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/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.