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By popular demand posted:If my grandma's generation taught me anything it's that fine china wares are only for keeping in display cases numerous enough to reduce the space of your apartment by 10% at least. Just baffling amounts of plates and cutlery and serving bowls and so much poo poo. I only ever remember using one of the sets ONCE as a kid. And then there were the Hummels, milk glass and glass animals.
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By popular demand posted:If my grandma's generation taught me anything it's that fine china wares are only for keeping in display cases numerous enough to reduce the space of your apartment by 10% at least. Also that fine China often isn't
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Apr 9, 2024 08:29
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After my dear grandma departed I finally took a good look and yep, only cheap dreck that consumerist society pushed on low-middle class people who wanted to feel fancy. We couldn't give most of it away. E: also the old man I bought my apartment from had in addition lots of those fake USSR medals and memorabilia made for tourists. By popular demand has a new favorite as of 08:38 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Apr 9, 2024 08:34
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Fine china was just funkopops for silents
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Apr 9, 2024 10:15
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Floppies will never be obsolete. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fILQ6XVyP_c
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Apr 9, 2024 11:20
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Dude cool 3d printed save icon
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Apr 9, 2024 13:17
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teen witch posted:I think my grandparents had three or four different dining sets, among so much other fragile crap that none of us either needed or could take with us to use. The one two combo of “growing up in the Great Depression” and “starting a middle class family in the late 50s” really did them in. A friend of mine used to go to thrift stores when she was just out of college and buy fine china sets and use them like regular plates, into the dishwasher and everything. If they broke, she'd just go buy a new set. You could get them for around $20-40 for a full set easily.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:13
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teen witch posted:Just baffling amounts of plates and cutlery and serving bowls and so much poo poo. I only ever remember using one of the sets ONCE as a kid. Special forks for specific fruits they never even ate, finger bowls, serving tongs, giant serving trays that held food for 10 people. Kitchenware too. Gotta have a hard boiled egg slicer and an oven dish with a spike in the middle for roasting a whole pineapple.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:10
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Sentient Data posted:Dude cool 3d printed save icon That's the 3.5" you're thinking of.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:12
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If you don't have an egg slicer I laugh at your fate.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:15
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By popular demand posted:E: also the old man I bought my apartment from had in addition lots of those fake USSR medals and memorabilia made for tourists.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:24
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Sweevo posted:Special forks for specific fruits they never even ate, finger bowls, serving tongs, giant serving trays that held food for 10 people. So many goddam gravy boats. Truly lost in the sauce, Grandma. I will defend the utility of egg slicers, however. AFewBricksShy posted:A friend of mine used to go to thrift stores when she was just out of college and buy fine china sets and use them like regular plates, into the dishwasher and everything. Speaking of, I want a Raktajino mug but apparently they’re a nightmare to clean.
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Apr 9, 2024 15:27
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My mom has a small and undistinguished china and silverware set that has been languishing in an antique buffet for fifty years. She used to speak of it as if it was all a significant monetary asset, like a country estate. She's gone now and I can't see myself saving any of it, and it's probably not worth anything. EDIT: https://twitter.com/DrLindseyFitz/status/1777425729396851053 Dick Trauma has a new favorite as of 16:39 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Apr 9, 2024 16:35
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My toxic trait is wanting a China hutch full of that poo poo. I don't even care if it's mass produced poo poo from the thrift store. I just want to eat taco bell off a fancy rear end plate
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Apr 9, 2024 16:37
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My parents married in the 1970s, a decade when everyone was drunk all the time and throwing terrible dinner parties was the height of sophistication. They had a horrible drinks cabinet that took up an entire corner of the living room, full of half drank bottles of weird 70s booze that was still in there long after is had probably turned to literal poison. Plus of course the mandatory pineapple-shaped ice bucket.
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Apr 9, 2024 16:50
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Sweevo posted:
Your parents were swingers.
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Apr 9, 2024 16:53
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I have some china from my parents but I think my mom bought them because she liked the patterns on them. They sat in the china cabinet next to her Disney souvenirs. She used the tea cup to store the pinbacks.
