r/BeAmazed • u/kennny41 • 15d ago

Miscellaneous / Others Conversation Pits Were a Popular Home Feature from the 1950s to 1970s, Designed for Social Interaction

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u/Witty-Stand888 15d ago

Coke and sex

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u/PrestoDinero 15d ago

Exactly! That’s why they started putting plastic covers on the furniture.

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u/Moofy_Poops 15d ago

Is that why grandma's couch was always wrapped in plastic?

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u/homedude 15d ago

Gam Gam had the waterworks goin' on.

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u/Ickythumpin 15d ago

There’s still time to delete this!

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u/PrestoDinero 15d ago

She dead though…

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u/classless_classic 15d ago

She drown?

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u/porkpies23 15d ago

No, died of dehydration.

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u/Kinkajou1015 15d ago

Pap Pap is the one that drowned.

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u/dolphin_spit 14d ago

jesus christ

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u/notgaynotbear 15d ago

I gam gams love juice

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u/m0rp 14d ago

Pop-pop gets a treat

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u/VPackardPersuadedMe 15d ago

She can still get brought out for family occasions. A family that plays together stays together.

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u/scattywampus 15d ago

Bet she died happy...

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u/PrestoDinero 15d ago

Getting that social stickurity.

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

I was eating this chick out and tasted horse cum. I thought "So thats how you died, grandma"

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u/OrneryAttorney7508 15d ago

Even better reason.

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u/KudosOfTheFroond 15d ago

Aaaaand that’s enough internet for me today…

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u/Ember2Inferno 15d ago

It's not enough for me. Gonna keep scrolling deez comments.

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u/Oh_Hamburger 15d ago

Grandma Gertrude… or Squirty Gerty as the boys used to call her.

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u/dogWEENsatan 15d ago

Ha ha ha wtf.

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u/PizzaWhole9323 15d ago

Gam gam. You just made my whole day.

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u/Darmok-And-Jihad 15d ago

they called her the good ol' gushing granny

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u/lawnmowertoad 15d ago

That’s an actual website. Apparently.

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u/HalifaxPotato 15d ago

Now I'm just hearing Anything Goes in my head 😄

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u/motophiliac 14d ago

Looks like I caught the too-much-information-bus just in time!

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u/onetimeuselong 13d ago

Yeah… incontinence

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u/PizzaWhole9323 15d ago

If Grandma's house is a rocking don't come a knocking!

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u/DelightfulAbsurdity 14d ago

😂 I will never look at childhood memories of relatives homes the same again.

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u/TheAngelW 14d ago

Totally. Tell her I say hi. 

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u/goinghomebackwards 14d ago

What happens on grandma’s couch, stays on grandma’s couch.

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u/DriedSquidd 14d ago

No, that's because she was Asian.

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u/Oriphase 15d ago

To be fair, come is really sticky.

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u/Do_it_with_care 13d ago

Those plastic couch covers were in the 50's and 60's with so many kids being born they'd ruin the furniture. We had chairs wrapped, even our big ass lamp shades were professionally wrapped. Hey maybe the parents were the ones ruining the furniture first having sex on the bare couch and staining it.

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u/Snowmann88 15d ago

They could just be Asian.

My dad used to do this.

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u/SteveTheBluesman 15d ago

Orgy couch

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u/GordonCole19 15d ago

Yep.

These "conversation pits" were very handy at the key swap parties.

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u/OrneryAttorney7508 15d ago

Fill it with jello and let nature take its course.

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u/PizzaWhole9323 15d ago

Oh my God thank you. The first thing I thought was it smells like f******, and bump lines. You would be vacuuming that thing for days and it would never get clean. ;-)

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u/NewManufacturer4252 15d ago

I'm sure many vacuumed it with their nose. Like Richard Pryor combing his carpet looking for fallen crack rocks.

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u/rcfox 15d ago

I can't think of a seven-letter word that begins with 'f' that makes sense here... You know it's okay to write naughty words on the Internet, right?

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u/call-me-the-seeker 15d ago

Falafel, of course. Or fennel? fajitas? FRITTER, it smelled of fritter and yeyo, probably.

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u/PizzaWhole9323 15d ago

Oh it was fucking.

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u/PizzaWhole9323 15d ago

I know. I had to get a new Android phone and I just haven't turned off the modesty filter. ;-)

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u/Seienchin88 14d ago

No, it didn’t. It smelled like cigarettes and old liquor…

Yes people might have fucked there too but trust me every place where people partied before the year ~2007 smelled like old cigarettes and sticky old liquor stains…

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u/Rhubarb_and_bouys 15d ago

It's before coke just a teeny bit. This is quaaludes and red wine and if they were hip, acid.

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u/savageboredom 14d ago

Orgies are a type of social interaction.

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u/CreamyStanTheMan 15d ago

Hell yeah! Let's bring these back lol

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u/Decemberbabydoll 15d ago

Let’s not

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u/CreamyStanTheMan 14d ago

Haha yeah no you're probably right. I'm coke free these days anyway

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u/Sanjomo 15d ago

Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, NO COKE! Pepsi

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u/MonkMajor5224 15d ago

Should come with built in key bowls

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u/geekworking 15d ago

Cue the 70's porn movie soundtrack

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u/npcinyourbagoholding 14d ago

Lol exactly. I once pushed two couches together to make a big "couch bowl" or "fuck bowl" as me, my wife, and our 3rd would call it lol.

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u/Pleasant_Scar9811 14d ago

Poppersh and weird shex

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u/dd99999 13d ago

Hi Sean!

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u/blowurhousedown 14d ago

Correct - designed for orgies.

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u/Mattna-da 14d ago

Seats eight, fucks twelve

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u/Interesting_Ad_794 15d ago

And Key Parties IYKYK