I wore a red checkered shirt today and my coworkers are roasting me RELENTLESSLY for it
“which picnic table did you pick that up from?”
“you’re making me crave some french fries”
“woahh is that like. A chip truck uniform.”
“you’re transporting me to an italian restaurant…”
The shirt in question btw:
[image id: selfie of op that cuts out their face and below their waist. They are wearing a large oversized checkered red and white collared mens shirt with short sleeves. End id.]
a collection of my favourites so far :}
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a reply from subspace skater that reads: “bro stop squirming your making all the chess pieces fall off.”
a reply from soapoey that reads: “if I was an ant i would crawl.on you. Btw. <3”
tags from thesnacken that reads: “op ready at ALL times to help out at a food truck or perhaps the bowling alley.”
tags from samathekittycat that read: “a hand towel i would find in my grandma’s kitchen.”
reblog from mugenfinder that reads: “is this you?” followed by an image of wrap wrapped in checkered red and white sandwich paper next to a bowl of salsa.
tags from pudd0x that read: “This looks wrong it should be laminated. sorry.”
tags from synthwizardromance that read: “you could play chess on that beast.”
Last night I had a dream I woke up to find that my house had been turned into a Smart House with every wall being a digital screen including the roof so I could see it even laying on bed and the Siri voice said “Don’t worry. You are perfectly safe in your Apple Smart Home™️” knowing I have a BIG phobia of intruders especially at night and it continued with “Let’s explore the neighborhood from the comfort of your home” so it opened google maps and accidentally zoomed past a shitty jpeg of the girl from The Ring standing outside my house and it said “ignore that”. woke up laughing
i think it’s p awesome that the first compasses invented in china were not magnetic, but in fact mechanical - the cart with the little wooden man pointing south was built in a way that no matter which way the cart turned, the little man would always point south
this is a model of what it looked like
how does this work? it’s so cool and confusing
the gears are aligned in a way to always turn the little man in the opposite direction as the cart at the same rate of rotation. so if the man points at you, and you turn the cart clockwise 90 degrees, the man will be turned counterclockwise 90 degrees, and still be facing you. if you turn the cart counterclockwise 90 degrees, the man will be turned clockwise 90 degrees, and still be facing you
as for how they got the cart to point south to begin with, that goes into fengshui and cardinal direction geomancy. but long story short, the workshops that built these carts would have their front doors facing south to begin with (using the sun and the stars to figure out which way is south), so all they would have to do is build the cart facing that direction, and the little man will always point south
‘Sea Life’ Chess Set. Designed in 1923 by Max Esser and manufactured by the Meissen Porcelain Factory in Germany.
“In the mid-eighteenth century the Meissen porcelain factory produced several chess sets by sculptor and chief modeler Johann Joachim Kändler (German, 1706–1775). In the 1920s Meissen again began to produce chess sets, among them three designed by Max Esser, known largely at the factory as a modeler of animal figures.”
