Anon does the shopping

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Eh, plastic plates:

• don't shatter when you drop them
• don't chip
• don't screech when cutting things with a knife

Plastic isn't the enemy, single use plastics are.

[11111one11111@lemmy.world]

Seriously and if you fuck up buying dinner plates then it isnt the first thing they fucked up and was prolly the gf's "this is the last straw" request and she really figured this was so stupid simple that she thought theres no way they could fuck it up.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Disagree. Bee plates are fancier than plain kid plates.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Buzz off.

[imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works]

She's just pissed about the microplastics.

[tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Nah, I've seen plenty of children's plates and designs like that are very common. They're definitely very cute but do not fit the definition of fancy.

[tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

You've picked out the single definition that fits your narrative, and many many things will fit the definition "not plain". I also see that in the definition that you linked right after it says not plain it says "ornamental." And while I'm sure there are some people who might use children's bee plates as an ornament, I can't imagine that there is very many.

But beyond all that fancy also means elaborate, which they're not. Along with ornamental, impressive, of particular excellence, decorative, expensive, and high quality. Which these plates are not.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Agree to disagree I guess. I have kids, and I'd absolutely save those for special occasions for them, like when we have their favorite food or something.

[tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Sorry but I cant agree to disagree. Not because I don't agree that they could be called "fancier" while not strictly fitting the definition of fancy, but because I enjoy arguing to much to ever stop.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

That's fair, arguing is pretty great, especially if it's something entirely pointless.

[licheas@sh.itjust.works]

I think I know the source of the problem.

You’re a Dino guy, but I have the solution!

[wolf@lemmy.today]

Come over to my place sometime.

[thenamlessguy@lemmy.world]

Now you're just arguing that your personal taste in what is fancy or not is objective

[scott_of_the_arctic@lemmy.world]

My partner would never do this, because she knows I would buy goatse plates.

[latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I sorta' agree with you in that wasted plastic is bad, yes. However, I simply have to disagree with plastic plates in general being a bad thing.

I've owned a full set of composite plates for, I'm not kidding or exaggerating, 20 years now. Mum bought them while I was mid-way through high-school and they proved to be so much better than the old porcelain, that she steadily replaced our tableware with composite. And I liked them so much, that I stole that set from mum once I finished Uni!

And it wasn't just those plates, everything lasted! The only things ruined were the plates granddad used with the microwave oven, he managed to overcook and crack them apart (he was a moron, though).

Granted, microplastic ingestion risks do, indeed, exist with these (eg. if one likes using the knife to its fullest potential), although a bit of temperance goes a long way. That 20-year-old set I have barely has any scratches on it, and that's with dropping them pretty regularly while doing the dishes.

[tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I gave objective reasons why they don't fit the definition fancy, but you just had to latch onto the one that wasn't.

You just keep picking one thing that works as an argument for you while ignoring all the ones that don't.

[thenamlessguy@lemmy.world]

it says not plain it says "ornamental." And while I'm sure there are some people who might use children's bee plates as an ornament, I can't imagine that there is very many.

Personal taste, as you basically say yourself.

But beyond all that fancy also means elaborate, which they're not.

Personal taste. Compared to a plain plate with nothing on it, these are undeniably elaborate.

impressive

Entirely subjective

of particular excellence

This one is the only one where you potentially have a point, since the plates probably are mass produced

decorative

See ornamental.

expensive

Expensive has never, nor will it ever, mean that the product 100% of the time is better.

high quality

They never broke.

EDIT: And even so, the other definitions don't really matter, as which one you'd interpret the girlfriend to mean is entirely subjective. If he understood it as the one I posted, the others don't matter.

[buboscandiacus@mander.xyz]

Stealing that

[fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Plastic is the enemy. Not just single use plastics. But all unnecessary plastics. The micro plastics disrupt food chains. They also get into food. It's not great. They get everywhere with no chance to decay.

[dragonfucker@lemmy.nz]

Drag can tell drag isn't dreaming because drag knows drag's dreams don't make sense when drag has them.