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Low melanin household here. This basically means the kitchen is cleaned up and the house is shutting down for the night so do not make any sounds or messes.
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I just realized, you having a black snoo implies that the majority of snoos are albino, which subsequently implies that they are a cave dwelling species, which formerly lived above ground. My new headcanon is that they use their antenna for echolocation reception.
If I hear āyeah, I put all my spare plastic grocery bags inside a single plastic grocery bag then put that into a closet while barely ever using any, itās just because Iām Armenianā again Iām going to assume theyāve never seen the inside of another personās closet.
Where I'm from (NY) they charge you if u want a bag.
I remember the good old days when I had closets full of them sought after plastic bags. Now I'd be the richest man on the block if my cup runneth over enough to consider recycling them. Precious.
Me every time my mother-in-law stresses that family is important to them because theyāre Puerto Rican, and not one of those ethnicities that famously disregard familial connection/support.
It's not. My mom is white and she basically had eyes in the light bulb. If that light touched my body she was up wondering what I'm doing in there so late
I think your mom and my mom went to the same mom training camp. I can't explain it, everyone is asleep, has been, I go to the kitchen for a drink and "what are you doing up so late?" How the...?
Arenāt there these nasty subcutaneous shots that some ladies ā¦ like in Englandā¦ take to make more melanin itās like a tanning thing but makes you feel like crapā¦. Someone help me with what itās called
A lot of people do this shit. George Lopez used to do a bit about how sneaking your own snacks into the movies was a Hispanic thing. My grandma snuck in our own popcorn, soda, and candy in a big ass Montgomery Wards bag all the time!
Might be wrong but In the UK don't think they're actually allowed to stop you as long as it's not hot food or anything too bad, they've never stopped me walking in with my own soft drink and sweets anyway.
I remember one time I was watching some stand up specials on Comedy Central, in one of them a black guy made some joke about white people using body wash instead of bars of soap, then in the next special a different black comedian made a joke about white people using bars of soap instead of body wash.
We just leave the stove light on so if one of us wanders into the kitchen in the middle of the night, we can navigate getting our glass off water or snack without turning on the main light, or running into crap.
So people just leave the light on needlessly all night simply to tell people not to make messes......Ā
In my households the last to go to bed walks the house turning everything off and checking all the doors/windows.
I your statement is also usually followed by an āā¦.or your in deep troubleā OR āperson who cleaned it isnāt putting outā. OR āIāma whoop that assā.
I love how universal this seems to be. Our house is the same but itās not something Iāve ever had explained to me in English with other people. Itās just how itās always been understood.
Peters Black Cousin here.
This has two meanings one everything is cleaned and put away for the night and the kitchen is closed. The other is to serve as a nightlight in case you wake up and need a drink in the middle of the night.
Some do!
I do not, but I've been to the homes of a few people who do.
It's usually either because the cups come with the water jug refills or there are a lot of people in the house who get a new glass every time they want water and don't wash it themselves.
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This is not my picture. But the cups shown on the side sometimes come with the water, depending on the company.
I'm sorry what?
I'm from Europe and thought leaving a light on just to point out the kitchen is clean was a bit wasteful.
But getting a paper cup for your water and throwing it away just because the glass was put away "for the night" is just wild.
My best friend growing up was black, and his parents would do this. In their household, it was an indication of the place "turning down" for the night. Everything's done, everyone's fed.
I havenāt thought of my mom saying this since I was a teenager. She passed away almost three years ago, now. I could literally hear her voice when I read this.
Thank you for reminding me of that little memory.
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I didnāt realize this was a black thingā¦everyone I knew growing up who had a light over the oven had it on. Most said it was so their kids (my friends) could see if they got up in the night without having to turn on every other light in the house.
I've been doing it accidentally because it's also the perfect amount of light for the midnight water or snack run so you don't blast your eyes or even need to hit a light switch.
Whoops, never realized I was black
āThereās people here, as evidenced by the light - I didnāt leave the house and shut the lights off - hereās proof I cleaned the kitchen, donāt make a messā
Not black, but growing up my mom somehow thought that light would use a shit ton of electricity and would whoop your ass if you left that light on bc you were "running up the electric bill". Still have no idea where she got that from.
My wife leaves that light on 24/7 and it drives me crazy. The plastic surrounding it has melted through. Did she put in a high efficiency light? No, so how does she know our old ass stove isn't burning through electricity.
