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Ringo

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We have lots of photos of us together, in various different places. On holiday. A birthday party. Hugging, smiling. Memories, y'know?
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Snap.

A tiny slither of soap that's too small to use so you have a freshly opened bar next to the slither.

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Thorn Davis

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quote:
Originally posted by Kanye West:
do most people put up photos of other people? Is this a common thing to do?

So you've never gone out and seen, like, a photo frame on sale in a shop, with a generic picture of people at a party in it? Never seen a camera advertised with a picture of a family smiling on a beach or anything like that? Never seen a film or a TV show where a character gazes meaningfully at a picture frame of a relative or loved one?

What exactly is this "wow is that what 'people' do in their 'homes'?" routine supposed to prove?

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Tilde
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quote:
Originally posted by Kanye West:
a pair of trainers?

snap.

*a box containing computer power leads, ethernet cables, usb cables, extension leads which may or may not have blown fuses, some audio/video leads that you don't know where they came from and some random power adaptors you're too frightened to throw away even though you haven't used any of them for a number of years.

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Thorn Davis

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I don't know if I should snap that. I do have such a box, but I dip into it quite often.
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Kanye West
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quote:
Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
quote:
Originally posted by Kanye West:
do most people put up photos of other people? Is this a common thing to do?

So you've never gone out and seen, like, a photo frame on sale in a shop, with a generic picture of people at a party in it? Never seen a camera advertised with a picture of a family smiling on a beach or anything like that? Never seen a film or a TV show where a character gazes meaningfully at a picture frame of a relative or loved one?

What exactly is this "wow is that what 'people' do in their 'homes'?" routine supposed to prove?

I just wondered if it's like a standard thing that people do - like everybody does it - if putting pictures up of yourself is common, family etc, if most people put up pictures of other people. Especially now we see other people all the fucking time on things like facebook. We're constantly being invaded by photos of people we know, and this didn't used to be the case. I've seen photos used in tv shows and films, but this has always struck me as a device rather than a reflection of reality. Have you ever carefully ripped a photo of you and an ex in half after a relationship ended? What about gently placed a photo frame on its face before you have an affair? Set fire to a photo and put it in a metal bin? No? Ok. I own photos of people and I don't gaze meaningfully at them. I tend to spend ten minutes looking at them when I find them as move house, because I think I stopped taking actual photos about ten years ago.

I'm aware that people do sometimes put pictures of other people up, but i wondered if like, everybody tends to do it. it's interesting, is all. is it like you think 'I'd like to put a picture of my family up' and then you look at it and think about your family, or is it just instinctive, like you don't even think about it, it's a habit. Like, I've seen the pictures of families on beaches, but I presumed it's just like a standard thing so you don't end up distracting from the frame. Is putting up a beach shot common? I don't know. I think it's interesting, how and why you choose to put photos up of people that you know.

I did go to somebody else's house in devon, and he has a line drawing of himself and his girlfriend up in the front room, and it seems to me a bit... why? Do you need to remind yourself that you are a couple? Or remind guests? Same when people put photos up. Does everybody do it? Why do they do it?

i hope that answers your question thorn, but I'm afraid it's not about proving anything.

[ 08.01.2010, 07:50: Message edited by: Kanye West ]

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Thorn Davis

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You know, in a way it does answer my question.
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Kanye West
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can we carry on with the game now, or is it over
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Waynster

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quote:
Originally posted by Tilde:
*a box containing computer power leads, ethernet cables, usb cables, extension leads which may or may not have blown fuses, some audio/video leads that you don't know where they came from and some random power adaptors you're too frightened to throw away even though you haven't used any of them for a number of years.

Snap, and more than one.

Musical instruments that you have dreamed of playing yet simply are ornamental due to your obvious lack of any musical talent?

[ 08.01.2010, 08:03: Message edited by: Waynster ]

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Kanye West
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a bag of crap by the front door that needs to be taken somewhere, but just now sits there, like furniture.

Paint samples painted onto wall and left.

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Ringo

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you're not meant to suggest one if you haven't snapped. ffs kanye!
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Kanye West
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oh fucking hell.
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Kanye West
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ignore mine then.
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Ringo

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quote:
Originally posted by Waynster:
Snap, and more than one.

Musical instruments that you have dreamed of playing yet simply are ornamental due to your obvious lack of any musical talent?

Probably snap, if I'm honest

A bag of Ikea keyholes you intended to put up but never got round to

[ 08.01.2010, 08:12: Message edited by: Ringo ]

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Abby
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ooh! I have a mirror with curvy edges! It is not only too narrow to be of much use, it is also stuck on the wall in a place which makes it awkward to stand in front of. I didn't put it there, it was the room's previous occupants.

I can say one now? Right? …a pot containing a withered stump of a herb that got eaten faster than it would grow.

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Kanye West
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you and me abby, so similar. We should hang out.
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Kanye West
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quote:
Originally posted by Ringo:

A bag of Ikea keyholes you intended to put up but never got round to

snap! And an ikea escalator that needs to be installed.

[ 08.01.2010, 08:19: Message edited by: Kanye West ]

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Tilde
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quote:
Originally posted by Abby:
I can say one now? Right? …a pot containing a withered stump of a herb that got eaten faster than it would grow.

My one is Fresh Basil, it still has a few leaves upon it, but I think it's never going to grow back to what it should after i had a mozzarella, olive oil, tomato and fresh basil obsession in the autumn.

*a light fitting that was bought and installed by a previous occupant of your house.

