The Daily Clog » furniture http://clog.dailycal.org A Cal blog brought to you by The Daily Californian Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:53:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Californians Are Fire-Proof, Also More Likely to Die http://clog.dailycal.org/2008/10/17/californians-are-fire-proof-also-more-likely-to-die/ http://clog.dailycal.org/2008/10/17/californians-are-fire-proof-also-more-likely-to-die/#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:55:40 +0000 Jill Cowan http://clog.dailycal.org/?p=3957
Earlier this month, Berkeley researchers found that Californians are (literally) by blood, more fire-proof than people from the rest of the United States. The study also conclusively proved that Californians generally have X-ray vision, can climb up walls and can fly. Basically, they found that Californians are superheroes.

OK, so none of that is exactly true. However, researchers did actually find that Californians have approximately twice the concentrations of flame retardants flowin’ in their bloodz as average Americans. Cool fun fact, right?

Like, totally!–Except for the fact that these flame retardants happen to be toxic chemicals that will royally muck up your endocrine system, give you cancer, and–oh yeah, we almost forgot–they don’t even make you invincible. Can we get a “Hiss, hiss! Boo?”

It turns out we do it to ourselves. Thanks to Technical Bulletin 117, a cancer-spawning legislative remnant of the 1970s, furniture manufacturers are required to “pump flame retardants into furniture” so that it will “withstand at least 12 seconds of open flame without catching on fire.” The chemicals can then enter the body when you lick your sofa or otherwise come into direct contact with couch dust.

Legislators are now trying to ban such harmful chemicals, but in the meantime, we wouldn’t recommend walking around naked in your living room.

Study: Californians Have High Flame Retardant Amounts in Their Blood [Daily Cal]

]]> http://clog.dailycal.org/2008/10/17/californians-are-fire-proof-also-more-likely-to-die/feed/ 1 Five Reasons Why Move-Out Day Sucks http://clog.dailycal.org/2007/06/01/five-reasons-why-move-out-day-sucks/ http://clog.dailycal.org/2007/06/01/five-reasons-why-move-out-day-sucks/#comments Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:46:19 +0000 Ethan Strauss http://newclog.dailycal.org/?p=428 Movies dedicated to mythologizing the hedonistic college lifestyle never show the disgusting drudgery we deal with when leaving a dwelling. For some reason, the Clog decided to list such horrors. Hope your May 31-June 1 transition went nicely.
  1. Ugh, Moving the Fucking Furniture This isn’t breaking news by any means, but moving furniture really fucking sucks. Your Ikea item is somehow as sharp as Einstein after Adderall lines and as slippery as Robert Dynes after getting "bad advice." Your staircase is somehow as steep as the price for Stanford admission and as narrow as the minds of those who actually pay the admission (zing!). After a few hours of trying to navigate this mess without killing yourself, you slowly begin to realize that a desk-drawer crushing of your hand might be a good thing. No more moving, no more worries. Pay the hospital bill, and let your roomies do the rest.
  2. Covering For the Bailer If only there were bounty hunters for that roommate who bails without cleaning communal spaces. There should be a Berkeley ordinance against doing this. Bailer: Well, I’m off to bigger and better things. Good luck with the broken tea set and the corpse that somehow got crazy-glued to the back of the fridge.]]>
    Movies dedicated to mythologizing the hedonistic college lifestyle never show the disgusting drudgery we deal with when leaving a dwelling. For some reason, the Clog decided to list such horrors. Hope your May 31-June 1 transition went nicely.

    1. Ugh, Moving the Fucking FurnitureThis isn’t breaking news by any means, but moving furniture really fucking sucks. Your Ikea item is somehow as sharp as Einstein after Adderall lines and as slippery as Robert Dynes after getting “bad advice.” Your staircase is somehow as steep as the price for Stanford admission and as narrow as the minds of those who actually pay the admission (zing!). After a few hours of trying to navigate this mess without killing yourself, you slowly begin to realize that a desk-drawer crushing of your hand might be a good thing. No more moving, no more worries. Pay the hospital bill, and let your roomies do the rest.
    2. Covering For the BailerIf only there were bounty hunters for that roommate who bails without cleaning communal spaces. There should be a Berkeley ordinance against doing this.

      Bailer: Well, I’m off to bigger and better things. Good luck with the broken tea set and the corpse that somehow got crazy-glued to the back of the fridge.

      You: When we exchange awkward glances in front of Dwinelle five months from now, this will be the reason why, you fucking asshole.

      Bailer: Oh, is that your poker set in the living room by the way? If not, I kind of want it.

    3. Fretting About the DepositIt’s a bit like studying for a Humanities test: True, extra effort will theoretically improve your lot. But honestly, who the fuck knows? If you were smart enough to estimate things like the cost of hookah coal burns, you wouldn’t have played football indoors in the first place. And you wouldn’t have made a drinking game out of it.
    4. The Damned KitchenUnless you lived in the Sorority House for Nuns With OCD (we hear that place is still more fun than living in Foothill, by the way), your kitchen was probably incredibly revolting on move-out day.

      Question: What would happen if Cheeseboard went out of business, they never threw out their merchandise, and the city took a year to clean up the mess?

      Answer: Take a whiff of your kitchen and try not to die.

    5. The New AbodeOh God, more work. Yeah, moving into a new place is exciting. Then the sobering reality sets in: You’ll have to go through the same shit again, next summer.
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