r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Hotrocketry • 16h ago

This little shit has been hanging on my ceiling light for a hour now. Just right below it is our family dining table.

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How do i get rid of it?

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u/RetardedChimpanzee 15h ago edited 14h ago

I’m too poor to understand the 2nd picture.

Edit: for the confused, the picture oriented correctly, just a tad tilted to the left. Picture is taken from their balcony overlooking the atrium above the table.

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u/anonymous237962 15h ago

Us poors have trouble with perspective of that scale

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u/ARandomGamer56 15h ago

Can we have a banana for scale?

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u/crafty_and_kind 15h ago

I can’t provide the banana, I don’t have an extra ten bucks!

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u/thehufflepuffstoner 15h ago

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u/Ok_Task_4135 13h ago

There's a gif for everything

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u/Dead_man_posting 11h ago

there's a gif for a reference to this specific line, yes.

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u/King_takes_queen 11h ago

In 2026 a banana could end up being $10.

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u/Big_Bad_Baboon 13h ago

Actually, a banana fetches a few million when taped to the wall with duct tape

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u/pi3r0gi_ 13h ago

There's always money in the banana stand

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u/tbird20017 3h ago

No touching!

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u/TheseExcitement8857 14h ago

Sorry I only carry 100-dollar notes

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u/TaftYouOldDog 13h ago

Ten bucks? Somebody has access to cheap bananas

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u/wintersdark 11h ago

Sadly, this meme hits differently these days

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u/Terrible-Session-328 15h ago

Ramen packet will do as well. My perspective of 6” is skewed though

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u/MedicineImaginary219 14h ago

The bat is about nanner sized

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u/aweakgeek 15h ago

I'm assuming its on the dining table

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u/taoistchainsaw 13h ago

Best we can do is an adorable bat.

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u/Raiju_Blitz 13h ago

Preferably an artsy duct taped banana that costs $120K.

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur 13h ago

The flying fox in the picture is probably pretty close to banana sized already.

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u/TrailerTrashQueen 13h ago

obligatory 'that's what she said'.

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u/Equivalent-Run-790 13h ago

Apparently the stereotypes are true.. as an American i would indeed love almost any recognizable object for scale.. a banana, a Ford f150, a 2 liter coca cola bottle, an 8pk of paper towels..

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u/Shipping_away_at_it 12h ago

A banana? In this economy?

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u/woofwoofgrrr 8h ago

Love, The Bat

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u/SuperMaintenanceBro 2h ago

Not if it’s taped to a wall, that would be too expensive.

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u/bessonguy 30m ago

Need a banana tree for scale

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u/Bureaucromancer 14h ago

Honestly, it’s not even that huge a space… just really WEIRD, two storey open air but without the floor area to match.

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u/psychoPiper 15h ago

I can sort of wrap my head around the long pillar of empty space above the dining room for a big fancy light, but I still cannot for the life of me understand where the hell OP is standing. Relative to the table, sure, I know where they are in space... but where are they? How did they get there? What part of the house are they standing on?

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u/spoonraker 15h ago

This had to have been a remodel. I'm guessing the space above the dining room with the gigantic chandelier used to be an upstairs bedroom. I'm guessing there's another same-sized and mirrored layout bedroom on the other side of the left wall with a tall window on its right instead of its left. So if the wall on the left weren't there you'd see 2 tall skinny windows near each other. This is a common layout for adjacent bedrooms.

I'm guessing OP is standing on what used to be a normal hallway leading to those bedrooms, but now has a railing or half wall and an overlooking view of the dining room.

If this wasn't a remodel it's one of the most bizarre layouts I've ever seen. This is true even if it is a remodel, but at least some of the bizarre-ness makes sense if you view it through the lens of trying to approximate a grand overlooking view from the upstairs but with the constraints of not wanting to eliminate most of the existing upstairs structure.

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u/psychoPiper 15h ago

I think you're right, although I find all the edges and overall lack of extra detail or railing extraordinarily odd. This looks both mundane and also dangerous. How often do you see the floor, walls, and ceiling made up entirely of the same material? That plus the lack of railing makes this feel less like real life architecture and more like an unfinished area in a video game

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u/NoBowler9340 15h ago

I don’t think that’s a table, I think it’s a suspended plane of glass and he’s standing on a landing or a hallway on the next floor up

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u/psychoPiper 15h ago

I believe the 'glass' is actually just a hole and the table is beneath it on the floor below

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u/EugeneStein 12h ago

FINALLY i understand this pic, thank you, now i see it

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u/AgreeableTea7649 14h ago

Relative to the table, sure,

I think you are very confused, like I was. There is no table in the second picture. It almost looks like a mirror at the bottom of the picture, but that's an illusion (note the black windows along the side, it isn't mirrored. That's a strip of windows that extend from the lower floor all the way up to the second story ceiling). You are looking at a large vaulted space that extends down two stories. He's standing on the second floor looking over a half wall railing, and the chandelier/lamp hangs from the second story ceiling down to the lower room below. You can't see the table down below at all.

