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Topic: desk chairs
mackillian
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posted August 25, 2005 09:52 AM
All of my desk chairs are too low. Are there some sort of special chairs you have to get? Honestly. I've gotten a spinny chair that gets taller, but won't get tall enough so that the desk isn't so high on me that I have to hunch a bit upward instead of having good posture. Denizens of hatrack, what's the secret?!
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Katarain
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posted August 25, 2005 09:55 AM
Shorter legs.
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katharina
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posted August 25, 2005 09:59 AM
That stretching machine of Willy Wonka's.
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rivka
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posted August 25, 2005 10:06 AM
Get the kind with gas lifts. And check 'em out at the store first, because they come in all sorts of heights.
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ketchupqueen
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posted August 25, 2005 10:16 AM
You could build a platform about half a foot high for your chair to sit on.
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mackillian
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posted August 25, 2005 10:39 AM
I resorted to looking for phone books yesterday.
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mr_porteiro_head
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posted August 25, 2005 10:40 AM
Perhaps you could try a drafting chair. They go way high.
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Katarain
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posted August 25, 2005 10:43 AM
Just how tall are you, anyway?
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rivka
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posted August 25, 2005 10:43 AM
(I will not dobie this thread with "deck chairs" and this link . I will not dobie this thread with "deck chairs" and this link . I will not dobie this thread with "deck chairs" and this link .)
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mackillian
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posted August 25, 2005 11:06 AM
Five four. I have short legs and a long torso. My sister, who is an inch shorter, has longer legs than I do. I honestly think it's the chairs. Am going to Staples in a few minutes. Hopefully I will come back with a proper chair. *stabs rivka*
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Kwea
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posted August 25, 2005 11:08 AM
rivka, I am ashamed of you... three links and all to the same chair? For shame!
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rivka
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posted August 25, 2005 11:13 AM
*blink* When you had to write lines, did you switch ink colors every line? And why am I getting stabbed for NOT dobieing?
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mackillian
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posted August 25, 2005 01:24 PM
For mentioning it. I like denying that dobies exist. And you aren't respecting my denial. Chair procured. It's a horribly ugly color, but of all the chairs there, was the highest. And it works.
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rivka
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posted August 25, 2005 01:41 PM
Tough. I'm glad you found a chair.
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Goody Scrivener
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posted August 25, 2005 02:42 PM
Ugly colors can be fixed - make a slipcover!
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T_Smith
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posted August 25, 2005 03:16 PM
Give me a year and it will be brown with a couple of red splotches of pizza sauce.
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ketchupqueen
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posted August 25, 2005 03:23 PM
Or you could just spray-paint it.
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ketchupqueen
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posted August 25, 2005 03:30 PM
My daughter has one that inflates.
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