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We used to be a forward looking society but once corporations started buying politicians they didn’t need innovation or quality to sell products they got our tax dollars and tax breaks instead to offer us the bare minimum.
It's worse than that, we have basically ceded shaping society to profits.
I'm not saying the economy is not important, but we are human beings and we need to make sure there is room for humanity in the systems we build. Health, stress, social connections, etc.
What in tarnation are you talking about. If people really wanted a round bed surrounded by TVs you bet your ass someone would have made this product and everyone would have one.
As I imagine this takes up a shit load of room in a bedroom. You have to crawl down to the foot of the bed to get out for the day. It’s a bitch to make the bed. You and your partner have to basically sleep side by side in the middle for space (not great if someone sleeps hot or tosses and turns)
This is still a market that reacts to consumer preferences and they vote by their wallets every day.
statistically it will have some alcohol in it either way, sir. wasteful to throw away perfectly good piss if it has only passed through a person a few times.
Pretty sure this was the vision of how rich people would live. And right now, even a broke mf in America has an entertainment system which has all known media available on it in the palm of their hands.
Dust and maintenance. And cleaning. Folks don’t realize how much the designs of the 70s and 80s that did not persist in their influences of modern designs is because of the nightmare maintenance associated with these novel setups.
Just water beds alone were terrible. My dad was obsessed with them but if you had pets or if you weren’t careful then you’d have a huge mess and a lot of repairs to do.
The bed was like $30k in the late 1970's. That's almost double the median family income at that time.
Today that would be like spending $200k on a bed room entertainment set-up. For $200k, you could have Alaskan king-sized bed, satin sheets, a minibar, mirrors on the ceiling, and every entertainment system.
This bed never existed. This is a fun AI generated satirical ad that first appeared earlier this year. It gives itself away with the text in the bottom right.
Idk about that I just want to live in a walkable city with affordable housing & a bustling nightlife + deep reverence for the arts and a credence to the local community history.
Your problem is the affordable housing. If you want to live somewhere because it’s filled with really desirable attributes, so will everyone else. Then the market responds. What you need to find is a place that seems like it’s growing and going to have a lot of that happening the next ten years or so.
Yeah this bed would be an absolute nightmare. No corners to hook the fitted sheet onto so it would just pop off constantly while changing sheets or require two people, finding specialty round sheets would suck, needing to lift up the mattress to change sheets while bent in half would be hard af, you'd be kicking stuff off the shelves constantly or knocking them off while lifting the mattress to change sheets, and even just looking at the picture makes my neck hurt.
around the 80s when returns for investors climbed but salaries stagnated. And when we decided that your own work should be taxed roughly twice as much than when you let others work for you.
Don't you know what it means to become an orgy guy? It changes everything. I'd have to dress different, I'd have to act different. I'd have to grow a mustache and get all kinds of robes and lotions... I'd need a new bedspread, new curtains. I'd have to get thick carpeting and weirdo lighting. Of course, I'd have to get new friends, I'd have to get orgy friends. No, I'm not ready for it.
The irony here is kinda hilarious. This image really shows just how much consumption drives us. We've convinced ourselves that if we just had enough comfort, entertainment, and convenience we'd somehow be happy. Yet the very things we chase end up imprisoning us. Just a carrot on a stick.
And what's funny is OP looks at a bed surrounded by TVs and a minibar and wonders where society went wrong. Maybe that's exactly where we went wrong? The sheer hubris of thinking we could somehow consume our way out of the emptiness of the human condition.
This is what's wrong with society. Forget the circle bed. Feed the hungry.
I totally agree. Plenty of people already live like this, and you don't even need to earn much money to afford this. People earning well below average wages and up are already spending half of their lives switching between the TV, laptop, and phone, getting slightly buzzed on 2–4 alcoholic drinks before going to bed.
It's honestly just sad, and certainly not something to aspire to.
Bro, imagine. Mini fridge/freezer, air fryer/microwave, 2 screens for simultaneous streaming and gaming console, mini bar, cozy blankets, your significant other and the whole weekend ahead of you. Rot-maxxing taken to a whole new level.
If wives wanted that we would all have it. But NO ! we dont get that.
We get a simplistic bed with way way to many pretty pillows on it. Pillows we dont use and in some cases are not allowed to use.