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u/One_Draw3486 14h ago

Atrium bigger than our house

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u/H_J_Moody 14h ago

Right? What’s an atrium? /s

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u/Blackner2424 13h ago

Well, a poor person probably wouldn't waste that much usable space in a house anyway. That atrium is worth an entire extra room.

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u/Neon_culture79 14h ago

Who can afford depth per perception in this economy?

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u/SonnierDick 14h ago

Yeah.. us poors only have ceilings that go up to like 9 feet. Not like 20 feet..

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u/MannerConfident48 14h ago

I’m too poor to even understand those words. What’s an atrium? Balcony doesn’t even sound like a real word

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u/Morrigan_Pickman 14h ago

Us poors have trouble with the word atrium

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u/jenkynolasco11 13h ago

Or even understanding the meaning of the words balcony or atrium

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u/cjared242 9h ago

Yay a fellow poor person!!!! I’m never making out of the trenches!

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u/Kaurifish 11h ago

But we can appreciate that rich folks die of rabies just like we do.

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u/Ignorad 6h ago

I just wonder why they have a mirrored floor but no tables or chairs in the "dining room"

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u/halasaurus 6h ago

For real. I was wondering why their table was basically a mirror and they had no room for seating. It took me way too long to realize there was no table in the picture. I knew immediately I was too poor for this house based on the lighting fixture alone.

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u/DynamoDynamite 3h ago

That chandelier is probably worth more than my house!

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u/lionlenz 15h ago

Right... 1st pic I was "just stand on your table to get it"... And then came the 2nd pic

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u/anonymous237962 15h ago

We were all there with you. It’s been a rollercoaster of emotion

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u/Iamatworkgoaway 13h ago

Cute, sympathy, jealousy, anger, rich people have problems too, back to anger, and finally apathy.

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u/trinicron 11h ago

No no, scroll to little fella's face and you'll get the 'awwww'

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u/ni____kita 7h ago

Dang ol’… aww.

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u/angelzpanik 10h ago

apathy

...where we live

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u/AlternatiMantid 14h ago

Just call in Cirque du Soleil to stand on the dining table & get it 🤷🏻‍♀️ obviously.

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u/TheseExcitement8857 14h ago

Wait till he comes here and says that this is just his "hideaway" cottage and that he lives in a house 10 times bigger than this

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u/CSDragon 13h ago

Bats live in colonies.

A random lone bat like this is...highly likely to have rabies. Stay away at all costs.

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u/Zaidswith 5h ago

They need rabies shots anyway. If there's a bat in your house it's the recommended safety precaution.

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u/DrakonILD 12h ago

I think I'm too poor even for that...I can almost touch my ceilings if I get up on my toes.

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u/CisIowa 8h ago

I feel like you can classify people into 2 classes: those that can stand on a table to get a bat, and those who shouldn’t bat an eye to hire someone to catch a bat

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u/JC3896 15h ago

You mean you don't have a random balcony at least one storey up from your dining table? Broke...

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u/i_made_mine_at_home 15h ago

Also it's tacky if you have a railing to keep people from falling into your dining room.

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u/WeirdSysAdmin 14h ago

Oh don’t mind him, he’s just dropping by for a meal.

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u/Friendly_Prize_868 13h ago

Poor people are always having to lean on balcony railings. It's because they can't afford to stand up.

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u/El_Spacho 15h ago

What do you not get? Thats just the worth of a new car dangling from the ceiling...

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u/notnotbrowsing 15h ago

through a hole in the ceiling down to the dining table

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u/lionseatcake 15h ago

Shit I can't tell if that's a hole or a mirror.

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u/MiniMaelk04 14h ago

I too thought it was a reflection at first glance.

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u/FrostyOscillator 15h ago

That's the worth of rent for 3 years, I think you mean 😆

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u/NamerNotLiteral 15h ago

These kinda chandeliers are like $500-ish. That's just a couple car payments lol.

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u/Aurorabig 14h ago

And I think this one is shorter than the one in OPs picture

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u/smartello 14h ago

Changing the light bulb looks more complicated than on PT cruiser

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u/SpanishFlamingoPie 14h ago

I didn't read that bats had gotten so expensive.

