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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Feb 3, 2021 22:48:47 GMT -5
This is a fascinating story about Nance Legins-Costley, a black indentured servant in supposedly "free" Illinois in the mid 1800's, her struggle for freedom, how a young lawyer/legislator named Abraham Lincoln helped her win her freedom in 1841, and how her and Lincoln's talks influenced the future president and helped solidify his anti-slavery stance. It also goes into some very interesting details of her later life, and in the lives of some of her decedents.
The headline refers to the fact that the cemetery she was interred in with 3000 others, was closed and abandoned in 1905, and in deep disrepair to the point of being almost unrecognizable, was paved over during a city expansion in the 1930's. While this is a true injustice to the people buried there, it is mostly a sad footnote to the incredible life and spirit of Nance Legins-Costley, and her unrecognized contributions to history.
Her story should be a movie.
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Post by 🔪 silly buns on Feb 5, 2021 14:31:24 GMT -5
I'm just....never prepared to see an image of Matt Gaetz.  |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Mar 4, 2021 10:20:16 GMT -5
I keep getting a Kindle ad for something called "The Last Lieutenant" and now I want somebody to write something called "The Last Lieutenant On The Lieut". I don't know if it would annoy British or USAan people more, but either way I'm happy.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 9, 2021 15:02:43 GMT -5
More proof that I've gotten addicted to the mobius-reactionary qualities of the Trump Era and can't quite break out: Someone on Nextdoor (which is of course a hotbed of garden-variety lunacy already) posted some images (the word "images" in quotes) from NASA Perseverance. I clicked eagerly expecting some conspiracy shit to dunk on. But no, the guy's just excited about the space program. Goddamnit, conform to my narrative...anyway, here's the link to the image. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Mar 15, 2021 12:53:09 GMT -5
Last week we had delightful, mostly sunny weather and highs primarily in the 60s. Today it's 33 with wet blowing snow that will probably accumulate an inch or so. GROSS. Lousy Smarch weather.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 17, 2021 9:57:45 GMT -5
I am so, so tired of the feelings of rage and hopelessness when there's a racially-motivated hate crime and mass shooting.
Reading the news, I'm reminded of a late-90s episode of PBS' Frontline about Kip Kinkel, the Springfield, OR teenager who killed his parents and 2 people at his school. That episode is likely the most disturbing thing I've ever seen on TV, between the footage taken by the cops entering the household where the parents' bodies were found with an opera song from the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack blasting on the stereo, audio of Kinkel after the shootings directly quoting NIN's lyrics "goddamn the noise inside my head", and the interview with Kinkel's older sister in which she seems to believe her parents had it coming.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Mar 18, 2021 15:12:52 GMT -5
I am super super tired of hearing about Zack Snyder, Justice League and any combination thereof.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Mar 21, 2021 13:36:40 GMT -5
I think we as a society need to encourage the return of long hair on male professional athletes, preferably as part of a wider movement away from sports being treated as super-serious by the people who play them and towards an increase in showboating, peacocking, and general Joe Namath-esque flamboyance.  |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Mar 22, 2021 15:59:04 GMT -5
I think we as a society need to encourage the return of long hair on male professional athletes, preferably as part of a wider movement away from sports being treated as super-serious by the people who play them and towards an increase in showboating, peacocking, and general Joe Namath-esque flamboyance. I was (possibly mistakenly) under the impression that showboating, peacocking, and flamboyance are still a thing among football players, but this is not as widely appreciated because said football players tend to be of the darker-skinned variety, rendering them somehow undeserving of said mannerisms? |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Mar 22, 2021 22:10:00 GMT -5
I think we as a society need to encourage the return of long hair on male professional athletes, preferably as part of a wider movement away from sports being treated as super-serious by the people who play them and towards an increase in showboating, peacocking, and general Joe Namath-esque flamboyance. I was (possibly mistakenly) under the impression that showboating, peacocking, and flamboyance are still a thing among football players, but this is not as widely appreciated because said football players tend to be of the darker-skinned variety, rendering them somehow undeserving of said mannerisms?
I think the answer to this depends on if you mean on the field, or off the field.
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Post by Trurl on Mar 25, 2021 10:17:21 GMT -5
I was (possibly mistakenly) under the impression that showboating, peacocking, and flamboyance are still a thing among football players, but this is not as widely appreciated because said football players tend to be of the darker-skinned variety, rendering them somehow undeserving of said mannerisms?
I think the answer to this depends on if you mean on the field, or off the field.
