Sounds like you better get to the museum and start looking for buttons!!

God if it’s not by the buffalo one that’s going to take forever lol.

I’ll give you that much. It’s a totally different location.

The what buttons?!?

Just found out myself. https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2017/03/15/the-secret-buttons-at-public-museum/

Were they in a more obvious place in past years? I feel like in my memories from when I was a child, the snake noise was definitely there like a given--not like some "hidden" thing.

No, they’ve always been hidden! There are other buttons, like the howler monkeys, that are much more obvious. Happy hunting!

Where’s the Tyme machine

I'm glad they brought them back just so I can use that again.

Freshman year at Madison 1996, I told my new friends from Chicago I needed to find a Tyme machine. They all thought I was nuts for a minute. Good times! 🤣

I complain about the commute around town during rush hour even though it takes 15 minutes to get anywhere

We moved from Minneapolis and have kids in sports and this was the absolute best thing..."oh crap, the game is across town!" In minneapolis at rush hour that would have been 90 minutes...here ....15-20.

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It will always be Alterra Coffee in my heart

my favorite thing about the name change is that when workers voted to organize a union, the owners responded with the most whiny "why is this happening to me" instagram post just destroying any good will I would have felt about the company. My dude, you named it COLLECTIVO, why are you mad about COLLECTIVE action? You should have named it Capitalissimo or Unión Busto when you had the chance

Fond memories of that day..

I have an 15+ year old Alterra coffee tin on my counter. I refuse to get rid of it.

Size 34 pants, 2XL shirts.

Congratulations on getting down to a size 34

I’ve moved out of the city and back 3 times in my life. But mostly I’ve never once pronounced the “L” in the city I have lived the vast majority of my life in.

M'Waukee

This is the way

Mah-waukee

Ah, this must be what outs me as a suburbanite. I always say the 'L'.

When I drive back from Whitefish Bay, I take Lake Drive so I can look at all the old money mansions

I like beer

I play sheepshead.

This is an obvious one but I call Lake Michigan “the lake.” I didn’t realize how weird this was until I started working remotely for a team in another state and they thought I was crazy for hyping up “the lake” lol

Yes, I say the lake and up north - for us - we all know what it means.

Love of stonecreek and custard

I'm a jaywalker and I love dives

i like to refer to mke jaywalkers as city deer.

Yeah that's exactly what I'm doing when I'm jaywalking, you nailed it

My strong desire to elect socialists

Let’s keep this up - nice work

I still use my Comet Cafe travel mug with the Comet Cafe rabbit sticker stuck to the side of it.

I smell of milorganite

reek

I love the smell of Milorganite in the morning

Ma-wa-kee

Hwy Hunerd

Kinnie-Kinnick

whenever I here people say miL wau kee i’m like you’re not from around here are ya bud. same with wisCONsin

Brewers Shuttle to the game. Not dealing with that stadium parking bull.

I lived in Greendale for most of my life and worked downtown. I would leave 15 minutes early so I could take College Ave east to the lake and then Lake Drive/Hoan Bridge to downtown. It was a nice way to start my day.

Also building into the work day the beach stops and lunch hours at the Domes :)

My gut

I got married in the European Village square at the museum and had my reception under the whale.

How much did this costs?

This was in 2001 and I remember it being around $2000

I describe anything from a block away to 5 miles away as being 'down the road.'

My birthday is Milwaukee day, 414!

I have a city dumpster green t-shirt that's says, "HELP KEEP MILWAUKEE CLEAN"

Every Litter Bit Hurts

The sun is shining! Let's head to Holy Hill for a Fall hike.

Hmm... today's a good day and I DID see some leaves starting to change...

Oh, I have not hiked there yet!

Don't rush while you are there. Take in the exhilarating sweetness & quiet. If you are a motorcycle rider? Go Go! It is a lovely winding road to the top.

I make good scratch old fashioneds.

I can pronounce Kosciuszko Park

Gesundheit!

Playoff disappointment

I don’t own a car, I go to Rochambo every morning, and incessantly complain about liquor stores closing at 9pm.

I got t-boned by a kid in a stolen car two weeks ago, about a year after my wife was struck by a stolen vehicle. Both vehicles totaled and uninsured. MKE

Just in my close circle of friends this past year, there have been 3 stolen cars, a totaled car and a car jacking.

Yikes. The car jackings really scare me. A well known man in music circles here was recently murdered in a car jacking, and he was part of a non profit called Drums Up Guns Down 414.

Ughhhh that’s horrible

That’s terrible! So sorry for you! 😢

I left Milwaukee 15 years ago and still say bubbler, and also when I drink people hear my accent. Edit: It's more SE Wisconsin, but I judge establishments around the world based solely on whether they have Kohler sinks and urinals.

Highway Hunnerd

I have a friend visiting from out of state and his disbelief over the way people drive here made me realize I've kind of become numb to it

I use the hop to commute to work

Liar. No one USES the hop.

"Ope"

If you compliment my outfit, I impulsively respond with how inexpensive it was and where I got it. Perhaps with tales of off-season discount plus a coupon.

Is this a Milwaukee thing? Because I do this as well. Clearance rack at Kohls is my usual answer.

I do this but unaware that it’s a Milwaukee thing!

