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Sleeping With The Washing is the name given to a new inflatable mattress that you can carry with you in a small back pack.
Instead of being a long narrow shape (like a camping mattress), Sleeping With The Washing rolls out to become a torus form - a bit like a rounded, and nearly closed over capital
letter C.
Once inflated, its purpose becomes clearer; that being to allow its well equipped owner to sleep with comparative comfort on the outstretched arms of the nearest rotary clothes line.
There are several advantages to sleeping on top of a rotary line. You are well above ground level, and thus totally clear of snails, ants, and other creeping, biting beasts. The padding offered by the mattress, supplemented by the springiness of the cable lines in the rotary, combine to make for a very comfortable bed. Being continuously curved also offers the perfect alignment for those who naturally already sleep in this position. As an added incidental advantage, the slight conical shape of the supporting lines ensures that the sleeper won't fall off.
Now the next time you are wandering home at 2.00am and stuck for a place to sleep, all you need do is find the nearest rotary clothes line, and pump up your Sleeping With The Washing rotary mattress.
Rotary clothes line
https://www.homebas...e-40m/12809389.html
...... sans washing and mattress [xenzag, Jun 15 2013, last modified Mar 07 2022]
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I can't imagine why I boned this. Maybe my finger slipped. |
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You can stick it back up your bum now. |
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Nobody supported Putin's invasion of the Ukraine,
so in addition to being the person on this site who
most engages in bullying, hatred, nastiness and
hostility, you're a liar as well. |
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You're single handedly turning the Halfbakery from
the fun and creative site it once was to a very
nasty and ugly place full of hate, insults, lies and
nastiness. Case in point: //You can stick it back up
your bum now.—xenzag, Mar 07 2022// |
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What you're doing in accusing everybody else of
that is called projecting. It's you who's doing all of
this. Everybody has tried to get you to take a deep
breath and just be nice but it's hopeless. |
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And another anonymous hater joins the others. Ok that's clear enough. Bye bye Bakery. I'll stop posting as of now and delete my account at a time of my own choosing. |
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I'm a little skeptical about the strength of a clothesline, & also
the "offset" load of 1 person on the top. Also depends on the
design of the clothesline; specifically the diagonal braces
(some are top, some are underneath...). |
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Well believe it or not, when I was a student many years ago, I went to a friend's party in London. Much drink was taken along with other material and I ended up spending several hours in the rotary clothes line in the back garden in a sleeping bag with some cardboard under it to give it more support. This is from where the idea originated. |
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I had to look up what a rotary clothes line is (your link is
broken). I can't help thinking you'd have to make sure the
pole is really well anchored to preventing it tipping over,
Shirley? |
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Of course, but most of them went into metal pipe
set into a concrete base so they were quite stable.
You don't see so many of them now, but they are
quite effective for clothes drying though not
recommended for sleeping. |
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//several hours in the rotary clothes line in the back garden in
a sleeping bag//
That is awesome! |
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Actually, I meant I can't imagine why I initially boned it, and meant to state that bone has been reversed. |
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See, I thought that was pretty obviously what you meant. |
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That’s what I had thought too. I got very confused
thinking I had missed some secret nasty message. |
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I thought “Hey that’s a nice peace gesture.” then
thought “Whoa, maybe I missed something,” |
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//Actually, I meant I can't imagine why I initially boned it, and meant
to state that bone has been reversed.// |
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When I read xenzag's response, I understood the other meaning. |
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But regarding the idea, I don't think it's that great.:
I'm not convinced most rotary clothes lines would hold the weight,
there's a tradeoff between rigidity and mass/volume (of the
mattress) when
dissembled, so I doubt there could be much to prevent a sleeper
from falling out,
and it woud take ages to inflate, particularly at 2am. |
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You're quite right. It's not a great idea. It's a
halfbaked idea. It also works, as I have testified
through direct personal experience. |
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Yeah, I did see you'd said you slept in a clothes line when drunk. I
wasn't entirely clear on how - did you put a blanket over it first? And
how did you get up and down? |
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In the clothes lines I've seen, I really do struggle to see this working.
Presumably the gain you get from the clothes-line is the springiness.
But if you're inflating a device anyway, that's much less of a gain. |
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I placed some pieces of cardboard on the cables and climbed up via the pole, squeezing between the lines to get into position. I'm very agile and could still manage to do it in the unlikely event of an "ascend into the rotary clothes line" challenge. Rem this was a long time ago when I was with my fellow art college students 24/7 and every situation was seen as an opportunity for invention, provocation, stupidity and harmless (to anyone else) madness. It's a life long ethos for me. |
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