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Kanye West
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i bought some coriander and stuck it in a glass with water, no soil or anything, just roots in water, and left it for about 3 weeks and fuck me that thing went nasty. I think that some flies decided the mulching soup that quickly formed was good for laying eggs and i was looking at the thick green contents of glass one day, wondering what'll happen next, and i noticed that the whole thing was moving, sort of pulsing, because it was completely full of maggots. I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabbie "yo homes, smell ya later!" looked at my kingdom, i was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of bel air.

[ 08.01.2010, 08:26: Message edited by: Kanye West ]

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Tilde
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quote:
Originally posted by Kanye West:
quote:
Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
quote:
Originally posted by Kanye West:
do most people put up photos of other people? Is this a common thing to do?

So you've never gone out and seen, like, a photo frame on sale in a shop, with a generic picture of people at a party in it? Never seen a camera advertised with a picture of a family smiling on a beach or anything like that? Never seen a film or a TV show where a character gazes meaningfully at a picture frame of a relative or loved one?

What exactly is this "wow is that what 'people' do in their 'homes'?" routine supposed to prove?

I just wondered if it's like a standard thing that people do - like everybody does it - if putting pictures up of yourself is common, family etc, if most people put up pictures of other people. Especially now we see other people all the fucking time on things like facebook. We're constantly being invaded by photos of people we know, and this didn't used to be the case. I've seen photos used in tv shows and films, but this has always struck me as a device rather than a reflection of reality. Have you ever carefully ripped a photo of you and an ex in half after a relationship ended? What about gently placed a photo frame on its face before you have an affair? Set fire to a photo and put it in a metal bin? No? Ok. I own photos of people and I don't gaze meaningfully at them. I tend to spend ten minutes looking at them when I find them as move house, because I think I stopped taking actual photos about ten years ago.

I'm aware that people do sometimes put pictures of other people up, but i wondered if like, everybody tends to do it. it's interesting, is all. is it like you think 'I'd like to put a picture of my family up' and then you look at it and think about your family, or is it just instinctive, like you don't even think about it, it's a habit. Like, I've seen the pictures of families on beaches, but I presumed it's just like a standard thing so you don't end up distracting from the frame. Is putting up a beach shot common? I don't know. I think it's interesting, how and why you choose to put photos up of people that you know.

I did go to somebody else's house in devon, and he has a line drawing of himself and his girlfriend up in the front room, and it seems to me a bit... why? Do you need to remind yourself that you are a couple? Or remind guests? Same when people put photos up. Does everybody do it? Why do they do it?

i hope that answers your question thorn, but I'm afraid it's not about proving anything.

For me personally it was a combination of things that drove me to put up pictures on walls.

Firstly I saw a picture of a before and after hallway in a home magazine, the after picture had a group of pictures on the wall in a range of different sized Ikea frames which I thought looked nice, so I went and bought some and did a similar thing in my hallway.

Secondly I went round a friends house and he had a lot of pictures on the walls of people he knew and it was interesting for me to look at them. Also his house seems to qualify as feeling homely and inviting, something I aspired to with my own house at that point.

Thirdly I had some children and a digital camera and had accumulated several thousand pictures, a few of which I considered to be ok.

I do find it strange when people put up large photos or portraits of themselves that they have had commissioned. That always seems to me to be too narcissistic. Most of my own pictures are in the 6x4 to 10x8 range, and although I have some studio shots of the kids, I prefer natural, more snapshot style photos.

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Abby
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*a light fitting that was bought and installed by a previous occupant of your house.
What? Like a ceiling light fitting? This is cheating! Who replaces all the light fittings when they move in somewhere. That is like saying ‘a floor that was already there when you moved in’. Cuh!
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I think I meant to say "a light" rather than the light fitting itself. I don't mean the wire and the bulb. Sorry didn't make myself clear there.
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Cherry In Hove
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I have a floor that was already there when I moved in!
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Tilde
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I probably should have put - an example of a stranger/strangers taste in home furnishing and/or decorating ideas in your dwelling.
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Thorn Davis

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quote:
Originally posted by Kanye West:
a glass with water, no soil or anything, completely full of maggots.

Snap.

A black wooden sculpture of an animal given to you by a friend who went to Africa or somewhere like that.

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Thorn Davis

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To clarify places "like" Africa are India, South America, Brixton etc.
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Abby
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quote:
I probably should have put - an example of a stranger/strangers taste in home furnishing and/or decorating ideas in your dwelling.
That is more like it. In which case yes, my living room is BRIGHT ORANGE. It was challenging at first, but I have come to love it. It is like a warm comforting womb. If wombs were orange.
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They probably are if you're an Oompah Loompah

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mart
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I don't think Abby is an Oompah Loompah, Darryn.
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Ringo

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I think Darryn is implying that Abbey wears too much fake tan
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Kanye West
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that's interesting tilde, so it wasn't like an instant urge or instinct to surround yourself with these images, but more, a conscious effort to replicate the feeling of homeliness that you'd picked from other places / images.
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quote:
Originally posted by Ringo:
I think Darryn is implying that Abbey wears too much fake tan

in her womb?
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Kanye West
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abby is quite pale.
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Octavia
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quote:
Originally posted by Abby:
Who replaces all the light fittings when they move in somewhere?

*hand up*

Because I have nice light fittings, so they go with me when I move house.

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Abby
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I ...cant think of anything to say in reference to fake tan/wombs...so...lets just move on.

Fun weekend plans anyone? Tonight my maddest friend (in the certifiable way, not the zany socks way) is coming round to be mad at me because her boyfriend has done ‘something’, but I don’t know what as yet. The prospect exhausts me.

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