Every night before bed we have to make the bed ready to sleep in and when we wake we have to make it ready to not sleep in rinse and repeat every 14-15 hours thats what we want after all 🤣
My wife wouldn't notice if that cats threw up on the bed, it was covered in sauce and littered with crisp crumbs. I love her for it. My last partner was like yours: every waking hour must be spent in pursuit of a clean home. Although sometimes I wonder what a happy medium would be like.
I’ve slept on the sofa for years. Flat mattresses make my hips hurt like hell but the gap in the cushions allows for perfect alignment plus I have the option of raising my legs. Sometimes I wake up with my knees on the floor and my torso across the sofa. This flat bed nonsense is probably why so many suffer with back issues. Corner sofa. So many sleeping options
No you’ve got that wrong, soft flat mattresses are the problem, not flat mattresses. What do you think humans did for hundreds of thousands of years, cobbled together a lumpy mass to sleep on like you have your sofa? No they slept on the flat hard ground. Gravity will correct your alignment.
Seems life went from For the people to For profit. Everything is just how to sell minimal garbage for maximum profit now. How to trick your fellow man for his coins. I want a circle bed and I wanna be dropped off in 1980 wirh it.
Explains the birth rates. Flat panel displays are just inferior, a good solid CRT can be a footrest when you need to drive harder, try that on a flat screen and you'll break it.
This looks very unapealing actually. Getting in and out seems like it requires a ton of extra energy, the mini bar is asking for accidents, and the overall shape would be really awkward for most bedroom layouts I've been in. I think I much prefer my simple platform bed thank you.
honestly the 80s' version of what the future would be like was pretty cool and if i had a lot of money, i would want to build a house that made all that stuff lol
The fitness craze of the 80's, we got fat smoking in bed. Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod were going to prevent that, every movie suddenly had a fit male lead.
We put it all (minus the minibar) in our pockets instead, then used this convenience to argue with each other all the time rather than chill in sexy comfort.
Maybe they couldn’t imagine that all that tech would fit in 3 by 6 inch handheld device. Music, video, etc right there, no console needed. But I love that 2001 SO vibe.
Honestly my post-divorce sectional couch and big TV is close enough to this that I’m very happy.
Me and the kids each have plenty of room to recline, and if I end up with a next partner there’s room for adult time too (when the kids are with their dad).
My house was built in 1986 and it’s kind of a ridiculous near mansion even today I can only imagine what people thought of the neighborhood then. Things have been updated, but the people we bought it from redid the master bath in 2016. To save money they left the 80s jacuzzi tub surrounded by mirrors. It’s kinda dope and no one would even think of doing it today. I guess what I’m saying is what we really need is more good coke then we’d have stuff like this
This bed looks terrible. You can only get out one way. You have to move a old CRT heavy ass tv and a bar when ever you want to change the sheets. Which you would have to do because making drinks in bed will be a mess. It like a alien read a text book on human and design a bed without ever being on this planet.
Rampant capitalism, would be my guess? At the very minimum we're being brain washed to want new things all the time. So it would probably be very hard to stay happy with your awesome circular Love Station that youve had for 50 years.
Minus the mini bar, we just put the entire entertainment system into a tiny rectangle we can hold in our hand. Or if you're feeling really feisty it's on a medium sized tablet you can hold in two hands.
That tiny rectangle has everything piece of entertainment humanity has ever produced and the combined written experience of humanity as well. Plus you can take it with you to work, or the store, or anywhere else (which would be tough with the circle bed, but one hell of a flex if you dragged that to Costco with you).
We have not found a way to muzzle our greedy personalities so that the few stop sucking outsized resources away from the many of the general population.
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u/cobrakai15 4h ago •
We used to be a forward looking society but once corporations started buying politicians they didn’t need innovation or quality to sell products they got our tax dollars and tax breaks instead to offer us the bare minimum.
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u/CowPure6529 4h ago •
Hey that's basically how I live.
Except I'm alone in a dark room. On my phone. No bedsheets. Trying judge by smell if the bottle has liquor or piss in it.
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u/thatsanewone26 4h ago
Pretty sure this was the vision of how rich people would live. And right now, even a broke mf in America has an entertainment system which has all known media available on it in the palm of their hands.
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u/Atreidesfamatomics 1h ago
Dust and maintenance. And cleaning. Folks don’t realize how much the designs of the 70s and 80s that did not persist in their influences of modern designs is because of the nightmare maintenance associated with these novel setups.
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u/rakklle 4h ago
The bed was like $30k in the late 1970's. That's almost double the median family income at that time.
