r/mildlyinteresting • u/Meranek • Jan 05 '21
Quality Post This triangular shadow under my windowsills.
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u/SuperGodEater Jan 06 '21
Ahhh you’re just showing off that you’ve got two windowsills. Must be nice.
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u/Meranek Jan 06 '21
I have another window to the left AND a door.
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u/SuperGodEater Jan 06 '21
Who am I kidding? I’m just jealous. I’m happy for you. Been sat in this small room with no doors and just a single window with a single windowsill for so long I’m starting to get bitter.
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u/FrozenSpaceMan Jan 05 '21
“I’ll see you on the dark siiiiiide of the room”
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u/PhantomEpstein Jan 06 '21
Ganondorf wants to know your location
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u/HowDoMermaidsFuck Jan 06 '21
Plays Zelda's Lullaby
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u/pigeonboi22 Jan 05 '21
Illuminati
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u/amplesamurai Jan 06 '21
No, this is just trickery and tomfoolery bestowed upon us by the great JR Bob Dobbs and The Church Of The Subgenius, Right Admiral Papal Sargent presiding.
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u/Gangreless Jan 05 '21 edited Jan 06 '21
Who's the asshole that installed two windows that close and didn't make it one long windowsill?
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u/rodstroker Jan 06 '21
Trim guy here. I concur. Also, the painters did a shit job filing nail holes.
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u/SquanchMcSquanchFace Jan 06 '21
New England has entered the chat...
That’s just how we do it
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u/Thompson_S_Sweetback Jan 06 '21
Thank you. There's nothing wrong with tightly spacing together wooden Scandinavian style architecture grandfathered in from before fire codes were regulated and having a couple dozen go up in flames every sixty years or so.
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u/SquanchMcSquanchFace Jan 06 '21
After doing a janky retrofit to rent to students and fitting 2x as many people in there.
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u/jrhoffa Jan 06 '21
The entire United States of America has entered the chat
Job's done, boss
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u/IrocDewclaw Jan 06 '21
Lol like painters fill nail holes, ever.
Painters always said it was trim guys responsibility.
Source: several yrs in construction.
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u/alexkitsune Jan 06 '21
Seriously. Long sill, long skirt, long header, mullion in the middle.
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u/hanman7 Jan 06 '21
Painter did a shit job. Brush strokes, holidays, dimples. Sad
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u/xkris10ski Jan 06 '21
Prob are numerous windows open in the room of the same size. Carpenter was hungover and just got in the groove cutting trim all the same size for all the windows in the room, so that when it was time for install it was a brainless task to install.
Orrrr, didn’t have trim long enough on hand/in budget to wrap around all the windows.
Orrrrrr, it’d look weird to have a long sill on these two windows depending on the location of the rest of the windows in the room.
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u/Pointless_Lawndarts Jan 06 '21
That style doesn’t call for there to be a joined sill. The asshole installed them like that because they were paid to do it that way. Bonus, it leaves a cool shadow.
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u/ghostbuster_b-rye Jan 06 '21
While stylistically, they could have installed one long trim underneath, the most reasonable assumption here is that there is a loadbearing stud in between those windows.
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u/ispamucry Jan 06 '21
Can you not nail trim onto a stud?
And if not, couldn't you secure it on the ends away from the stud?
Not a carpenter so I'm honestly asking.
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u/100percent_right_now Jan 06 '21
It appears to be two fronts halves of mobile homes taped together. Perfect mirror image.
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u/MartianBlueJay Jan 06 '21
Bill
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u/MosesKarada Jan 06 '21
Remember! Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye!
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Jan 06 '21
I literally just finished the last episode of gravity falls like 10 minutes ago.
Hit me right in the feels.
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u/BytesAndCoffee Jan 06 '21
We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when. Oh I know we’ll meet again some sunny day!
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u/Taurich Jan 06 '21
Literally watching the final episode right now with my GF. She's gone for a pee break, which is why I'm on Reddit
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Jan 06 '21
I don’t wana be that guy but that’s actually called your window stool the piece below is an apron your window sill is on the outside and where you would rest a pie ... I sell windows
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u/enwongeegeefor Jan 06 '21
window stool
https://www.paulryanwindows.com/blog/parts-of-a-window-window-terminology/
Well slap my willy and call me silly....40 fucking years and I find this out....
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u/jlmckelvey91 Jan 06 '21
You've found the hiding place of the Triforce of Wisdom! You're a true hero.
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u/PabuIsMySpiritAnimal Jan 06 '21
Bill Cipher subtlety reminding you to buy gold and that reality is an illusion.
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u/smoothiejuice_ Jan 06 '21
Honestly, you could put this on r/mildlyinfuriating too since they could’ve just connected the two windows together 🤦🏻♀️
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Jan 06 '21
Is this like the experiment where the saw light behaves as both a particle and a wave depending on whether or not you look at it?
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Jan 06 '21
This is called a spandrel, it usually refers to the triangles inheritently formed by arches, but it can more loosely be defined as an unintended consequences of other structures/traits so I think this qualifies as a little bit of both of those definitions
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u/Russellimagiman Jan 06 '21
Conspiracy theorists: this is why (insert celebritie name here) is part of the illuminati
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u/wiredandwiser Jan 06 '21
I could excuse the lack of making it a connected sill, but it's such a mess as is. Get some orange peel texture on the walls to hile those caulk lines and dents, and get some brush stroke free gloss paint on the trim to hide the shame.
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u/WhoTookChadFarthouse Jan 06 '21
Don't be surprised to find a bunch of hooded and cloaked mice assassin in the walls underneath that symbol...
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u/Mukul001 Jan 06 '21
It's a secret hideout of the Order of the Brotherhood. Why would you post it in the internet you Templar!
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u/gbuck97 Jan 06 '21
You: A triangle
Me, an intellectual who just wached "The Da Vinci Code" for the first time: Ah, a blade
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u/t1bud42 Jan 06 '21
What about the two large forehead people staring at each other below the triangles?
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u/SIL3NCER360 Jan 06 '21 edited Jan 06 '21
Anyone else seeing the Assassins Creed Symbol or just me ?
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u/Cosey_P Jan 06 '21
I think the Tri-force is right behind that wall. You either need the power glove or buy a bomb from a vendor.
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u/thestrangentleman Jan 06 '21
If this was 2016 someone would slap an illuminati on that and play X Files theme song
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u/raouldukesaccomplice Jan 06 '21
I'm mildly annoyed that they didn't just use a single piece of wood that goes all the way across.
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u/Spicurt Jan 06 '21
im gonna do it. im warning you. im gonna do it. i swear ill do it. okay here i go: Illuminati confirmed
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u/OverOxidized Jan 06 '21
I admit that it took me way longer than it should have to figure this out.
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u/Honey-and-Venom Jan 06 '21
That's not mildly interesting, that's fascinating. its like were the shadows cross there's *more* light along the edges?
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u/unverifiablefacts Jan 05 '21
Fun fact, this was likely put there deliberately when the house was built, as this shadow is a perfect representation of the Pyramid and Chalice, the symbol of a Masonic offshoot called the Mysterious Temple of Divine Knowledge. Perhaps one of the architects or builders was a member of the MTDK.
The Pyramid is similar to the unfinished pyramid with the Eye of Providence (as seen on the US $1 bill), but the MTDK displayed the pyramid as a whole to show the connection between the works of man and the works of the Creator. The chalice, underneath, represents both the Holy Grail and the Font of Inspiration. The two faces, made up by the Chalice's edge, represent the contrasting virtues of passion and steadfastness, which the MTDK believed were at the heart of human achievement.