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  • They had Better Than Bouillon on sale at my grocery store the other day, so I stocked up

  • What if its desire was to be so big that it can pick humans as if they were grains?

    Sounds pretty dangerous, I can understand why they didn’t want to risk it.

  • For the answer to that question, you need to read Interview with Sméagol: The Secret Account of the True Ringbearer and All the Things Nasty Hobbitses should Never Ever Ask, unfortunately Frodo threw that into Mount Doom along with the ring because it contained knowledge no mortal man should ever possess.

  • Well, it could also be that it only works differently on HIM

  • Well, then why not put that chicken on a cat, and the cat on a dog, and the dog on a donkey, and then ride all up into Mordor full Bremen Town Musicians style?

    Better safe than sorry...

  • Yes, but without a control group we cannot really rule out whether this is race thing or a personality thing.

    For instance, what effect would it have had on Boromir and Aragorn? How about Gimli? It's possible it would have made both of the former stronger, for instance, and made Gimli incredibly rich, because that's what their races desired. We don't really know, do we?

  • It had the same effect on Bilbo and Gollum, though. The idea of its effects being dependent on race cannot be ruled out just yet.

  • Well, that's just wearing it on a necklace with extra steps.

  • Perhaps he had a very long zoom lens

  • Now that you say it, I don’t remember the book ever really getting into what effects it might have on other races. All we know is it makes hobbits invisible, and that it had no effect whatsoever on Tom Bombadil. No one else got a chance to try it on if memory serves me correctly (the elves refused, the humans weren’t allowed, and the orcs never got near enough).

    It’s been many years since I’ve read it however, so I’m happy to be corrected.

  • The black part:

  • That’s a good question, but I don’t remember Bilbo having to strip naked after putting it on so he wouldn’t appear as a self-animated set of clothes floating around

  • Well, first of all, the ring makes you invisible

  • I guess they must use their magic to pull the trigger...

  • Well, at least the Pulitzer Prize makes sense, I guess.

  • I think the elephant in the room is probably best summed up as follows:

    No one will ever tell you THE truth. They’ll only ever tell you THEIR truth.

    That’s not to say that people won’t ever TRY to do the former (though you have to be careful to separate those who do from those who pretend to), but rather, that it is fundamentally impossible to do so. The real truth is far too complicated to ever be put into words, so the best anyone can hope to do is point you towards it.

  • Why don’t those starving people just go do one of those restaurant challenges where your food is free if you can finish it the entire thing?

  • Your joke, but funny:

  • Yeah, for sure. Because mine have really never been interested in me as a person, only in what I could do for them.

    Other than that, I don’t really have any evidence that I’m not their child, so perhaps they were just bad at parenting, but the thought has definitely crossed my mind more than once.

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    Today I had a job interview at a mirror factory

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    How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief?

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    What happens when you don't obey they KGB?

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    No lies detected

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    I stayed up all night wondering where the sun went...

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    Time for spicy coffee

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    Not to kink shame, but…

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    If Spaghetti grew on trees

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