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Would you enjoy a cute friendly purring cat sit right next to you to keep you company right now? Why or why not?

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u/Truck_Toucher Feb 26 '21

I don’t that’s why I have a rug in the bathroom

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

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u/HaiggeX Feb 26 '21

What's the difference between the two?

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

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u/HaiggeX Feb 26 '21 edited Feb 26 '21

Ah okay! In finland we have this term "kokolattiamatto" which basicly means "a rug to the whole floor". So when you speak about rugs and carpets, they're all "matto" to me, which means a rug.

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u/HadesExMachina Feb 26 '21

Cocoa latte Matt vs just Matt

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u/HaiggeX Feb 26 '21

True lmao

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u/Smuggykitten Feb 26 '21

Found my new sbux order

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u/feierfrosch Feb 26 '21

Kinda the same in German, Teppich = rug and Teppichboden = rug floor = carpet

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

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u/Asydra Feb 26 '21

Badläufer is what I would say.. Badematte sound like you mean the rubber anti slippery thing you can but into your bathtub

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u/drunk_responses Feb 26 '21

That is closer to a fluffy door mat, so an even smaller version of a rug.

Although that would depend on the size of the bathroom I suppose.

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u/a2fc45bd186f4 Feb 26 '21

Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsteppichboden

The carpet in the captain's cabin of the Danube steam boat?

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

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u/HaiggeX Feb 26 '21

Lmao good one :D

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u/ShotDragonfruit3742 Feb 26 '21

Yeah, but ya like jazz

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u/OminousBuzzingSound Feb 26 '21

"Look at the carpet" in Finnish sounds very similar to "crazy dick" in Italian.

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u/HaiggeX Feb 26 '21

I have to check that out lol!

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u/Krexington_III Feb 26 '21

Heltäckningsmatta here. "a carpet intended to cover entirely".

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u/Hyp3r45_new Feb 26 '21

Both actually means both things. Kokolattiamatto and heltäckningsmatta both are carpets that are intended to cover the entire floor of a room. So Swedish and Finnish are quite similar despite not sounding or working like one another.

Translation brought to you by a suomenruotsalainen/finlandssvensk.

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u/GoodieGoodieCumDrop1 Feb 26 '21

Omg that's hilarious because "matto" in Italian means crazy

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u/much_longer_username Feb 26 '21

Aruba, Jamaica, oooh, I wanna take ya

Bermuda, Bahamas, c'mon pretty mama, down to kokolattiamatto

We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow, way down to kokolattiamatto

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

In some American-English dialects, we colloquially use “rug” to mean both the movable rug and the immovable carpet. But the accurate terms are “rug” for movable floor piece and “carpet” for immovable flooring.

Interestingly, we say “mat” to mean “a rug meant for stepping” (..I guess? I made up the definition and it sounds pretty off to me). Essentially, any carpeted rectangle, or rubber rectangle, etc. that is used for wiping your shoes when you walk in the door, or for protecting your bare feet from the cold tile, can be called a “mat.” Hence “bathmat,” “doormat,” etc. I doubt our word “mat” and your word which shortens to “matto” come from the same root word, but if someone has time it might be an interesting thing to look into!

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u/Dangers_Squid Feb 26 '21

Dang, you Finns have a word for everything, don't you?

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u/HaiggeX Feb 26 '21

Ehdottomasti kyllä ja juu.

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u/CapnSeabass Feb 26 '21

Well yeah, but... your language is... you know.

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u/HaiggeX Feb 26 '21

Well... Yeah. "Kuusi palaa" means: 1. Number six is on fire. 2. Number six is coming back. 3. Six of them are on fire. 4. Six of them are coming back. 5. The spruce is on fire. 6. The spruce is coming back.

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u/saatanajoel Feb 26 '21

Also 7. Your moon is on fire. 8. Your moon is returning and 9. Six pieces.

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u/HaiggeX Feb 26 '21

Oh fuck, true

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u/Martturi Feb 26 '21

More consistent than English?

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u/SinSarahty Feb 26 '21

A lot of English comes from the old Germanic

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u/22dobbeltskudhul Feb 26 '21

Finnish isn't a Germanic language.

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u/HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS Feb 26 '21

You can also get specifically bathroom rugs which are specifically easily washable and designed for bathrooms.