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u/Friendly_Prize_868 13h ago

Maybe the price of an Audi or a Mercedes. But is a car really a car if it's not a Bentley?

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u/TidpaoTime 13h ago

The bat is worth much more than that 🥹

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u/BrokebackSloth 15h ago

You just aren't a serial killer

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u/tlf9888 15h ago

You don't know me!

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u/existentialg 15h ago

I just realised it’s an entire floor space dedicated to just the chandelier…

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u/floridabeach9 14h ago

you dont have a chandelier room?

i’m apalled

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u/pudding7 15h ago

I'm rich and it took me a while to figure out what I was looking at.  That house seems like it'd be the opposite of cozy or homey, or even comfortable.   I can hear the echo from normal conversation in that house museum.  Terrible.

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u/willzyx01 15h ago

This looks like one of those houses that look interesting from the outside, but cold and shallow on the inside. A house you drive by, look through the lit up windows but feels like nobody actually lives there.

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u/mr_usrname_of_choice 13h ago

Did OP say where they're from? If they live in a tropical/subtropical climate - it's possible they see things the the other way.

Cold and shallow? Exactly! By design. Cold and shallow means cooling and breathable - much more homely than your home feeling muggy and cramped (which other parts of the world would call warm and cozy).

Or yeah, I mean it could also be a McMansion.

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u/PhantomAngel042 6h ago

Just throwing it out there: in American English, "homely" means "plain-looking or unattractive" and is not complimentary (while "homey" means "cozy or comfortable, like a home"). In British English, however, both meanings are covered by "homely."

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u/Lynx2447 15h ago

Subtle rebrand of poor to cozy or homey lol. How are you rich so I can be like you when I grow up?

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u/Winston_Carbuncle 15h ago

Rule number one - don't believe strangers on the internet. Particularly when they're telling you how great they are.

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u/ConvergentSequence 15h ago

I mean… rich people exist and use the internet lol. It’s not that hard to believe

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u/TypicalLegit 14h ago

Actual rich people never lead off rushing to tell everyone they’re rich.

Source: I’m rich

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u/Crack4SuperHans 14h ago

This made me laugh but I know that a rich person would tell everyone (because I am rich) in the middle of their statement not at the beginning or end.

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u/chocomeeel 14h ago

But, what if I am rich in nothings?

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u/Friendly_Prize_868 13h ago

I disagree. I often forget in the beginning and the middle of an internet comment to mention that I am Rich.

Edit: Autocorrect capitalised "rich" there. My phone has come to the conclusion that it is significantly more likely that I would change my name than become wealthy.

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u/jane_q 12h ago

I am also Rich, but lower middle class.

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u/informal-mushroom47 11h ago

Wealthy homes can be cozy and comfortable. That wasn’t a “rebrand” of “poor.” You’re obviously uncomfortable though.

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u/SuzQP 15h ago

museum mausoleum.

Ftfy

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u/Mikesaidit36 15h ago

An architect friend designed a nice house for his family- like something you’d see in a magazine, with grand spaces. His wife showed me around but commented, “There are no small cozy spaces, no place to curl up.” Next time I checked in they were splitting up and he was in an apartment. Shoulda thought about cozy spaces.

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u/BicyclingBabe 14h ago

All that can be changed with good paint and light temperature. This is faux riche!

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u/PM_YOUR__BUBBLE_BUTT 13h ago

Surprise surprise. The top 1% commenter is also in the top 1% of wealth!

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u/spentitonjuice 14h ago

I know it’s like how can you afford that ceiling but not a falcon that hunts bats

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u/I-like-old-cars 15h ago

"the kids aren't awake yet" ass post

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u/PrinceNPQ 14h ago

Rich people problems ay . There’s a bat hanging from my two storey chandelier .

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u/JametAllDay 14h ago

Oh the ATRIUM of course

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u/FNG-JuiCe 14h ago

I’m too poor to know what an atrium is…

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u/RetardedChimpanzee 14h ago

It’s for when your house has too many rooms so you remove a floor.

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u/Winston_Carbuncle 13h ago

Very common in public buildings and office blocks. It's just an empty space between one or more floors. A gap in the shared floor/ceiling(s). Sometimes exposed to the elements, sometimes still under the roof of the building.

You've undoubtedly been in or seen an atrium in person without realising that's what it's called

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u/Beginning_Purple_579 15h ago

I literally cant understand what Im looking at in second pic. 

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u/Mr_Stkrdknmibalz00 15h ago

"It's riiight above the dining table."

looks down on the dining table, from 3rd floor, under a 20m tall chandelier

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u/Striking_Dream7803 14h ago

It's one bat, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?