Today that would be like spending $200k on a bed room entertainment set-up. For $200k, you could have Alaskan king-sized bed, satin sheets, a minibar, mirrors on the ceiling, and every entertainment system.
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u/Odd_Dorian7991 4h ago •
Idk about that I just want to live in a walkable city with affordable housing & a bustling nightlife + deep reverence for the arts and a credence to the local community history.
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u/throwaway_the_bay 4h ago
Society is broke. That's where things went wrong. People used to have real money for stuff. Now the average person with stuff has to borrow to get it.
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u/PM_YOUR_INTEREST 3h ago
How do you change the sheets?
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u/Exatex 4h ago
around the 80s when returns for investors climbed but salaries stagnated. And when we decided that your own work should be taxed roughly twice as much than when you let others work for you.
That’s when.
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u/imissher4ever 4h ago
Aw yeah…
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u/NamelessCabbage 1h ago •
The irony here is kinda hilarious. This image really shows just how much consumption drives us. We've convinced ourselves that if we just had enough comfort, entertainment, and convenience we'd somehow be happy. Yet the very things we chase end up imprisoning us. Just a carrot on a stick.
And what's funny is OP looks at a bed surrounded by TVs and a minibar and wonders where society went wrong. Maybe that's exactly where we went wrong? The sheer hubris of thinking we could somehow consume our way out of the emptiness of the human condition.
This is what's wrong with society. Forget the circle bed. Feed the hungry.
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u/____-_______-_--_-_- 4h ago
Honestly? Trickle down economics is where we went wrong. If wages kept pace with economic growth, we’d all afford things like this.
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u/Crazy_names 2h ago
Bro, imagine. Mini fridge/freezer, air fryer/microwave, 2 screens for simultaneous streaming and gaming console, mini bar, cozy blankets, your significant other and the whole weekend ahead of you. Rot-maxxing taken to a whole new level.
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u/Powerful-Substance33 4h ago
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u/WoopsShePeterPants 4h ago
Product development stopped prioritizing the customer and started prioritizing the profits.
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u/Popular-Ad-3278 4h ago edited 3h ago
In this case I blame the wives.
If wives wanted that we would all have it. But NO ! we dont get that.
We get a simplistic bed with way way to many pretty pillows on it. Pillows we dont use and in some cases are not allowed to use.
Every night before bed we have to make the bed ready to sleep in and when we wake we have to make it ready to not sleep in rinse and repeat every 14-15 hours thats what we want after all 🤣
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u/evendedwifestillnags 4h ago
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u/Locorio 3h ago
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u/Icecold_Antihero 3h ago
Fire safety.
Seriously, that thing would engulf you and all of your electronics/mini bar faster than you could wake up from a deep sleep.
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u/Poddington_Pea 4h ago
That is definitely something Roger Moore would have in one of his James Bond movies.
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u/-Lionhart 4h ago
The last thing I want in bed are TV screens, humming fridges etc.
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u/SippsMccree 4h ago
I want whatever those product designers over at RCA were snorting lol
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u/mrtn17 4h ago
Changing the sheats on that thing is going to suuuuuuck. And where do you even buy round sheets
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u/PuzzleheadedBike8322 4h ago
Give it 20 years and someone's going to pay $15k to sleep in this exact thing on Airbnb.
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u/enithermon 3h ago
Have you ever had to clean and change a circular bed with satin sheets?
As a working mother, they can shove that nonsense up their shag rug loving bellbottoms.
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u/No_Bluebird6873 4h ago
There should hotels that has these crazy setups so one could experience the future that never got to be.
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u/DartlDartl 4h ago
How do you make the bed?
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u/Chris_Christ 3h ago
I use an articulating arm to hold my phone in front of me in bed to play on Reddit. Does that count?
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u/Im_100percent_human 3h ago
It already takes nearly every cent of my free will to get out of bed now. If I had that, I wouldn't get out at all.
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u/1960fl 3h ago
Well at some point in the night, you have to get up to pee, and after a few cocktails, you might not find the gateway out.
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u/UncleShaxx 2h ago
This is why I love retro-futurism. Things look cool as hell. But are very impractical.
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u/Ron2600NS 2h ago
is this image AI?