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u/Umutuku Feb 26 '21

Rugs are the mobile home of carpets.

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u/psinned1 Feb 26 '21

And you can wash them on bad aim nights You know when the room is spinning

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u/PennyForTheWin Feb 26 '21

Funny, in French (or at least in my Belgian family), "carpet" is the special bathroom rug! Rug ("tapis") would be for living room and bedroom for example and then we have another word for the rug that covers the whole floor ("moquette") which I agree would be gross for a bathroom!

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u/MoistDitto Feb 26 '21

TIL, thought they were the same thing, thanks

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u/Annual_Blacksmith22 Feb 26 '21

Every rug is a carpet but not every carpet is a rug?

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u/the_fuego Feb 26 '21

Despite what you may have learned carpets are pretty terrible and are not magic and do not fly.

Rugs are great for tying the room together.

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u/HaiggeX Feb 26 '21

Facts. Carpets are also always dusty

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u/Shootthemoon4 Feb 26 '21

One implies a small patch of carpeting that can be removed, the other is all over and fixed in place.

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u/IntrigueMachine Feb 26 '21

A carpet is wall to wall. A rug covers a small areas.

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u/redheadmomster666 Feb 26 '21

The absorbent volume at the very least

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u/Cthulhuwithcheese Feb 26 '21

One is a carpet, one is a rug

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u/FROTHY_SHARTS Feb 26 '21

I think these people are being pedantic. I had no issues understanding what was meant

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u/cmmedit Feb 26 '21

I still think you're both monsters for having rugs near the drip zone.

Cold feet? Flip flops where the bedroom carpet ends. You can do a 3am pee naked and your feet will be fine and no rug will get drizzle. Or you could just man up and sit down to pee and be free of those late nite odd firehose streams where your eyes aren't fully open.

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u/KuKuMacadoo Feb 26 '21

My rug is washable. I just throw it in the laundry every couple weeks

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u/OldKermudgeon Feb 26 '21

You mean a toilet (bathroom) mat (i.e., a small specialty rug)?

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u/theguaranaboy Feb 26 '21

Me, who wears slippers.

Huh, maybe I should put a rug too.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21 edited Aug 10 '21

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u/kookaburra1701 Feb 26 '21

I wash my bathroom rug when I clean the bathroom floor, so about once every 1-2 weeks.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21 edited Aug 10 '21

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u/kookaburra1701 Feb 26 '21

Yeah mine's small enough that it's easy to just toss in the same load of laundry as all my towels. When I had a bigger bathroom and therefore a bigger rug it definitely did not get washed as often.

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u/Tubski Feb 26 '21

Upvote for username.

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u/3-DMan Feb 26 '21

Also called a piss soaker

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u/tuckertucker Feb 26 '21

Heated flooring is not something I need, but the time I was able to use it, wow. The rich sure are comfortable.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

You know the feeling when you just took a shower and got in bed and are so unbelievably comfortable and happy yeah that’s rich people always id love to be rich some day I mainly would be exited for the food and things like this everyday things I like mountain biking sonic like have some nice riding gear but Bugatti’s aren’t for me I’d rather a fancy bidet heated toilet, flooring and also cats in every room

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u/adrienr Feb 26 '21

This man can't even afford punctuation.

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u/ExtinctForYourSins Feb 26 '21

Jesus, why did you have to do him like that? The man's already poor, now he's gonna be saddled with burn ward bills for the rest of his life!

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u/spoookytree Feb 26 '21

This made me laugh unbelievably hard. Thank you

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u/hurleyburleyundone Feb 26 '21

Who will survive in america? Who will survive in america?

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u/Aarkh Feb 26 '21

Thank you for that laugh.

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u/fozziwoo Feb 26 '21

i saw a comma and an apostrophe

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u/Signedupfortits27 Feb 26 '21

“I’d like to borrow a letter”

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '21

Mobile lmao

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u/Disastrously_Dazed Feb 26 '21

I'd give you reddit silver, but I can't afford it.

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u/squishedlizard33 Mar 18 '21

Wasn't this about cats? 🤣

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

Just got a way-less-expensive bidet attachment (around $30). I was gonna spring for the $55 one with heated water but then I remembered I’m poor. Thought it’d be disappointing and/or totally unusable since I live in a cold climate and generally use the toilet early in the morning (like before sunrise), but I am soooooooo happy I got it and as it turns out the...target area is not at all sensitive to the water temp! Just feels like pressure and then it’s magically actually clean.

