The random thought thread

[Iowatech]

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At least you all have road construction!! Some of the roads here will take the wheels off your car, the state doesn't even try to fix them anymore.

It's better to drive slow around road construction than it is to drive slow around mine shaft potholes!

You might see if you could gain admittance to the unofficial territory of Forgottonia. I lived there for a while.
While I'm ashamed to say so, during the summer we sometimes had a Department of Transportation Prevention there. All was forgiven when the salt trucks came out during the winter ice though.

[fixthecopier]

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If your area is lacking in new roads it is because we got them. there must be a few hundred million spent in the last decade in my county. 2 lanes to 4, interstate by-passes and lots of other stuff. A pain in the rear sometimes, but lucky to have it. There is a big difference when you cross the state line to SC.

[NeoMatrix]

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Re :Road construction.

Wouldn't you know it --"IT'S ELECTION TIME". And the "Political Spin Doctors" have promised 130million on new road construction in the local area.

Ahh...but wait until the election is over.... :
Sorry voters we had to spend $130million on a conservation park for the rare endangered 3-legged unicorn.

Credit due:
Actually it has taken 20 years but the federal gov't bean-counters have allocated funds to fixed some of the bad sections of the local state highways.The last 3 year have seen some bad highway black-spots fixed. I guess the gov't worked out all by themselves that the mounting road death-toll is an important issue even before elections come around.

[allan]

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[blackcat4866]

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You might see if you could gain admittance to the unofficial territory of Forgottonia. I lived there for a while ...

Thanks Iowatech for some interesting reading. I lived in Illinois for 18 years, and never heard of this. Around Chicago, you can't go around the block with meeting road construction. During my high school years the Eisenhower Expressway was narrowed to two lanes each way. It seems like it was under construction for a period of 5 years, but that may be an exaggeration. There was so much traffic in the remaining open lanes that the road wore to a "W" contour, often scraping the undercarriage of low slung vehicles. I particularly remember the claustrophobic feeling of driving a 6' wide car in a 7' wide lane with concrete barriers on each side, and the bottom of the car scraping occasionally.

=^..^=

[fixthecopier]

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I guess this applies here...

[fixthecopier]

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Mid week blues...

[TheBlueOrleans]

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Click a link to read about Forgottonia, Il... end up researching Burma-Shave on wikipedia. What the hell?

Unrelated: really bad PPQ on Bizhub C554, customer agreed to let it be bad until Monday.
Can't believe I pulled that off.

When she agreed, in my head I saw the words "Speech increased to 49" because I've been playing too much Skyrim.

[Iowatech]

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How to decide which Star Wars character you are like

[SwisSeV]

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Damn you Brexit! Good thing I have a day job.

[Lagonda]

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Damn you Brexit! Good thing I have a day job.

So what was your night time job? people smuggling?

[Tricky]

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Damn you Brexit! Good thing I have a day job.

England is out ! [emoji1]

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[SwisSeV]

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So what was your night time job? people smuggling?

I trade securities. I'm fine with them leaving, my homeland Switzerland is right in the middle of Europe and never joined. I'm just annoyed at the leadership there, they seem to be clueless. The markets are crashing because of it.

People think Texit is next

[Iowatech]

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I trade securities. I'm fine with them leaving, my homeland Switzerland is right in the middle of Europe and never joined. I'm just annoyed at the leadership there, they seem to be clueless. The markets are crashing because of it.

People think Texit is next

I wish the U.K. the best of luck in whatever path they choose.
However, if we are going to add the word exit to an abbreviation of a place for no apparent reason other than laziness, here's one:
As a former resident of Illinois, I am still a fair weather fan of the Chicago Bulls. As Derrick Rose is leaving the Bulls for New York, that is the Chexit.
I suppose my move to Iowa could be considered the ILexit as well, but that's just stupid, so no.

[slimslob]

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I trade securities. I'm fine with them leaving, my homeland Switzerland is right in the middle of Europe and never joined. I'm just annoyed at the leadership there, they seem to be clueless. The markets are crashing because of it.

People think Texit is next

The markets are crashing because there are those with money who do not like an independent Britain are able to manipulate the market. Had the vote gone the other way, the big money people who want an independent Britain would have caused the market to go down equally as much. It will take six months or more before the true effect is known. Hopefully it will negligible.