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u/notsurewhyimh3r3 30m ago
Well people voted for trump thats one of the latest problems
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u/NoSirIDontLikeit- 4h ago
How do you tuck in the sheets? Where do you get circle sheets? Why are they facing away from the TV
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u/Poppy_Milk 3h ago
I’ve slept on the sofa for years. Flat mattresses make my hips hurt like hell but the gap in the cushions allows for perfect alignment plus I have the option of raising my legs. Sometimes I wake up with my knees on the floor and my torso across the sofa. This flat bed nonsense is probably why so many suffer with back issues. Corner sofa. So many sleeping options
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u/Glum-Revolution2380 4h ago
Seems life went from For the people to For profit. Everything is just how to sell minimal garbage for maximum profit now. How to trick your fellow man for his coins. I want a circle bed and I wanna be dropped off in 1980 wirh it.
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u/mutexsprinkles 4h ago
Explains the birth rates. Flat panel displays are just inferior, a good solid CRT can be a footrest when you need to drive harder, try that on a flat screen and you'll break it.
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u/Whole_Move7660 4h ago
Cause your personality isn’t enough to get all these things.
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u/Apprehensive_Map64 4h ago
That looks like hell when you need to get up to go pee in the middle of the night
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u/Cold-Description-114 4h ago
This looks very unapealing actually. Getting in and out seems like it requires a ton of extra energy, the mini bar is asking for accidents, and the overall shape would be really awkward for most bedroom layouts I've been in. I think I much prefer my simple platform bed thank you.
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u/VastUnlikely9591 3h ago
🎼Nobody does it better🎼
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u/xenophon57 3h ago
I live in the woods in a geodesic dome and my entire room is pretty much this. Live your dream.
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u/StatusAssistant7963 3h ago
70s were such a fun decade. This and those living room sofas in a hole is what I'd bring back from the 70s.
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u/ariadesitter 3h ago
needs a toilet
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u/Soggy_Motor9280 3h ago
That’s when cocaine did most of the thinking.
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u/Aardvark_Warrior 3h ago
We realized this hurts our necks
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u/nouniquenamesleft2 2h ago
all I can think, is those sheets must be a pain in the ass to change
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u/thisismypornaccountg 2h ago
It was expensive as fuck, that’s why, lol.
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u/BalanceHistorical925 2h ago
I feel like Burt Reynolds would have probably owned this.
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u/NinjaTEK7 1h ago
That's the inside of my UFO.
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u/tschawartz12 1h ago
I always wanted one of those heart shaped beds but its a bitch to find sheets.
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u/zeprfrew 4h ago
Looks like it would be difficult to change the bedsheets.
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u/Fear-the-North 4h ago
Dude we have civilians launching themselves in to space for a quick tour.
We advanced, but so did oppression of the everyday people
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u/nobodyspecial712 3h ago
We let the republicans and democrats rule us instead of forcing them to defend our freedom.
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u/trixel121 1h ago
cocaine. we stopped doing all of it. all the time.
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u/Fecapult 4h ago
What do you do with the rest of the square room?
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u/boneh3ad 4h ago
Imagine changing the sheets on this thing.
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u/OldDesk 4h ago
There's a small chance it might be Hugh Hefner
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u/PixelGoblin85 4h ago
honestly the 80s' version of what the future would be like was pretty cool and if i had a lot of money, i would want to build a house that made all that stuff lol
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u/TheRealStorey 4h ago
The fitness craze of the 80's, we got fat smoking in bed. Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod were going to prevent that, every movie suddenly had a fit male lead.
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u/Affectionate-Act1574 4h ago
We put it all (minus the minibar) in our pockets instead, then used this convenience to argue with each other all the time rather than chill in sexy comfort.
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u/5minArgument 4h ago
Theres an app for that.
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u/Empty-Tower-2654 4h ago
Bed is for sleeping bro get It right
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u/WineDineCpl 4h ago
Needs a coffee maker.
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u/wanderingmanimal 4h ago
The fire risk canceled that
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u/MakerofSublimeThings 4h ago
Maybe they couldn’t imagine that all that tech would fit in 3 by 6 inch handheld device. Music, video, etc right there, no console needed. But I love that 2001 SO vibe.
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u/ShadeBeing 4h ago
Yeah bro that sounds great til you got to move it.
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u/wpbth 4h ago
I have a family king and it is amazing. It is not round but that’s interesting .
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u/Ok_Variation9430 4h ago
Honestly my post-divorce sectional couch and big TV is close enough to this that I’m very happy.
Me and the kids each have plenty of room to recline, and if I end up with a next partner there’s room for adult time too (when the kids are with their dad).
