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But do people really use plastic covers on their furniture? It's a joke, right?

A conversation piece par excellence!

" I see no difference here whether the dolls wear panties or not. They´re dolls. " KatiaG
"-If that were the case, Ken and Barbie would still be mass produced without the imprints of undergarments." Nerli315

I do wish they were still mass produced without those weird printed panties. Somehow, imprinted panties seem to take the focus to a "fact" that Barbie & Ken are "sexual" and "indecent" somehow, which is something that I believe would go innocently unnoticed on a child of 4-7 years of age, if not pointed out. Meaning, sexuality/ gender is rather natural to young children who run around naked thinking nothing of that, and happily lick barbie-shaped cakes (yack!), it only becomes a moral issue later, with the realisation of the rules and connotations and the general attitude towards things.

I think this sudden need to protect the privates of dolls is only one more sad example of the over-sexualisation of our age. An overreaction of some sort.
Also, I do realise that children, especially girls, seem to become teenagers earlier and earlier, which I think is sad too.
(Hmm. Now I feel my limited english skills limit the expression of my exact opinions.)

I'm european, we don't allways take sex/ morality issues so seriously here anyway. I certainly don't.

In general, I wish people would take relatively innocent things, like this chandellier, lightly and with some sense of humour, without attaching hidden meanings to them (hanged women!), and focus on the important issues instead. Like why we still raise boys and girls differently from the very start.

Why is everyone allways so freaked out about everything? Please!

Manueln has it. As an architect, I know very well that the good intentions in plans rarely see the daylight, when costs are the king of everything. However, it is possible to make garages less ugly even with less money, it just takes more effort. But the cheapest option is that plain concrete version, and that´s why most of garages look the way they do.
Townplanning is crucial too, as it dictates whether you can put any shops etc on the ground level.

Someone allready pointed this out, the space reserved per car in parking garage is approx 25-30 square meters, in office building every user gets approx. 16-22 sq m. Including corridors and common space.

How does anyone survive planning & hosting a party WITHOUT such a list/ spreadsheed???

Well, I´m a list maniac. (Handwritten, never excel, that evil device.) And as an architect, I can´t even move furniture around without drawind a floorplan first... I simply love doing that!