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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 52 minutes ago

not cool until you sit at this table eating your cornflakes with added nicotine.

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the chairs were really comfy, but held onto any grease from the kitchen.

[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Still sitting in Dad's kitchen.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 5 points 3 hours ago

Not only did we have this table, my parents donated it to our first college apartment, and then I dragged that stupid thing around for ten years until my father was like "oh you still have this thing."

Yeah I thought it was like some heirloom, but apparently it was actually something they bought from a yard sale when they first got married and kind of hated for 18 years.

[–] undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You guys didn't have pillows on your chairs?

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Nostalgia LOADED 100%

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 15 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

The "absolutely nobody" meme was originally supposed to highlight somebody making an argument for something that obviously nobody had ever felt the need to argue against.

It was usually a very obscure argument about something that nobody else had ever thought about, or the visual version where someone created something that didn't need to be created, or it could be an argument about something that is so obviously true that it is obvious that nobody would ever try arguing against it... And that's it. It doesn't really have any use outside of those two narrow areas.

It barely made sense as a meme in the first place and of course, it was immediately misused by the vast majority of people who used it and just mindlessly tacked it onto anything because it was the popular meme at the time. I was so happy when people stopped using it.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's completely useless AND nonsensical. If nobody said nothing, then everybody said something.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago

You're technically right, which as we all know, is the best kind of right.

I do think that most people's brains gloss right over the logical contradiction and act as if it said that nobody said "anything" rather than "nothing."

But that is not what the meme actually says. Now that you've pointed it out, it's obviously wrong.

[–] Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Omfg we had the same chairs with it too? What is life

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Hoopback Windsor chairs are an entire style, not a specific design made by one manufacturer.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 3 points 4 hours ago

They were sold as a set.

It was a relatively high quality and cost effective AND not terribly gaudy / ugly.

Theres a reason “ya basic kitchen table set” is everywhere

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

I have this table now.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

They're called "Windsor chairs" (with the "hoopback" variety in OP's picture and the "comb-back" variety in your link) and they've been a traditional style for hundreds of years.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (5 children)

absolutely nobody had this table?

Edit: ITT: reading comprehension

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Midwest United States, my family absolutely had this table when I was a kid.

[–] YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 8 points 6 hours ago

Midwest US here too and my family also had this table when I was a kid. This comment section feels like a bunch of midwesterners realizing the midwest US isn't the entire world lol

[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago

East coast...had this table

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 4 hours ago

i only ever saw the high-chair version of that one.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I can think of four separate friends in the US that had or have this table - I'd never realized it before this post but yeah super common. Maybe it's a regional thing? Though I saw it growing up in the mid-east too so IDK. Global furniture distribution: how does it work? Seriously, an industry I have no ideas about...

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I had this table, my friend had this table, and my cousin had this table

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 5 hours ago

must be hard having to grow up all under one roof like that

[–] tburkhol@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 hours ago

That exact table is in my dining room right now.

[–] sidebro@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't this incorrect use of the "nobody-meme"? Also can't remember seeing any such table in any home during my childhood and I'm a 90's kid

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Swede here, dad built a custom table that was hinged and could be folded up against the wall for easier vacuuming snd sweaping.

[–] sidebro@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

dad built a custom table

Automatic DQ, your dad is too dad

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 7 hours ago

Not even close to most uncomfortable.

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 6 points 6 hours ago

Nobody absolutely nobody that one kitchen table everyone had growing up

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Those chairs are very comfortable.

[–] CptHacke@piefed.social 4 points 7 hours ago

Uncomfortable? You're supposed to put cushions on those chairs, you silly person. :P

[–] wizzkidd@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

In India, we ate on the bed.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

I have those chairs now, table is different.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

laughs in Dr. Glob by Philippe Starck chair