Somehow I can tell it it's a room in a USian or canadian house, not sure why exactly though. Maybe it's the closets, door styles, the carpet, or how they paint their walls. Windows, outlets and door knobs are a dead giveaway.
US: pastel colours, gaudy ceiling furniture, furniture the colour of the walls, tacky metal frames sprayed with gold, needless 6-panelled doors, walk-in closet.
If this was UK: white walls + cheap spotlights that point nowhere, wood-coloured furniture, tacky metal frames but thinner and black, smaller doors with stupid handles, no closet.
If this was Germany: white walls + no ceiling fixtures, cheap but wooden furniture, tacky metal frames but strong for some reason, clearly framed doors, wide light switches for household pets, no closet.
It's a particular shade of paint. It's widespread enough in the UK that multiple brands do their own version of Magnolia. It's often what's used when people don't want to have to decide what colour to paint, or in council housing, and it's increasingly common in private rentals.
I had one in my first apartment, in Sweden, but I had one of those really high beds you can keep a desk under, so I had to watch my head when climbing down.
And also watch my head when standing up from the desk.
But hey, I had both a desk, an armchair and a bed!
We have them in Japan, but they're mostly at businesses. That's slowly changing for homeowners, but not as much for renters (due to rules about modifying things).
There was r/scienceofdeduction@reddit.com that basically tries to find as much information about the person just from a photo. I once found an exact window location to the room where the picture was taken. You would be suprised how much information can be extracted from one picture.
Thats what I thought too at first, but notice the soft pastel colours separated by the diagonal, as if in a fragrant meadow of flowers, bisected by the hard steel blades of the fan, the artist showing the juxtaposition between country and city life, whilst the fan itself is depicted at an elusive angle, like an anxious child shying away from their duties.
You'd see the left wall in the reflection, if you wanted to show the opposite corner, like in that picture, the mirror needs to be arcoss facing the camera directly.
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blackn1ght@feddit.uk · 115 pts · 1y
What makes them think they're American? I don't see any guns or medical bills piled up?
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee · 92 pts · 1y
The framed picture of a fan.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 1y
It's a mirror
LolaCat@lemmy.ca · 129 pts · 1y
Why would you have a framed picture of a mirror, that'd just be weird.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 1y
Americans are weird
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 1y
Why is the mirror non-reflective and shaped like a fan? Seems like an odd design choice.
Ashiette@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
No, it's a framed picture of a fan
samus12345@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Right, but why do they have a framed picture of a fan on the opposite wall from the mirror?
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 1y
Somehow I can tell it it's a room in a USian or canadian house, not sure why exactly though. Maybe it's the closets, door styles, the carpet, or how they paint their walls. Windows, outlets and door knobs are a dead giveaway.
Artyom@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
It's the unpainted walls because why bother if you can't afford it and your landlord will soft-evict you by doubling rent in a year?
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y
It's definitely painted, otherwise you'd see the
cardboarddrywall, maybe it's the choice of colour.sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
It looks original from the builders.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y
US: pastel colours, gaudy ceiling furniture, furniture the colour of the walls, tacky metal frames sprayed with gold, needless 6-panelled doors, walk-in closet.
If this was UK: white walls + cheap spotlights that point nowhere, wood-coloured furniture, tacky metal frames but thinner and black, smaller doors with stupid handles, no closet.
If this was Germany: white walls + no ceiling fixtures, cheap but wooden furniture, tacky metal frames but strong for some reason, clearly framed doors, wide light switches for household pets, no closet.
GiveOver@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 1y
UK here. We use magnolia for every wall, thank you very much
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
...what the hell is magnolia
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1y
It's a particular shade of paint. It's widespread enough in the UK that multiple brands do their own version of Magnolia. It's often what's used when people don't want to have to decide what colour to paint, or in council housing, and it's increasingly common in private rentals.
GiveOver@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 1y
White with a hint of slumlord
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
Found the non-Brit!
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
If you can't answer the question, then the criteria for citizenship is highly dubious
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
I'm not a Brit, so why would I know what magnolia is? All we're required to know is eggshell.
nesc@lemmy.cafe · 7 pts · 1y
I don't think there are other countries with ceiling fans?
