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Omfg we had the same chairs with it too? What is life
Hoopback Windsor chairs are an entire style, not a specific design made by one manufacturer.
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
Uncomfortable? You’re supposed to put cushions on those chairs, you silly person. :P
Not even close to most uncomfortable.
In India, we ate on the bed.
absolutely nobody 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 grew up with these chairs:
https://www.stolab.se/p/lilla-aland-stol-bjork-naturell-olja
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
Midwest United States, my family absolutely had this table when I was a kid.
East coast…had this table
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
West Coast had this table. On both sides of the family…
Nobody absolutely nobody that one kitchen table everyone had growing up
I have this table now.
I have those chairs now, table is different.
Those chairs are very comfortable.
The “absolutely nobody” theme 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 has a use which is engagement baiting people into commenting about exactly this, or posting a “fixed” edit.
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.
laughs in Dr. Glob by Philippe Starck chair
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.
We have a bigger version of this downstairs right now
Humm, I grew up with chairs like these:
https://www.stolab.se/p/lilla-aland-stol-bjork-naturell-olja
They’re called “hoopback Windsor chairs” and they’ve been a traditional style for hundreds of years.
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.
