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Ham Sandwiches posted:People have stuff custom built all the time and they end up hating the result all the time. Cars, homes, decor, websites, logos, you name it. Kim and Kanye had a huge conflict over an expensive remodel that was presumably what they wanted but didn't agree on the results. I've worked architecture for a while and tons of people have zero ability to visualize things before they are built and in front of them yet have very strong opinions on what they want because they saw something in a magazine or liked something else they saw in a totally different context. They build up these lists in their head of what they think they like, then micro-manage the design making sure these bullet-points are all addressed. The architect or designer will offer advice why this or that might not work out or look right, but the customer knows better and who knows what they want better than them selves??? Finally the thing gets built, and those cool steps down into a semi-sunken living room from the kitchen that the architect said would look awkward and make furniture placement difficult somehow didn't end up how they envisioned. The french provincial kitchen they demanded because they saw one in a magazine clashes with the modern living room full of underlit cabinets. The mudroom they demanded but the architect said there wasn't enough room for ends up feeling cramped and takes a bite out of another room which also now feels cramped, yet the huge "grand room" they demanded feels way too big. They do not reflect on what the architect warned them about, they do not reflect on their own poor tastes, they get mad at their architect for loving up the design and complain to their friends that they were "hard to work with" and "wouldn't listen to what we wanted"
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I'm the "build the house however you want, I don't really give a poo poo" guy that gets accused of not caring enough despite giving you free reign to do whatever.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:03
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The me that started this house wanted a dolphin shaped faucet but the me of today wishes it was a horsehead faucet.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:05
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new phone who dis posted:I'm the "build the house however you want, I don't really give a poo poo" guy that gets accused of not caring enough despite giving you free reign to do whatever. I know a lot of people would love this but tbh I would be really annoyed and upset if I heard this from an SO. girl pants fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Jan 4, 2018 |
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Jan 4, 2018 21:06
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Also what do you guys want to bet that the house they built is a loving monstrosity? I'm going to go with "there is a 100% chance their house is loving terrible"
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Jan 4, 2018 21:07
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girl pants posted:Also what do you guys want to bet that the house they built is a loving monstrosity? I'm going to go with "there is a 100% chance their house is loving terrible" $5 there is a craft room somewhere in there that will become the "wine and silent crying" room.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:08
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The last one with the woman sobbing uncontrollably off camera slays me everytime.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:10
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girl pants posted:Also what do you guys want to bet that the house they built is a loving monstrosity? I'm going to go with "there is a 100% chance their house is loving terrible" 
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Jan 4, 2018 21:10
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I will buy this off you
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Jan 4, 2018 21:12
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girl pants posted:I know a lot of people would love this but tbh I would be really annoyed and upset if I heard this from an SO. I feel like I may have been traumatized into this position. Her: *holds up 3 almost identically shaded swatches* Which color of tan do you think would be best for the bathroom? Me: *chooses one randomly* Her: Oh my God! Really? I thought that was the ugliest one! Well, we're going to go with the one I picked but jeez I can't believe you picked that one! Me: *Spends rest of day trying to determine if there's actually a difference between them or if I'm being Punk'd*
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Jan 4, 2018 21:17
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Pick posted:We are all of the same species, and no distinction whatever is between us, except that which arises from fortune. For example, your footman and cook would be your equals were they as rich as you. Being poor they are obliged to serve you. Therefore, you must not add to their misfortunes by insulting or ill-treating them. If your situation is preferable to theirs, be thankful, without either despising them or being vain of your better fortune. You must, therefore, treat all your inferiors with affability and good manners, and not speak to them in a surly tone, nor with harsh expressions, as if they were of a different species. A good heart never reminds people of their inferiority, but endeavors to alleviate their misfortunes, and make them forget them. I like this.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:19
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I’m guessing it’s some unrelated issue surfacing rather than her realizing her dogfood homer-car of a house is terrible. Most people have too much cognitive dissonance and too little introspection to realize what they’ve created.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:20
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Maybe she just found McMansion Hell and realized that her two storey lawyer foyer entrance and heatsink great room with a gigantic TV over the decorative fireplace aren't as classy and timeless as she thought and she's unable to reconcile herself as a person with abysmal taste.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:22
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My dentist always has that home and garden flip this house/keep it or sell it poo poo on and multiple times I've seen women break down crying because they hate something they completely micromanaged.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:22
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La Brea Carpet posted:$5 there is a craft room somewhere in there that will become the "wine and silent crying" room.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:23
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Maybe they spent a fortune on an obsession with transparent floors only to realize they aren't very compatible with skirts/dresses and their relatives that visit all the time have their vertigo triggered by them and had to carpet them all over.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:28
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girl pants posted:I know a lot of people would love this but tbh I would be really annoyed and upset if I heard this from an SO. this seems to directly contradict your other post girl pants posted:Honestly I wouldn't even build a house with another person in the Sims let alone in real life. Like if you'd have an idea of what you wanted and would be worried that their input would end up leading to compromises that left you less than satisfied wouldn't it be better for everyone involved if they just left it up to you, particularly if they didn't really have any strong preferences in the first place?
