I Can't But I Try

Mike, 28, Dublin, Silver Medal in Bronze Medal Modeling, insta: mick_v2

[night-dawn-day]

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

me trying not to act high when my dad is home

[pizzaback-deactivated20201011]

which one is which

[walkhimdown]

[hel-lo-there]

[mxnrique]

The fact that Debra Jo Rupp never won an Emmy for this role is a travesty

[loloftheday]

Let’s see you little punks smash my letterbox now

[aerylon]

This reminds me of this guy who used to live on my dad’s street.  

Every time it snowed, the snow plow would take out his mailbox - and only his mail box.  And just to be clear - it was done intentionally.  No one knows why, but the driver of the snow plow would target his box and mow it down.  He’d call the DOT to complain, and would get an earful of excuses that amounted to “not our fault you have a wimpy mailbox.”  

Fast forward to the next winter.  First decent snow starts falling, and every kid is hoping for a snow day.  It was right around 4:30 am that the whole neighborhood was woken up to this loud CLANG and the screech of tearing metal.  My dad made it to the window first and started laughing his ass off.

Sitting out side was one very totaled, and almost ripped in half, snow plow.  And these weren’t little pick-up trucks with a blade on the front, we have these up in NY:

Well, turns out over the summer, my dad’s neighbor got himself a backhoe and sank a steel I beam into the ground in his front yard.  Then he covered it with a decorative wood sleeve and topped it with a brand new mailbox.  When the snowplow driver tried to mow it down it was a bad case of immovable object meets unstoppable force - and the mailbox won.  With the plow firmly impaled on the I beam, it was very clear that the driver had gone out of his way to hit it.  

Naturally, the DOT wasn’t happy, and the neighbor’s reply was simple: “Not my faulty you have a wimpy snowplow.”  They did try to sue him for the damages, but as he had gone to the town, gotten approval for the post and its installation, and made sure everything was up to code, it was thrown out pretty quick.  

And for anyone wondering about the driver…  He was fine.  His job and tighty-whiteys … not so much.

[glyndarling]

That is a very satisfying read.

[pearlclam]

[kitsnicket]

This show was the funniest fucking thing

[froginakettle]

did she put whipped cream on a carrot? 

[catchymemes]

[phalloid-destroyer-deactivated2]

[0rdi-deactivated20211118]

[capitalist-realism]

[thecryptkeeper]

baby yoda: r- r- 

the mandalorian: oh cute i think he’s gonna say his first words 

baby yoda: rockin’-

[ithankyoulord]

[thetyrannosaur]

[blueskittlesart]

it occurred to me today that zelda can see every stupid thing you do in botw

[vault-scorpion]

Fallout, Fallout never changes….

[mostlygibberish]

Here, I fixed it for you:

[carnival-phantasm]

Reading old replies makes this post better:

rest in peace, my man

[oppa-homeless-style]

censoring his name is like closing the eyes on a corpse

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

@lumnch collab 😊

Fun fact my computer crashed while I was making this but my hand cannot be stayed

[lumnch]

the universe tried to stop us from creating big fungus and we said Hell no not today we will not go quietly into that dark knight 

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[lumnch]

[ladysaint]

Series.  Video Games +  Art History ↳ Dishonored & John Singer Sargent  

[showerthoughtsofficial]

People don’t hate math. They hate being confused, intimidated, and embarrassed by math. Their problem is with how it’s taught.

[m00nba3]

Finally

[kyraneko]

A Mathematician’s Lament or Lockhart’s Lament is an essay explaining a lot of what’s wrong with how math is commonly taught. One of the comparisons is “like learning musical notation without ever hearing the music,” which felt quite spot-on. Highly informative reading.