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    Ya know, it'd be really fun to claim that was an English idiom, but I don't think I'd have enough support from others to make it fly.
    You'd just have to claim that it was localised to Alabama. Or "mudded like a dog in the devil's own turnpike", as your people would put it.

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    You'd just have to claim that it was localised to Alabama. Or "mudded like a dog in the devil's own turnpike", as your people would put it.
    Nah, "turnpike" is a word them northerners use.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
    Nah, "turnpike" is a word them northerners use.
    Presumably not Northwesterners? What is a turnpike anyway? I've heard them mentioned, I'm just not clear on what they actually are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Fury View Post
    Presumably not Northwesterners? What is a turnpike anyway? I've heard them mentioned, I'm just not clear on what they actually are.
    It's a tollroad. Neither turns nor pikes (or even spikes) seem to be involved, although a quick google suggests that that's the name of a barrier placed across a road to turn it into a toll road.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf_c View Post
    It's a tollroad. Neither turns nor pikes (or even spikes) seem to be involved, although a quick google suggests that that's the name of a barrier placed across a road to turn it into a toll road.
    Maybe it's called like that because it used to be a guard turning his pike parallel to the ground?
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Fury View Post
    Presumably not Northwesterners? What is a turnpike anyway? I've heard them mentioned, I'm just not clear on what they actually are.
    I don't know, but extensive watching of the original Law and Order tells me that New Jersey has one, apparently.
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    It's a tollroad. Neither turns nor pikes (or even spikes) seem to be involved, although a quick google suggests that that's the name of a barrier placed across a road to turn it into a toll road.

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    Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Not even in a car.
    Good, because the sun also rises right in my eyes, like, every morning.
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    Good, because the sun also rises right in my eyes, like, every morning.
    I live on the top of the world, and it is summer. I've also got big ass bay windows on my apartment. So... same. Very same. Except it never really RISES in my eyes so much as "is always there for like four months".

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    I live on the top of the world, and it is summer. I've also got big ass bay windows on my apartment. So... same. Very same. Except it never really RISES in my eyes so much as "is always there for like four months".
    ...That sounds like absolute Hell for anything that isn't a plant that can benefit from receiving more direct sunlight than it strictly needs.

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    ...That sounds like absolute Hell for anything that isn't a plant that can benefit from receiving more direct sunlight than it strictly needs.

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    Hugs are appreciated, and yeah it is kind of hell! I'll take a photo at midnight to show you guys.

    For reference it's 5:15 PM and as bright as it would be at noon.

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    This is why I carefully chose the west-facing bedroom when I moved into this house. Well, that and it's not street-facing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SZbNAhL View Post
    This is why I carefully chose the west-facing bedroom when I moved into this house. Well, that and it's not street-facing.
    I mean can't be too pickychoosy with the apartment building I'm in, since all the ones with windows face this way and I do need to know the real world exists.

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    Weird confession time: I sometimes fantasize about merging with and consuming various celestial bodies to become a living planet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LaZodiac View Post
    I live on the top of the world, and it is summer. I've also got big ass bay windows on my apartment. So... same. Very same. Except it never really RISES in my eyes so much as "is always there for like four months".
    I was mostly joking off Hemingway books. I don't really have that issue, for the most part, except sometimes while driving.
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    Hugs are appreciated, and yeah it is kind of hell! I'll take a photo at midnight to show you guys.

    For reference it's 5:15 PM and as bright as it would be at noon.
    If love to see the midnight sun! In person, to be fair. And on vacation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
    I was mostly joking off Hemingway books. I don't really have that issue, for the most part, except sometimes while driving.


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    Quote Originally Posted by LaZodiac View Post
    I mean can't be too pickychoosy with the apartment building I'm in, since all the ones with windows face this way and I do need to know the real world exists.
    To be fair, I'm not sure it actually exists at the moment.

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    That's an abnormal fantasy? I mean, I've not had that one, but I've had the turning yourself into a massive traction city one.
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    That's an abnormal fantasy? I mean, I've not had that one, but I've had the turning yourself into a massive traction city one.
    I honestly don't know.

