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[–] [email protected] 116 points 2 months ago (7 children)

What makes them think they're American? I don't see any guns or medical bills piled up?

[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The framed picture of a fan.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] LolaCat 130 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why would you have a framed picture of a mirror, that'd just be weird.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Americans are weird

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Why is the mirror non-reflective and shaped like a fan? Seems like an odd design choice.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

No, it's a framed picture of a fan

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Somehow I can tell it it's a room in a USian or canadian house, not sure why exactly though. Maybe it's the closets, door styles, the carpet, or how they paint their walls. Windows, outlets and door knobs are a dead giveaway.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's the unpainted walls because why bother if you can't afford it and your landlord will soft-evict you by doubling rent in a year?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's definitely painted, otherwise you'd see the ~~cardboard~~ drywall, maybe it's the choice of colour.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

US: pastel colours, gaudy ceiling furniture, furniture the colour of the walls, tacky metal frames sprayed with gold, needless 6-panelled doors, walk-in closet.

If this was UK: white walls + cheap spotlights that point nowhere, wood-coloured furniture, tacky metal frames but thinner and black, smaller doors with stupid handles, no closet.

If this was Germany: white walls + no ceiling fixtures, cheap but wooden furniture, tacky metal frames but strong for some reason, clearly framed doors, wide light switches for household pets, no closet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (7 children)

UK here. We use magnolia for every wall, thank you very much

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I don't think there are other countries with ceiling fans?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I saw one in Liechtenstein.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fair, so either US or Liechtenstein. 😄

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had one in my first apartment, in Sweden, but I had one of those really high beds you can keep a desk under, so I had to watch my head when climbing down.

And also watch my head when standing up from the desk. But hey, I had both a desk, an armchair and a bed!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm in Aus and we have ceiling fans

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

No you fuckin don't mate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Get a load of this guy pretending Australia is real

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I don't know why i remembered i had this somewhere in my dusty folder full of thousands of old memes, but:

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Why do Americans do weird shit like this?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

i have this exact picture in the bottom of my old reddit drawer, thats been expanding for 2 years and now merging with my Lemmy drawers....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Then the question becomes, "Why do you have a mirror hanging over your fireplace?" It's too high for practical use.

[–] oxideseven 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mirrors can make rooms feel bigger, even if you can't see yourself in it

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Could just be tall. As a 6'5'' guy this mirror would be perfect for me.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A portal to an alternate dimension where I am ugly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Funniest thing I’ve read in a long time

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Oh my god this is the best "straight line" type of joke I've heard in a long time. I just told my six year old they loved it

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Are we censoring Pepe now?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

That is the pepe.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a rare abstract Pepe.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Minimalist Pepe

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Erm, that looks like a mirror reflecting the ceiling fan, not a framed picture of a ceiling fan.

[–] [email protected] 131 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Somebody get this guy the Detective of the Year award

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago

Perhaps it's reflecting a picture of a ceiling fan.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Thats what I thought too at first, but notice the soft pastel colours separated by the diagonal, as if in a fragrant meadow of flowers, bisected by the hard steel blades of the fan, the artist showing the juxtaposition between country and city life, whilst the fan itself is depicted at an elusive angle, like an anxious child shying away from their duties.

No this is clearly the work of a Master.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

I hope that's bait because he fuckin gottem

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Is it not a mirror?

Granted it would be strange to place a mirror so high

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No its framed picture of a celling fan.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Can confirm, am American and we're obligated to hang a picture of a ceiling fan. I don't make the rules.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Mirror is face-ish high, to look at your ugly mug.

I have my mirrors much lower so I can admire my better as(s)pects.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

That's a good cat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Lol, it's obviously not a picture of a fucking fan, those have dildo blades.

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