> This place worse than most, tends to eschew in-jokes and memes as marks of belonging and membership, and rely instead on unexplained jargon. The unexplained

> This place worse than most, tends to eschew in-jokes and memes as marks of belonging and membership, and rely instead on unexplained jargon. The unexplained jargon isn't any worse here than anywhere else. Everything from motorcycling to woodworking to sewing has its own arcane terminology for simple concepts to ostracize the unlearned. Yes, you too can get icy stares from a table full of middle-aged women at the sewing club for failing to be born with the knowledge that "the thing that does edges" is actually called a "serger."