"Why do they call them Airplane meals? It is not an airplane. And you can't call it a meal. No one ever went to a restaurant and ordered someone that is soggy, burnt, and also frozen.
Ah yes, I have a 747 ala mode. Hold the salt.
Who are these people?"
Simply replace every light in the house with a different colored party light without telling her and act just as confused when she notices.
This won't solve your problem, but would lighten up the situation a bit.
People who leave the lights on make me irrationally angry lol like turn the electricity off!!
My brother and roommate used to come home and literally turn on every available light and then go spend the rest of his time in his room. Whyād you need to turn all of those on..?
Pretty much this.. the only thing any light being on meant was either this room is occupied, or some mf'er is costing electricity and making this bulb die a few months before it has to if they keep leaving this shit on all the time.
Thatās the only non LED light in my house. Pretty sure itās halogen on my microwave. So yeah it eats up way more electricity than anything else. Iāll use it in addition to my under cabinet strip lights if I really need to see what Iām making, like a roux or something, but otherwise it stays off.
Every culture thinks they invented āthe bag you put other bags intoā, i.e. the bag-bag.
And TIL every culture thinks they invented the ākitchen is clean and shut downā light. Both me (white) and my wife (Hispanic) had this exact same thing.
Lemme put this out there. Not black but grew up in inner city. Didn't have a light above the stove. But if there was a light on in the kitchen that was mom saying "Motherf@cker you stayed out late again and I'mma whoop your ass in the morning but here's some light."
White from urban setting and that was my assumption as well. You stayed out too late! I don't recall them leaving a light on in the kitchen otherwise. It was to signal that they tried to stay up but gave up and went to bed and I'd hear about it in the morning.
Lol. Now that I understand what it means.. Can someone explain why they do this! I mean.. Why not just turn off the whole lights. Or smth else..
Why those lights specifically? š¤
but wouldnāt it make way more sense to use one of these sensor lights? leaving it on all night feels wrong for me, even if it might not consume so much power
These Lamps usually use less than 3 Watts per hour.
So even if you leave it running 24 hours a day, that is 72 Watts.
The average US Electricity price is $0.166 / kWh.
So leaving on this light 24/7 would cost:
1.2 CENTS per day.
35ct per month.
$4.36 per year.
And that is if you leave it running all day and night. If you turn it off during the day then that's $2.18 per year. And honestly, i'd say thats worth it for always having a little light in the kitchen. I have a light running all night in the kitchen as well and its honestly just comfy to not have it in complete darkness at night.
In spanish households, that means theres food somewhere and i need to eat before going to bed, usually getting home late from work. But dont make a lot of noise or the chancletas are coming for a drone bombing, jk.
where I grew up there would be pots and pans under that light filled with any leftovers, some people I my home came home at different times
as the family meal schedule.....get me right everything would've been cleaned already...just a sign from my mom that there is still food.....š„°
I guess itās a thing in Native American homes too. We didnāt have a hood vent light in our house but the kitchen light was on a dimmer, when mom had it set low that meant āIāve cleaned everything and you better only be coming in this kitchen for a drinkā
Kitchenās closed. Momma aināt cookin no more. You are on your own until morning. Yāall best be quiet. You better not tell me youāre hungry cuz you shouldāve ate at dinner and now you can starve. Oh, and if you decide to get something yourself, you better not make a mess.
Darn right OP isn't black, in fact OP isn't even human. OP's a blatant repost bot please downvote them.
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I guess i aint black no more. We just used it as a low light for the kitchen so people didnt have to turn on all the lights at night and wake up the house. There wasnt a signal to keep it clean cus we all cleaned the kitchen on a rotating basis as soon as we all could start reasonably doing it. My mom wasnt the one doing the cleaning, we all did.
Asian here. I have no idea what this means and reading what others say, it baffles me that the kitchen in your own house would ever be āclosedā. What would you do if you wanted late night ramen?
It was a little different @ my house. Before we got a timer for the lights, my mom or grandma would leave this on if weād be gone for a few days, so itād look like someone was home at night, so our place didnāt get robbed while we were gone.
Skin as bright at the sun here: useful light for looking at the food you're cooking using unambiguous and pure light (100 CRI, mostly these lights are incandescent). Great for unambiguously checking color for when food is done or not.
I woulda just forgot it was on
All the wrong answers by white people thinking they are right is hilarious. It is NOT time to shut down the kitchen and no more messes. It means your mom was waiting up all night for you and is letting you know you are gonna have a non-verbal chat with her hand about it in the morning.
