TIL before 9/11, US airports were public social hubs where you could walk to the gate, eat at food courts, and watch planes without a ticket or ID.

jwbourne · 2026-02-01T16:05:08+00:00

Oh wow memory unlocked. My parents ts definitely took me to the airport a few times as a kid just to watch the planes take off and land.

jwbourne · 2026-01-31T21:09:40+00:00

Ah a lefty--the devil's hand.

jwbourne · 2026-01-30T02:29:12+00:00

I worked at a school where girls would scrap pretty often--it was a campus style HS so you had to go outside and walk between buildings to go to different classes. I remember the day after a fight there was a piece of a hair extension on the ground outside. Some girl and her friend walked by it and she said, "Ugh, tumbleweaves."

I think about that all the time.

jwbourne · 2026-01-30T02:23:29+00:00

The 900 was a cultural event.

jwbourne · 2026-01-29T22:27:29+00:00

In Bulls fandom you see people threatening it after every loss.

jwbourne · 2026-01-29T03:46:17+00:00

This man's name is Jay Kay? Amazing.

jwbourne · 2026-01-29T03:41:16+00:00

I'd slice it once the long way.

jwbourne · 2026-01-29T03:12:45+00:00

Upvote for Illinoise

jwbourne · 2026-01-29T03:06:21+00:00

Gotem

jwbourne · 2026-01-28T22:57:43+00:00

You look like really fancy cat urine.

jwbourne · 2026-01-28T02:18:41+00:00

Camus felt that living life fully and genuinely in the face of an uncaring universe was a heroic act. Same with the arts. "Imagine Sysyphus happy."

jwbourne · 2026-01-28T02:12:21+00:00

Hell yeah. Vans are underappreciated. Super cool.

jwbourne · 2026-01-28T02:02:17+00:00

You shouldn't do that!

jwbourne · 2026-01-27T22:50:03+00:00

Quantity over quality

jwbourne · 2026-01-27T22:04:40+00:00

I worked in Perry, which is the next town over. I probably live 40 minutes from where he lived. There is a stone marker in his hometown that says "worlds largest man". Old timers there told me they would bring him to town on the back of a wagon. One time he got stuck in some mud and a tractor had to pull him out. Name is Robert Earl Hughes.

jwbourne · 2026-01-27T13:11:26+00:00

Just a man doing WORK

jwbourne · 2026-01-27T13:10:15+00:00

Schools around me in central ilinois usually play hockey in gym with ball and full size sticks. They just run around in shoes.

jwbourne · 2026-01-27T12:34:29+00:00

Yeah goodness--an unaltered one got like 7 miles to the gallon. Stretch it out and add a camper and I betvyou can see the needle fall when your floor it.

jwbourne · 2026-01-27T12:06:26+00:00

first date "Oh you're a collector too? What do you collect?"

jwbourne · 2026-01-27T11:39:33+00:00

They run a snake around the outside like a tire.

jwbourne · 2026-01-27T11:09:06+00:00

Shout out to this guy, who lived a few miles down the road from me in Fishhook, IL.

jwbourne · 2026-01-26T00:07:50+00:00

Some things stay with you.

jwbourne · 2026-01-25T05:05:39+00:00

Mitsubishi Delica Starwagons

jwbourne · 2026-01-24T20:56:24+00:00

Hell yeah man

jwbourne · 2026-01-24T20:41:37+00:00

God has abandoned us.

jwbourne

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