• Alien Nathan Edward
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    422 years ago

    Whats with the little gimp nook behind the fridge? The spiders in there are probably so big they have names.

    • mihor
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      72 years ago

      Friend had cellar spiders in his bathtub in college. Of course they all had appropriate (i.e. stupid) names.

      • Alien Nathan Edward
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        172 years ago

        When I was a kid my parents had a shower in the basement. It’s normal for my area, a lot of outdoor manual laborers back in the day so having a shower in the basement meant you could come home after work and not drag the stink and filth of work into the house. I didn’t do outdoor manual labor but I worked in restaurants, which brings with it its own stink and filth, and I also often got home at like 3am, so I used the basement shower om an effort to keep the house clean and not wake everyone else up. This meant that I had to establish something I called the Basement Spider Detente. We had tons of spiders down there, and I try to be respectful of everyone’s right to be alive absent any unwarranted aggression. The deal we reached was as follows: the entire basement and garage belonged to the spiders. They were free to roam, hunt, and generally spide however they saw fit. The shower was off-limits, though, and the penalty for coming within jumping distance of my naked bits was summary execution. I like to think that somewhere near Pittsburgh is a genetic line of cellar spiders that differ from the rest of their species in being extremely hydrophobic. I hope their line succeeds and confounds biologists in the centuries after I go to wherever it is we all must one day go.

      • Flying Squid
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        42 years ago

        Wait… does that mean your friend never bathed so the spiders would live?

      • @Urbanfox@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        My last house was infested with them, and not through lack of trying to get rid.

        It was an old stone house and cold damp corners were everywhere.

        I woke up with one of the leggy fuckers carrying an egg sac on my face and decided to move out there and then.

        • mihor
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          12 years ago

          They bring luck, the spiders. I like them.

    • @Blaubarschmann@feddit.de
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      142 years ago

      Yeah those pillars are horrible. It generally feels very claustrophobic in there, super low ceiling, I wouldn’t feel comfortable there at all

      • Jim
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        92 years ago

        There’s a pillar directly in front of the oven too. I guess the tenant can just forget about cooking anything bigger than a pizza bagel.

        • alaphic
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          102 years ago

          As luck would have it, though, when pizza is on a bagel, you can have pizza anytime. So, ya know, at least they won’t starve… They’ll just be incredibly malnourished as a result of their structurally imposed dietary restrictions.

          • Thassodar
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            32 years ago

            I’m glad I’m not the only person who remembers this jingle.

        • AFK BRB Chocolate
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          42 years ago

          I think that’s just the perspective and cropping of the picture. It looks like the nearest pillar is in the same row of tile as the further pillar, so there are three rows of tiles between the oven and the pillar.

        • @Delphia@lemmy.world
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          22 years ago

          Nah those look like 30cm tiles given that fridges and ovens have pretty standard widths and assuming the 2 poles are in line you would have about 75cm or 2 and a half feet from the front of the oven.

          I mean its cramped but its usable.

  • rem26_art
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    222 years ago

    This feels like 3D objects that loaded inside of another object in a video game or something

  • @Lag@lemmy.world
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    172 years ago

    As a kitchen designer I can’t look away. I know it’s still there if I don’t look.

  • AlexisFR
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    142 years ago

    How does this happen? Why would anyone build this kitchen this way?

    • Auk
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      You start with a house old enough to have the kitchen designed around a wood stove (which goes in that alcove). Someone eventually rips it out and tries to modernise the kitchen, leaving a weird space and a kitchen layout which is a bit off. The original walls and room layout are often messed with as well, which doesn’t help.

  • @Satiric_Weasel@beehaw.org
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    112 years ago

    It’s for the wall-goblin. The goblin that lives in the walls.

    The goblin’s going to eat something. It’s in everyone’s best interest that something be bread.