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Clever Chair Design

03/10/2008 3:30 AM

I found this chair design that intuitively looks like it would slip out from under you, but would it?

What do you think?

Lena chair

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03/10/2008 4:25 AM

It's fine, except for when you are in 'Challenge Question World' where there are frictionless surfaces...

In fact you can sit like that without the chair!

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03/10/2008 4:34 AM

Ahah! A chair that won't wobble (four-legged chairs do that). The traditional "milkmaid's stool" design only has three legs. This one seems to be an advance upon that concept.

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03/10/2008 6:51 AM
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03/10/2008 4:37 AM

I actually had a closer look at something similar and it looks surprisingly stable.

The design depend on the grip on the floor and wall. It may slip once the rubbers are worn out or on a smooth wet surface.

The butt! I am more concerned about the head and the neck.

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03/10/2008 5:57 AM

As long as you have pretty good friction below and back, it'll do fine. There's a Yoga posture (I can't remember the name) where you sit on an imaginary chair against a wall, and, if you have young knees, you can sit most comfortably.

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03/10/2008 5:59 AM

Somebody would pinch it in my neck of the woods.

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03/10/2008 6:08 AM

Even if Stinky Pete was sleeping on it?

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03/10/2008 6:18 AM

Especially if he was, it's nothin' some Domestos can't sort out. Idle bugger should get a bike like Tebbits dad.

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03/10/2008 6:23 AM

Would that be a Lena bike with no wheels?

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03/10/2008 6:26 AM

This is more up Pete's street;

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03/12/2008 6:44 AM

That's a 'car' to me. <Splutter>.

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03/12/2008 6:45 AM

That makes it a bedforthenight, not a seat. Go find yer own. <Splutter>

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03/12/2008 6:46 AM

Someone just did......<Wheeze>

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03/12/2008 2:47 PM

Next time don't use one with a coin still in it, you're bound to get ripped off. Invest in 2 tokens, then progresively work one into the trolly at the far end. Nobody will run off with 30 trollies all linked together. You could even charge a few mates to kip on it, just don't blame me if a bunch of students launch you down a hill for a larf. Another idea is to get in a trolly and have a mate lock you safely in the trolly bay, 'cept he'd run off with your nugget 'cos Gordy just jacked up the price of cider.

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03/13/2008 7:13 AM

There aren't many hills in Basildon. Now, naff off! I'm trying to get some kip <grumble>.

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03/13/2008 8:36 AM

Not many hills, but some decent size tower blocks. My old Dad used to live in one where you walked down the balcony thing and dropped waste down a big chute. Just sayin' like. He was a town planner there, before MK came along. Blimey, you wouldn't want to get shoved down the hill towards the station. Tilbury docks ain't what it used to be, but that's a different story.

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03/10/2008 6:23 AM

Here's another silly chair;

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03/11/2008 9:54 AM

Do people with silly walks sit in a chair like that?

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03/11/2008 1:49 PM

Nah, I reckon John Cleese swallowed an ironing-board !

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03/11/2008 2:03 PM

LOL.

I had read somewhere that John Cleese hated that skit.

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03/10/2008 6:52 AM

Long ago (I was about 13) we had a teacher (Man) with a nice belly and he used to tilt the chair backwards and rested his belly on the back rest. The chair did not slip (the angle may have been the same as the lena chair) and he was fine until we doctored the back legs of the chair with talc power.

Poor chap he rammed into the desk in front of him and had it falling off the 6"high platform,falling over, with books all over the show, and almost fell down himself.

He did not do it again!!

My advice for the lena would be to firs check for traces of talc.

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03/10/2008 7:25 AM

It will do fine unless you lean back too far.

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03/10/2008 7:34 AM

Attorney and doctor recommended.

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03/10/2008 7:59 AM

You mean...you recommend them to the above?

I'm sure Attorneys should use them...don't see why Doc's should

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03/10/2008 10:05 AM

Does a ladder slip out from under you when you step on the rungs? Same principle. Same warnings. Wouldn't be much good at the beach.

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03/11/2008 12:07 AM

The original reporter says "I know, I know, I didn't understand it either ..".

Is he/she assuming his/her readers are stupid (or lazy) as well? ffeJ

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03/11/2008 5:41 AM

• Fauteuil (arm chair) by Pierre-Antoine Bellange. c. 1815 (Chair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).

• Also, sometimes, it is better to stay without chair (Scribes were elite and well educated. They assessed taxes, kept records, and were responsible for administration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Louvre-antiquites-egyptiennes-p1020372_Cropped_and_bg_reduced.png) (Note. Can you please help me for loading the picture at that site into this area of CR4?)

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