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y
I saw one in Liechtenstein.
nesc@lemmy.cafe · 10 pts · 1y
Fair, so either US or Liechtenstein. 😄
heartbreaker@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Saw them in Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Iran. Prob any really hot country has them.
dunz@feddit.nu · 8 pts · 1y
I had one in my first apartment, in Sweden, but I had one of those really high beds you can keep a desk under, so I had to watch my head when climbing down.
And also watch my head when standing up from the desk. But hey, I had both a desk, an armchair and a bed!
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y
I'm in Aus and we have ceiling fans
sploosh@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
No you fuckin don't mate.
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Get a load of this guy pretending Australia is real
tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y
We have them in Japan, but they're mostly at businesses. That's slowly changing for homeowners, but not as much for renters (due to rules about modifying things).
Ludrol@szmer.info · 1 pts · 1y
There was r/scienceofdeduction@reddit.com that basically tries to find as much information about the person just from a photo. I once found an exact window location to the room where the picture was taken. You would be suprised how much information can be extracted from one picture.
samus12345@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
The ceiling fan makes it likely. They're far more common here.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Are they? You'd think it'd be having an air conditioner
samus12345@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Often it's both!
thawed_caveman@lemmy.world · 109 pts · 1y
I don't know why i remembered i had this somewhere in my dusty folder full of thousands of old memes, but:
slaacaa@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
Why do Americans do weird shit like this?
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 1y
i have this exact picture in the bottom of my old reddit drawer, thats been expanding for 2 years and now merging with my Lemmy drawers....
samus12345@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
Then the question becomes, "Why do you have a mirror hanging over your fireplace?" It's too high for practical use.
oxideseven@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1y
Mirrors can make rooms feel bigger, even if you can't see yourself in it
samus12345@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Could just be tall. As a 6'5'' guy this mirror would be perfect for me.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
That is a weird place for a mirror, to be fair.
Etterra@discuss.online · 46 pts · 1y
Wut is "mirror?"
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee · 49 pts · 1y
A portal to an alternate dimension where I am ugly.
lucidinferno@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
Funniest thing I’ve read in a long time
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Oh my god this is the best "straight line" type of joke I've heard in a long time. I just told my six year old they loved it
superduperpirate@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 1y
Erm, that looks like a mirror reflecting the ceiling fan, not a framed picture of a ceiling fan.
papalonian@lemmy.world · 131 pts · 1y
Somebody get this guy the Detective of the Year award
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 57 pts · 1y
Perhaps it's reflecting a picture of a ceiling fan.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 1y
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y
Thats what I thought too at first, but notice the soft pastel colours separated by the diagonal, as if in a fragrant meadow of flowers, bisected by the hard steel blades of the fan, the artist showing the juxtaposition between country and city life, whilst the fan itself is depicted at an elusive angle, like an anxious child shying away from their duties.
No this is clearly the work of a Master.
janNatan@lemmy.ml · 45 pts · 1y
Are we censoring Pepe now?
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee · 33 pts · 1y
That is the pepe.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 23 pts · 1y
It's a rare abstract Pepe.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 7 pts · 1y
Minimalist Pepe
DogWater@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y
I hope that's bait because he fuckin gottem
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 1y
Is it not a mirror?
Granted it would be strange to place a mirror so high
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 13 pts · 1y
No its framed picture of a celling fan.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
Can confirm, am American and we're obligated to hang a picture of a ceiling fan. I don't make the rules.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
Mirror is face-ish high, to look at your ugly mug.
I have my mirrors much lower so I can admire my better as(s)pects.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y
Found the non American.
If you were American, you would know its the traditional American custom to put up frammed fan photos.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
If only that were true, what I'd give to not be in this god forsaken country
Akasazh@feddit.nl · -1 pts · 1y
You'd see the left wall in the reflection, if you wanted to show the opposite corner, like in that picture, the mirror needs to be arcoss facing the camera directly.
GoodStuffEh@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 1y
It's an angled wall segment, look at where it meets the floor
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 1y
Oh wow. That fisheye really does a number on the perspective.
sheepishly@fedia.io · 10 pts · 1y
That's a good cat
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Lol, it's obviously not a picture of a fucking fan, those have dildo blades.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
What Mr. Blades and I do in the privacy of our home is none if your business!