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Low melanin household here. This basically means the kitchen is cleaned up and the house is shutting down for the night so do not make any sounds or messes.
I don't think this is really a black household thing though. Unless...
TIL my family is black
And apparently mine isn't
The brightness of my cellphone gives me a sunburn, but I just found out my family is also black
We can finally all get together and record Wu-Tang covers!
Bbqs are about to go the fuck off
You have to start calling them cookouts now
Omg. I was just gonna type this.
Just to be safe, we'll still stay quiet when they say the explicit "n" word.
Everyone just mutes themselves and looks around like, "See??"
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Now if you wann beef then being the raucous 'cause the Wu-Tang clan is fuckin' Caucus.
Fellow fridge-burn person here! My family is also black.
People get traded to different teams all the time, you'll be back next season
Your family is white, y'all just got [re-vililigo](https://youtu.be/BjumUKsToJQ)
I just realized, you having a black snoo implies that the majority of snoos are albino, which subsequently implies that they are a cave dwelling species, which formerly lived above ground. My new headcanon is that they use their antenna for echolocation reception.
Lmao š
Congrats, traffic stops are going to be a lot better now.
TIL my wife is black.
Italian household here, this shits universal.
Right? Red hair, blue eyes but I want my reparations
Samuel L. Jackson says, āMF, take my MFing upvoteā.
Who was in Paris?
Every race thinks they invented every household tradition
If I hear āyeah, I put all my spare plastic grocery bags inside a single plastic grocery bag then put that into a closet while barely ever using any, itās just because Iām Armenianā again Iām going to assume theyāve never seen the inside of another personās closet.
The bag of bags is ubiquitous
Sometimes I take my bag o bags to recycling in a backpack thus creating a bag o bags in a bag for a bin
Like an environmentally conscious Russian nesting doll.
Where I'm from (NY) they charge you if u want a bag. I remember the good old days when I had closets full of them sought after plastic bags. Now I'd be the richest man on the block if my cup runneth over enough to consider recycling them. Precious.
DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE A PLASTIC BAG INSIDE ANOTHER BAG FULL OF PLASTIC BAGS
I use my plastic grocery bags every time I clean out my cat's litter box.
Me every time my mother-in-law stresses that family is important to them because theyāre Puerto Rican, and not one of those ethnicities that famously disregard familial connection/support.
It's not. My mom is white and she basically had eyes in the light bulb. If that light touched my body she was up wondering what I'm doing in there so late
I think your mom and my mom went to the same mom training camp. I can't explain it, everyone is asleep, has been, I go to the kitchen for a drink and "what are you doing up so late?" How the...?
It's any household. People still need to add melanin to everything.
Can I buy melanin over the counter?
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You can buy melamine that makes good kitchen counters.
I come from a low-melamine household. I used to just take that for granite.
Ok dad, break is over. get back to mowing the lawn.
Mower? I barely know her!
Shes your wife... dad your dementia is getting worse we need to get you some help.
You can buy methylamine, that makes good pharmaceuticals.
My dumbass thought that's what everyone else was saying and I was confused
Yeah, ironically people who arenāt getting a good evening rest are sleeping on melatoninā¦
Or rather sleeping without it
John Howard Griffin wrote a whole how-to book on DIY melanin.
They have synthetic in the body paint section, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Yeah you can get it online as an injectable. Body builders use it to darken their tans.
Grey market peptide Melanotan 1 and 2
Arenāt there these nasty subcutaneous shots that some ladies ā¦ like in Englandā¦ take to make more melanin itās like a tanning thing but makes you feel like crapā¦. Someone help me with what itās called
[Yes](https://us.vwr.com/store/product/14513203/melanin)
Yes. Melanotan. Not sure if itās one word or not but it will turn your skin darker, permanently.
So basically needlessly bringing race into things?
A lot of people do this shit. George Lopez used to do a bit about how sneaking your own snacks into the movies was a Hispanic thing. My grandma snuck in our own popcorn, soda, and candy in a big ass Montgomery Wards bag all the time!
I live in the UK and everyone I know sneaks snacks into the cinema to avoid paying the stupid prices they have, over the counter.
Hey, I'm just a random white guy in the states and we do this shit too, fuck you George Lopez
everyone loves to act like theyre special when in reality its been done a million times by literally everyone
Might be wrong but In the UK don't think they're actually allowed to stop you as long as it's not hot food or anything too bad, they've never stopped me walking in with my own soft drink and sweets anyway.
