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Cory Edo
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05-07-2006 18:37
What's the difference between a stool and a chair? Back, or lack thereof? Where do arms fit in? What if it sits at a bar and is therefore taller than the standard deviation for a chair?
These are pressing questions that demand a forum poll of the community to solve. For your consideration:  They certainly LOOK like chairs...but ARE they? Are they REALLY? Make your voice heard. This is a matter of utmost FIC importance, because otherwise we won't know what to name our overpriced household furnishings while eating our gold covered popcorn snack treats and picking our teeth with diamond-encrusted...diamonds. Pointy ones. _____________________
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Barnesworth Anubis
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05-07-2006 18:53
Main Entry: stool
Pronunciation: 'stül Function: noun : a discharge of fecal matter _____________________
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Eggy Lippmann
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05-07-2006 19:06
Well, it looks like what I would call a "bar chair"
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Phoenix Psaltery
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05-07-2006 19:13
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Pol Tabla
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05-07-2006 19:23
Those are highchairs. That is a photo of a toddler bar.
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Nolan Nash
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05-07-2006 19:35
When I was in college we called 'em barfstools.
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Pol Tabla
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05-07-2006 19:36
That's also what the toddlers call them.
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Osprey Therian
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05-07-2006 19:39
Stools don't have backs or arms, but those chairs are occupying the stool zone, so they are honorary stools.
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05-08-2006 06:38
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Zuzu Fassbinder
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05-08-2006 07:54
Moving to the Sandbox Yay, a vitally important topic that would have been left to languish in... um... whatever forum it started off in. Now that it's here: Stools and Chairs are not mutually exclusive groups. Some chairs are stools. Most stools are chairs. Step stools are the result of a divorce from chair functionality and a remarriage to climbing functions. _____________________
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Gabe Lippmann
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05-08-2006 08:15
Stools should be banned.
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Cory Edo
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05-08-2006 09:54
An additional thought as I studied the attached photograph again...the seating utensils at the bar have FOOTRESTS. Because otherwise your feet would dangle because they wouldn't reach the floor. Could that be an additional factor? The inclusion, or lack of, a deceptively simple piece of wood or metal that allows one to comfortably support their feet when the floor is just too far away?
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Euterpe Roo
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05-08-2006 10:06
In answer to your conundrum--
If you have to tip-toe and shimmy: stool If you can "plunk" your heinie: chair If it gives you a wedgie: stool If you can "ease" into it: chair but . . . If it makes a faint but throughly offensive noise when you peel your thighs off of it: chair or stool _____________________
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Pol Tabla
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05-08-2006 10:08
In answer to your conundrum-- If you have to tip-toe and shimmy: stool If you can "plunk" your heinie: chair If it gives you a wedgie: stool If you can "ease" into it: chair but . . . If it makes a faint but throughly offensive noise when you peel your thighs off of it: chair or stool _____________________
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Helen Goff
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05-08-2006 11:22
Some stools have only 3 legs, but never a bar stool or a chair. Maybe there are at least two groups of stools: short stools with no back or arms and 3 or 4 legs. Tall stools often called bar stools which may have 4 legs, never 3, may have a back and may have arms.
Chairs never as short as short stools or as tall as bar stools. Thrones are a different group completely. |
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Osprey Therian
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05-08-2006 11:32
Stools are always associated closely with liquids, hence milking stools and bar stools. At least, that's the way I heard it.
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Selene Gregoire
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05-08-2006 16:47
What's the difference between a stool and a chair? Back, or lack thereof? Where do arms fit in? What if it sits at a bar and is therefore taller than the standard deviation for a chair? These are pressing questions that demand a forum poll of the community to solve. For your consideration: They certainly LOOK like chairs...but ARE they? Are they REALLY? Make your voice heard. This is a matter of utmost FIC importance, because otherwise we won't know what to name our overpriced household furnishings while eating our gold covered popcorn snack treats and picking our teeth with diamond-encrusted...diamonds. Pointy ones. chair - A piece of furniture consisting of a seat, legs, back, and often arms, designed to accommodate one person. Also, a seat for one person, with a support for the back. stool - A backless and armless single seat supported on legs or a pedestal or a low bench or support for the feet or knees in sitting or kneeling, as a footrest. Techincally, everything in the pic above is a chair. Height makes no difference. Originally stools had no backs or arms. The someone came up with the idea of putting backs on stools, possibly to keep drunks from falling off, injuring themselves and suing. _____________________
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Marker Dinova
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05-08-2006 17:39
A stool is a seat without back and arms.
I agree with one poster who said that the seats in the pics are actually chairs that occupy a place historically intended for stools -- so they might be mistakenly called stools. _____________________
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Osprey Therian
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05-08-2006 20:39
stools backwards is sloots
chairs backwards is sriahc see the difference now? _____________________
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