Post #537213 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 4:20 PM

On 2010-06-17 15:57, freddiefreelance wrote:
I had my Daughter try to buy me a Tiki just the other day as a thank you for something I had done; I told her "You don't have to do that, I was glad to help," but she's insisting, so I've tried to spell Marquesan for her and maybe I'll get a Sam's Seafood mug or a nice carving. But no matter what she buys I'll thank her profusely, and if it's hideous it'll end up in the guest room where I don't have to see it every day and she'll see it next time she visits.

You know that reminds me of a childhood experience:
As a teenager of 12 years in Hamburg, one year I was desperate to find a birthday present for my mom. I saw this blue ceramic raven in the window of our local hardware store, (that was when hardware stores had a limited amount of "decor" items among their wares, usually very kitschy stuff). Well I liked this figure, it had a large beak, like a Toucan, and it looked kinda cartoony, so I bought it for her.

When she got it, she was first surprised and then laughed, and sort of gave me this bemused but belittling smile a la "Oh sweetie, how nice!". And my older brother smirked, both of them leaving me with little doubt that I had committed some pitiful taste digression. Very embarrassing!

BUT: Look what it made me do! I unearthed a whole genre of "bad taste" items, and proved to the world (well, to some part of it) that it was art in its own right! Ha, I really showed them! :D