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We are looking at buying a house and in virtually every one we look at there are signs on the wall about 'carpe diem' ' love and family' and so on.... Like this:
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Is this a new thing ? Is modern life so awful we need these?
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They're always (like the one up there), written on a piece of old wood, aren't they?
Effing dreadful things, anyway.
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You (might, but just as likely might not) drive a van through puddles and see this as the pinnacle of self-expression. You (probably) haven't started/joined a revolution or helped those worse off than you, you just got an expensive van dirty (maybe).
I have to say when I saw some scruffy cut up Land Rover with the words "One Wife, Livid" down the side I laughed.
The rest can bugger off though, my FB feed is full of nonsensical inspirational quotes that seek to oversimplify life's little problems, but at least they're not as bad as the ones that quote that side show Bob looking Avacardo botherer - do people actually read them before regurgitating on the rest of us? Ffs
Is modern life so awful we need these?
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It's not a new thing. We are heading ideologically backwards to 1950s USA.
We are but a quivering whisker away from wall-mounted curved digital panels with one function only: Replacing twee printed signs with motivational animated gifs, befitting the resurging 1950s political climate
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Total Tripe!
[i]Total Tripe! [/i]
I saw a magazine in Smiths for cow intestine lovers called that.
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The best motivational posters are the ones with Malcolm tucker quotes on them. although most of them are to sweary to post here without getting my bottom slapped.
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Eagles may soar
But weasels don't get sucked into jet engines
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I saw on the back of a builders 4x4.
One wife.
Livid.
Thought that was rather witty.
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Is modern life so awful we need these
I'm totally not into these daft signs, but you could make a pretty compelling argument that modern life is indeed pretty crappy when you boil it down.
but you could make a pretty compelling argument that modern life is indeed pretty crappy when you boil it down.
It's not though really.
Guess what I'm unpacking...
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Guess what I'm unpacking...
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Send them your offer painted on a board.We are looking at buying a house
"£75000 under asking. The things you own end up owning you."
Here you go kayak...
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(SWEARY WARNING)
One appeared in our house at Christmas, courtesy of secret santa. It says,
This house runs on
Love
Happiness
Gin
and
Tonic.
Exactly like that. Not only is it shite, it's not even punctuated shite! Just not plucked up the courage to throw it out yet.
Quite a lot of photos on Rightmove with this sort of crap scattered about on peoples' walls.
I was at a posh wedding place a while ago where in the hall was LOVE spelled out on wooden blocks. I took a childish pleasure in re-arranging them as VOLE every time I passed.
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We looked at a few houses recently and Mrs BigJohn (who shares my hatred of these insincere platitudes) shook her head as we came out of one place full of them and said "Not enough words".
And why does every room have a one word instruction - Eat, Love, Bathe, etc. except the bog?
I've always loved this one:
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.and why does every room have a one word instruction - Eat, Love, Bathe,
my Canadian friend commented on this when she came to visit, 'why is everything an order here.... like the chain of cafes. EAT!
I find it weird that there is no one to attribute these quotes to. who said these things? I presume someone creates them?
funny how you never see successful people posting motivational posters/slogans on social media, isnt it.
Maybe they dont want to share what motivates them?
Not "motivational" by any stretch on the imagination, but a family member bought this for the FIL..
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My favourite
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One in my local's bogs reads:
"Behave yourself: What you do tonight ends up on Facebook tomorrow"
Let your dream fly like a kite and see where it will take you.
Halfway up an electricity pylon with 65kV going through it hopefully.
modern life is indeed pretty crappy when you boil it down
That would work so much better if it were embroidered on a cushion
Heard recently about someone in an office with 'real' motivational posters on the walls. So he swapped some of them for despair versions.
Genius.
Aaargh, the wooden block instructions!
It's only a shame that dad will have (hopefully) passed by the time we sell, would be fairly amusing to leave inappropriate instructions around the place.
That would work so much better if it were embroidered on a cushion
reminds me a little of my friend who remakes tapestries
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Drac
Your post on the first page should, of course, have been in crayon on a dog-eared piece of paper.
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Not to mention those free-standing letters that spell out "L O V E" (or V O L E, if you're witty).
I can't help but think it's people trying to over-compensate for something that's otherwise missing.
As a wedding photographer, I'm subjected to this trite toss at almost every job I do. In fact, it's worse than ever before now, as it seems no wedding is complete without four foot high, lit up letters spelling out, "LOVE" or "MR & MRS".
