• @KnitWit
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    5 months ago

    Haha, this is now the only scene I’ve ever watched from that movie, and I’m gonna tell myself that its about his passion for carpentry.

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      435 months ago

      Just casually writing him like Marty McFly.

      “I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it.”

    • @Son_of_dad
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      365 months ago

      Most were, in the mid east, Asia, even Rome, etc. People would eat on short tables while sitting on the ground and reclining on pillows.

        • @Mango
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          125 months ago

          You might like a kotatsu table! It’s a table with a blanket built in and a heater underneath! Peak cozy.

        • flicker
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          65 months ago

          The amount of support you can manufacture for your lower back is top notch. I sometimes sit on the floor with padding and I’m in my late 30s.

        • Owl
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          35 months ago

          I don’t see why it would be

    • @Dasus
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      65 months ago

      Not really, no.

    • @[email protected]
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      255 months ago

      People like to interpret things with a modern lense. The translation of his job title might be carpenter, and people then go “ok, what does a carpenter do nowadays - builds chairs and tables, right”. But the word being translated is more aking to “builder”, a construction carpenter, a mason, something along those lines.

      • @[email protected]
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        145 months ago

        In German, those professions actually have different names. The furniture maker is a Schreiner or Tischler (lit. “tablerer”), while the builder is called Zimmermann (lit. “room man”).

        The German bible correctly identifies Jesus as a Zimmermann.

          • @[email protected]
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            04 months ago

            I lost my shit when I heard the most formal, scientific way of saying “sex” in German is “geschlechtsverkehr” or genital traffic.

            It took me years to realize that “sexual intercourse” is essentially the same thing.