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Chaos! (lemmy.world)
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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 133 points 5 days ago (4 children)

what's next? joint bank accounts?

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 100 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Women voting?

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 60 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Dogs and cats, living together!

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Mass hysteria!

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

The black people are eating my vegetables!!!

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

Delicious. (I'm in Ohio.)

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My partner and I have joint financial accounts, but it still would be weird to us to take whatever car.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why? Is it weird to use whatever plate or fork? What about couch cushions? Umbrellas?

I see cars as tools, so there's not "my car" and "their car," but "the small car" (hybrid w/ great gas mileage) and "the big car" (minivan). Before we had kids, we only had one car, and if we needed to be in different places, I would ride my bike, walk, or take the bus. That almost never happened, and it wasn't a big deal when it did.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Plates, forks, cushions, and umbrellas are not typically as personalized as a car.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

Could be they don't much personalize them

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

And my argument is that cars should likewise not be personalized. They're tools.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That's just your opinion. To me, clothes are tools and there's no reason to personalize - just wear black everything, that's what I do. Other people don't seem to share my opinion and that's fine too.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Sure, and I agree with you. I don't find much value in chasing trends, so I wear something respectable for my line of work and call it good.

Cars can be more than tools, and at that point I'd understand the OP that it would be weird to switch those between a couple, but I don't see any reason for that to be the norm rather than the exception, just like chasing trends shouldn't be the norm.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 days ago

Okay, but you started with "why?", that's the question I was answering.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 5 points 4 days ago

Not in my country!

(Seriously, though, Japan doesn't do joint bank accounts).

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

You just like spend whatever dollars you find in there?!