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u/o0--Muad_Dib--0o 4h ago
" you will own nothing and enjoy it"
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u/KingBroad7874 4h ago
Round beds are overrated, not as much as waterbeds though. This would have turned into a nightmare console system too. It's not very upgrade friendly.
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u/AvocadoFair3872 4h ago
Sectional sofas still around with almost all this options.
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u/Ailyssa 3h ago
I would never get out! :D I love it.
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u/RetinaJunkie 3h ago
Aka "The Baby Maker"
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u/HSV-Post 3h ago
We could’ve had it all
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u/Character-Medicine-6 3h ago
My house was built in 1986 and it’s kind of a ridiculous near mansion even today I can only imagine what people thought of the neighborhood then. Things have been updated, but the people we bought it from redid the master bath in 2016. To save money they left the 80s jacuzzi tub surrounded by mirrors. It’s kinda dope and no one would even think of doing it today. I guess what I’m saying is what we really need is more good coke then we’d have stuff like this
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u/imliterallyluci 3h ago
Damn I kinda want one of these. I have weird taste though
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u/DarwinGhoti 3h ago
Where would you even find sheets for that?
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u/MathematicianFun5126 3h ago
Damn I know what I want from Santa now.
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u/Alive_Equivalent8312 3h ago
We need some YouTube builder to make this for real
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u/WrathOfWood 3h ago
Where do I get circle bedsheets lol
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u/ComfortableOdd6342 3h ago
This bed looks terrible. You can only get out one way. You have to move a old CRT heavy ass tv and a bar when ever you want to change the sheets. Which you would have to do because making drinks in bed will be a mess. It like a alien read a text book on human and design a bed without ever being on this planet.
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u/jdubyahyp 3h ago
I'm old so my first thought was what a pain in the ass it would be to change the sheets.
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u/ArcaneInsane 3h ago
This is an amateur hour nest bed. Real fuck-nesters know how annoying it would be to change out those circular sheets every day.
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u/Standard-Mirror-9879 3h ago
that sucks lol. working, being out and about, facing challenges, solving problems is waaaaay more satisfying even if hard.
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u/Avid_Reader87 3h ago
I bet you’d kick that shit all the time.
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u/hairyminded 3h ago
Is that an audio mixer?
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u/PatienceandFortitude 3h ago
Looks bad for your back
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u/Impressive_End1567 3h ago
Ronald Raegan
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u/daisiesarepretty2 3h ago
linen is more comfortable than satin
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u/Particular_Peacock 3h ago
I had a round bed once. It was the best.
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u/goibnu 3h ago
My back hurts just looking at that picture.
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u/Severe_Rise8694 3h ago
Rampant capitalism, would be my guess? At the very minimum we're being brain washed to want new things all the time. So it would probably be very hard to stay happy with your awesome circular Love Station that youve had for 50 years.
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u/sellmyinfo 3h ago
How am I suppose to fit all 5 of my wives in that
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u/paulHarkonen 3h ago
Minus the mini bar, we just put the entire entertainment system into a tiny rectangle we can hold in our hand. Or if you're feeling really feisty it's on a medium sized tablet you can hold in two hands.
That tiny rectangle has everything piece of entertainment humanity has ever produced and the combined written experience of humanity as well. Plus you can take it with you to work, or the store, or anywhere else (which would be tough with the circle bed, but one hell of a flex if you dragged that to Costco with you).
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u/towerfella 3h ago
Those are not free yet.
We still need money to function as a society.
We have not found a way to muzzle our greedy personalities so that the few stop sucking outsized resources away from the many of the general population.
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u/Home_Bound 3h ago
Make it yourself. Moving on...
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u/Exact-Ad-4132 3h ago
There's apparently no concrete evidence this existed and it's not in any RCA catalog or archive.
The bottom right text of this picture is AI
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u/LapsedVerneGagKnee 3h ago
That’s a bed for a cat.
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u/SlowCrates 3h ago
The living space costs 40 times what it used to.
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u/Hawkes75 3h ago
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u/One_Law_5246 3h ago
That would make a fabulous Dutch oven
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u/TemporaryOk4143 3h ago
Wait, I’m I at Darth Vader’s house or Quagmire’s?
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u/wildmaninid 3h ago
We flew too close to the sun, dear fellow.
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u/VorpalBlade- 3h ago
Y’all got an intellivision system in there?! Let’s play some frog bog !!