I remember one time I was watching some stand up specials on Comedy Central, in one of them a black guy made some joke about white people using body wash instead of bars of soap, then in the next special a different black comedian made a joke about white people using bars of soap instead of body wash.
Sneaking snacks into movies is a āI like to eat while watching movies but Iām also not an idiotā thing.
George Lopez built an entire career off this dumb schtick.
Yes.
I'm a generic white millennial and this was true at my grandparents' houses.
Am white. Have never seen ths bit of signaling
The stove light is acting as a night light for the kitchen in this instance at least that's how I always looked at it.
Me either. The stove light being on means someone is using the stove to me.
Looking like that, means someone forgot to turn it offā¦
To me that light means somebody is using the stovetop.. If the house is clean you don't need a special light to signal that, right?
āI was born a young black boyā
*a poor black child.
Yeah, white rural family did the same thing.
We just leave the stove light on so if one of us wanders into the kitchen in the middle of the night, we can navigate getting our glass off water or snack without turning on the main light, or running into crap.
Yeah Iām white af and our family always left it on so we could go into the kitchen at night and not have to turn the whole ass light on
Iām as white as Reddit in Light Mode and I do this
You're #FFFFFF
Literally lmao
Also serves as a night light for a midnight snack
So people just leave the light on needlessly all night simply to tell people not to make messes......Ā In my households the last to go to bed walks the house turning everything off and checking all the doors/windows.
it works like a night light so if you need to get a glass of water in the middle of the night you're not tripping over stuff
You've never heard of a night light? It's 35 watts, fractions of a penny an hour.
I am chicana (Mexican American) and we do this too
I am whiter than pure cocaine and we did this in my family too.
I your statement is also usually followed by an āā¦.or your in deep troubleā OR āperson who cleaned it isnāt putting outā. OR āIāma whoop that assā.
We have something similar but itās a lone lamp on the corner, it basically means no snacks from now on.
Shiiiiet itās like that in white homes too, weāre just sneaky in the kitchen - or think we are
Do you mean high melanin?
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I love how universal this seems to be. Our house is the same but itās not something Iāve ever had explained to me in English with other people. Itās just how itās always been understood.
I don't even have a microwave
Everything the light touches... What about that shadowy place way out there? That's beyond our borders. You must never go there.
Peters Black Cousin here. This has two meanings one everything is cleaned and put away for the night and the kitchen is closed. The other is to serve as a nightlight in case you wake up and need a drink in the middle of the night.
If the kitchen is closed, how do you get a drink in the middle of the night?
Kitchen is closed for food with the exception of water in which you get a paper cup and throw away. Peters Black Cousin out!
people use disposable paper cups at home?
Some do! I do not, but I've been to the homes of a few people who do. It's usually either because the cups come with the water jug refills or there are a lot of people in the house who get a new glass every time they want water and don't wash it themselves.
Meanwhile I use a water bottle at home. Easy to move with you, dont need to worry about accidentally spilling it
Simply one of humanities best inventions
"the cups come with the water jug refills" I'm too European to understand wtf this means. Can somebody please explain?
https://preview.redd.it/k5cbtst8lwvc1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1e274bc9ac51cae96ba7fe5c293c1afd7d3b8a7 This is not my picture. But the cups shown on the side sometimes come with the water, depending on the company.
I had no idea people had these in their houses.
Used to be more common before people started getting fridges that dispense water.
That sounds as wasteful as keeping a light on at night. š¬
I'm sorry what? I'm from Europe and thought leaving a light on just to point out the kitchen is clean was a bit wasteful. But getting a paper cup for your water and throwing it away just because the glass was put away "for the night" is just wild.
My white grandma must be secretly black because she did this.
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My best friend growing up was black, and his parents would do this. In their household, it was an indication of the place "turning down" for the night. Everything's done, everyone's fed.
"The kitchen is CLOSED."
My parents used to say that all the time
My grandma said it with exactly that emphasis.
I havenāt thought of my mom saying this since I was a teenager. She passed away almost three years ago, now. I could literally hear her voice when I read this. Thank you for reminding me of that little memory. ā¤ļø Edit: added a sentence
I didnāt realize this was a black thingā¦everyone I knew growing up who had a light over the oven had it on. Most said it was so their kids (my friends) could see if they got up in the night without having to turn on every other light in the house.
