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[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 113 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Idk, this has more personality to it than the beige nightmare a lot of folks live in. Even if that personality smells like stale cigarettes and Cutty Sark.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Also: Spiders. Spider god damned everywhere.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

I'm fine with that. Made it a point over the last 30 years to get used to looking at them. I let 'em run the house. Figure if there's enough food for a predator, best let them work for me.

Funny note: My Filipino wife is disappointed we don't have house lizards. Aside from their obvious use, apparently they're lucky.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Apparently Cutty Sark is a whiskey, which presumably is what you meant, but the first DDG result is a British naval ship which ... Also kinda makes sense?

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The scotch is named after the ship

[–] Bytemite@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Before the ship it was an old scottish folkstory about a guy going home on a stormy night, encountering a coven of witches, calling out out to one that had a really small shirt (cutty sark) and never being seen again Ichabod Crane style. The figurehead on the ship is what gave the ship it's name, because it was based on that story.

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

Many liquor brands have a sailor/pirate theme. I never saw the appeal personally, but I guess it just plays off the stale "sailors drink a lot, amirite?" meme.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Very classy back in the day, très chic.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I cannot decide whether I'd call my parents classy. I don't think they were deficient in that manner but I'm not sure whether they had a lot, either.

[–] Booboofinget@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The were saving all the pea soup green, salmon pink and sunflower yellow for the kitchen and bathrroms.