Apartment foo-nishing



gomestar said:

The Foof dining chairs could use some seat cushions, and I believe that's happening.

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lol

good lord, it's not a height joke, and trust me I'd be the FIRST one there to make a Foof height joke.

How short is foo anyway? I don't think he's even that short. I mean, below average, sure, but not like a munchkin. I can still see him without having to kneel.



mafoofan said:

It's interesting how often people assume unfamiliar forms lack utility or comfort, when so many traditional forms have already proven limited in those respects. Take a standard wooden dining chair. I see no reason why anyone believes the Chair One would be less comfortable, except that it strikes them as unusual.

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Douglas said:

Because it has much less surface area to support one's weight. I'd guess it has, even generously, 1/3 as much surface area to support your ass, so parts of your ass will feel 3x more force, while others will feel none. I would think this large differential is likely even to leave a dodecahedron-shaped grid on your ass when you get up.

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mafoofan said:

The Bertoia chair is uncomfortable because the individual wires are so thin that they press into you very sharply. That does not happen with the Chair One since the frame segments are much wider. Anyway, maybe you forget, but I have tried these chairs many times myself. They are quite fine.

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I would say "we told him so" but then we would argue for another 2,800 posts about how I'm misrepresenting what was said and parse every letter til, like a turd somewhere between an asshole and the sea, I'd been spun around so many times and put through so many pipes and waste treatment facilities that I would no longer know which direction was up, or perhaps not even whether I were a turd any more after all.



Manton said:

How short is foo anyway? I don't think he's even that short. I mean, below average, sure, but not like a munchkin. I can still see him without having to kneel.

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His application to the Lollipop Guild was not rejected.

I think our plant balls have been dead for months.

but just the plants, the balls surely are fine

Conceptially, I view plant and ball as singular.

Was Foo's suit successful? The one that alleged negligent handling of stone surfaces which proximately caused emotional distress.. I heard the jury came back with a hefty compensatory figure, but that the defendant is countersuing because Foo let his Dictator candle burn too long, which caused a rather large drop of wax to fall on the floor, which led to a 24-hr scrubbathon, resulting in a smooth but hard to see 3-inch area the white glove guy took a rather nasty fall on, shaking his confidence to work in small and over-planned living quarters.



Manton said:

How short is foo anyway? I don't think he's even that short. I mean, below average, sure, but not like a munchkin. I can still see him without having to kneel.

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to put things in perspective, I look down to Foo and up to tabletops. And you have clouds around your ears.

Journeyman said:

Please, please tell me that picture is from a satirical website, rather than being an actual piece of "furniture" available for purchase.

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It is real. The Droog store used to be on my walk to work in Amsterdam.

(Sorry for the necrothread resurrection, I just went through a clickhole)

Hell of a Necro post here