Ribbon Wall doesn't sound any more ridiculous than same-shaped Ribbon Candy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_candy) or Ribbon Cables (https://www.fxpstore.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ribbon-w...), and ribbons don't call to mind atrocities or human suffering. Battlefields are terrible places where horrific things happen. That's not something I'd want associated with my own property.
I agree that it's not a good look to automatically prefer the military term to the "ridiculous" one. It smacks of toxic masculinity.
"Crinkle-crankle" is obviously archaic, and it evokes folk art and (in the US) colonial culture. That is fairly neutral, as placenames go.
ribbon sounds ridiculous and serpentine sounds technical? you are not a boomer. "Serpentine, Shel, serpentine!" -- Peter Falk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2_w-QCWpS0
Alan Arkin just died recently, RIP
You want a BATTLEFIELD wall. I want a Crinkle Crankle
I realize some of this is lighthearted banter but sadly Mr. Internet can't really do that for very long.
It just seemed to me a very good example of '2 nations divided by a common language'
But I'm more a celebrate the differences kind of guy.
But point taken about the internet being the internet.
I don't really see the cause and effect either. Surely the USs love of FORTRESS walls would be a reason they won?
Anyway, you say lost. I say we got rid of the tea wasters. Sounds like a win to me.
