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

CaptainWacky said:
^It has been, on and off, for a few weeks.

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return of the jedi episode 6 GIF by Star Wars
 
Literally got slow as fuck right after I read the above post.
 
And now it's fast again?
 
whisky said:
And now it's fast again?
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Give it time. A lot of time.
 
 
I have this Two-Face thing going on with God/my guardian angel that often annoys me but probably leads me not into temptation and delivers me from evil. I've got a 1982 Minnesota Renaissance Festival coin and when I contemplate doing something I know I shouldn't, I flip it. Just now it kept me from posting at The Other Place.
 
Volpone said:
I have this Two-Face thing going on with God/my guardian angel that often annoys me but probably leads me not into temptation and delivers me from evil. I've got a 1982 Minnesota Renaissance Festival coin and when I contemplate doing something I know I shouldn't, I flip it. Just now it kept me from posting at The Other Place.
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In 1982 there was a bar in the town I grew up in called The Other Place. They had both kinds of beer, Bud AND Coors, shitty 3.2% stuff out of a tap. The place always smelled like a mixture of piss, puke, shit, and cigarette smoke, and the denizens there kept trying to knock each other out by whacking either chairs or pool cues over each others' heads.

Sounds kind of familiar, doesn't it?
 
I sometimes feel like I'm from an alternate reality. If you take a particular mirror off the wall, you will find a K-Mart pricetag on the back. One of my saddest moments (OK, not really but close) in recent memory was when the Linens 'N Things sticker fell off my laundry hamper. "QUICK! WHAT YEAR IS THIS?! WHO IS THE PRESIDENT!?!?"
 
Not the time or the place, but I've been drinking and I've been reading Oxford's "Battle Cry of Freedom", about the American Civil War, so I'll take a moment to pontificate on slavery. Slavery is wrong. Not for moral or ethical purposes. It just fails economically. The Civil War proves this to a degree, but basically, it makes more sense to pay someone to do work for you and then stop paying them when they aren't useful to you than to buy someone to make work for you. Because if you own a person, they'll work as little as they can to avoid a whipping while a paid person will work hard enough to keep from getting fired. And after a slave gets too old to be useful they didn't just take them back behind the woodshed and shoot them. You've got to provide for these slaves until they die

On top of it all, it perverted the economy in the South. In the South, the goal was to work at something until you had enough money to buy some land and some slaves to work it. In the North you worked until you had enough money to build a factory and hire some workers. So the North got industry and commerce and the South got acres and acres of fields and slaves you had to feed and house and maintain.
 
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