Should we forget about caned chairs with the obesity crisis?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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?

Hardly. With the exception of our dining room chairs, all our chairs and sofas are extremely sturdy. Even the dining chairs are typical for what they are. I would never intentionally embarrass anyone. When a person reaches that level of obesity, it's hard for some to sit down without a "plop."

[Anonymous]

At my heaviest I was 325 and I never broke furniture

[Anonymous]

I weigh 125 and have broken a few chairs. Obviously I need friends with better furniture!

[Anonymous]

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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.

Darn beat me to it.

[Anonymous]

Maybe we should just send fat teenagers over to Afghanistan to do some real damage.

[Anonymous]

Stop hanging out with fat people. Easy.

[Anonymous]

What is fat? Is someone who is 6'2, 230 fat? I have broken chairs: beach chairs, mostly. If I am fat, how do I differ than Bryce Harper -- ok, I can't hit a 500' HR..., but he and I weigh the same and will have the same impact on a chair. I have fat on my body, Bam Bam is 100% muscle.

Or are you talking about people that are morbidly obese?

FWIW, I will not sit in a non-sturdy chair, because, guess what? it hurts when the chair fail apart and one lands on hard ground.

[Anonymous]

A small woman once broke one of my antique 18th Century Chippendale chairs. When I took it to be repaired, an antique dealer said that, when these older chairs were made, people didn't "lounge" in chairs. They had better posture (women were aided by the fact that they were wearing corsets with stays). It was considered rude to slump so that your back touched the back of the chair. Plus, caning gets brittle over time and has to be replaced. It's why you'll find that many caned chairs have had a board inserted where the caning used to be.

As others have pointed out, there are many fit people who are over 200 pounds. It's not their weight, it's their carelessness.

[Anonymous]

OP, stop hanging out with fat people.

[Anonymous]

caned chairs are hideous.

I am obese, know and love lots of very obese people, have never ever seen this happen in real life. Have seen plenty of small children, weighing less than 40 lbs, break furniture before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my heaviest I was 325 and I never broke furniture

You probably didn't realize the damage. We hosted a big dinner recently, and two dining chairs had to be repaired afterwards. Two heavy set people (no clue how much they weigh...both men over 6 feet tall and heavy (they look pregnant)) sat in the chairs, and afterwards the legs were wobbly and loose. These are high quality, expensive chairs.

It happens.

Now I know that hosting a buffet that encourages people to mingle is a better option.

[Anonymous]

I stand with OP. Fat has literally become the norm, and that is the problem. The majority defends itself, when it should eat normal portions and avoid processed foods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Darn beat me to it.

Cat people pretty much corner the market on ruining floors.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in a house with several antique caned chairs. Was never allowed to sit on them. Nor was anyone else. They stayed in the living room where no one was allowed to actually use any of the furniture.
So these perfect chairs are imminently going into an estate sale. I don't want them. I live in a home, not a museum.

[Anonymous]

I have wicker chairs over 50 years old and obese people have sat in them and nary a one has fallen through. You can always tell quality.