Don’t fucking talk to me, you’re a cupboard.

I’m not here for furniture introducing itself but there was also a sofa I would’ve happily taken home.
Her name was Martha and she looked like a Martha. She was big and soft and so damn comfy.
Like a hug in sofa form.

If only she wasn’t £1000.
(Photo from the website because I didn’t take one in the store)

Also the display model had some sagginess in the back cushions that made it look like smiles.

Who wouldn’t want a sofa that smiles at you and gives you a hug?

No, you shut up and stop being weird about sofas on the internet.

@Troggie So sofas get names and affection but cupboards get sworn at for talking? Sounds a bit elitist to me.
@davidbcohen Martha didn’t try to introduce herself to me.
@Troggie Sounds like she didn’t need to, sofa stalker! 😜
@Troggie The Damned were singing about a WARDROBE? Explains why my mum was so pissed when I bought the record…
@Troggie radiator
@Xtrems876 I mean, the thing *next* to it is a radiator. But thanks for your input.
@Troggie I meant to highlight the contrast between the cupboard introducing itself and the radiator just saying radiator, I found it humorous. Sorry
@Xtrems876 lol yea I see. Sorry I read that wrong.
@Troggie I'm pretty sure Eloise is the name of the lil goblin girl who hides in the cupboard. If you buy it she'll eat your porridge and rearrange your bookshelf while you're gone.

@Troggie

In the future you will not be able to open your closet without using an app on your phone.

@the5thColumnist @Troggie I recently bought a power station backup battery, and one of the reasons I chose it was because the phone app for controlling it was optional. I mean, imagine during a power outage where you can’t charge your phone not being able to charge your phone because your phone isn’t charged?!

@Frantasaur @Troggie

I have a power bank that you just plug in to USB to charge and you plug your device into it to charge your device. No controls necessary.

@the5thColumnist @Troggie this is one of those power stations that can power your whole house, so it’s a bit bigger than that. It’s very common for this stuff to require an app.

@Frantasaur @Troggie

OH - completely different thing then. Still why does everything need an app. Seems to me something like that should have it's own control panel, perhaps with an app as an option for remote access.

@Troggie

I don't have any "sliding shoes" - they sound dangerous 😱

@Troggie sounds like one of those British insults: "you're a complete and total cupboard".

@nxskok @Troggie

That's good.

I think I'll start an insult registry office or something...

@nxskok @Troggie in a bar I used to work at in Belfast, there was a bouncer known as “wardrobe” 😅
@Frantasaur @Troggie They were probably built like a brick ... wardrobe.

@Troggie my rage when the destination blind on the bus says "Sorry I'm not in service"

Some would say "Sorry I'm not in service at the moment" or I'm misremembering

just say "Not In Service" and stop assuming the waiting passengers want an anthropomorphic bus! or are literate!

@jackeric gods, don’t even get me started on buses. Things that talk to you that shouldn’t are my obsession at the moment and it started with bloody buses.
I see “I’m electric!” Or “I’m a hybrid” on the side of these things all the time. It’s not cute, it’s not quirky, it needs to stop.

@Troggie my favourite feature was a big (like, 3cm across) bright blue LED status light, on the dashboard of the bus, that was always on, to let you know the bus is a hybrid

the buses all have automatic gearboxes. the only difference from it being hybrid is the diesel motor shuts off when you stop and restarts when you exceed about 5mph

I used to carefully dismantle the light and put a speck of blu-tac on the surface-mount LED within to dim it. some colleagues would scrape the LED off its board completely

here's a frame from a video I took by putting my phone in my shirt pocket

@Troggie going on a little tangent here's how I made these buses bearable to drive at night. put the dash into "dark mode" where the backlighting is turned off for everything but the speedo and tacho. then stick blu-tac over the remaining LEDs like the one that tells me the bus isn't turned off, the one that tells me the saloon lights are on (painfully obvious from the windscreen reflections), the ones that tells me these are the indicators for the demister temperature and fan speed...

oh and the hateful little traffic light assembly that monitors and reports your driving and lets you know if it thinks you're driving badly. inaccurate to the point of uselessness and just distracting

@jackeric Yikes. That’s heinous. WHY does it need a light to tell you that? Let alone one that distracting…
@Troggie
"Excuse me?! I'd like to talk with your Radiator!!!" 
@Troggie I'm sorry 🎉 you're right, I'm a cupboard, and should never talk to you ✅ @Gargron
@Troggie they are putting Ai in too much stuff tbh.
@Troggie Flatpack furniture names should have at least one diacritical marking. We all know this.
@Troggie don't talk to a cupboard like that!!!