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Apr 9, 2024 16:58
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My mom taught me to make gin and tonics for her. My parents were also coffee enthusiasts and when I was a little kid they bought a cast iron hand grinder and I had to grind the beans so I could get a pot going in their Mr. Coffee machine. They got a lot of labor out of me! It's also funny that I grew up to be someone who doesn't drink alcohol or coffee.
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Apr 9, 2024 17:30
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Haha man those older generations buying useless crap they don't need to fill up their houses. *opens closet, gets buried by thousands of dollars of plastic garbage bought off Wish at 2a.m.*
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Apr 9, 2024 20:31
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Only an idiot would spend good money on crap they never use. [hides Steam library]
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Apr 9, 2024 20:46
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I have a friend who has found a creative way to repurpose old China sets:
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Apr 9, 2024 20:55
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I'd buy a gravy boat candle
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Killingyouguy! posted:I'd buy a gravy boat candle Gravy-scented, right?
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Apr 9, 2024 21:02
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Yes of course
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Apr 9, 2024 21:09
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Just like my deodorant.
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Apr 9, 2024 21:10
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lobsterminator posted:Floppies will never be obsolete. floppy disk substrate filters out visible light but let infrared through unobstructed; that's why you're supposed to use a chunk of it to make an IR-only webcam for use with your LED head tracker setup. you'd literally be better off just staring at the sun with your naked eyes; at least then you pupils would constrict somewhat. bro has invented eyeball damage doubler glasses.
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Apr 9, 2024 21:20
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teen witch posted:Anyway this is where everyone prevents me from spending a $smokingischeaper amount on more filmpacks…  on a vintage medium format lens and the parts to fit it to an instax wide https://style.oversubstance.net/2020/05/fujifilm-instax-wide-300-to-mamiya-press-mount-mod/
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Sam Hall posted:floppy disk substrate filters out visible light but let infrared through unobstructed; that's why you're supposed to use a chunk of it to make an IR-only webcam for use with your LED head tracker setup. you'd literally be better off just staring at the sun with your naked eyes; at least then you pupils would constrict somewhat. bro has invented eyeball damage doubler glasses. Now I'm glad that kid who figured out you could see through the disk by looking at the sun through it never let me try because he was selfish.
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Apr 9, 2024 21:56
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an actual frog posted:Okay, but only if you convince me to not My friend, have you heard of the Lomograflok Instax wide on a 4x5 camera. You can even buy an old Graflex Speed Graphic with a coupled rangefinder and walk around like a 1920s press photographer taking instant photos of people
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an actual frog posted:Okay, but only if you convince me to not  Just spent 1000kr on cosmetics and I should get an extra pack of film just in case
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ishikabibble posted:My friend, have you heard of the Lomograflok At that point just buy all the fp100c I still have in my freezer and do it RIGHT on 4x5 please
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AFewBricksShy posted:A friend of mine used to go to thrift stores when she was just out of college and buy fine china sets and use them like regular plates, into the dishwasher and everything.
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All the Swedish thrift stores are full of stemmed shot glasses and sets of mocha coffee cups with saucers. No one wants to do shots of vodka with formal dinner and serve twelve guests small amounts of coffee anymore.
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axolotl farmer posted:No one wants to do shots of vodka with formal dinner You just haven't been invited.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:I have a friend who has found a creative way to repurpose old China sets: I think that is actually quite a neat repurposing!
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axolotl farmer posted:All the Swedish thrift stores are full of stemmed shot glasses and sets of mocha coffee cups with saucers. No one wants to do shots of vodka with formal dinner and serve twelve guests small amounts of coffee anymore. Just go back to school, university students are still doing the whole thing with snapps/punschvisor and all.
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Apr 10, 2024 10:26
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Realizing now that God is dead and I can have shots with dinner. I can just make up etiquette rules. Ain’t no law says I can’t down cheap Polish vodka in a “Life’s a Beach” shot glass with my salmon en croûte. E: “Honey, we have guests over, can you bring out the good glasses?” 
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There have got to be more offensive shotglasses out there, this isn't even worth the Malort!
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By popular demand posted:There have got to be more offensive shotglasses out there, this isn't even worth the Malort! If you're breaking out the Malort, I think you need apologetic shotglasses.
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This moth area you're speaking of must be a very small area, to fit in a glass. But most moths are small so 
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