Go get the leaf, grandma and your uncles are coming.
My family had this exact set, but I do remember the seats having fabric cushions you tied to the back so you weren't sitting directly on wood.
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I present you the German equivalent, the coffee table named Fliesentisch
not cool until you sit at this table eating your cornflakes with added nicotine.
the chairs were really comfy, but held onto any grease from the kitchen.
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.
It always makes me think of black folks telling funny stories, like:
"Everybody was minding their business, ain't nobody said shit. This fool walks in with a whole ass baked potato in his mouth like it's normal..."
So I enjoy the memes from that angle, even if they're not coming from the original intent.
That said, even that angle doesn't make this one work.
It's completely useless AND nonsensical. If nobody said nothing, then everybody said something.
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.
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.
You guys didn't have pillows on your chairs?
Nostalgia LOADED 100%
absolutely nobody had this table?
Edit: ITT: reading comprehension
Midwest United States, my family absolutely had this table when I was a kid.
West Coast had this table. On both sides of the family...
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
East coast...had this table
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...
I had this table, my friend had this table, and my cousin had this table
must be hard having to grow up all under one roof like that
I grew up with these chairs:
https://www.stolab.se/p/lilla-aland-stol-bjork-naturell-olja
i only ever saw the high-chair version of that one.
That exact table is in my dining room right now.
Omfg we had the same chairs with it too? What is life
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
I have this table now.
Still sitting in Dad's kitchen.
Not even close to most uncomfortable.
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
Swede here, dad built a custom table that was hinged and could be folded up against the wall for easier vacuuming snd sweaping.
dad built a custom table
Automatic DQ, your dad is too dad
Humm, I grew up with chairs like these:
https://www.stolab.se/p/lilla-aland-stol-bjork-naturell-olja
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.
Nobody absolutely nobody that one kitchen table everyone had growing up
In India, we ate on the bed.
Those chairs are very comfortable.
Uncomfortable? You're supposed to put cushions on those chairs, you silly person. :P
I have those chairs now, table is different.
laughs in Dr. Glob by Philippe Starck chair