• Stamets@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Giant, uncomfortable, hardbacked, scraping across the floor to push back, as heavy as my sins and twice as ugly?

    Miss it every day. Times were more simple. Now my computer chair has rollerblade wheels…

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    Beautiful … mine looked like the one pictured here but one size smaller. It was an old antique chair that my wife kept for years dreaming that she would reupholster it some day. Big giant wooden back with a piece of fabric cushion, giant uncomfortable armrests, sharp wooden seat lining and a collapsed center cushion that I filled with pillows and blankets … it was my captain’s chair for about the first five years of being online in the late 90s. I can still hear the dial up sound of the modem as I adjusted the pillows and fabrics for another session of being online … and then shouting at my wife to not use the phone as I lost my connection again.

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    This is so not untrue that it is almost not funny enough to be a joke. I still have back problems from those days

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    My family just got whatever overstuffed CEO’s desk chairs looked comfy from Mad Man Mund’s. Had a vintage orange one for a while, that one was great.

  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    …Opulent and imperial. Gazing proudly from its stoic perch before the desk. I lived all my years in that ancient, rumor-shadowed seat. Fattened by decadence and luxury…

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    Back in that era, I had a chair that was just a rigid tube frame with nice cloth-covered padding. It was like a waiting room chair rather than an office chair.

    That thing was S-tier PC gaming seating for a decade. One time a joint broke and I used somebody’s welder to fix it and get a few more years.

  • XTornado@lemmy.ml
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    Don’t remind me I had a kitchen chair for a long time before I bought my proper chair… My back men… My back…