Me: ugh, modern landmark architecture is just rich people showing off how much money they have.
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Me: ugh, modern landmark architecture is just rich people showing off how much money they have. What happened to restrained displays of class and taste?
18th Century Scotland: PINEAPPLES!!!
@daveybot In 18th-century Scotland, pineapple-themed motifs in architecture and furnishings would have been the equivalent of diamond-iced gold lettering on gangsta-rap album covers: a very unsubtle brag about one’s (claimed) financial means
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Me: ugh, modern landmark architecture is just rich people showing off how much money they have. What happened to restrained displays of class and taste?
18th Century Scotland: PINEAPPLES!!!
@daveybot it's impressive but the lack of windows on the ground floor is worrying. (And weren't windows taxed? So a recurring expense, and therefore a bigger brag?)
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Me: ugh, modern landmark architecture is just rich people showing off how much money they have. What happened to restrained displays of class and taste?
18th Century Scotland: PINEAPPLES!!!
Good taste and money do not often go hand-in-hand. Donald Trump is simply an extreme example of the disconnect.
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@daveybot it's impressive but the lack of windows on the ground floor is worrying. (And weren't windows taxed? So a recurring expense, and therefore a bigger brag?)
@akamran to be honest it’s basically a folly: There’s not really anything TO it other than a few simple rooms! Rather delightful all the same, though.
You can stay in it, even: https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/properties/pineapple/
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@daveybot In 18th-century Scotland, pineapple-themed motifs in architecture and furnishings would have been the equivalent of diamond-iced gold lettering on gangsta-rap album covers: a very unsubtle brag about one’s (claimed) financial means
@acb I’d quite like it if they restored the heated glass houses which used to line either side of this edifice and actually grow some pineapples in there again, but the carbon cost would be - I can only assume - absolutely insane. So I can understand why they don’t.
Still, the crabapples they now have growing in the garden instead really don’t have quite the same vibe.
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@akamran to be honest it’s basically a folly: There’s not really anything TO it other than a few simple rooms! Rather delightful all the same, though.
You can stay in it, even: https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/properties/pineapple/
@daveybot I wish I could!
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Me: ugh, modern landmark architecture is just rich people showing off how much money they have. What happened to restrained displays of class and taste?
18th Century Scotland: PINEAPPLES!!!
@daveybot well, far enough back it was about showing off how much power you had, rather than simply money.
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Me: ugh, modern landmark architecture is just rich people showing off how much money they have. What happened to restrained displays of class and taste?
18th Century Scotland: PINEAPPLES!!!
@daveybot Well, in fairness, those were a sign of wealth at one time, weren’t they? Only rich could afford them?
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@daveybot Well, in fairness, those were a sign of wealth at one time, weren’t they? Only rich could afford them?
@CStamp exactly my point, yes!
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@CStamp exactly my point, yes!
@daveybot Rich will rich.
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@daveybot Rich will rich.
@CStamp Indeed! Or, as a former child of Scotland once so wisely wrote: “same as it ever was…”
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@daveybot Rich will rich.
@CStamp @daveybot I learnt from a digression in this lovely podcast about a rental car that people used to rent pineapples.
“They cost thousands, so people would rent them and just walk around with it as a status symbol. Like: "Look at me, flexing on all you poor people, I got a pineapple and you don’t. I need you to see me walking around with this pineapple, but I can only have it so long because I got to get this thing back by 4 o’clock or they’ll charge me extra.”
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@CStamp @daveybot I learnt from a digression in this lovely podcast about a rental car that people used to rent pineapples.
“They cost thousands, so people would rent them and just walk around with it as a status symbol. Like: "Look at me, flexing on all you poor people, I got a pineapple and you don’t. I need you to see me walking around with this pineapple, but I can only have it so long because I got to get this thing back by 4 o’clock or they’ll charge me extra.”
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@WhiteCatTamer People rent car wheel rims - that's a new one to me!
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Me: ugh, modern landmark architecture is just rich people showing off how much money they have. What happened to restrained displays of class and taste?
18th Century Scotland: PINEAPPLES!!!
@daveybot "We had the choice between windows on the ground floor or the pineapple dome. Easy decision."
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Me: ugh, modern landmark architecture is just rich people showing off how much money they have. What happened to restrained displays of class and taste?
18th Century Scotland: PINEAPPLES!!!
@daveybot Rhode Islanders would love this palace
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@daveybot it's impressive but the lack of windows on the ground floor is worrying. (And weren't windows taxed? So a recurring expense, and therefore a bigger brag?)
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Me: ugh, modern landmark architecture is just rich people showing off how much money they have. What happened to restrained displays of class and taste?
18th Century Scotland: PINEAPPLES!!!
@daveybot @arclight and apparently you can rent it... that's like the world's largest swinger beacon
As of 2024, one can rent the gardeners' quarters and the pineapple summerhouse as a holiday home.
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@WhiteCatTamer People rent car wheel rims - that's a new one to me!
@CiaraNi @WhiteCatTamer @CStamp @daveybot I never knew either of them were rentable. And now I’m scared to think what else is rentable that I never knew.
