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This is a telephone/gossip table/bench/chair. Like computer armoires of the 1990s and early 2000s and the typewriter desks/stands that preceeded them, they were a piece of furniture designed around an every-day technology that has now become obsolete, largely due to miniaturization.

They come in all sorts of styles and are cute af. Prices are also all over the place, but I've seen them reasonably priced, especially if they need reupholstery.

For a smaller footprint, there is also the telephone table, usually notable for a shelf that would hold phone books. These often get misidentified as schooldesks or lecterns. I have one similar to the last photo and used it in a bathroom for reading material + toiletries.

Fun stuff worth keeping an eye out for if you have a weird little niche that needs a chair and/or stand. A lot of antique specialty furniture could use new homes!

so-i-did-this-thing

I also wanted to add - if you've ever seen a weird little alcove (especially around the entryway or kitchen) in an older house, odds are it is a telephone nook!

These are also stylistically all over the place - some even have a stool or desk built in. Another fun detail, and something that could get repurposed as a keys/wallet or charging station.

invisible-goats

i'd love a house with one of these to put a little godzilla figure in like a household god

#my grandmother had a full phone desk built into her kitchen #and I loved it so much it had this lovely desk with big kitchen cabinets on either side #and above was shelving for her cook books #on the desk she had her phone and in the little drawer underneath was her phone book notebooks and personal contact book #I loved it so much that when we replaced broken old kitchen cabinets I put a little desk in like my grandmother’s #I use it for cookbooks and notes and such #but future intended use is toddler’s future homework station

seat-safety-switch

Have any of your kids become machinists lately? The signs can be subtle, but they're there. Every day, thousands of children become obsessed with precisely fabricating intricate mechanical parts. Only some of them become productive members of society, like hot rod builders or railway clock engineers. Virtually all of them are lost to constructing scale-model steam engines. Concerned parents are watching for the following signs.

Police know that the first sign of affiliation into a new gang is a change in the subject's vocabulary. New words. Unfamiliar names. Did little Johnny never mention the words "locating datum" before he suddenly blurted it out by accident one night at dinner? It may be time to have a conversation with his teacher, to find out more about who he spends his time with at school. If you can get to it early enough, you can nip it in the bud.

In a similar vein, it's important to figure out where all their money is going. Kids who get hooked on the machinist lifestyle will often buy ridiculous things in order to "prove" their affiliation with the gang. One mother of two in Rhode Island came home to find a bunch of strange metallic cylinders on her doorstep, shipped overnight from FedEx to her youngest child. Round stock. She thought it was "just a phase." Her child is doing time in a federal penitentiary, after getting all fucked up on DYKEM markers and stabbing an engineer for submitting an insufficiently dimensioned drawing.

Last, an obsession with precision is often your last chance to have a talk with a wayward child. Are things in your house suddenly becoming rigidly aligned to an invisible grid system? Are you noticing things becoming burnished or otherwise polished, that weren't before? A trusted adult's timely intervention when your kid is micrometering a piece of sheet metal found in the alley may be all that is saving your kid from a lifetime of obsessing over thousandths.

With your vigilance and hard work, we can keep children from growing up to become machinists. Nobody's dream for their child should involve "estate sale full of hundreds of thousands of useless brackets."

horsefigureoftheday

Horse figure of the day: Playmobil 30 65 2062 Donkey Foal (2007)

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free-my-mindd

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eldritchqueerture

the existence of "maybe", "perhaps", "perchance", and "mayhaps" suggests there should also be "maychance" and "perbe"

eldritchqueerture

CAN WE MAYCHANCE NOT 😭

clottedcreamfudge

Perbe you should have thought about the consequences before posting a linguistic banger

crapbirdphotography

Not the crappiest photo ever but the framing made me laugh. He's leaving bye

writers-solace

I don't think Tolkien is a good fantasy writer because he scored the highest at some objective Best Fantasy Book Test that every fantasy writer has to take, I think he's a good fantasy writer because he created a world based on things that he was interested in. I feel like a lot of fantasy writers think that they need to create a whole language for their world because Tolkien did and obviously his books are the best so they have to emulate him, but Tolkien did that because he was a linguistics nerd. I think the lesson to be learned from him is not that you have to include elves and deep history and new languages, but that you have to write endlessly about the things you are a huge nerd about and use those things to create your fantasy world

ryan-sometimes

Working an office job will truly make you have the wildest enemies, bc why is my nemesis rn a woman I’ve never met and who exclusively haunts me by sending diabolical emails, and also a specific guy who left my company before I even worked here and made the system so fuckass that it ruined procedures for like a year

ryan-sometimes

Yesterday my nemesis (woman I’ve never met and whose face I’ve never seen) sent my office an email so rude, basically saying we had fucked up every project she ever ordered from us, one of the worst emails I’ve ever read in my life.

And it pissed me off so badly that I spent the ENTIRE WORK DAY today compiling evidence from every project my team has ever done for her, pulling past emails she’d sent us, putting together an entire case proving that she had been the problem all along. That she got projects mixed up, that she’d made requests that were nonsensical, literally everything you could possibly imagine. Screenshots of emails, reports we’d submitted, EVERYTHING.

This woman in particular has been terrorizing my team for years, her name is almost a slur in my office, I had simply had ENOUGH of her.

I put all of this evidence together and sent it to all of my bosses at 4:30pm. Then I took a long break to eat a sweet treat and drink some tea.

