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A forum for discussing and organizing recreational softball and baseball games and leagues in the greater Halifax area.
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If you had a matter synthesizer, that could make realistic rocks of any possible description and you wanted to prank a geologist into silence what would you ask it to print? -
Few things are more confusing and potentially off-putting than something that's aspirational (class based) in a section of culture or society that you don't have much contact with at all or don't understand.@futurebird similarly: the practice of faux-painting was to paint architectural features made of cheap materials to look like more expensive ones, like mahogany or marble. But at a certain point, the original materials became cheaper, so the practice became more exaggerated and obvious, to show the extra money spent on an artisan to do the painting
It’s the same thing with designer fashion and expensive wine: you don’t pay for the product, you pay for the price tag
It’s all flexes. Always has been
Faux-painting and the Columns of Arlington House (U.S. National Park Service)
The columns on the front of Arlington House, painted to look like natural stone, are a large example of a bygone decorative technique called faux-painting.
(www.nps.gov)
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It's middle school in the 90s or 80s and it's PIZZA DAY.@futurebird best day of the week
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My nephew is studying constitutional law and I feel just a little sorry for all of the people he will encounter in a court room some day.@futurebird my lawyer neighbor whose favorite class was conlaw is now like “whee nothing matters anymore”
