Weight limits for bicycles need to be higher and more transparent, especially if the majority of people want to use them.

  • ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’m not normalizing obesity I’m criticizing the design of a stool. I looked up the stool you mentioned and it looked like it connected the seat to the legs just by being fastened together from center of the seat to a small point where the legs joined together in a sort of pyramid like design. If the stool had been designed with each of the legs equidistant closer to the circumference of the seat it probably wouldn’t have taken as much damage from Bigman. But idk I’m not a stool designer or a Time Machine owner

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      5 months ago

      Youre a person who prefers function over aesthetics, thats totally fine.

      140kg stool is perfectly acceptable as a furniture piece anywhere but your mind.

      • Samuel_Sturm@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Well, no. There’s a place for design and fashion pieces and a place for lightweight / inexpensive pieces. But the middle of the road options, your everyday average furniture? Those should be sturdy, reliable, simple pieces. I can see a stool having a 140kg weight limit when looking at it from the perspective of “a stool is for one person sitting on it”.

        But I’d rather it have a bit more strength. Things happen, like somebody wanting to sit in your lap for a moment or children being silly. Design for when things go wrong, not for a happy path use case.