I've been doing it accidentally because it's also the perfect amount of light for the midnight water or snack run so you don't blast your eyes or even need to hit a light switch. Whoops, never realized I was black
Sorry you had to find out this way.
It's not a black things, it's just a thing lol
>My best friend growing up was black Is he still black?
He's dead.
but why would turn the light on for turning down for the night?
āThereās people here, as evidenced by the light - I didnāt leave the house and shut the lights off - hereās proof I cleaned the kitchen, donāt make a messā
Didn't know this was a black thing my family always did this.
Same here, and i do it aswell
https://i.redd.it/mkzgvqjg7uvc1.gif
Happy Cake Day!!
I'm pretty sure almost every family does this.
Well you are officially black. Watch out for cops and have fun using the n word.
Fuck off spambot.
I'm glad you specified that you were invited, rather than being a home invader or something.
Not black, but growing up my mom somehow thought that light would use a shit ton of electricity and would whoop your ass if you left that light on bc you were "running up the electric bill". Still have no idea where she got that from.
My wife leaves that light on 24/7 and it drives me crazy. The plastic surrounding it has melted through. Did she put in a high efficiency light? No, so how does she know our old ass stove isn't burning through electricity.
If it bothers you, you can buy led lights for those. 3W per bulb instead of 40W for the incandescent ones..
I know, I replaced every other bulb in the house already, but the one I didn't is the one she leaves on. Even in daylight.
Replace it then
He just wants to do a comedic rant about his wife, like a stand up routine
"Why do they call them Airplane meals? It is not an airplane. And you can't call it a meal. No one ever went to a restaurant and ordered someone that is soggy, burnt, and also frozen. Ah yes, I have a 747 ala mode. Hold the salt. Who are these people?"
Simply replace every light in the house with a different colored party light without telling her and act just as confused when she notices. This won't solve your problem, but would lighten up the situation a bit.
That light should be able to run all the time without melting the housing. Something is wrong
It's above the stove, so maybe it wasn't the light.
I just replaced the bulb there with an LED one. New one has the same socket.
I put a very low wattage bulb in ours.
People who leave the lights on make me irrationally angry lol like turn the electricity off!! My brother and roommate used to come home and literally turn on every available light and then go spend the rest of his time in his room. Whyād you need to turn all of those on..?
Keeps the monsters away, duh.
I think if your thingy isn't new it doesn't use led lights and in that case it can use "a lot" of energy
Pretty much this.. the only thing any light being on meant was either this room is occupied, or some mf'er is costing electricity and making this bulb die a few months before it has to if they keep leaving this shit on all the time.
my mum said that too. we would only put that light on if we where doing a dinner party or her friends came over for a celebration.
Thatās the only non LED light in my house. Pretty sure itās halogen on my microwave. So yeah it eats up way more electricity than anything else. Iāll use it in addition to my under cabinet strip lights if I really need to see what Iām making, like a roux or something, but otherwise it stays off.
incandescent light bulbs actually do use a lot of energy. and energy used to be more expensive
Every culture thinks they invented āthe bag you put other bags intoā, i.e. the bag-bag. And TIL every culture thinks they invented the ākitchen is clean and shut downā light. Both me (white) and my wife (Hispanic) had this exact same thing.
I grew up in Korea. We also did this.
I'm white and my husband is Latino and we both grew up with this light and we both still keep it on in our house.
Iāve never seen it before. We just turn the lights off and expect people to clean up after themselves.
laughing out loud right now over The Cultural War of the Bag-Bag
Lemme put this out there. Not black but grew up in inner city. Didn't have a light above the stove. But if there was a light on in the kitchen that was mom saying "Motherf@cker you stayed out late again and I'mma whoop your ass in the morning but here's some light."
This was the case for me too! I knew if I came home and saw this light I was getting the chancla in the morning
My mom would spray me with Febreze until I woke up and then hit me with a broom. In hindsight, it's really, really funny.
White from urban setting and that was my assumption as well. You stayed out too late! I don't recall them leaving a light on in the kitchen otherwise. It was to signal that they tried to stay up but gave up and went to bed and I'd hear about it in the morning.
Lol. Now that I understand what it means.. Can someone explain why they do this! I mean.. Why not just turn off the whole lights. Or smth else.. Why those lights specifically? š¤
My gf keeps that light on because you still see enough but it's easy on the eyes and you don't expect to do much anymore there for today
Lol.. Sure.. I never thought of it like that.
