Go get the leaf, grandma and your uncles are coming.

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    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.

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    The “absolutely nobody” meme 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.

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        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.

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      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

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      They’re called “Windsor chairs” (with the “hoopback” variety in OP’s picture and the “comb-back” variety in your link) and they’ve been a traditional style for hundreds of years.

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    absolutely nobody had this table?

    Edit: ITT: reading comprehension

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    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

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      Swede here, dad built a custom table that was hinged and could be folded up against the wall for easier vacuuming snd sweaping.