• jjagaimo@lemmy.ca
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    23 days ago

    Never made sense to me to keep cutlery and plates and stuff that never gets used to show “yes this is the place where eating happens.”

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      23 days ago

      “and according to my new wall art, this is the room where we live, laugh, and/or love. Namaste”

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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      23 days ago

      back in the day bored housewives used to love to throw dinner parties just to show off their fancy serveware, pretending that they’re downton abbey or something. i’ve experienced it, since it’s the same shit at every holiday get together. it’s almost surreal, sitting in the midst of a perpetual conversation about dinner plates, very similar to dudes at a superbowl party, except the plates are the superbowls