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Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by nick3443 »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #19
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…

> Extra credit: the bottom of your mattress won't be all gross. That's the one big reason to me actually. I lived for years with a mattress on the floor. It was cool: really was. It wasn't about money: it was just a way to explain that I just didn't give a fuck about the way things were supposed to be. My cheap, used and beaten up Porsche 911 Carrera (another way to say fuck you) in the driveway and a mattress on the…

There isn't any way to upgrade from a beater rwd sports car, imo.

Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by 4gotunameagain »

wegfawefgawefg wrote: post #25
393744748 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Re-read this post and seriously evaluate what's actually being described. Dodged a bullet from what? A low quality gold digger? Normal well adjusted people have standards and unless you're going to make some absent minded appeal to norms in other cultures one of those standards is an actual bed complete with a frame. It's a low bar to reach for.

It is simply a matter of utility. Bed frames do not provide much utility, and cost money, which seperates me from my early retirement. Tech bros are probably making this utilitarian decision more consciously than the woman was considering her own mate evaluation feature detectors. A more intelligent, less shallow woman would have connected the dots. Had the male been percieved as sufficiently physically attractive sh…

I honestly cannot tell whether this is an intentional troll meme attempt. This is just too good to be true.

A more intelligent, less shallow woman [would've seen past the lack of a bed frame]

[bed frames] separate me from my early retirement.

ahahahh so you will retire 15 minutes earlier after a lifetime of sleeping on the floor, what an intelligent trade-off

Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by DoreenMichele »

Sometimes furniture speaks far more volumes than anyone would like.

Mae West was once profiled by some show that went and showed the interiors of homes of celebrities. There was a large mirror or mirrored ceiling or something in her bedroom and the interviewer asked about it, why it was there. And she said "So I can see how I'm doing."

The episode never aired. That was very TMI for the era.

Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by ARandomerDude »

01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #22
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…

By bizarre coincidence, I actually lost a sexual partner right when I bought my current bed frame.

> sexual partner

This is painful to read. I hope my sons know the joy of having wives, and my daughters know the joy of having husbands.

Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by aaron695 »

4gotunameagain wrote: post #32
wegfawefgawefg wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is simply a matter of utility. Bed frames do not provide much utility, and cost money, which seperates me from my early retirement. Tech bros are probably making this utilitarian decision more consciously than the woman was considering her own mate evaluation feature detectors. A more intelligent, less shallow woman would have connected the dots. Had the male been percieved as sufficiently physically attractive sh…

I honestly cannot tell whether this is an intentional troll meme attempt. This is just too good to be true. A more intelligent, less shallow woman [would've seen past the lack of a bed frame] [bed frames] separate me from my early retirement. ahahahh so you will retire 15 minutes earlier after a lifetime of sleeping on the floor, what an intelligent trade-off

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Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by keiferski »

nox101 wrote: post #21
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…

If you live in Japan or Korea it's normal to sleep on the floor. In Japan you have a room covered in tatami mats. At night you pull out the futon from the closet and sleep on it. You then put it back in the closet in the morning. https://www.google.com/search?q=%E5%B8%83%E5%9B%A3&udm=2 Often you pull out a small table (kotatsu) and put it in the center of the room in the day. https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%81%93…

There’s a pretty fundamental difference between a Japanese / Korean style tatami bedroom and a Western style bed mattress without a bed frame.

Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by tsimionescu »

ARandomerDude wrote: post #34
01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By bizarre coincidence, I actually lost a sexual partner right when I bought my current bed frame.

> sexual partner This is painful to read. I hope my sons know the joy of having wives, and my daughters know the joy of having husbands.

And I hope they do so after having had many sexual partners before, so they have some experience before choosing a wife/husband.

Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by gexla »

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 can do better, sometimes I sleep on a bamboo mat. When I have a migraine, I can only sleep on a hard surface. I suppose I could put the mat on a frame. ;)

Also, why bring a date to your house when you only have a floor mattress?

Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by [deleted] »

nick3443 wrote: post #31
TacticalCoder wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Extra credit: the bottom of your mattress won't be all gross. That's the one big reason to me actually. I lived for years with a mattress on the floor. It was cool: really was. It wasn't about money: it was just a way to explain that I just didn't give a fuck about the way things were supposed to be. My cheap, used and beaten up Porsche 911 Carrera (another way to say fuck you) in the driveway and a mattress on the…

There isn't any way to upgrade from a beater rwd sports car, imo.

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Re: Keynes on the influence of furniture on love

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Post by philwelch »

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…

The first several bedframes I owned were shoddy enough that my first couple girlfriends and I managed to break them and I had to end up putting my mattress on the floor. I ended up in a long term relationship with the one who ended up becoming my wife before getting a working bedframe.
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