OhStopYellingAtMe
@OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
- Comment on Everything is just an ESP32 away 5 days ago:
You know what? Fuck all that. I’m a tech worker and my whole house is automated.
Because I’m lazy…
…like any decently efficient tech worker.
- Comment on Please tell me 6 days ago:
Can I have one?
- Comment on Please tell me 6 days ago:
- Comment on Its a draw🗣️ 1 week ago:
A drawer drew a drawer drawing a drawer.
- Comment on Why did AT&T think "Eye of Sauron" was the way to go? 1 week ago:
Well if you’re comparing 333 Commerce St building (topped out in 1993) with Barad-dûr, as depicted in Peter Hackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy (released in 2001-2093), then you maybe should ask why Peter Jackson’s art inspiration (specifically illustrator Alan Lee) based their depiction of Sauron’s tower in the AT&T building (although maybe the architect of the building in Nashville did also draw their inspiration from Alan Lee’s art).
I could find no other depiction of Barad-dûr prior to Jackson’s which had that same forked design, most artists drew a sinister-looking but traditionally spired tower design, with the eye peering through a window to some effect.
Tolkien’s book describes the tower like this:
“Then at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. All hope left him… …and then he saw, rising black, blacker and darker than the vast shades amid which it stood, the cruel pinnacles and iron crown of the topmost tower of Barad-dûr. One moment only it stared out, but as from some great window immeasurably high there stabbed northward a flame of red, the flicker of a piercing Eye”
No mention of the two-prong fork design that I could find.
- Comment on Do you still remember? 1 week ago:
1993 Dodge Caravan
- Comment on Panama Proxima 1 week ago:
New Zealand is the Gen X of countries.
- Comment on It’s the little things 1 week ago:
I know a guy who drank some WaterWetter and got pretty sick. He was an idiot.
- Comment on EA reportedly shelves Need For Speed completely to focus on other projects 2 weeks ago:
Aw that’s Shane. My kid loves NFS Heat. It’s his most favorite game.
- Comment on I can fix her 2 weeks ago:
I once dated a girl for a while but we stopped dating because she was just too BPD for me to handle. The passion & sex were great, but the mood swings, lies, paranoia, etc. were just too much.
We remained friends though for a very long time. Went out separate ways but were always in touch. Eventually she got into drugs & dating real bad dudes, and I tried to get her to get a grip and stop the drugs & ruining her life. She ghosted me. Eventually she responded (or rather her boyfriend did) that she was in a psych ward for rehab. Or friendship resumed when she got out.
A year later she died. I met her family at the funeral, befriended them. One day I mentioned her psych ward stay. Her mom said she was never in a psych ward. Her mom pulled up texts on her phone from the date range when she allegedly was in the ward.
The whole thing was a sham. She told me she was in the psych ward / rehab to get me off her back. The txt from her bf was just her.
I miss my friend dearly, but finding that out broke my heart.
- Comment on I can fix her 2 weeks ago:
Girls with grippy socks give the best blowjobs.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 weeks ago:
I use discarded cat food tins. Pour the grease into the tin, wait for it to solidify, toss in trash.
- Comment on Can you guess, chat? 2 weeks ago:
“it’s a dildo. Of course it’s company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. Always use the indefinite article a dildo - never your dildo.”
- Comment on Oatmeal 2 weeks ago:
Butterscotch Pudding is a big boy!
- Comment on Which one are you? 3 weeks ago:
…or veer into a person, which happened to me (yes I was struck by a runaway cart, no I’m not proud of that). I was not seriously injured.
In my defense, I was distracted- and that cart was running on silent mode or something.
- Comment on This is the smallest print size i've ever seen 3 weeks ago:
Really?! lol that’s great. I didn’t see that episode.
- Comment on This is the smallest print size i've ever seen 3 weeks ago:
The concept of “Señor Chang” - the incongruity of an Asian man teaching Spanish in an American community college, never ceases to make me chuckle.
It reminds me of my own days in community college here in the US, and sitting in an English Literature class, taught by an Indian woman (Mrs. Banerjee) whose accent was so thick, the whole class probably dropped a letter grade just because we couldn’t follow much of what she said.
- Comment on In heat 3 weeks ago:
It’s just limp dick size that changes but summer penis and cold shrinkage can definitely happen to a man.
That’s why I never leave the house without a raging boner. I found some pills at a truck stop gas station, I pop a few every time I need to go shopping or whatever. It frightens the children but the old ladies at the bingo parlor seem to dig it.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 4 weeks ago:
“America” is a shortened name for “United States of America,” in addition to the name of the continent. It can be both, you know.
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 4 weeks ago:
Or: one guy keeps brining in milk, and another guy keeps locking that guy’s milk.
- Comment on Climate change is a hoax 4 weeks ago:
Yeah this comic is perfectly accurate, plus the one with the man in the business suit, talking to some children around a campfire in a post-apocalyptic setting, saying “yes the world was destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we made a lot of value for it shareholders.”
- Comment on I am two of them 4 weeks ago:
Bitey food cooked in boiling hot oil.
- Comment on Science has gone too far 5 weeks ago:
Best of both worlds.
- Comment on I throw hands (grabbing my soup) 5 weeks ago:
I got confused and threw soup at the Nazi. Then I hi-fived a kitty.
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 5 weeks ago:
Platinium!
- Comment on Grim ass picture 5 weeks ago:
Ba ba donk a donk, I’m lovin it
- Comment on I wonder if they let the dog drive himself home 1 month ago:
Alleged perpetrator was questioned by officers on the scene, subject was asked to identify who is a good boy, and if he (alleged perp) is indeed the good boy. Alleged perp responded in the affirmative and was released with no further questions.
- Comment on Peak male form 1 month ago:
#2 making a bold statement to go sans mustachio.
- Comment on Not sure exactly what they are selling 1 month ago:
Yeah, Mandi. Eat it.
- Comment on The D.E.N.N.I.S ship 1 month ago:
No.
