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Ask a Brit how their day is they'll say "Not bad" - meaning everything is going fine and they're happy. Ask a Californian how their day is they'll say "Not bad"
by slivym 9y ago
Ask a Brit how their day is they'll say "Not bad" - meaning everything is going fine and they're happy. Ask a Californian how their day is they'll say "Not bad" - meaning something is seriously wrong, and you need to ask about it.
Some cultures in America naturally tend to 'Fantastic' as their base line of descriptive language. This probably translates to ratings too.
- tauntz 9y agoAsk an Estonian the same question and they'll answer with "it's OK", "meh" or they'll just shrug. Which means the same - everything is going fine and they're happy :)
- mantas 9y agoAs a Lithuanian, I feel an urge to give a full story of my day when asked "how is it going". Don't want to hear the long story? Ask if everything is OK..
- JimboOmega 9y ago"Things have been kind of rough, but I'm fine" = I'm borderline suicidal, at least in California. I feel like it's really got to be an exceptional case to warrant "burdening" someone who is mostly an acquaintance with your drama. For ratings, as the article discussed, anything less than 5 stars is a black mark for the driver, so those ratings are reserved for the exceptionally bad. And even then, exceptionally bad I blame on the driver (not on Lyft/Uber). Confused by GPS directions, stopping halfway down the block because they app says so, wild detour because of bad Line routing... these have no impact on my rating.