SofasThe Curse Of Modern Day Existence
For an allegedly smart creature humans do appear to have developed an unhealthy relationship with the sofa, settee or couch. Firstly I asked myself what is the distinction between the 3 terms and so I looked at Wikipedia which said that there is no distinction, perhaps its a class thing since being from a working class background we used to refer to this item we sat on together comfortably a settee, a couch was by far more posh and up market. Sofas, probably like the Ploughmans Lunch, are an invention of the marketing man. An internet search engine, however, does allow us more insight into what we like to call them, inputting sofa into the search engine generates 217M results, couch 209M whilst settee a mere 6.4M. Possibly rather worryingly nevertheless walking boots only delivers 70M; it is rather like the worlds population is more than six times more enthusiastic about sitting down than they are in heading out for a walk. Proof if we ever wanted it that we are turning into a nation of coach potatoes choosing a sedentary lifestyle.
Sedentary lifestyleis amedicalterm used to describe a kind oflife stylewith no or infrequentphysical activity. Somebody who lives a sedentary daily life might colloquiallybe termed acouch potato. It is widely found in both the developed and developing world. Sedentary activities includesitting,reading, watchingtelevision, playing certainvideo games, andcomputer usefor most of the time with little or no vigorous physical exercise. A sedentary lifestyle is likely to add to manypreventable causes of death.
Additionally there have been a variety of news stories appearing recently leading with the rather strange termtoxic sofa. It must have resulted in a lot of readers scratching their heads wondering just what a toxic sofa is and what variety of harm these victims have been on the recieving end of. One such anecdote has appeared in a local Yorkshire paper after 2 women had developed skin rashes sitting on their new sofas, on the basis that they themselves have become victims of a toxic sofa. Rather unsurprisingly many of these stories emanate from sollicitor's practices specialising in compensation claims.
Quite possibly more disturbing yet though is the influence that sofas are having on our mental wellness. I at one time worked with a gentleman who owned 13 fridges. A strange fact indeed but he had lived all over the world and each country had had different regulations with respect to the electrical specifications of white goods. Why though do we all possess so many settees? We have developed a culture of hoarding with a reluctance to throw away. Over the years, because of several house moves I had become the happy owner of four different settees and there was never enough space for them. Ultimately I got the courage to get rid of all except the ones we really require and what a liberating experience that was. Alas, I worry that I have passed this trait on to my daughter who is now the proud owner of 6 sofas only five of which she has room for.
Who is culpable for all this couch madness? The sofa outlets of course with their never ending sales and 0% APR credit; where will it all end? Mark my words before too long well have the 99 settee so that we can all hold credit on more clutter; walking boots are far cheaper and much better for you.
Sedentary lifestyleis amedicalterm used to describe a kind oflife stylewith no or infrequentphysical activity. Somebody who lives a sedentary daily life might colloquiallybe termed acouch potato. It is widely found in both the developed and developing world. Sedentary activities includesitting,reading, watchingtelevision, playing certainvideo games, andcomputer usefor most of the time with little or no vigorous physical exercise. A sedentary lifestyle is likely to add to manypreventable causes of death.
Additionally there have been a variety of news stories appearing recently leading with the rather strange termtoxic sofa. It must have resulted in a lot of readers scratching their heads wondering just what a toxic sofa is and what variety of harm these victims have been on the recieving end of. One such anecdote has appeared in a local Yorkshire paper after 2 women had developed skin rashes sitting on their new sofas, on the basis that they themselves have become victims of a toxic sofa. Rather unsurprisingly many of these stories emanate from sollicitor's practices specialising in compensation claims.
Quite possibly more disturbing yet though is the influence that sofas are having on our mental wellness. I at one time worked with a gentleman who owned 13 fridges. A strange fact indeed but he had lived all over the world and each country had had different regulations with respect to the electrical specifications of white goods. Why though do we all possess so many settees? We have developed a culture of hoarding with a reluctance to throw away. Over the years, because of several house moves I had become the happy owner of four different settees and there was never enough space for them. Ultimately I got the courage to get rid of all except the ones we really require and what a liberating experience that was. Alas, I worry that I have passed this trait on to my daughter who is now the proud owner of 6 sofas only five of which she has room for.
Who is culpable for all this couch madness? The sofa outlets of course with their never ending sales and 0% APR credit; where will it all end? Mark my words before too long well have the 99 settee so that we can all hold credit on more clutter; walking boots are far cheaper and much better for you.