After my break, my bosses all called in an emergency meeting with me and they said they read my report and fucking loved it. And I sat on a teams call with my boss’ boss as she wrote my nemesis the scathing email I had always fantasized about sending, using the evidence I’d compiled, and hit send.

It was the most satisfying workday I’ve had since I got hired.

winnie-wine

leviathan-supersystem

some day “milf is a slur” discourse will break out and there will be no survivors

crtter

xekstrin

good news OP, quite a few people were upset that we called our yuri milf game a milf game, and were even further scandalized to learn it was for a “yuri” game jam because yuri is a bad word also now, too, for some reason

vanquishedvaliant

!!! @xekstrin you can’t just mention a yuri milf game and not gives us links to plug it!! I want to know!! I want to know about the yuri milfs!!!

xekstrin

It’s called Love On The Peacock Express you play as a cocky detective on a train full of milfs who have mysteries to solve

the-bright-path-deactivated2021

I didn’t know @tealesbian was a game developer

thecybersmith

I was onboard for that until I learned that the game was funding baby-murder :(

g0dtier

this post really has everything huh

mr-elementle

The notes on this post are like the elephants foot

crtter

anarchistmemedistro

sugar-petals

listening to CDs in the kitchen i always brace myself for the ad between songs but then it just keeps rolling. skipping around how i like without interruption feels heavenly. we're in such a commercial angst prison that books and CDs are luxury now 😭

protect, pass on, thrift, gift, and store physical media, it's worth it

penny-anna

get im

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tikkety-tok

This is what Rasputin would've wanted.

teaboot

I feel like I'm being seduced like one of those fancy rainforest birds

fruitpilled

is it working

teaboot

Yes

magnuspool

#always reblog #delightful #Rasputin

border-collie

i'll never be of the "we don't deserve dogs" opinion, it's like saying we don't deserve the egyptian pyramids or the great wall, or corn. our ancestors literally made dogs from scratch bit by bit, we deserve dogs just as much as we deserve apple trees

beardedmrbean

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

cookingwithroxy

I want you to understand this. I NEED you to understand this. My mother read me the hobbit as bedtime story, and I started pushing myself to read before pre-school so I could in fact read the hobbit for myself instead of having to wait for bedtime.

I didn't do so right away but jesus wept I PUSHED myself to learn to read SPECIFICALLY so I could read The Hobbit! It is, in fact, a children's story! And children only see page count as 'there is a lot of this fun story to read!'

aetherograph

I read the Hobbit and Narnia as an 8-9 year old. They are absolutely children's books.

We need to stop thinking "children's book" = "picture book". That's not true.

A Series of Unfortunate Events is a children's book series.

Narnia is a children's book series.

The Hobbit is a children's book.

Watership Down is a children's book.

The Jungle Book is a children's book.

A Secret Garden is a children's book.

A Little Princess is a children's book.

Animorphs is a children's book series.

Hatchet is a children's book.

Bud, Not Buddy is a children's book.

The Day No Pigs Would Die is a children's book.

Charlotte's Web is a children's book.

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 is a children's book.

Alice in Wonderland is a children's book.

Out Of The Dust is a children's book.

Many of these books have won children's book awards for being such good children's books. None of them are picture books though. I have read all of these as a child. And a lot of these books contain death, because that is not inappropriate for children, it's part of life and children need to learn about it. These books contain stuff like abuse, racism, hunting, battle, survival, suffering, and other things I've heard some people say children should not be "exposed to". Reading about them in these books did not do me harm, in fact it did a lot of good because it taught me about those things and that they can be survived and are extant and there are words for them. Which is part of what books are supposed to do!

Any book written for children, pictures or no, is a children's book. Large thin picture books that rhyme are not the only thing that counts as a children's book. Those are picture books. The ones specifically designed for reading practise are traditionally called readers. Cat in the Hat is a reader, a picture book, AND a children's book. The Talking Eggs is a picture book and a children's book. There used to be readers that did not have pictures!

You need to read stuff that has death and upsetting things in it in order to understand those things exist and how people might cope with them. You cannot just go around saying that children should only read Dick and Jane. Have you MET a child, do you REMEMBER being a child??? Being a kid is often horrifying.

We do not tell stories about monsters to tell kids there's monsters in the world--they know that, they experience that every day. We tell them stories about monsters to show them kids like them and unlike them experience the monsters and survive, sometimes even defeat them.

If you were taught three-cueing you do not know how to read. I am sorry your adults so PROFOUNDLY failed you but guessing is not literacy. This is a series that helped me a lot as a kid.

shayvaalski

The first book I remember reading by myself is Black Beauty. I would have been about seven.

therantingsocialscientist

My favourite book when I was four was Charlotte's Webb. My mum read it to me and I loved it so much I named one of our new pets Wilbur after it. Yes it contains death, death is a part of life and children encounter death too.

The Hobbit, the Narnia books, the Secret Garden and the Black Stallion books were all massive favourites of mine when I was in older elementary school (8-10 ish). I LOVED them, and still am very very fond of them.

Interestingly, another favourite from my childhood is The Velveteen Rabbit, which is absolutely a kid's book by any estimation, but it's no less profound than the others. I had a passage of it read at my wedding. Profound sentiments aren't limited to the realm of adulthood, actually. Children experience a complex world also.

#people are people and we feel people stuff