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Jan 4, 2018 21:32
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this is pretty cool and I like it, where is it from?
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Jan 4, 2018 21:32
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This is just another example of a relationships post that could have just attached some loving pictures so we can all laugh at them but for some reason they want to focus on the actual relationship aspects. Assholes. It's like that one woman with the gigantic gaudy ring that everyone called shallow until she posted the picture and was suddenly vindicated. dudeness fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jan 4, 2018 |
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Jan 4, 2018 21:32
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ArbitraryC posted:this seems to directly contradict your other post No I just think if you're going to do something emblematic of the fact that the two of you are going to share the rest of your lives, like build a house together, it would be nice if the other person could muster up an opinion more considered than 'I don't care do whatever'. This doesn't extend to presenting somebody with three identical beige swatches and freaking the gently caress out when they can't really tell them apart, though. Maybe not every post I make is meant to be 100% serious and consistent, hmm? But for real though I invited a girl over to hang out once in the 7th grade and we almost killed each other over where to put the pool in the house we were building. POOLS DON'T GO IN THE FRONT YARD, KELLI
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Jan 4, 2018 21:36
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As long as you dont put your walkin closet on the other side of your master bathroom youve already avoided the sort of fundamental gently caress up that keeps a home on the market for years.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:37
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I keep my watches and accessories in my Walken closet.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:40
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Pick posted:I keep my watches and accessories in my Walken closet. It is natures backpack.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:42
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What if her house was built in the groverhaus style
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Jan 4, 2018 21:44
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Whatever the house equivalent is of smashing the randomize button on the character creation screen.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:45
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girl pants posted:No I just think if you're going to do something emblematic of the fact that the two of you are going to share the rest of your lives, like build a house together, it would be nice if the other person could muster up an opinion more considered than 'I don't care do whatever'. This doesn't extend to presenting somebody with three identical beige swatches and freaking the gently caress out when they can't really tell them apart, though. That makes sense but it seems like there's often gonna be a divide in priorities. In the post for example the dude seems to feel that even if the empty house isn't perfect they can make it a home together in how they furnish and live in it, which is probably how I would view things too. I honestly would not give two shits about the overall layout of a house (aside from maybe the kitchen) or the color of the carpet but I know my gf cares about stuff like which way her house is facing and natural lighting from excessive amounts of windows. Dude just sees the house itself as a functional thing and their own belongings as what will make it special to them. Besides it does sound like he was there for the whole process.
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girl pants posted:this is pretty cool and I like it, where is it from? I just GISed weird houses
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new phone who dis posted:I feel like I may have been traumatized into this position. My husband and I have been together *checks watch* 14 years and I feel like we transcended to another phase of our relationship a few months ago when we had a color consultation before we got the house painted. It took an hour and a half, 20 minutes (combined) of that time was the consultant looking for the right swatchbook, and we would have been done in under an hour except at some point we both realized we weren't 100% happy with the color for the bedroom. It took another 15 minutes to fix that. It was so unlike any other experience I'd ever heard of any other couple having it reaffirmed my conclusion that I absolutely married the right guy. I blame all of the home decorating sites like Apartment Therapy and also stuff like Pinterest with way the hell underselling how loving hard it is to make a house look good, and that's a house that's ALREADY BUILT. If I was laying out cash money to have a house built to my spec? drat straight I'd sit down with a bullet point list of dos and don'ts and then walk the gently caress away and be surprised with the result. There's a reason people go to school for that poo poo.
