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dcwilson
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08/02/2007 4:37 pm  

Why do beds have to be round or rectilinear? Why not a pentagon, hexagon, or octagon? Why not an oval, or an egg's silhouette? Why not some assymetrical shape? Why not one side larger for the taller person and one side shorter for the shorter person? Why not a single bed shaped like two symmetrical fetal positions back to back? With tempurpedic style foam, beds could be cast in almost any shape, I suppose.

And why do all the sides have to be perfectly flat and vertical? Why can't we have kind of a Bilbao with a flat top?

Frank Gehry, please make a bed!

Seriously, are there reasons for the square bed? And no fair saying because sheets only come in circles or squares. Let's assume, hypothetically, you can get the right sheets. My hunches:

1.) it has to do with 18th or 19th Century manufacturing constraints, which have become inertial; or

2.) rooms are rectalinear and there is something aesthetically harmonious about matching a rectilinear bed with a rectilinear room, and that has become inertial (round beds being an inexplicable outlier 🙂 ).

Thoughts?


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dcwilson
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08/02/2007 4:41 pm  

uh, that's rectilinear, not "rectal-inear"...
Gads, the mistakes one can make typing. Freud would have loved to analyse typos in the internet age. :0), er, 🙂


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vivienne
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08/02/2007 4:50 pm  

Or...
maybe one side could have a sort of ejector/ flipper thing so the "owner" or "person who owns the house that the flippee has visited" can be easily got rid off next morning, having positioned the flipping side near an accomodating window overlooking the crocodile pool of course. I have never slept/not slept! in a round bed, but would of course give it a whirl.


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vivienne
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08/02/2007 4:58 pm  

Ooops...
Talk about Freud!, i meant the "flippee/visitor" could be got rid of.


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dcwilson
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08/02/2007 5:14 pm  

Ah...
I can see how you made the erector, er, ejector/flipper forepaw, er, faux pas for the nippee, er, "flippee/inquisitor, er flippee/visitor point you were making.
These things do happen.
Reario, I mean, Cheerio!


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vivienne
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08/02/2007 5:19 pm  

Stop making fun of me Dc...
its my eyes you know, they are at least twenty years older than my face, or at least i think so as i am of course looking with my eyes??? too complicated. Course in reality,i dont much get the chance to do much flipping/flapping or whatever!.


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08/02/2007 8:35 pm  

There really is something...
There really is something "safe" in the square/rectangle, beside the obvious ease of fit/accomodation.
The Saarinen designed pit at Vassar, although beautiful, still looks to me to this day as if it is going to launch itself into the stratospehere at any moment. And the round bed, enough said, I'm at that age where I need to get more rest.


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azurechicken (USA)
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09/02/2007 1:00 am  

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Right angles = mankind...


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whitespike
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09/02/2007 1:06 am  

Because it fits two vertical ...
Because it fits two vertical bodies well. Innovate as a last resort! Why improve something that works? Why not spend time solving a problem instead of changing a perfectly good answer?


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Gustavo
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09/02/2007 6:35 am  

Vivienne
There is a film 'el lado oscuro del corazon' ('dark side of the heart'), wich has exaclty the bed you are talking about.
But instead of jumping up, he/she goes down (maybe to a hole in the earth).
It works with a button besides the bed.
And in this case, the owner of the bed don,t need wait to the next morning.


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Gustavo
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09/02/2007 6:47 am  

It's easy
it's what the shape suggests
A RECTANGULAR BED suggests TO SLEEP
ANY OTHER THING suggests ANY OTHER SHAPE


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vivienne
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09/02/2007 12:20 pm  

Thanks Gustavo...
I will search for this film. The more i think about it the more i want one, a hole in the ground eh? im off to get a man in to do a spot of digging.


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Gustavo
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09/02/2007 5:12 pm  

the disposal bed
ha ha ha
the film:www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/d/dark-side-of-the-heart.shtml
(I hope the link works)
Now I remember, after reading the reviews, that the bed worked atomatically
The bed autodetected the undesirable fellow (in this case the ones that coudn't 'fly'), no needed to push anything.
I am still thinking about it....
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Heart-Sandra-Ballesteros/dp/B00008O34X


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vivienne
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09/02/2007 9:08 pm  

Thanks Gustavo..
You are not of course the Gustavo in the synopsis are you?..I like the trap door thing, and as i have a platform bed approx six feet high i am sure the little man down the road could "Fix" it for me!. I found i was identifying with this film and now in my mind i am a street whore and a prostitute (the taunts were true then) added to which i cannot fly either. I also like the nine foot plaster penis, i have always thought that size does indeed matter... but maybe not that much!.Im going to search for the film. Thanks.


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Gustavo
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12/02/2007 2:02 pm  

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No, I'm not that gustavo
So I can't help!
PS.
Are you drawing the bed's plans?
Have to take care!, maybe the fellow could use the flipper, and owner goes to the crocodiles...


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