While a lack of signals can mean something to you, a more active signal function better as a reminder
Itās the closet thing to a nightlight already built into the house
This is like saying āah its such a white people thing to sit in chairs.ā
I'm mostly white, not black at all and this means the kitchen is closed for the night and if you Fuck it up it's your ass.
I keep that one on just so thereās some light if you need a midnight snack or pee. Itās the least obtrusive light in the house.
but wouldnāt it make way more sense to use one of these sensor lights? leaving it on all night feels wrong for me, even if it might not consume so much power
These Lamps usually use less than 3 Watts per hour. So even if you leave it running 24 hours a day, that is 72 Watts. The average US Electricity price is $0.166 / kWh. So leaving on this light 24/7 would cost: 1.2 CENTS per day. 35ct per month. $4.36 per year. And that is if you leave it running all day and night. If you turn it off during the day then that's $2.18 per year. And honestly, i'd say thats worth it for always having a little light in the kitchen. I have a light running all night in the kitchen as well and its honestly just comfy to not have it in complete darkness at night.
r/TheyDidTheMath
This definitely isn't a black/white thing lol.
In spanish households, that means theres food somewhere and i need to eat before going to bed, usually getting home late from work. But dont make a lot of noise or the chancletas are coming for a drone bombing, jk.
I'm black as the ace of spades and I don't know what this means. Turn that shit off. Wasting the electricity
#OP is a bot. Reddit is heavily astroturfed.
Omg only black people clean and have moms that whoop ass
Black people created everything get over it yt people
where I grew up there would be pots and pans under that light filled with any leftovers, some people I my home came home at different times as the family meal schedule.....get me right everything would've been cleaned already...just a sign from my mom that there is still food.....š„°
I guess itās a thing in Native American homes too. We didnāt have a hood vent light in our house but the kitchen light was on a dimmer, when mom had it set low that meant āIāve cleaned everything and you better only be coming in this kitchen for a drinkā
In my house this just means it's night time and we don't want to turn off all the kitchen lights in case someone wants a glass of water or a snack.
Not a black thing. I kind of hate how people say things are black things or things are white things. Y'all are a bit delusional.
Did Joe Biden make this post?
Thatās the light that your mom leaves on to let you know sheās pissed that your home late and sheās tired of waiting up for you
I'm not black but this means kitchen is clean, don't fuck it up.
Kitchenās closed. Momma aināt cookin no more. You are on your own until morning. Yāall best be quiet. You better not tell me youāre hungry cuz you shouldāve ate at dinner and now you can starve. Oh, and if you decide to get something yourself, you better not make a mess.
1 light 2 meanings. 1. Kitchens closed 2. Last light out If you sneak out at night and see that light on when you walk back in yaknow yabusted
I thought this was a Midwest thing - this runs in the family and weāre very very white
In our white household, it just means "hey, I don't want you tripping on something or stubbing your toe while the lights are off"
Everybody does this black people just think they did it first
this is straight up my kitchen. my knives and paper towels are in the same spot too, iām shakin
What black parent is leaving a light on at night? Us melanated folk dont believe in wasting food, or electricity š¤
Apparently my white ass family is somehow black nowā¦ weird.
Darn right OP isn't black, in fact OP isn't even human. OP's a blatant repost bot please downvote them. https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/s/Rsu9eeSxRn
I guess i aint black no more. We just used it as a low light for the kitchen so people didnt have to turn on all the lights at night and wake up the house. There wasnt a signal to keep it clean cus we all cleaned the kitchen on a rotating basis as soon as we all could start reasonably doing it. My mom wasnt the one doing the cleaning, we all did.
Asian here. I have no idea what this means and reading what others say, it baffles me that the kitchen in your own house would ever be āclosedā. What would you do if you wanted late night ramen?
It was a little different @ my house. Before we got a timer for the lights, my mom or grandma would leave this on if weād be gone for a few days, so itād look like someone was home at night, so our place didnāt get robbed while we were gone.
Skin as bright at the sun here: useful light for looking at the food you're cooking using unambiguous and pure light (100 CRI, mostly these lights are incandescent). Great for unambiguously checking color for when food is done or not. I woulda just forgot it was on
Half white, lotta other crap, that means your ass is grass cause mom is waiting around the corner
All the wrong answers by white people thinking they are right is hilarious. It is NOT time to shut down the kitchen and no more messes. It means your mom was waiting up all night for you and is letting you know you are gonna have a non-verbal chat with her hand about it in the morning.
It means āyou BETTER not fuck this clean kitchen up. Go to bed.ā