Sitting, standing, lying, resting....

[Suzette]

My husband posed the following question:

Does furniture stand in a room or does it sit in a room? Or does that furniture lie in the room or rests in the room?

This question is simply a little absurdisim and is English specific. My appologies if you speak another language.

 

[Streetwise]

It depends on how hard the fibre its made from ,cushions definitely rest if they don't have a very firm feeling ,but chairs ,tables, free standing shelves stand ^-^

 

[Streetwise]

My husband posed the following question:

Does furniture stand in a room or does it sit in a room? Or does that furniture lie in the room or rests in the room?

This question is simply a little absurdisim and is English specific. My appologies if you speak another language.

If you want to answer in another language DONT use google translate you will enter bizarro land

 

[Tom]

Idk, but ever since I was small and am lying down I once in a while try to imagine the ceiling is the floor and mentally roam around the new environment.

 

[Suzette]

Idk, but ever since I was small and am lying down I once in a while try to imagine the ceiling is the floor and mentally roam around the new environment.

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I do that too.

 

[PinkPhilodendron]

I think it depends on what the original state of things in the world is. (If the original state is lying, then furniture lies).
The reason is, that furniture is dead not alive. So it will always stay in it's original state. And if the original state is standing, then it's standing. Forever. Until you burn it of course.

This would be my logic.

Sounds like you two have fun discussions

 

[Suzette]

I think it depends on what the original state of things in the world is. (If the original state is lying, then furniture lies).
The reason is, that furniture is dead not alive. So it will always stay in it's original state. And if the original state is standing, then it's standing. Forever. Until you burn it of course.

This would be my logic.

Sounds like you two have fun discussions

But we say "the wardrobe was standing in the corner and the book was lying upon the desk. Where the chair was sitting there was a small table..."

Oh my, you can play this game all day!

 

[PinkPhilodendron]

Uh you are right! The furniture might be dead but people can still do things with it (like taking a standing book and lying it down on a standing table). One could even make a book fly...out of the window! Though it would be a waste very often..
Also I don't believe that chairs sit. They stand. I think furniture never sits as for sitting you need to be able to move yourself...

 

[Aspychata]

Yes. The ice box sat frozen in the corner. While the four poster bed creaked and sighed when my 185 Lb Newfoundland jumped squarely in the middle of the sagging decaying mattress.

 

[Suzette]

Yes. The ice box sat frozen in the corner. While the four poster bed creaked and sighed when my 185 Lb Newfoundland jumped squarely in the middle of the sagging decaying mattress.

Aspychata disappeared under an mound of fur and bones. Briefly she wondered what would happen first, would she drown in the slobber or suffocate under the fur? If she didn't find a way to free herself these questions would be irrelevant.

 

[Atrapa Almas]

For a matter of justice, I would say that chairs should be able to sit.

 

[Aspychata]

For a matter of justice, I would say that chairs should be able to sit.

But musical chairs waltz. I have a vision of a lot of slobber right now. Lol

 

[Callistemon]

The formula seems to be based on analogy to human posture. If something is upright, it's standing - especially if it has legs, but legs are not compulsory I think. If it is horizontal it is lying. If it is in-between it is sitting, unless its legs are really obvious.

Great fun topic. And yeah, I also imagine walking on the ceiling. Maybe too much "The Twits" by Roald Dahl.

 

[Nervous Rex]

But musical chairs waltz. I have a vision of a lot of slobber right now. Lol

Then is the stool pitchin'?
Does the night stand?
Is the head bored? Or is that just the chalk?
Will the bar keep?
Perhaps we should table these questions until the clock chimes in.

 

[Crossbreed]

1. If it has feet and is on them, it is standing.
2. If it has no feet but is on its base, it is sitting.
3. If it is neither on its feet nor on its base, it is lying.
4. All three of the above can be considered resting, since cows can doze on their feet.

Next?

 

[Crossbreed]

Then is the stool pitchin'?
Does the night stand?
Is the head bored? Or is that just the chalk?
Will the bar keep?
Perhaps we should table these questions until the clock chimes in.

"I saw a peanut stand,

heard a rubber band,​

And seen a needle wink its eye..."

 

[Aspychata]

What do Armoire's do? Stand, squat, or arm wrestle the corner wall.

 

[Crossbreed]

What do Armoire's do? Stand, squat, or arm wrestle the corner wall.

I like "squat."

 

[Crossbreed]

Idk, but ever since I was small and am lying down I once in a while try to imagine the ceiling is the floor and mentally roam around the new environment.

(Is that scene from the 2012 movie, Upside Down...?)

 

[Crossbreed]

I like "squat."

Sumo Squat​