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- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 1 week ago:
This is a list of notes I put together when shopping for couches. Some of it requires getting hands-on with the couch so it won’t work well for online purchases, but you should be at least sitting on a couch before buying it. My notes were cobbled together from information I found online, so big grain of salt.
Old couches are almost always going to be better than new ones because so many companies have dropped in quality over the years.
Take a black light to look for pee spots or stains. Look for bugs (fleas, bedbugs).
Things to look for:
- Touch back of sofa & area under arm rest and see if it’s just fabric. Something solid usually means attention to detail / quality
- Seat cushions that are solid foam wrapped in breathable layer (cotton, down, etc) are the worst quality cushions (degrade quickly over time)
- Seat cushions that have layered foam or glued foam is a good sign and may mean springs in the foam (springs are generally a good thing)
- Take off the seat cushions and see how far apart the springs underneath the cushions are / how many there are. More & tighter packed the better
- Take off seat cushions and look for horizontal connection wires. There should be 2 minimum. Should be able to feel and see through fabric
- Lift up the sofa. If it’s light weight, that’s bad. If it flexes, that’s bad. Good sofas are heavy and don’t flex when lifted
- Don’t buy leather, buy polyester. This is personal preference, but leather is a lot more work to take care of & keep it looking nice
- “Eight way hand tied” isn’t necessarily a sign of quality, but it’s better than s-springs. There can be fake “eight way hand tied”, which is why it isn’t always better
Good brands:
- Room & Board
- What A Room
- Arhaus
- Maiden Home
- Stickley
- Thos. Moser
- Ethan Allen
- Stuart David (Amish)
- Hancock and Moore
- Bradington and Young
- Classic Leather
- American Leather
Ok brands:
- Bernhardt
- Palliser
- Lovesac
- La-Z-Boy
- Flexsteel
Bad brands:
- Crate & Barrel
- Ashley
- Article & Joybird
- Wayfair
- Natuzzi
- Restoration Hardware
When I bought my couches a few years ago, I got them used off Facebook Marketplace. It took a couple weeks for some decent Ethan Allen couches to pop up, but I got them for ~$400 each.
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 1 week ago:
Derek from NapLab is also a great source. I did my own research before finding his website, but his recommendations matched what I had chosen. It also makes me chuckle to tell friends that a man named Derek will personally email you to tell you what mattress to buy.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 3 weeks ago:
The article that this article is based on (found here has pictures showing that the DDR2 sticks had fake heat sinks put on. The weight is behind the fake heat sink to make it feel more authentic. I had the same initial thought as you, but heat sinks add a decent amount of weight.
- Comment on what a bummer 4 weeks ago:
Source is p.chronos (NSFW)
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 4 months ago:
youtube.com/watch?v=jOOhbD67CLs
The description links to a part 2. I’ll look for a better source after work.
- Comment on No blowjobs please 5 months ago:
Source comic (NSFW for some blood later in the comic) for the image. It was tickling my brain that it was so familiar.
- Comment on Can't even make Pizza 5 months ago:
www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/85300814
On mobile, click “Show all” then scroll down to the second from the bottom image.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Source: youtu.be/26AhefM_NyM
- Comment on At first I thought this was the typical warning about the ocean depth rapidly increasing, but now I'm not so sure 6 months ago:
Apparently a real Australian safety sign: www.royallifesaving.com.au/…/how-to-stay-safe (scroll down to the “Out and about” section)
- Comment on xkcd #3100: Alert Sound 7 months ago:
I rented a room from my boss in college and he pulled this prank on me. First he hid it in the office and convinced all my coworkers to pretend not to hear it. It would switch between a creepy child’s laugh to a man groaning to other random noises. I was pretty sure it was a noisemaker, but I couldn’t get anyone else to admit that they could hear it so I couldn’t confirm.
Then he moved it into the air vents of his house that I was renting a room in. I started to think I was developing schizophrenia since my mom suffered from it and after I confided as much in my roommate / coworker, he finally came clean and showed me where our boss hid it.
All of this to say, it’s a very effective prank.
- Comment on And this is why I hate the internet 😭 7 months ago:
Source: Hitsuji
Non-twitter link: xcancel.com/hitsujigoods/…/1567909942639865857
Tap for spoiler
It was for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich Non-twitter link: xcancel.com/hitsujigoods/…/1567925752385122304
- Comment on "Hello, Can't hear you" 8 months ago:
Source: Khyle
Non-twitter link: xcancel.com/khyleri/status/1919437867425595496
- Comment on Remember the Nega-Wojak. 8 months ago:
Here’s the picture without the captions.
I believe this was the original tweet: x.com/fw_me_or_die/status/1641970194351370241
(Non-twitter link: xcancel.com/fw_me_or_die/…/1641970194351370241)
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 9 months ago:
I’m constantly astounded that people seem to unironically enjoy that movie. I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade so I stay away from discussions about it, but I saw it in theaters (because I also love Jason Statham) and immediately regretted it. It felt like it was written as a joke, but then tried to take itself seriously, and failed at both. I feel like I’m getting pranked by people saying they like that movie.
- Comment on How was your valentines day weekend? 10 months ago:
Source of the top left image is dakimomkura (twitter link) (non-twitter link)
Source of the top right image is Little Caesars (non-twitter link)
- Comment on I mean I would totally give it a try 10 months ago:
Context: knowyourmeme.com/memes/…/belle-delphines-arrest (Article explains that the mugshot is likely faked)
- Comment on Might be fun idk 11 months ago:
wsj.com/…/SB1000142405274870428120457500285205556… (paywall removed) & web.archive.org/…/Comparing-Four-NFL-Games.html
I took an odd journey to get to this source. The actual graphic posted here is rotated and some of its colors were changed. The source for the visualization is this reddit post which links to the WSJ article. According to comments on the reddit post, the visualization pulled from charts from the second archive link, but I can’t find them in the non-paywalled WSJ article (and I can’t access the original article since I’m not subscribed to the WSJ).
- Comment on Audiblez v4.0 is out: Generate Audiobooks from Ebooks 11 months ago:
I’ve used a similar project in the past: github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook
It’s cool that more options are becoming available for ebook to audio conversions.
- Comment on Wife 11 months ago:
Source: www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/…/2001898096/
That one was tricky.
- Comment on Wife 11 months ago:
Source: Hinamatsuri, Chapter 91 page 34
(Thanks to user castlestrike from 9gag)
- Comment on Wife 11 months ago:
- Comment on Me_irl 11 months ago:
- Comment on Don't let this happen to you 1 year ago:
- Comment on The Passing and Lessons of Jimmy Carter 1 year ago:
For those who might not read the article, Biden made his comment in response to a reporter asking him what Trump should take from Carter’s legacy. Biden’s response was:
“Decency, decency, decency. Can you imagine Jimmy Carter walking by someone who needed something and just keep walking? Can you imagine Jimmy Carter referring to someone by the way they look or the way they talk?”
