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I was summoned for jury duty and all I got was this pretty photograph. [OC]

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I was summoned for jury duty and all I got was this pretty photograph.

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Were you dismissed from jury duty when they learned you were a crime dad?

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- Lol not yet.
  
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  Though, TBF, what better jury of your peers than someone who also commits crimes?
  
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  Was it because you complimented the Brutalist architecture? They probably put you on a list now.
  
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Brutalist architecture is beautiful in its own way

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- I wasn't sure if it counted, but I am a brutalism enjoyer as well.
  
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- I hqve noticed that judicial buildings a seem to be built to be imposing, as if to imply we rule you petty serfs
  
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- Yeah I think that is marble.
  
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- It makes me feel like I'm walking into the Oldest House from Control.
  
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  That game was a love letter to brutalism and bureaucracy
  
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- At least prisoners can't jump the windows
  
  I'm 99% sure there's security reasons for this design
  
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Looks like you got summoned to the prison for jury duty.

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- When I was a kid I used to drive by the Pirelli building all the time and dreading that I might have to go to work in a big, beige building like that one day. I never liked buildings like that until somehow it just clicked for me in my late twenties. Now I think brutalism and similar styles are wonderful.
  
  Anyway, maybe I'm just a weirdo, but it was actually surprisingly pleasant in there: clean and calm with friendly, easy going staff. I kind of regret getting excused a little bit.
  
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  You'll love the AT&T Long Lines Building in NYC then.
  
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  Oh. You like brutalism.
  
  Well look where I went to school.
  
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- A lot of US Courthouses are physically connected to the Jailhouse and PD, I assume it's the same for other nations but idk.
  
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Honestly I'd feel lucky just to have come out of there alive..

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- I think the same thing every time I go to Newark
  
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  Newark is treating me well so far. We're on lunch break and I'm having a big open-faced Reuben at Hobby's right now.
  
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Why does this building have arrowloops? Are they expecting a siege?

Nvm, after 1/6/20 I suppose every legal institution should always expect violent insurrection.

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- 1/6/21
  
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  Oops, thanks for the correction!
  
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- Thank you for reminding me what those were called!
  
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How dare you enjoy brutalism, don't you know that's a crime?

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There might actually be a case to be made that a jury should only consist of people who have gone through the system.

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