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My uncle and his girlfriend built a huge house together. It was built exactly to their specs and my uncle poured his heart and soul into it. Then one month before it was finished, she bolted the relationship and he was stuck with a mortgage that he was planning on splitting. He still lives in the house over 10 years later, but it's waaaaay too big for just him, and he's way too obsessed with it to ever sell it. I can imagine that she was doubting their relationship the entire time, and then she finally snapped and left him when the reality was about to smack her in the face.
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Jan 4, 2018 21:58
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lol living in a trashcan has never looked better
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Jan 4, 2018 22:02
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Me and my wife have almost the exact same taste in most everything so that's always easy. Like we'll independently go to a gallery and both want to buy the same an art out of the hundreds there. The same chairs, the same table, the same paint, the same sofa, always on the exact same wavelength that way. My poor friend who got married recently though (well his poor wife really) realized that his tastes were "mid century pub and science fiction" and hers are "traditional suburban." They don't agree on much in that department unfortunately but she just sort of tolerates it and every now and then puts her foot down. What's amazing though is when the compromise is that each one gets 100% control over different rooms and they end up going to some ridiculous extremes over their disagreements. So you'll go into the living room and it's a tacky "man cave" style thing with a harley davidson branded lazyboy and sports poo poo all over the wall, and then you'll see the bedroom looks like a 10 year old girl built her dream princess bedroom with everything in pinks and lace and frills and a small car sized mountain of designer pillows on every surface.
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Jan 4, 2018 22:04
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Baronjutter posted:What's amazing though is when the compromise is that each one gets 100% control over different rooms and they end up going to some ridiculous extremes over their disagreements. So you'll go into the living room and it's a tacky "man cave" style thing with a harley davidson branded lazyboy and sports poo poo all over the wall, and then you'll see the bedroom looks like a 10 year old girl built her dream princess bedroom with everything in pinks and lace and frills and a small car sized mountain of designer pillows on every surface.
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Jan 4, 2018 22:11
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hawowanlawow posted:lol thinking trolling on the internet is funny is definitely not a sign of good mental health I don't know. I very much appreciate Ken M.
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Jan 4, 2018 22:11
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Taxidermy takes up so much space in there can’t be a lot of compromise, at least not for the wall mounts. I mean, in my own apartment, there are really only two or three configurations that will allow me to put up the elk, the cape Buffalo, the moose, and the lion.
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Jan 4, 2018 22:13
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Baronjutter posted:Me and my wife have almost the exact same taste in most everything so that's always easy. My wife and I end up with a nice looking home decor, because we have to meet in the middle of our individual tastes that border on tacky at the opposite ends of the spectrum.
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hawowanlawow posted:lol thinking trolling on the internet is funny is definitely not a sign of good mental health Bored posted:I don't know. I very much appreciate Ken M. Khorne fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jan 4, 2018 |
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Jan 4, 2018 22:16
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Pick posted:Taxidermy takes up so much space in there can’t be a lot of compromise, at least not for the wall mounts. I mean, in my own apartment, there are really only two or three configurations that will allow me to put up the elk, the cape Buffalo, the moose, and the lion. wow I finally know you're trolling now. Elk and moose as two distinct animals in NA  .
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:wow I finally know you're trolling now. Elk and moose as two distinct animals in NA Do people think they're the same animal?
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Baronjutter posted:Me and my wife have almost the exact same taste in most everything so that's always easy. Like we'll independently go to a gallery and both want to buy the same an art out of the hundreds there. The same chairs, the same table, the same paint, the same sofa, always on the exact same wavelength that way. My poor friend who got married recently though (well his poor wife really) realized that his tastes were "mid century pub and science fiction" and hers are "traditional suburban." They don't agree on much in that department unfortunately but she just sort of tolerates it and every now and then puts her foot down. A friend of mines grandfather is obscenely wealthy and built a home in his tiny hometown on the coast of the medditerranean. His wife is obssessed with fairies and he allowed her to decorate this home entirely in her taste which can be best described as an edwardian nightmare of curved walls and fairy paintings. In exchange he got to build a massive, fully functioning lighthouse from which he spends his days watching the towns fishermen go in and out.
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girl pants posted:Do people think they're the same animal? got my continents wrong Is it an elk? Is it a moose? If you’re in Sweden, the answer is “BOTH”! The iconic, majestic forest dweller Alces alces is known as a moose in North America (actually the sub-species Alces alces americana) and an elk in Europe. The word elk, like the Swedish word älg (pronounced /elj/), is taken from the Latin alces.
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