Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

> The false rumor began after an X user made up that Vance's 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, included a passage about having sex with an "inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions."

NPR: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/31/nx-s1-5055854/vance-harris-so...

Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by aaron695 » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 8:05 PM UTC

asciii wrote: post #4

aliasxneo wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK, I'll bite, what is this in reference to?

> The false rumor began after an X user made up that Vance's 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, included a passage about having sex with an "inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions." NPR: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/31/nx-s1-5055854/vance-harris-so...

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Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by dang » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 8:53 PM UTC

obiefernandez wrote: post #2

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Please don't do this here.

Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by kylehotchkiss » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 9:14 PM UTC

I once met somebody on the train who lives in the Bay Area and told me that her dating experiences in the area with tech guys included more than one "guy who just has a mattress on the floor". If there's any takeaway from the 15 seconds you spent looking at this article and the comments, you should buy a bed frame. Any bedframe. Just take the mattress off the floor.

If you're on this site, you can afford one. Extra credit: the bottom of your mattress won't be all gross.

Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by swatcoder » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 9:47 PM UTC

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #7

I once met somebody on the train who lives in the Bay Area and told me that her dating experiences in the area with tech guys included more than one "guy who just has a mattress on the floor". If there's any takeaway from the 15 seconds you spent looking at this article and the comments, you should buy a bed frame. Any bedframe. Just take the mattress off the floor. If you're on this site, you can afford one. Extra c…

I wouldn't suggest people "hack" self-care/hygeine habits like nesting to avoid turning off some prospective date or hookup.

The lady on the train isn't literally getting turned off by the mattress resting on the floor. They're getting turned off because the image they see represents someone deeply alienated from the instinctive desire to attend to one's space (nest).

The one neat trick of putting a mattress on the frame doesn't change that. It just leaves the visitor more lacking for words to describe what's unsettling them.

If you're just a 22 year old tech bro all in on your career and are proud of your aescetism, live as sparsely as you want.

At some point, though, you may find that taking an interest in your surroundings makes you feel better and gives you more resiliency, and that people respond positively to what that represents.

But don't bother cheating your way there. It will must confuse you when somebody shows up and doesn't fall for the hack.

Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by beAbU » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 9:50 PM UTC

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #7

I once met somebody on the train who lives in the Bay Area and told me that her dating experiences in the area with tech guys included more than one "guy who just has a mattress on the floor". If there's any takeaway from the 15 seconds you spent looking at this article and the comments, you should buy a bed frame. Any bedframe. Just take the mattress off the floor. If you're on this site, you can afford one. Extra c…

Steve Jobs famously started out like that, a mattress and a MASSIVE stereo.

Maybe they try to emulate their hero?

Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by lm28469 » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 9:55 PM UTC

beAbU wrote: post #9

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #7

I once met somebody on the train who lives in the Bay Area and told me that her dating experiences in the area with tech guys included more than one "guy who just has a mattress on the floor". If there's any takeaway from the 15 seconds you spent looking at this article and the comments, you should buy a bed frame. Any bedframe. Just take the mattress off the floor. If you're on this site, you can afford one. Extra c…

Steve Jobs famously started out like that, a mattress and a MASSIVE stereo. Maybe they try to emulate their hero?

It's like only wearing grey t-shirts thinking it'll make you the next Zuckerberg...