The question is why? It just occurred to me that maybe the numbers are supposed to represent the 12 days of Christmas? It took me days to realize that might be a possibility. Are the birds supposed to be a clue to what the numbers mean or that the plates would have anything to with winter and its wonderland? Is the white supposed to represent snow? Am I alone is not getting all this right away? Wouldn’t be the first time something flew right over my head.
@ItalianScallion I instantly recognized that these are probably supposed to be for the 12 days of Christmas, but I still don’t know why you’d need plates to demark the days. Maybe they can be used like a reverse Advent calendar and hang a new one each day?
Fun fact: the 12 days of Christmas start after Christmas day (or on, depending on your denomination), leading up to Epiphany.
@die13lda@ItalianScallion there are 364 gifts. Because the song repeats you get 1 the first day, 3 the second day (2 + 1), 6 the third day (3+2+1), 10 the fourth day (4+3+2+1) and so fourth. On the 12th day you get 78 (12+11+10+9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1). Add all the days together and you get 364.
After thinking about this for a few more minutes, I can confidently say that I like this even less than I did 10-ish mins ago. Is hanging plates on a wall a thing? If so, I’m more uncool than I thought.
@natasha_natasha@therealjrn Or displaying them on plate stands on shelves, on a fireplace mantel, in a bookcase, etc… along with those little souvenir spoons.
@natasha_natasha@therealjrn I’ve lived in Massachusetts a long time and I’ve never heard someone refer to a grandma as mee-maw. We’ve got plenty of seemingly strange regionalisms here, but I think mee-maw is from another area!
@ItalianScallion@natasha_natasha Well, PawPaw was an intinerant silver polisher so after the war, they ended up in Massachusetts. After PawPaw died under mysterious circumstances involving a dinner fork, MeeMaw just stayed up there to be close to his grave.
@ItalianScallion@natasha_natasha@therealjrn
I’ve herd of that before. I’m in Michigan and my best friend called her grandma it and now her kids call her mom that. It’s more of a southern thing, I think.
@natasha_natasha@phendrick@Star2236@therealjrn So here I am working on The Atlantic’s monthly crossword puzzle and I see this clue: “Alternative to grams” and I’m thinking ounces, but I’ve got _ ee _ _ _ already and what sort of unit of weight has two consecutive "e"s? I groaned out loud when I realized what the word was.
Remember when meh used to do “Oh Shit” reports… We need them to do monthly “What the hell were you thinking” reports for whatever buyer ended up with these.
This is another data point to feed my theory that Meh sometimes buys mixed lots of things. Some of them are good, some of them are meh, and some of them are oh, these are so silly that no one wanted to buy them, but in mixed lots you have to take everything or nothing.
@llangley If it’s like the ones the project center at my university got as government surplus equipment, there will be a lot more than one pallet! I’ll never forget the one that had some great electronic test equipment (good), a fully functional analog computer with entirely vacuum tube technology (cool, but meh)… and way too many useless metal spare parts for who-knows-what that were subsequently sold as scrap metal (crap).
Given the size of the Ikea bags, that’s accurate. (An Ikea bag accidentally got tossed into our grocery tote, and the checkout bagger started to unfold it, looked again and moved on to a different bag. And then both she and I realized that it would work for the giant pack of bog rolls…)
Lol. Just came back from a family occasion with only a fraction of relatives, and yet 12 immediate (that we could hardly keep track of). We all know our number, because that’s what we grew up being called. And I’m guessing that’s why I’m the only person aside from the one buyer to see the appeal of these.
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hey @Sean, while I always enjoy your narratives very much, in this case I really wish I knew that the hell we are meant to do with these plates.
@jouest and are the dishwasher safe (etc)??
Amazon says they are “Dishwasher Safe, Hanging decor, Microwave Safe, Oven Safe”
@jouest In this case, the unrelated narrative turned out to be a godsend, because I was just as confused as everyone else.
@jouest @mikibell The shipper/seller is a place called SideDeal on Amazon.
@jouest smash one per day as you count down to Xmas?
@jouest Put dessert on them at an office party, then have a prize drawing with the numbers.
WTF?
The question is why? It just occurred to me that maybe the numbers are supposed to represent the 12 days of Christmas? It took me days to realize that might be a possibility. Are the birds supposed to be a clue to what the numbers mean or that the plates would have anything to with winter and its wonderland? Is the white supposed to represent snow? Am I alone is not getting all this right away? Wouldn’t be the first time something flew right over my head.
@ItalianScallion it also took me entirely too long to realize that re the 12 days, etc.
@ItalianScallion I instantly recognized that these are probably supposed to be for the 12 days of Christmas, but I still don’t know why you’d need plates to demark the days. Maybe they can be used like a reverse Advent calendar and hang a new one each day?
Fun fact: the 12 days of Christmas start after Christmas day (or on, depending on your denomination), leading up to Epiphany.
@die13lda @ItalianScallion i knew this! Lol. Now how many presents were given after the twelve days?
@braveit1 @die13lda Don’t know how many presents. You would have to wait for the Befana to arrive to find out!
