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LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

The key to eternal life and never dying is to stay in the living room. Don't leave the living room.

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The key to eternal life and never dying is to stay in the living room. Don't leave the living room.

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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  • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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    Fun fact! It used to be called the parlor and was basically only used for home funerals, so was casually called the death room. When the funeral industry became a thing, rebranding it as “the living room” was an effort by the Ladies Home Journal in 1910 to get rid of the creepy feeling most people associated with that room, to make it a nice place for families to hang out while still alive.

    https://armls.com/step-into-the-death-room

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      Our lore is weird

  • Drusas@kbin.social
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    Spending a lot of time sitting or otherwise not standing up/moving around increases the risk of death. I say from my couch.

    • DudeBoy@lemmy.world
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      Nobody said you couldn’t exercise in the living room.

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        A mini gym sounds like a good idea

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          But… that would make it a gym room

      • jaybone@lemmy.world
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        Who said you can’t die in the living room?

        • DudeBoy@lemmy.world
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          OP

  • Jay@lemmy.ca
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    One of the previous owners of my house died in the living room about 5 feet from where I’m sitting right now.

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      Doesn’t the smell bother you?

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        Only for the first few months.

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        Cashing their pension cheques makes up for it.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
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      Dang. But how is it possible to die in the room that’s designated for living? 🤔

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        Talent. And the heart attack probably helped a little.

      • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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        They were contrarians, I guess.

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        Maybe the trick is never entering the living room in the first place. What is dead may never die.

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          And with strange aeons even death may die.

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        Living room is by the front door so setting up the hospice bed in the large room with the easiest access to the exit makes sense.

        • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
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          Hospice? Exit door? Not necessary in the Eternal Life™️ schematic.

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    I don’t have a living room. Am I fucked?

    Or can I exist on a technicality that any room I live in, is a living room, and therefore if I never leave my bedroom or game hobby room, I’m good, right?

    … R-Right?

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      yeah, just eat healthy and exercise and drink plenty of water and you’ll be free to roam the earth.

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        The earth is my living room

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    I wonder what room in the house is most often died in (what’s the dying room?). Bedroom? Kitchen?

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      The masturbatorium.

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      Badroom, obviously!

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      Gonna guess bedroom, as we’re most vulnerable while sleeping, whether from external forces or internal.

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      Bathroom? Going out Elvis style

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    It is the room that lives, not its occupants.

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      Reminded me of SCP-002.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
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      😯

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    This is why they don’t have a living room in Clue

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      The living room is red herring.

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    deleted by creator

  • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
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    and take care of your liver.

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    The mathematician defines the entire R3 space as living room

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    “Living room” is just a name we came up with. Just rename everything else to “living ____”, such as “living car”, “living office”, or “living restaurant”.

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      I guess I’m going to die in my sleep then, because there’s no way I’m ever calling it my “living bed”.

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        Sad mimic noises

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        just don’t get into anything called a death bed no matter how much you have something you want to say.

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          Especially not one that eats

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    but the treats are generally stored elsewhere

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      You can eat treats or you can live long, you decide.

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        I wonder if there is a way to either store treats in the living room or if someone could be persuaded to bring treats in when desired?

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          I suppose there’s nothing stopping you picking up food orders from your living room window provided your hands don’t leave the confines of the room.

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        it’s a pickle

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    but I need to take a crap!

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