Maybe Dennis Rodman's support of Kim Jong-Un soured people on flamboyant athletes. |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 25, 2021 10:25:16 GMT -5
I think the answer to this depends on if you mean on the field, or off the field.
Maybe Dennis Rodman's support of Kim Jong-Un soured people on flamboyant athletes. I know I'm questioning my love of competitive horseback-riding (I assume you're talking about Kim here).  While I milk this dumb joke, I will say I kind of respect Putin for being a despot who rides an actual trail plug instead of the romance-novel ridiculousness of Kim's horse.  |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Mar 25, 2021 12:23:11 GMT -5
I don't know how I'm going to get there, but it's nice to know that when I figure it out, I can buy or lease my own Solar System.  |
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Post by ganews on Mar 29, 2021 18:26:51 GMT -5
I don't know how I'm going to get there, but it's nice to know that when I figure it out, I can buy or lease my own Solar System.  |
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Post by liebkartoffel on Mar 30, 2021 0:06:24 GMT -5
I don't know how I'm going to get there, but it's nice to know that when I figure it out, I can buy or lease my own Solar System. How many bars of gold pressed Latinum do you have in reserve? I could hook you up with my cousin Gaila. He owns a small moon. |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Apr 7, 2021 10:14:10 GMT -5
Ha ha, got my Biden Bucks in the mail at long last! Now off to buy 280 transcripts of Nightline!
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Post by ganews on Apr 7, 2021 11:04:41 GMT -5
Ha ha, got my Biden Bucks in the mail at long last! Now off to buy 280 transcripts of Nightline! We got a joint stimulus check in the mail last week. But we never got money either time under Trump, when the household had less income. Maybe it was a citizenship thing? Guess I should have thrown my wife under the bus, "Mister Trump! I may be married to a dusky foreigner but I'm still a straight white man!" |
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Post by ganews on May 23, 2021 8:52:10 GMT -5
I dip water out of the adjacent creek for my garden, and yesterday I accidentally caught two giant tadpoles in my watering can. The first time I poured one out on the ground I thought it was a slug. (They seemed to be fine when I put them back in the creek.) Napping pretty hard there tadpoles, better watch out.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on May 29, 2021 10:25:14 GMT -5
Do any of those Axe throwing pubs offer "All you can yeet"?
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jun 6, 2021 23:02:24 GMT -5
My 90 Pontiac Sunbird convertible reached a new milestone today.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jun 7, 2021 13:44:44 GMT -5
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jun 7, 2021 20:21:36 GMT -5
Mrs Floyd just said to me "Our dogs are playing like they pay their own vet bills."
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jun 21, 2021 7:59:12 GMT -5
The top part of this page (the one with the TI Forum title) refuses to load for me. My notifications are a little white mark on top of "profile". Computers.
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Post by ganews on Jun 22, 2021 21:48:43 GMT -5
Disturbing thought of the day that I have not had before: I am old enough to be a grandfather without anyone in the family being eligible for arrest.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jun 23, 2021 10:16:26 GMT -5
It is perhaps the ultimate Karen move to go into the comments on a cake recipe to complain about the number of calories in the recipe. Congratulations, you’ve discovered the concept of “dessert”!
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Jun 23, 2021 10:28:31 GMT -5
It is perhaps the ultimate Karen move to go into the comments on a cake recipe to complain about the number of calories in the recipe. Congratulations, you’ve discovered the concept of “dessert”! This has happened a lot on the Wilton facebook page. It's cake, lady, shut up. |
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Post by ganews on Jun 24, 2021 20:47:28 GMT -5
Disturbing thought of the day that I have not had before: I am old enough to be a grandfather without anyone in the family being eligible for arrest. This is just what comes of visiting the hometown. Grocery store closes at 10 pm now? It was 11 when I was a bagboy... oh, 21 years ago. |
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Post by The Thanksgiving Goblin. on Jun 25, 2021 14:29:10 GMT -5
to all of the haters who said i couldn;t buy 20 kfc hot wings for £5.99 and eat them ... f*ck you  |
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Post by The Thanksgiving Goblin. on Jun 25, 2021 18:04:03 GMT -5
Never do this to all of the haters who said i couldn;t buy 20 kfc hot wings for £5.99 and eat them ... f*ck you |
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Post by ganews on Jul 13, 2021 12:15:19 GMT -5
More fun online tests: measure divergent thinking by coming up with the ten most unrelated nouns you can think of. www.datcreativity.com. First try I got 86.7, 90th percentile. Then after looking at scoring from the first round I pumped it up to 90.9, 97th percentile. |
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