Should we forget about caned chairs with the obesity crisis?

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe buy better quality stuff? Things should hold up to 220 lb people.

When people jump in synchrony, even commercial structures can be damaged or collapse. It is one thing for two 5 year olds to do this, but 500 pounds would make a floor like a trampoline.

That's just stupid. A commercial structure isn't going to come down because two people danced on it. There's a reason the very rare occasion that type of thing happens makes news headlines. Commercial structures are made for thousands upon thousands of pounds to move around on it. Do you really think steel frames are unable to withstand a room full of people dancing after a wedding? I can't think of any headlines where a building (or even a house) crashed, but I've heard of a few random decks and balconies. Seriously, take a xanax.

Look even the engineers don't want troops marching on bridges in synch. There have been famous cases of discos falling in. Residential property can't withstand that.
Anyway, I am looking at a rehab of a house across from me. The sub floors and all had to be torn up because the previous owners who each weighed over 300 pounds damaged the doors and they all sag. That did not happen in any of the other identical homes in the neighborhood.

I knew 9/11 was a conspiracy. It wasn't airplanes, it was fat people dancing that caused the towers to fall. Big pharma and Hostess, PepsiCo, Snapple, McDonald's etc just paid off the govt to blame it on the Muslims so we wouldn't know what really happened.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty fat. I've never broken a chair, antique or otherwise. I'm guessing this has a lot more to do with the teens being careless than just "omg fat people ruin stuff." Because 220 is a low threshold for anything other than a small child's furniture.

And I call bullshit on cat people ruining doors. Come on, at least make an effort to be believable.

Cat people certainly ruin doors. And floors. Or at least, cats do.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty fat. I've never broken a chair, antique or otherwise. I'm guessing this has a lot more to do with the teens being careless than just "omg fat people ruin stuff." Because 220 is a low threshold for anything other than a small child's furniture.

And I call bullshit on cat people ruining doors. Come on, at least make an effort to be believable.

That should be FAT people. Not cat people.

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Aren't they interchangeable? (Meow!)

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Anonymous wrote:you complain they're too fat for your precious poorly made chairs. you complain when they get off your chairs and move around. what exactly was it you wanted them to be doing? maybe do them a favor and don't invite them over anymore, there'e nothing they can do to satisfy you.

We had a 300+ guest pop a wheel off a very nice well-made club chair. It's because some heavy people "plop" down.

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Anonymous wrote:you complain they're too fat for your precious poorly made chairs. you complain when they get off your chairs and move around. what exactly was it you wanted them to be doing? maybe do them a favor and don't invite them over anymore, there'e nothing they can do to satisfy you.

We had a 300+ guest pop a wheel off a very nice well-made club chair. It's because some heavy people "plop" down.

Do you weigh your guests and guide the fatties to the booby trap chairs for sh*ts and giggles?

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Two fat teenagers brought down your house?????

Why didn't this make the news, OP?

Maybe because it didn't happen?

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And in a perfect square too. That must have been quite the backside.

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Op, I love the look of caned chairs but you rarely find them new anymore and the older ones do get brittle...

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It is an important fact that they are out of production because we are too fat!

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Anonymous wrote:It is an important fact that they are out of production because we are too fat!

No. They are too labor intensive to make and too expensive for people to buy. Wicker and rattan are the new cane.

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You don't have to be fat to damage antique caned chairs. They are brittle and delicate. Any five year old could trash one of those.

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I think you could easily solve this problem by putting a scale in the entry way and then having a color coded bracelet system to direct guests to appropriate seating. It's really important for people you know to know your very strong thoughts on the matter and this would get the word out quickly. I also think it would allow you to ensure that your chairs are no longer broken by reducing the number of people who want to associate with you.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe buy better quality stuff? Things should hold up to 220 lb people.

When people jump in synchrony, even commercial structures can be damaged or collapse. It is one thing for two 5 year olds to do this, but 500 pounds would make a floor like a trampoline.

That's just stupid. A commercial structure isn't going to come down because two people danced on it. There's a reason the very rare occasion that type of thing happens makes news headlines. Commercial structures are made for thousands upon thousands of pounds to move around on it. Do you really think steel frames are unable to withstand a room full of people dancing after a wedding? I can't think of any headlines where a building (or even a house) crashed, but I've heard of a few random decks and balconies. Seriously, take a xanax.

Look even the engineers don't want troops marching on bridges in synch. There have been famous cases of discos falling in. Residential property can't withstand that.
Anyway, I am looking at a rehab of a house across from me. The sub floors and all had to be torn up because the previous owners who each weighed over 300 pounds damaged the doors and they all sag. That did not happen in any of the other identical homes in the neighborhood.

Did these discos and bridges have only 2 fat people dancing in them? Did the troop marching over the bridge consist of 4 110 lb soldiers?

Your logic is bizarre.

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This seems like a weirdly specific dilemma to have.