SetteesThe Curse Of Modern Day Life
For an allegedly clever animal people do appear to have developed an undesirable connection with the sofa, settee or couch. To begin with I asked myself whats the distinction between the three terms therefore I looked at Wikipedia which informed that there is no difference, possibly its a class thing considering that being from a working class background we would call this item we sat on together comfortably a settee, a couch was certainly more posh and up market. Sofas, probably like the Ploughmans Lunch, are an invention of the marketing man. Google, however, does provide us more insight into what we prefer to call them, entering sofa into the search engine gives 217M results, couch 209M whilst settee a mere 6.4M. Maybe rather worryingly though walking boots only delivers 70M; it seems the worlds population is over 6 times more enthusiastic about taking it easy than they are in going out for a walk. Evidence if we ever required it that we are turning into a nation of coach potatoes following a sedentary lifestyle.
Sedentary lifestyleis amedicalexpression used to describe a kind oflife-stylewith no or infrequentphysical activity. Someone who follows a sedentary way of living may well colloquiallybe known as acouch potato. It is widely found in both the developed and developing world. Sedentary activities includesitting,reading, watchingtelevision, playing certainvideo games, andcomputer usefor much of the time with little or no vigorous physical exercise. A sedentary lifestyle tends to add to manypreventable causes of death.
Furthermore there have been a handful of news stories circulating of late leading with the somewhat strange termtoxic sofa. It must have resulted in numerous readers scratching their heads questioning precisely what a toxic sofa is and what sort of harm these people have been on the recieving end of. One such story has surfaced in a local Yorkshire newspaper after a pair of women had developed skin rashes sitting on their new sofas, believing that they themselves have grown to be victims of a toxic sofa. Rather unsurprisingly quite a few of these accounts come from lawyer's practices specialising in compensation claims.
Maybe more worrying than that though is the influence that sofas are having on our psychological wellness. I once worked with a man who owned thirteen refrigerators. A curious fact indeed but he had dwelt all over the globe and each country had had different regulations with respect to the electrical specifications of white goods. Why though do we all own so many settees? We have developed a culture of hoarding with a reluctance to throw away. Over the years, because of many house moves I had become the happy owner of four settees and there was never enough room for them. In the end I got the courage to get rid of all except the ones we actually need and what a freeing experience that was. Nonetheless, I fear that I have passed this trait on to my daughter who is now the proud owner of half a dozen sofas only 5 of which she has room for.
Who is to blame for all this settee madness? The sofa shops 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 couch in order that we can all have the benefit of credit on much more clutter; walking boots are far less expensive and much better for you.
Sedentary lifestyleis amedicalexpression used to describe a kind oflife-stylewith no or infrequentphysical activity. Someone who follows a sedentary way of living may well colloquiallybe known as acouch potato. It is widely found in both the developed and developing world. Sedentary activities includesitting,reading, watchingtelevision, playing certainvideo games, andcomputer usefor much of the time with little or no vigorous physical exercise. A sedentary lifestyle tends to add to manypreventable causes of death.
Furthermore there have been a handful of news stories circulating of late leading with the somewhat strange termtoxic sofa. It must have resulted in numerous readers scratching their heads questioning precisely what a toxic sofa is and what sort of harm these people have been on the recieving end of. One such story has surfaced in a local Yorkshire newspaper after a pair of women had developed skin rashes sitting on their new sofas, believing that they themselves have grown to be victims of a toxic sofa. Rather unsurprisingly quite a few of these accounts come from lawyer's practices specialising in compensation claims.
Maybe more worrying than that though is the influence that sofas are having on our psychological wellness. I once worked with a man who owned thirteen refrigerators. A curious fact indeed but he had dwelt all over the globe and each country had had different regulations with respect to the electrical specifications of white goods. Why though do we all own so many settees? We have developed a culture of hoarding with a reluctance to throw away. Over the years, because of many house moves I had become the happy owner of four settees and there was never enough room for them. In the end I got the courage to get rid of all except the ones we actually need and what a freeing experience that was. Nonetheless, I fear that I have passed this trait on to my daughter who is now the proud owner of half a dozen sofas only 5 of which she has room for.
Who is to blame for all this settee madness? The sofa shops 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 couch in order that we can all have the benefit of credit on much more clutter; walking boots are far less expensive and much better for you.
