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Keynes on the influence of furniture on love
- obiefernandez 2y ago[flagged]
- aliasxneo 2y agoOK, I'll bite, what is this in reference to?
- asciii 2y ago> The false rumor began after an X user made up that Vance's 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, included a passage about having sex with an "inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions." NPR: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/31/nx-s1-5055854/vance-harris-social-media-rumors-jokes https://www.npr.org/2024/07/31/nx-s1-5055854/vance-harris-so...
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]
- dang 2y agoPlease don't do this here.
- kylehotchkiss 2y agoI once met somebody on the train who lives in the Bay Area and told me that her dating experiences in the area with tech guys included more than one "guy who just has a mattress on the floor". If there's any takeaway from the 15 seconds you spent looking at this article and the comments, you should buy a bed frame. Any bedframe. Just take the mattress off the floor. If you're on this site, you can afford one. Extra credit: the bottom of your mattress won't be all gross.
- swatcoder 2y agoI wouldn't suggest people "hack" self-care/hygeine habits like nesting to avoid turning off some prospective date or hookup. The lady on the train isn't literally getting turned off by the mattress resting on the floor. They're getting turned off because the image they see represents someone deeply alienated from the instinctive desire to attend to one's space (nest). The one neat trick of putting a mattress on the frame doesn't change that. It just leaves the visitor more lacking for words to describe what's unsettling them. If you're just a 22 year old tech bro all in on your career and are proud of your aescetism, live as sparsely as you want. At some point, though, you may find that taking an interest in your surroundings makes you feel better and gives you more resiliency, and that people respond positively to what that represents. But don't bother cheating your way there. It will must confuse you when somebody shows up and doesn't fall for the hack.
- dkga 2y agoExcellent point. And it doesn’t need to be much. If a person is really minimalistic, even a single piece of good-taste furniture would suffice.
- kylehotchkiss 2y agoTired: mattress on floor Wired: Eames chair next to mattress on floor. Thank you both for the Wednesday laughs.
- pjc50 2y agoTired: mattress on floor Wired: futon on tatami, single ukiyo-e print on wall, otherwise clean white room. You need a pitch about the zen of space and the calming influence of Japanese design, but at least now you give off the impression of "weeb" rather than "homeless person in temporary accomodation".
- beAbU 2y agoSteve Jobs famously started out like that, a mattress and a MASSIVE stereo. Maybe they try to emulate their hero?
- engineer_22 2y ago[flagged]
- ImJamal 2y agoHe probably wasn't. He had sex with a 16 year old who was past the age of consent.
- DoreenMichele 2y agoSometimes furniture speaks far more volumes than anyone would like. Mae West was once profiled by some show that went and showed the interiors of homes of celebrities. There was a large mirror or mirrored ceiling or something in her bedroom and the interviewer asked about it, why it was there. And she said "So I can see how I'm doing." The episode never aired. That was very TMI for the era.
- pjc50 2y agoEveryone talking about the bed frame, not enough people talking about the Bloomsbury "obscene mural".