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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 22 hours ago

I'm glad I got a glass dinner table: otherwise I'd never know how much gunk my young child smears in the underside of the table

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I'm glad I got a glass dinner table: otherwise I'd never know how much gunk my young child smears in the underside of the table

PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 22 hours ago
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  • Akasazh@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I’m glad I don’t have a young child, for similar reasons

  • vacuumfountain@startrek.website
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    21 hours ago

    I both want a picture and REALLY don’t.

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caOP
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      18 hours ago

      I clean it every day, because I see how much there is, so it never gets that bad.

      But when I think about what’d be under there if I didn’t know it was happening for years, I shudder

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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        It’s also easier to clean glass without ruining it.

    • West_of_West@piefed.social
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      21 hours ago

      The duality of man

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    I always have the irrational or maybe rational fear of glass breaking. Any furniture I buy doesn’t have any glass elements.

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      It can definitely break when mishandled. With kids you probably don’t want glass furniture.

      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caOP
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        I believe our table (and most tables) are tempered glass, so if it breaks it shouldn’t be dangerous.

        We did get rid of a glass coffee table though, for that reason

  • ᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.social
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    Placing anything metal or ceramic on glass makes the most awful noises though, how do you cope with how loud it is?

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      Placemats.

      • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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        My aunt and uncle have a big wooden dining table, and like 50 different kinds of placemats

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      Not OP but: Placemats.

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    My aunt did not like eating peas. And she hid them behind the refrigerator for more than a year.

    Moral of the story: be glad it’s the underside of the table and not behind the refrigerator.

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