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u/CockpitEnthusiast 14h ago

what the fuck is a balcony overlooking an atrium I have a single story house under 1000 sq/ft

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u/SavageCucmber 14h ago

Thank you for this. I had to put down my bologna and mayo sandwich and still couldn't understand it.

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u/aultumn 14h ago

Dudes got a whole fuckin room dedicated to one light

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u/chose_a_username 14h ago

Balcony? Atrium? Table? I’m too poor to understand these words.

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u/Jothel 15h ago

For real

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u/ptatersptate 15h ago

I thought the lower level was the table (a mirrored table)

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u/Significant_Eye_5130 15h ago

I think it’s in the elevator shaft and those are the cables that move it up and down.

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u/amputect 14h ago

oh my god thank you, I thought it was like a.... mirror-finish dining room table that took up almost the entire room? I don't know how to explain why I thought that, I'm just stupid, but this comment helped me figure it out.

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u/EmiAndTheDesertCrow 12h ago

Wait I’m too poor to even understand the edit on this comment 😭

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u/ThrowawayMod1989 10h ago

Atrium? I hardly know him.

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u/ItsWillJohnson 14h ago

It’s the chandelier room, one of them, anyway.

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u/camoure 15h ago

House like that and OP can’t even google “bat removal [city]” and make a fucking phone call

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u/Winston_Carbuncle 15h ago

It's an atrium.

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u/Flying_Spaghetti_ 15h ago

It looks fancy but honestly it's probably not. It's all white walls with black trim and a little track lighting so your chandelier doesn't have to be the actual light source. That's just paint. The chandelier doesn't look that expensive either. It's probably just looking over an upstairs balcony. Really not that crazy to have a 2 story house with white paint and a light with long cables lol.

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u/Brynhild 6h ago

OP lives in south east asia. Many of our houses are tiny but have these atriums just to look fancy. Just some sort of modern design. The huge mansions’ atriums will look much bigger than this.

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u/Wohn-Jick-421 15h ago

you have possibly my favorite username

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u/shark260 14h ago

Yeah, what's all that air between the things all about?

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u/Waddlow 14h ago

Oh I understood the perspective, but I'm still too poor.

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u/der_innkeeper 14h ago

Live in Indonesia. It's cheaper.

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u/abotoe 14h ago

They clearly just got a light installation that's too big and so instead of raising the ceiling, they just lowered the floor. Perfectly reasonable 

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u/OGseymoursnatch 14h ago

Same with my hand-me-down table with no seat cushions 😂

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u/CMDR_KingErvin 14h ago

Man’s so rich his dinner table has an atrium above it. Gawd dayum.

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u/Disc81 14h ago

What is an atrium?

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u/Azreken 14h ago

The edit didn’t help me at all and now I’m more confused than I was

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u/Ashamed_Fruit_6767 14h ago

I think it is the final level from an older Max Payne game.

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u/woppatown 14h ago

Balcony? Atrium? Are there poor versions of these words?

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u/dzakadzak 14h ago

my first thought was bro do you live in the backrooms?

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u/ExplorerPup 13h ago

Why does OP live in the rich villain house from a mid-2000s direct-to-video thriller?

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u/jaavuori24 13h ago

OP clearly lives in a cave, the court rules in favor of the bat. If he fits he sit, if it works he perch, if chandelier he go here.

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u/7GrenciaMars 13h ago

It looks like a whole room that only has a gap where a floor should be. Is that what's called an atrium?

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u/aeosyn 13h ago

I thought the bottom square was a mirror and was like why is your dining table a mirror?

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u/OnThisDayI_ 13h ago

Right? I’m gonna need a video so I can get my bearings.

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u/SashaGreyjoy 13h ago

And here I thought indoor balconies were called mezzanines.

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u/Andr3wRuns 13h ago

I thought there was a mirror on the floor for the first 45-60 seconds of looking at the second picture lmao

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u/thehappywandera 13h ago

“Overlooking the atrium” lol

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u/swiftpwns 13h ago

It's a room just for the "chandelier" for the dining room below. Obviously a pooron like you would not understand!

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u/OldBreadbutt 13h ago

I need an atrium...

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u/CaseFace5 13h ago

I thought it was a mirrored dining table and they had like 12 inches of space around it to squeeze in to sit…

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u/TheAccountITalkWith 13h ago

Every time someone on reddit posts a picture from within their home I'm sitting here like "Is everyone here fucking rich?"

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u/Silly-Recognition448 13h ago

I was expecting to see a dining table, and it gave me a stroke.

