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Sitting is optional, splinters are not, social hierarchy is permanent.
means Rows of tiered open-air benches for spectators to sit on, usually cheap, usually hard, usually sunburnt.
from From the verb 'bleach' — these outdoor seats had no roof, so sun and rain bleached their wood pale over time (and bleached the spectators sitting on them too). The name stuck sometime in the 1800s as American ballparks built cheap, uncovered plank seating to separate the sun-bleached masses from the shaded, pricier 'grandstand' seats.
- architecture
- basically stadium seating with ambition problems
- high school lore
- where every teen movie confession happens
- also a band
- Jack Antonoff thought the word slapped
- etymology
- named for sun-bleached wood, not the chemical