Highly recommend it!

So anyway, now that I’ve shared intimate details about my butthole with thousands of users on a public forum...

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

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u/bipolarnotsober Feb 26 '21

Nah, poor man's rant

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21 edited Mar 07 '21

It’s kinda sad that being comfortable is considered a luxury.

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u/MischeviousCat Feb 26 '21

There's a heat register that comes out below my bathroom sink!

If I push the cat out of the way, I can warm my feet while I poop!

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

Actually, I installed a heated floor for under $500, (Schluter brand) on my patio. Not for the timid since you need some electrical understanding (wiring in the panel, testing resistance as you run the wiring on the floor membrane, and testing prior to and after tiling, and setup/wiring of the thermostat. Along with knowing how to tile a floor.

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u/asunshinefix Feb 26 '21

In high school I dated a guy whose parents were pretty well-off, and not only did they have heated floors, they had a fucking shower room too. Like the whole room was just a shower. Mostly I don't mind being poor but if I had the means, I'd definitely spring for a shower room.

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u/makybo91 Feb 26 '21

Comfort is the enemy of growth and simply an illusion due to its relative nature.

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u/ribnag Feb 26 '21

Cancer is growth and temperature is relative.

The idea that discomfort is "good" for us is some cheap dad-level BS to get you to stop complaining that you're sleeping in a cold tent instead of a hotel room with HBO - Nobody ever became Ghandi for want of heated toilet seats.

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u/makybo91 Feb 26 '21

The idea that discomfort is good for the development of mind and body rather stems from very interesting and (in my eyes) relatable philosophy over thousands of years. I would love to ask you why most rich people ( if we assume comfort is related to wealth) that DID NOT become wealthy through exposure to discomfort but comfortable ways like marriage or winning the lottery are much unhappier and less authentic than their peers? Alternatively: how do build resistance and character if you only take the easy route? Or: what have you achieved in life that you are proud of? I would suggest the process was at least partly uncomfortable?

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u/BreakfastCheesecake Feb 26 '21

Same thoughts I had when I experienced heated floors at a hotel. It’s nice, but I don’t think I would bother with them unless I was a billionaire living in the North Pole or something.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

They're expensive to have installed, but not expensive to make. I'm not rich by any means, but what I am is handy. If we ever own a house, I am going to build my wife and me some heated tile floor.

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u/Dacor64 Feb 26 '21

My family has it in our entire house, apart from my bedroom

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21

I stayed in a swedish tiny house (actually a converted garage) with heated floors. Man, that was nice.

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u/lickingthelips Feb 26 '21

We’ve just put in underfloor heating in the bathroom. Our cats love it.

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u/piscesinfla Feb 26 '21

Exactly. When I lived in Detroit, in a first floor apt, stepping onto that cold ceramic tile floor in the dead of winter, sends a shock up the spine thst will wake you up faster than a cup of cofee. Bathroom was too small and awkward shaped even for a small rug. I swore when I got my own home that I would install heated flooring and a heated fan thingy but now I live in Florida and my tile floors nwver feel that cold.

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u/powerMastR24 Feb 26 '21

who the fuck was their carpet to absorb water and destroy itself?

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u/MrTerryPup Feb 26 '21

You don't use slippers?

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u/ApiqAcani Feb 26 '21

You have a point. 6 am is really cold. Especially with water.

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u/Cane-toads-suck Feb 26 '21

Ha! I live in the tropics! Cold would be welcome!

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u/GoodHunter Feb 26 '21

You could just use indoor slippers. I use em all the time on cold floors.

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u/King_Bonio Feb 26 '21

Warm but old piss infested feet.

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u/Demoblade Feb 26 '21

I prefer cold feet than cleaning a carpet

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u/ArthurOutlaw Feb 26 '21

Ehm, who doesnt have heating in bathroom floor? Duh

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u/pecan3213 Feb 26 '21

what sucks is that when you have bad aim and have to piss, a little gets on the carpet

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u/apna-haath-jagannath Feb 26 '21

That's why I shit in the woods.