I do believe it's just the try-hards that like this sort of nonsense around their house. The aspiring middle class if you will, people that have reasonable jobs but no education beyond GCSEs or vocational btecs or have a single book in the house. (not including anything 'written' by Katie Price)
User-removed - does your heart sink to an all time low when you're asked to do those 'fun' family photos where everyone is having fun in a fun photo studio having fun - In a featureless white box. Not wearing shoes
LOVE is surely better rearranged to VELO.
tech - no-one would dare ask 👿
Seriously though, I did do some white backdrop / shoes off / lying in a pile sort of stuff when I first started about 12 years ago. I thought it was brilliant...
everyone is having fun in a fun photo studio having fun - In a featureless white box. Not wearing shoes
It's almost like a perfect microcosm of what STWers lives would look like in their heads if they actually put any thought into it every time they say
the try-hards that like this sort of nonsense around their house. The aspiring middle class if you will, people have reasonable jobs but no education beyond GCSEs or vocational btecs or have a single book in the house. (not including anything 'written' by Katie Price)
Because none of us actually owns or aspires to own anything do we, that would be capitalism. We should all be content in out white box without shoes.
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My cousin genuinely has proper motivational slogans like the original post (he wouldn't know what irony was) as big stencils on his actual (magnolia) walls.
He works in IT sales, lives in a great big house on a soulless new estate, drives a company BMW 5 series with a private plate, and is the most terminally unimaginative person you could ever meet
I do believe it's just the try-hards that like this sort of nonsense around their house. The aspiring middle class if you will, people that have reasonable jobs but no education beyond GCSEs or vocational btecs or have a single book in the house. (not including anything 'written' by Katie Price)
Harsh but fair
Really?
I thought it was mostly a smug middle class **** thing?
Hebden Bridge is full of this type of shit.
I rather like the ones Rebel Circus post up on Fb:
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Not that I'm a misanthropic git or anything
Some great laughs ^ thank you
One reminded me of a surreal night watching Bobby Davro at a local British Legion (don't ask). Davro gets a girl on stage and says
"I wold like to **** you senseless" ......girl looks chuffed, then..... " but I see that someone beat me to it."
First time I saw 'motivational posters' was in office emails, I genuinely thought it applied to nearly pornographic pictures, mostly of cleavage, with back borders and barely funny (and mostly redundant) 'jokes' underneath.
Eventually they became actually funny pictures (probably after the boss accidentally got copied into one of the emails) with actually funny captions underneath, same format though, picture with a big black border.
Then I learned the terrible truth after I looked at one of the awful trite ones and realised [i]there was no joke[/i] 😯
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I think you'd smile every single bloody time you saw these.
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They are just RIP threads in poster form, same meaningless sentimental clichés.
Also from Despair.com
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You can get some brilliant stuff to make your house a home from Amazon
I recall the sadly defunct Regretsy finding a wonderful wall stencil from China(?) which, due to a spectacular mistranslation, read:
"[b]Even if love stop, loved horse cannot stop[/b]".
It also had a picture of some birds in case the point wasn't clear. 🙂
I could eat a can of alphabet soup & shit a better argument than yours.
I tried this earlier, but the can only had O's in it, so I was ****ed.
Oh yeah, that reminds me, we do own one. We even bought it on our honeymoon.
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I have no ****ing idea either.
Dez do vinyl Space Invaders count?
Almost ironic that the advert bisecting this discussion has the catchline "passion drives us".
These emotional snippets of weakness are the reason I don't have my family on my Facebook account, I got fed up of the constant little life benefitting piles of crap
I'm puzzled by the depression-related ones. They don't resonate with me at all which makes me suspicious that the people making them up don't know a **** what they're talking about. Like that one about depression being "because you've been strong for too long"
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it's definitely a trend I have seen it in all kinds of interior magazines and such. If i ever put one in my home it would be something sarcastic like [b]'Guests are nice because they leave' [/b]
Modern life has made people soft and unable to handle some of the basics
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My friends Mum had one of these in her kitchen I remember.
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The thought did occur to me to batter her to death with her own arms I must admit.
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it's definitely a trend I have seen it in all kinds of interior magazines and such. If i ever put one in my home it would be something sarcastic like 'Guests are nice because they leave'
My folks have a mug that reads [b]"All visitors bring joy to this house. Some do it when they arrive, some when they leave"[/b]. It gets given to one of my sisters as a slightly pointed hint every now and again...
[i]Dez do vinyl Space Invaders count?[/i]
Every single bloody time?
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For some ungodly reason someone who produces this emotionally incontinent gibberish has just started following me on ****ter. I've just had a look at their guff and the first quote that popped up was from Nelson Mandela...
"It always seems it's impossible, until it's done"
Yes... having to nip to Waitrose because you've run out of porcini mushrooms is just like trying to overthrow apartheid
I've just had a look at their guff and the first quote that popped up was from Nelson Mandela...
"Porridge? ....Again?"
My ex had the life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass etc quote above her bed.
When I suggested it could apply to our relationship she wasn't best pleased...
My favourite:
[b]"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger . . . except for bears. Bears will kill you."[/b]
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