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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

The framed picture of a fan.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Americans are weird

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Ashiette 15 points 1 month ago

No, it's a framed picture of a fan

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago (7 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

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

I saw one in Liechtenstein.

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

Fair, so either US or Liechtenstein. 😄

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

I'm in Aus and we have ceiling fans

[–] sploosh 6 points 1 month ago

No you fuckin don't mate.

[–] Thatuserguy 5 points 1 month ago

Get a load of this guy pretending Australia is real

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[–] thawed_caveman 108 points 1 month 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:

[–] slaacaa 23 points 1 month ago

Why do Americans do weird shit like this?

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

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

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

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

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[–] MeaanBeaan 5 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A portal to an alternate dimension where I am ugly.

[–] lucidinferno 11 points 1 month ago

Funniest thing I’ve read in a long time

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 7 points 1 month 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

[–] superduperpirate 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] papalonian 131 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Somebody get this guy the Detective of the Year award

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are we censoring Pepe now?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

That is the pepe.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a rare abstract Pepe.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Minimalist Pepe

[–] DogWater 27 points 1 month ago

I hope that's bait because he fuckin gottem

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Is it not a mirror?

Granted it would be strange to place a mirror so high

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

No its framed picture of a celling fan.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

That's a good cat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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

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