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Lawns I kind of see (but they're nice to walk and play on if you live somewhere where a green lawn is not an affront to nature). Kitchens, though - do you microwave all your food?
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I really don't think there's a modern equivalent to things like china hutches, grandfather clocks, pianos, etc. Maybe man cave stuff? Pool tables that never get used, putting a bar in your basement, things like that. I mean there's plenty of things that "regular people" buy because it makes them feel wealthy: $80,000 pickups, yeti coolers, RV's. But there's not much these days that people buy just because "that's just what ya do."
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I guess a certain idea of what a wedding should be like?
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Computer viking posted:Lawns I kind of see (but they're nice to walk and play on if you live somewhere where a green lawn is not an affront to nature). Both were kind of tongue-in-cheek, but kitchens more so. Still, Americans are obsessed with giant kitchens, even though a lot of Americans eat takeout or Doordash for nearly every meal, or just heat up frozen poo poo. Similarly, we love our lawns, but the front lawn especially is basically the equivalent of your grandma's "parlor": it's for other people to see, NOT for using!
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Jun 9, 2023 20:30
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Multiple current-gen gaming consoles. A gaming PC. 8k TVs. The absolute latest phone(s). Also if that cartridge rack had some Intellivision and Colecovision carts, then you would have been rich af 
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Jun 9, 2023 20:33
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having lived in places that did not have large kitchens as a person who cooks for themself, i really do not see that as a useless luxury. haha i could live in a shoebox if it had a good sized kitchen attached.
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Also if that cartridge rack had some Intellivision and Colecovision carts, then you would have been rich af I found the Colecovision stuff in another box. Never had an Intellivision. And I never found the loving Vectrex, just the cartridges and screen overlays in a little box. She must have tossed that out years ago.
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Phanatic posted:I found the Colecovision stuff in another box. Never had an Intellivision. I had to sell the VCS to get the Intellivision. Never had Coleco. The loss of that Vectrex is a goddamn tragedy. And did I ever lust for one, especially after playing it at a game room and billiards store in Omaha circa late 1982.
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Jun 9, 2023 20:45
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my dad had a coleco that i have vague memories of messing with. too young to really remember much but i remember this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKRsYg2KlJo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcoxH4QLcLo oh the horror of impaling a hapless smurf on a picket fence.
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Uniform-color bathrooms
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Having children. ...God, that's cynical, even for me.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Both were kind of tongue-in-cheek, but kitchens more so. Still, Americans are obsessed with giant kitchens, even though a lot of Americans eat takeout or Doordash for nearly every meal, or just heat up frozen poo poo. Similarly, we love our lawns, but the front lawn especially is basically the equivalent of your grandma's "parlor": it's for other people to see, NOT for using! When you go into someone’s giant amazing kitchen with all their top end appliances, 8 burner range, double oven, high dollar counter tops etc and pull one of their super expensive knives out and…. It’s dull as poo poo….. No greater poser flag.
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Are you even a professional chef, you idiot? Let me check your knives
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I got a knife from IKEA and a sharpener and that IKEA knife is sharp as hell. Real good knife.
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Wayne Knight posted:I got a knife from IKEA and a sharpener and that IKEA knife is sharp as hell. Real good knife. Is it cyeramic?
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Wayne Knight posted:I got a knife from IKEA and a sharpener and that IKEA knife is sharp as hell. Real good knife. I still have a chefs knife from IKEA I paid about $40 for 10 years ago. Use it constantly, sharpens easily, really good.
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AlternateAccount posted:When you go into someone’s giant amazing kitchen with all their top end appliances, 8 burner range, double oven, high dollar counter tops etc and pull one of their super expensive knives out and…. It’s dull as poo poo…..
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Phanatic posted:There are some things our parents bought because their parents bought them, and their parents bought them because rich people bought them back when they were so expensive that only rich people could afford them... Backyard sets or furniture. Ooh a water feature and a fire pit! We never use that poo poo.
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Around here the most recent marker of middle-class affluence is a wood-fired backyard hot tub that gets used exactly three times a year because it's a huge chore to fill up, warm up and to clean afterwards. Oh, and robot lawnmowers to mow your stupid lawn that are also a deadly hazard to small wildlife like hedgehogs 
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Considering the number of field mice nests I've minced up with a push mower and my dog has happily cleaned up behind me, human run mowers are also fairly bad for the wildlife.
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Jun 10, 2023 19:01
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Is it cyeramic? stainless steel
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AlternateAccount posted:I still have a chefs knife from IKEA I paid about $40 for 10 years ago. Use it constantly, sharpens easily, really good. I can't imagine this one was more than $10 edit: oops, meant to combine those into one post.