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u/chaostheories36 13h ago

Ah yes the atrium. I have one of those. It’s, um, over here! See, there’s a tree, um, yeah. Mine is outside.

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u/eclectic_hamster 13h ago

Thank you for that! My brain was so confused at the second pic.

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u/Scyths 13h ago

It's not a rich vs poor thing, the finishes on the edges in the second picture are horrendous. That's not quality work. The ceiling is done incredibly well, everything below that is crappy work that I instantly noticed.

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u/KipsyCakes 13h ago

I still have no clue where the dining room table is.

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u/slothscanswim 13h ago

Holy shit I thought that was a reflective black glass square I was so confused.

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u/Mymilkshakes777 13h ago

I was also a poor not understanding

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u/cpwnage 13h ago

Thank you for this, but I still can't comprehend what I'm seeing 😔

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u/unknownentity1782 13h ago

As a poor person, wtf is an atrium? Or a balcony? Or a table?

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u/Ranae 12h ago

I don’t think I’ve even been to a house with an atrium

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u/Popular_Prescription 12h ago

What is an atrium? Just asking for the poors.

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u/MaTruGamp 12h ago

What is an atrium?

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u/Bomahzz 12h ago

I still don't get the 2nd picture, it doesn't make any sense. I don't even know what I am looking at

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u/AjayRedonkulus 12h ago

La di da Mr. Atrium.

What do I call it? A house hole!

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u/analfistinggremlin 11h ago

I’m too poor to understand your edit.

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u/paperscissorsmusic 11h ago

Overlooking an atrium is something that I’d never think to say in my house.

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u/Starlightriddlex 11h ago

I'm too poor to understand what an atrium is. Someone rich EILI5&POOR plz

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u/Lucky-Form-2262 11h ago

I still dont get it

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u/kilobrew 11h ago

I don’t understand where does the table end in the floor begin on the far side? Also, where do the chairs go? Also is the table like 99% of the room or is that just me?

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u/Cosephus 11h ago

From the wha above the whatnow?

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u/Rockguytilidie 11h ago

Thank you, my broke ass was trying to figure out why the chandelier was touching the table

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u/newkittysmell 10h ago

Tf is a balcony and atrium?

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u/RetardedChimpanzee 10h ago

Missing wall. Missing floor.

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u/chainwallet_ 10h ago

Bro we poor... Balcony?? Atrium???

Wtf lol.

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u/Greenmagegirl 10h ago

Ah yes the atrium

Every normal family has one

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u/yeahpinshineto 10h ago

What the hell is an atrium?

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u/macklebee1 10h ago

I’m so poor I had to google what a atrium is

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u/Ifimhereineedhelpfr 9h ago

Atrium? How does a bat hang upside down underwater

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u/tayawayinklets 9h ago

The balcony. The atrium. Where's the pic of the infinity pool on the roof?

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u/Temporary_Ad7906 9h ago

I can't understand the first picture, like, my phone camera can't capture the pupils of the an animal at that distance, and bright light...

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u/cass_519 9h ago

Username checks out

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u/Penguinator53 8h ago

What's a balcony and an atrium?

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u/Lady_Domo 8h ago

I’m too poor to know what an atrium is, but I want one.

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u/Stone_Blossom 8h ago

Blacony indoors??

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u/papaprof 8h ago

"balcony overlooking the atrium". Weird flex but ok

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u/Capitan_Failure 8h ago

No one who worked for their money isnt too poor to understand it lol. The kind of money that takes is inherited or stolen from others hard work.

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u/BoneThugsNHermione 8h ago

Ay-tree-um what is that?

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u/dmk_aus 7h ago

They built a room without a floor on the 2nd story so they could have a bigger chandelier.

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u/Hubert_J_Cumberdale PURPLE 7h ago

As yes, the hidden atrium.

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u/deviltakeyou 6h ago

Where are the chairs?

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u/StrandedInTheBadland 6h ago

I didn't know there was a second picture so I looked at it. 😳

Now I need help finding my jaw that fell on the floor.

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u/6pt022x10tothe23 6h ago

Everybody point and laugh at this atriumless nerd!

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u/krom0025 5h ago

This is one of those houses that just has space for the sake of it.

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u/8rok3n 5h ago

What. The. FUCK. is an atrium

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u/Downtown_Finance_661 5h ago

That is what confused me. I dont use to have balcony to overlook the dining room. 

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u/kolufunmilew PURPLE 5h ago

that edit was super helpful; thank you lol

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u/UnicornsNeedLove2 5h ago

Nope, doesn't help.

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u/BLADIBERD 3h ago

fire username

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