RoidingOldMan

joined 1 month ago
[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm explaining the joke, but Jon is supposed to be an Everyman.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm a huge long-term fan of the Garfield comics. Lyman basically ditches Jon with Odie. It's never explained in detail because it's a 3 frame comic. More optimistically, and "cannon" Jon was enthusiastic about inheriting Odie while Lymon left for unexplained reasons. Jon thought owning a dog would help him meet women.

As for the quote you referenced. Garfield has thought bubbles. Jon talks. Lyman exists because he can talk while Garfield can only "think". Jim Davis originally thought it would be confusing to have thought clouds and talk bubbles interacting. Like how does a cat talk with a person? But that quickly became the norm in the comic. Once talking and thinking could interact, Lyman no longer needed to exist.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 34 points 13 hours ago (8 children)

Rare appearance of Jon's friend Lyman, who doesn't appear in hardly anything after 1980.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Or when you're on the treadmill and then one of your steps is an inch too far to the side.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

The metric system is a tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The article makes it sound like he was tied to the trunk of a tree, not hanging from a branch, and also that there was no knot in the rope. I'm definitely having trouble putting those details together into suicide or murder or lynching, the whole thing is very odd.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (7 children)

What was the rope for if it was a suicide? Seeing that we know he wasn't hung by it.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (14 children)

I can see why the sheriff doesn't want to rush to call it lynching when there isn't evidence of lynching specifically. BUT it appears to be a horrific and violent crime that surely should be their first priority. Sheriff's statement is downplaying the whole thing.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The numbers are close-ish to correct if you are looking only at House/Senate voting. They still needed to be ratified by 3/4ths of states and these numbers clearly ignore what the voting results in each state was. They also did not have 100% Republican support, but close. Democrat support of 0% for the 14th and 15th amendments appears to be accurate.

Also worth mentioning that all 3 of those amendments passed in just 6 years. It's a very specific moment in history.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 60 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is a real photo? It's worse than anything AI could have imagined.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Damage already done. But I'm happy to see she's sorry.

 

Americantall.com is where I've been buying from recently. Do you have another option? ' I'm 6'4" and 200 pounds. A typical large is too short. XL and XXL is wider and not longer. I need a place to order a Large X-Long.

view more: next ›