    I've also fantasized about being an ancient elder vampire, a dragon, the tarrasque, and a not-social-Darwinist version of Apocalypse. You know, the kind of being that sleeps for years at a time and when they're awake they're too big and/or powerful for the petty concerns of mortals to bother you.

    And being absolutely immortal via a combination of absolute agelessness, absolute invulnerability, absolute freedom, and instant meta-regeneration, having an indestructible TARDIS with infinite rooms and summoned with my mind and not physically anywhere or anywhen when I don't need to get in or out(and that nothing should of legitimate omniscient or omnipresence can get in or out of without my knowledge and permission) and that travels universes as well as through time in an Infinite Multiverse that runs on both Multiverse and Many Worlds theory.

    They all started about a year ago when I was suffering from some pretty bad anxiety about a lot of things. There may or may not be a correlation.
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    It's a tollroad. Neither turns nor pikes (or even spikes) seem to be involved, although a quick google suggests that that's the name of a barrier placed across a road to turn it into a toll road.

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    Aaah. Yeah, we don't have those.

    Quote Originally Posted by LaZodiac View Post
    I live on the top of the world, and it is summer. I've also got big ass bay windows on my apartment. So... same. Very same. Except it never really RISES in my eyes so much as "is always there for like four months".
    Bay windows? Your apartment sounds fancy. Also, I'll try to get started on your book soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Fury View Post
    Aaah. Yeah, we don't have those.

    Bay windows? Your apartment sounds fancy. Also, I'll try to get started on your book soon.

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    I mean I think they're bay windows. They look like bay windows, sort of? They're just also very huge.

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    On that note, you ever wonder what the Majora's Mask Moon was doing with that big mug before it was possessed by Majora's Mask? There's gotta be some sort of cosmic horror thing that could be going on there. Or maybe it was just like a cool n' goofy talking moon person. LoZ tends to zigzag between those two extremes, I've noticed.

    Edit: Although honestly considering its expression it might've just manifested a face just out of pure hatred towards the clock tower. It's coming for you, Clock Tower, you know what you did. Give the moon its 20 bucks back.
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    Aaah. Yeah, we don't have those.
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    As promised, here is the view from my window

    As seen here, and here.

    I meant to take a picture of the full window so you'd get an idea of how big it is, but it's bascially from top to bottom so whatever, you get it.

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    As promised, here is the view from my window

    As seen here, and here.

    I meant to take a picture of the full window so you'd get an idea of how big it is, but it's bascially from top to bottom so whatever, you get it.
    As much as I like the sun... man, that's too much.

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    ...I'm going to assume that thick curtains are a must-have for where you live, if only to be able to sleep at night?
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    ...I'm going to assume that thick curtains are a must-have for where you live, if only to be able to sleep at night?
    Theoretically they are. I don't have any yet and I've been meaning to get some but I specifically want curtains that are coloured like the trans pride flag because of a variety of reasons, and I'll need to get that sorta thing commissioned and I've just been slow on getting that done.

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    As promised, here is the view from my window

    As seen here, and here.

    I meant to take a picture of the full window so you'd get an idea of how big it is, but it's bascially from top to bottom so whatever, you get it.
    That is awesome!
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    Theoretically they are. I don't have any yet and I've been meaning to get some but I specifically want curtains that are coloured like the trans pride flag because of a variety of reasons, and I'll need to get that sorta thing commissioned and I've just been slow on getting that done.
    I just googled "trans flag blackout curtains" and it seemed like I hot some good results, for what it's worth.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
    That is awesome!

    I just googled "trans flag blackout curtains" and it seemed like I hot some good results, for what it's worth.
    It honestly is, it's just also horrifying to live it sometimes.

    Okay these are pretty good I'll probably order one up like, nowish. I just am unsure if they'll fit my curtain or not... they're also white on reverse so it's like, I have to either have a completely white flag facing me, or the window, and I want it both ways! Also 77 dollars is a **** ton of money right meow... and double that if I want to get two sets so I can have it be visible on both sides.

    Eh. Still worth it. I've got a... fair amount of cash coming thanks to book sales.

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    You could always get some normal blackout curtains and some cheap fabric colors, if you or anyone you now had a sewing machine.
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    I bought two sets of them so it should be fine. The easiest route is, ultimately, the best.

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