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Where is the Random Thread of Randomness stuff that doesn't belong in other threads thread?

You ever remember something that you'd swear to but physical evidence disagrees with? For example, there are 2 burger joints in town--Burger Boy and Burger Girl. Owned and operated by the same people. Same branding. One day I'm walking The Dog and I see a piece of a Styrofoam Burger Girl shake cup. I think that it's odd, because that restaurant is on the other side of town--and neat because I've never been there, only to Burger Boy. Well the next day I'm walking the same route and see the piece of cup again, only now it says "Burger Boy." Are there 2 cups? Neither place is near where I live. Do both places use the same cup and one side says Burger Boy and the other says Burger Girl? Did I misremember and it always said Burger Boy?*

What if you DIDN'T misremember? What if your mind ISN'T playing tricks on you? What if, when this happens, what actually happened is that you skipped a track and landed into a different reality in the multiverse?**



*I didn't misremember. There were 2 similarly sized pieces of cup--1 on each side of the road, a few blocks apart.

**Or it's a glitch in the Matrix? We're really living in a simulation.
 
I'm having after eights at six thirty

So rebellious.
 
It's always wild, when a word or phrase suddenly sounds odd. Chatting with someone about a girl I had been interested in. I never pursued her because of an age difference and also because her tastes seemed a little more expensive than I was prepared to support. I almost said "I don't think she'd go for my standard of living," but I stopped because it sounded so odd. "Standard of living?" Is that right? Is that what designer clothes and dining out and driving a Porsche is? It sounded odd. So I DuckDuckGo'ed it and yes, that's a thing and yes, that's what it means.

Incidentally, that's one thing Google still has going for it: "googled" is a lot smoother to say than "duckduckgo'ed". I just hate Google so much at this point that I only use it when I absolutely have to. I guess we could use it the way "jeep" used to be used for any rugged vehicle before we got the term SUV. Or post-it or xerox. It's funny, how some of these words are kind of moot these days. It's so rare to actually photocopy something these days. You're more likely to print out a PDF or scan a document to PDF than to use a paper copy to make another paper copy.
 
You know I don't think I have ever seen batman on the toilet.
 
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Ellis | Dutch girl learning Greek 🇬🇷 on Instagram: "Βασισμένο σε μια αληθινή ιστορία που συνέβη πριν από 2 χρόνια. 😂 Δεν μπορώ να σας πω με πόσους τυχαίους Έλληνες έχω μιλήσει μέχρι τώρα στο τηλέφωνο. 🤣 Based on a true story that happened to me 2 ye

11K likes, 196 comments - ellisvsgreek on January 9, 2026: "Βασισμένο σε μια αληθινή ιστορία που συνέβη πριν από 2 χρόνια. 😂 Δεν μπορώ να σας πω με πόσους τυχαίους Έλληνες έχω μιλήσει μέχρι τώρα στο τηλέφωνο. 🤣 Based on a true story that happened to me 2 years ago. I cannot tell you with how...
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This has happened to me so many times. The photo and the call. :ROFLMAO:
 
YOU NEVER TELL MISS KITTY "TAKE IT EASY" IF YOU WANNA LIVE, SOLO.

UNLIKE GREEDO SHE WON'T HAVE TO TAKE 20 YEARS TO THINK ABOUT SHOOTING YOU FIRST!
 
I'm an old person who does things the old way, until I'm forced to do them differently. Today I did something that I assume younger people do all the time, but that I have thought inconceivable to do: I listened to a podcast at a higher-than-normal speed.

This was mostly because it was an Q&A with an author who spoke slowly and deliberately, and who paused a lot to formulate her answers, so playing her at 1.5-1.75x was like listening to someone else at normal speed.

But I can't see making a habit of this. Most of the podcasts I listen to are hosted by fast-talking bitchy queens. If I sped them up it would sound like chipmunks being tortured...
 
My friend that hires me as a contractor is 2 years older than me and...27 years older than a girl they hired the last time I worked for him. And he has an absolute boner for making tutorial videos. And as far as I know, every single person on his team would rather have a Word document or a PowerPoint presentation or something text/graphics. Who wants to have to watch a video? I need to remember how to do something that's around 2/3 of the way through? With writing and graphics you can quickly and easily scroll to where you need to be. You can even do a keyword search to get there even faster. With a fucking video, you're stuck, trying to find the 15 second clip you need out of 30-40 minutes. BS-ing with the 31 year old about how I hate videos and she's like "we all hate them, he's the only one who wants them."
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
I'm an old person who does things the old way, until I'm forced to do them differently. Today I did something that I assume younger people do all the time, but that I have thought inconceivable to do: I listened to a podcast at a higher-than-normal speed.

This was mostly because it was an Q&A with an author who spoke slowly and deliberately, and who paused a lot to formulate her answers, so playing her at 1.5-1.75x was like listening to someone else at normal speed.

But I can't see making a habit of this. Most of the podcasts I listen to are hosted by fast-talking bitchy queens. If I sped them up it would sound like chipmunks being tortured...
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I sometimes listen to my friends Marco Polo messages on higher speed if they are longer messages.
Never thought about listening to a podcast like that tho, but if it was a slow talker I certainly could.
 
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