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Labudism t1_iu4844x wrote

Reply to comment by InannasPocket in TIL about anti ninja floors in Japan. They were purposefully made to squeak as to alert people of intruders. by tpb01

Off topic, but how can a house be figuratively old?

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twirlmydressaround t1_iu4i3pt wrote

I thought they just meant their previous house that they lived in before this one.

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Labudism t1_iu4iw1w wrote

That would still be "literally" old it is literally their "old house"

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Tsara1234 t1_iu4fcqz wrote

It has an old soul. The trees that were used to build it were hundreds of years old.

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mx3goose t1_iu4gx7i wrote

The majority of all ground contact pine or framing lumber is only 20-30 years old at its absolute best nowadays and has been for the last several decades.

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InannasPocket t1_iu6g25y wrote

Maybe not the right description, I just meant to distinguish between "these floors are 100 years old" and "this is my old house, called old because I no longer live there".

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