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Powered Descent posted:Count me in on Team Flash Drive Driving Music. It works great... even though the geniuses who programmed the car stereo have it read the mp3s in any given folder in filesystem order, not alphabetical/numeric order. So just drag-and-dropping a folder of music onto the drive effectively pushes the "scramble" button on it. I ended up writing a little python script to place the files onto the drive one at a time, to ensure they'll come out in the right order. There's actually a tiny app called mp3dir sorter that will do this for me. The real hassle is remembering to MP3gain all my "mix tape" folders. Explosionface posted:I'm a bit annoyed that I had to convert all of my playlists to use Microsoft style file structures just so they could be read. It makes sense, since Microsoft wrote the Sync software in my Ford. I don't think mine even reads any playlist format. I just slap the track number in front of the track name when I rename everything.
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Arrath posted:Considering the number of field mice nests I've minced up with a push mower and my dog has happily cleaned up behind me, human run mowers are also fairly bad for the wildlife. They are. Here in Germany conservation activists have started using drones to find and rescue roe deer fawns from fields about to be mown. There was a recent case of a farmer being fined for  killing three fawns whose presence he had been notified about. (article in German)
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barbecue at the folks posted:Around here the most recent marker of middle-class affluence is a wood-fired backyard hot tub that gets used exactly three times a year because it's a huge chore to fill up, warm up and to clean afterwards. Oh, and robot lawnmowers to mow your stupid lawn that are also a deadly hazard to small wildlife like hedgehogs A mate of mine got one of those robot mowers and it was a bit poo poo. So we worked on a better battery for it, only for him to get a pool put in. Then forget to retrain it. MoeBot went for a drink.
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Humphreys posted:A mate of mine got one of those robot mowers and it was a bit poo poo. So we worked on a better battery for it, only for him to get a pool put in. Then forget to retrain it. MoeBot went for a drink. on the one hand, that probably cost that guy a lot of money. on the other hand, I had a mental image of a lawn roomba fearlessly plowing straight into a pool and 
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wa27 posted:I really don't think there's a modern equivalent to things like china hutches, grandfather clocks, pianos, etc. Maybe man cave stuff? Pool tables that never get used, putting a bar in your basement, things like that. Re large kitchens, a genuine rich-people kitchen trend is to have a show kitchen, then a prep kitchen behind it where you do all the messy chopping, measuring, and so on. Then you bring the prepped food out and put it on the counter and perform cooking in front of the admiring guests.
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A visibly healthy, or at least healthy looking diet.
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Big dining table if you eat all your meals at the kitchen table or in the sofa, maybe?
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To be honest, I can’t think of many real-world examples of “keeping up with the Joneses” items even from three generations ago. Set of China, yes. New car every few years? But that will never go away.
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a tv mounted at neck-wrenching angles
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wa27 posted:I really don't think there's a modern equivalent to things like china hutches, grandfather clocks, pianos, etc. Maybe man cave stuff? Pool tables that never get used, putting a bar in your basement, things like that. Funko Pops
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pelotons and teslas
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Desert Bus posted:Funko Pops Funkos! Pop.
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Desert Bus posted:Funko Pops Just imagine it's the 2060's and some nice teenager goes over to cheer up the half-blind old neighbor lady by sitting with them in their living room that has this cabinet in the corner covered with dusty, faded funkos
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Is it cyeramic? It's suuuuch a good knooooife.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Interesting question! I can't think "keeping up with the Joneses" is completely dead, but I have no idea what the modern equivalent might be. A couple of decades ago there was a golf resurgence, but I think golf has returned to dying out? Home gym? Making it to retirement age then selling all your poo poo and moving to an RV park in Palm Springs.
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https://twitter.com/ultrakillblast/status/1669341488361410561?s=20
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I'm not an insane person about it, but I do like that I can find terrific old stereo components at thrift stores and have the listening experience my ancestors had to spend like $500 on for twenty bucks. Obviously this sort of thing is only good for certain hobbies - some stuff was expensive and bad and even at $20 not worth it - but it's nice to look at hifi equipment that was made to be all shiny and tactile and sounds decent. The 5.1 receiver is in the living room; I can have an old rear end hifi in the office and not feel especially silly about it. But I found a lot of things I go for as an adult are effectively "what would 15 year old me have killed for" so I built up an old moped or got a neo geo mvs working on my old tv, that sort of thing. The person I'm keeping up with is the unrealistic expectation of what was cool from a 15 year old in 1996.
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I'm in the OBX this week for vacation, and they've got a record player and a bunch of albums! I got my 5-year old all jazzed up to finally get it out today and the loving needle is broken. I hate when people don't take care of old technology. Back to Spotify we go!
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