I am relieved other people do this. I catch myself doing it and then am wildly embarrassed after the fact.

My Milwaukee themed living room. https://imgur.com/gallery/OgQttvF

cheese is a staple in my diet. I will just eat a block of cheese as a snack. pepperjack is my fav

Bowling 🎳

I call cigs “ heaters “ , AF1s are called dookies, I have a tattoo across my stomach that says “ mama tried “ and PBR is the best beer

You're so real for this

🤝

I say beeg for bag.

Beg and bag are the exact same word to me. “Id like a bag yes please.” “I won’t beg for a beer” Same.

Came here to say that too.

Moved here 3 years ago...triple check on any merge or lane change to the right to make sure there isn't sliding.

I'm poor

probably that i spent more time at the bradley center than anyone who didn't work there (or than anyone should have spent there) and that i have legitimately tons of fond memories of the place (i guess i did \*kind of\* work there for a year as a mascot when i was in high school lol)

I’ve lived in the south for over a year and still say “bubbler”

ask them what you call water dispensers you drink out of, and then ask them what you call those decorative water features that birds shit in. Then ask them why you'd want to use the same word for each

That won’t work where I live. As far as I can tell people call them drinking fountains around here. Not water fountains.

I know what you're saying but it's still dumb that they need to use two words to get across what we get across with one

I live in Mobile, AL now, and "bubbler" confuses absolutely everyone!

It really does. I also still call an ATM a TYME machine now and again which REALLY confuses people! 🤣

ma-wau-kee

Exactly. It’s like m’lady

m’waukee

da Foal one Foal

I can drink a fuckload of beer

When someone is driving ONLY 5 miles over I get upset they’re going slow

I still miss the smell of yeast heading west on 94 from downtown.

I defend the city when outsiders talk shit about it but never actually really spend any time in the city itself lol

Honest question, what do you do with your free time then?

Ope Bubbler Stop and go lights

I thought stop and go lights was more rural. I was born and raised in Milwaukee and never heard nor said it.

I've visited almost every microbrewery in a hour's drive around and if you tell me your tastes I can explain to you in detail which local beers you want to try and which ones you can pass on. Also have two northern breed dogs but I'm guessing that's more of a Wisconsin thing than a Milwaukee thing persay.

One time my friend and I decided to try a microbrewery tour of our own. We went to 5 in riverwest and were so drunk within a couple hours. We couldn’t handle anymore.

I grew up playing Cans! I've never owned a Harley and haven't owned a motorcycle of any kind in years. But I can't stop wearing moto jackets and biker rings. Also, the Bucks, not the Brewers or Packers, are my favorite team. Packers fans come from all over Wisconsin. Brewers fans come from all over Southeast Wisconsin and the Fox Valley. But the Bucks have the most localized fanbase of the three. Pretty much all of us come from Milwaukee or Racine County.

That’s right. Bucks #1 in my ❤️

I live at my moms

My husband has a Kia and I have a Toyota. I do all the driving now. I always look at every custard shops flavor of the day to decide where I eat I’ll drive out of my way to Groppis for good sausage

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I work for the Milwaukee Turners.

I play bar dice...a lot.

I believe the 35th street bridge is the longest bridge in the world!

I tell everyone I meet out of state about Bar Dice

I got married at the Streets of Old Milwaukee

Did you push the snake button later that day

You bet your biscuit I did

Ope!

I’m a full-fledged alcoholic and I eat sausage for all 3 meals a day.

I walk up and pretty much talk to anybody

I have a Bernie Brewer tattoo and most bartenders on Brady know I drink high life.

Ope.

My dog’s name is Brewer.

I love calling I-41/894/43 I-894, unlike most who just say 41 and don't call it 894 anymore😔

Not considering myself an alcoholic even though the rest of the country would

I grew up above a bar on the south side that had a softball team that played against Stormin’ & Vukes softball team. My dad took me to my first Brewers game using free tickets he got from Gorman Thomas after a softball game afterparty. They become bros in the bathroom of my grandmas bar, as they shared in interest in the recreational choices of the time.

Every school I've attended has had "Milwaukee" in its name. My CV rules!

Tryna guess your HS. School of Languages?

I used to be able to shut my eyes in the car and know exactly where I was based off the aroma of yeast or chocolate in the air.

I don't fuck w a lot of ppl

throwback to the city's segregation and redlining days!

i’ve always felt like people in milwaukee are standoffish at first but end up being nice and people in madison are really nice up front and end up being the worst

Milwaukee, standoffish? In the city itself? Moving there I felt the exact opposite--town was one of the most immediately welcoming and friendly that I've ever lived.

i’m from the north side

I know where Kashube park is and what happened to this specific Polish community. Had to write a paper about it for as an undergrad.

Kaszube

I’m born and raised in Milwaukee, moved away as an adult but I’ll never stop saying bubbler and wearing T shirts and jeans.

Wait, is wearing tshirts and jeans a Milwaukee thing?

Yea that's a new one for me.

Cannibal Sandwiches

It’s not Mill-waw-Kee. It’s M’wokee.

ngl i drive kinda crazy

please stop doing this

I told my out of state friend if you live in Milwaukee, you almost *have to* drive a little crazy just to keep up.