Sometimes I love the people of the internet
In today's Comment is Free, there is a piece by/about the violent Black Bloc people who smashed some stuff up and overturned global capitalism at the weekend.Throughout the comments are the 'they're heroes' 'no they're just twats' comments you would expect.
But throughout these comments, every now and then there's a little thread of conversation that starts with the observation that the caption on the picture saying 'a chair' is thrown at a window is wrong and it is actually a stool, that culminates with a discussion of when a chair becomes a stool - is it height related or backlessness, and when is a back not a back*.
Isn't the internet great?
*A chair has a back support. To qualify as back support must reach higher than 5th vertebrae up the back of a six foot adult male.
Any shorter than the 5th vertebrae then it's a stool with a coccyx rest. Apparently.
posted by Peter The Great @ 4:52 PM
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