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Ha! If I even look at my lath and plaster walls the wrong way a little bit crumbles away.

The trick is to have 100 years of landlord special paint holding it together

And with the old lead paint lowering your mental capacity as the years go by, you care even less about small inconstencies

Safely contained behind several tenants worth of turnover or so I'm told. Walls are skip trowelled so inconsistency is just how they are.

Wallpaper can be semi structural.