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What things cannot stand to be decorated, fancied up with say, curlicues, gilt, glitter, cherries on top? When is it unnacceptable to make anything seem more than it is with decoration or elaboration? It sometimes seems whimsical, endearing, thoughtful. Or pollution?

― rainy, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What? Rainy, I'm too drunk to follow. I like your posts though. Right now I'm going to watch Southpark.

― Sam-at-home, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, for example, at the Museum there are toilets that have extraordinarily fancy seats. They are clear blue plastic with a nautical, undersea theme, inlaid with plastic seahorses and shells and such. How would you feel about those? Do you ever look at inanimate objects and feel that they are showing off?

― rainy, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmm, interesting. I would say no. I would look at those toilet seats and think , "god is this museum showing off or what?" But then if I was in some rundown middle of nowhere place and encountered what I thought was an elegant, noble seat -- perhaps made of hand carved wood or chipped, but clean, porcelian -- I would praise that inatimate object highly.

― Sam-at-home, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think you can certainly overkill, and sometimes I've done that myself. But if it's a temporary experience, I don't mind -- it's when you have to live with overdecoration that there's sadness.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like richness in a proper setting (a royal bedroom for instance, or a pretentious one), but in places that are supposed to be utilitarian couldn't things stay prettily simple?

― maria, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

are toilets utilitarian any more so than say, kitchens? We must use the bathroom, but can we not do this in the woods the same way we could roast freshly killed tofu over an open fire?

The mere exsistence of restrooms legitimizes the objectification of this otherwise biological need.

Bathrooms, by being bathrooms, are nothing more pretentious decorations of base human needs!!!

Man I'm drunk.

My bathroom is largely decorated by Hello Kitty and Kotex ads from the 1930s. Derive what you will.

― Sam-at-home, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I never knew about the museum toilets. I shall have to go and investigate and suggest them as a tourist attraction. I could have done without the anals advertising at the arc toilets though.

I dont like it when shops, such as (suprise suprise) fairies wizards and gifts insist on putting glitter in every bag they package the item in. Come to think of it why was I shopping there?

― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are some things that I abhor decoration on but I can't remember what any of them are at the moment. I suspect it depends on my mood. Sometimes I am a complete minimalist. I don't like overly decorative web pages.

― toraneko, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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