@die13lda @ItalianScallion there are 364 gifts. Because the song repeats you get 1 the first day, 3 the second day (2 + 1), 6 the third day (3+2+1), 10 the fourth day (4+3+2+1) and so fourth. On the 12th day you get 78 (12+11+10+9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1). Add all the days together and you get 364.
But… why?
@cdemay I to would like to know
/define 12 days of Christmas
So, they’re plates. On ribbons. With numbers on them.
Cool.
After thinking about this for a few more minutes, I can confidently say that I like this even less than I did 10-ish mins ago. Is hanging plates on a wall a thing? If so, I’m more uncool than I thought.
@natasha_natasha My grandma thinks hanging plates are the bees knees.
@natasha_natasha @therealjrn Or displaying them on plate stands on shelves, on a fireplace mantel, in a bookcase, etc… along with those little souvenir spoons.
@ItalianScallion @natasha_natasha MeeMaw up in Massachusetts bought 1!
@natasha_natasha @therealjrn I’ve lived in Massachusetts a long time and I’ve never heard someone refer to a grandma as mee-maw.
We’ve got plenty of seemingly strange regionalisms here, but I think mee-maw is from another area!
@ItalianScallion @natasha_natasha Well, PawPaw was an intinerant silver polisher so after the war, they ended up in Massachusetts. After PawPaw died under mysterious circumstances involving a dinner fork, MeeMaw just stayed up there to be close to his grave.
@ItalianScallion @natasha_natasha @therealjrn
I’ve herd of that before. I’m in Michigan and my best friend called her grandma it and now her kids call her mom that. It’s more of a southern thing, I think.
@natasha_natasha @therealjrn And what became of their cow MooMaw and their sheep BaaBaw?
@ItalianScallion @natasha_natasha @Star2236 @therealjrn Shouldn’t the companion for MeeMaw be called PeePaw?
@ItalianScallion @natasha_natasha @phendrick @Star2236
Naw, PeePaw was PawPaw’s brother. There was another ner’do’well brother name of Po’Paw. We never talked 'bout him much.
@ItalianScallion @natasha_natasha @phendrick @Star2236 @therealjrn 'Round these parts. Mamaw (kind of a jam-together of Ma’am and Maw) is more common. I’ve heard Meemaw over in Loosyana a time or tree,but I dunno much 'bout dat.
@natasha_natasha @phendrick @Star2236 @therealjrn I thought PeePaw was the name of their new puppy. Oh, and their baby is named WeeWaw.
@natasha_natasha @phendrick @Star2236 @therealjrn So here I am working on The Atlantic’s monthly crossword puzzle and I see this clue: “Alternative to grams” and I’m thinking ounces, but I’ve got _ ee _ _ _ already and what sort of unit of weight has two consecutive "e"s? I groaned out loud when I realized what the word was.
@ItalianScallion @natasha_natasha @phendrick @Star2236
Never let it be said that meh is not educational!
/image the more you know
@ItalianScallion @natasha_natasha @phendrick @Star2236 @therealjrn That’s too funny! I kind of love it when stuff like that happens.
Remember when meh used to do “Oh Shit” reports… We need them to do monthly “What the hell were you thinking” reports for whatever buyer ended up with these.
@caffeineguy This should be a top priority.
This is another data point to feed my theory that Meh sometimes buys mixed lots of things. Some of them are good, some of them are meh, and some of them are oh, these are so silly that no one wanted to buy them, but in mixed lots you have to take everything or nothing.
@ItalianScallion like an Amazon pallet but bigger? MEHBE an ENTIRE MYSTERY CONTAINER??
@llangley If it’s like the ones the project center at my university got as government surplus equipment, there will be a lot more than one pallet! I’ll never forget the one that had some great electronic test equipment (good), a fully functional analog computer with entirely vacuum tube technology (cool, but meh)… and way too many useless metal spare parts for who-knows-what that were subsequently sold as scrap metal (crap).
@ItalianScallion @llangley
/showme a semi truck sized IRK bag fully brimming over
@mediocrebot Looks like someone is getting a truck load of hair scrunchies.
Given the size of the Ikea bags, that’s accurate. (An Ikea bag accidentally got tossed into our grocery tote, and the checkout bagger started to unfold it, looked again and moved on to a different bag. And then both she and I realized that it would work for the giant pack of bog rolls…)
@mediocrebot @therealjrn Looks more like a load of used paper towels.
I’ll echo the “Why?”
I expect the answer to be “Because.” Or maybe “There is no ‘why’; there is only foo or foo not.”
Lol. Just came back from a family occasion with only a fraction of relatives, and yet 12 immediate (that we could hardly keep track of). We all know our number, because that’s what we grew up being called. And I’m guessing that’s why I’m the only person aside from the one buyer to see the appeal of these.
@brainmist Would you have gotten them if you’d seen them in time?
@Kyeh I did see them in time, but I just spent my silly plate money on dancing skeleton plates, so managed to resist.
@brainmist Dancing skeletons sound way cooler.
@brainmist @Kyeh
Why is there a cardinal on… Why is it just one pose… and the lace… just … Why?
@pakopako Cardinals are winter birds. And they don’t have a whole lot of poses, but I’m guessing the reason for the one was it was… Cheep.