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me, an American who sleeps in an actual loft that needs a ladder to reach it: hey I feel attacked

@gayalee I mean... I think that's the point...

@gayalee Lol same here

@gayalee I salute you, fellow loft sleeper. I've got camping gear, costumes, extra bedding, and sewing equipment under mine.

@gayalee Me, who slept in one room with two bunk beds for myself and my three older siblings until the age of 15: Same.

Bugs?

So, Scandinavian vs. Continental United States; America includes some very south-latitude habitats. Wet, hot swamps that (I presume) have more insects than the frigid cold of the frozen north.

Taller beds have less chance of draping sheets on the floor and letting crawly things up into the bed.

A better question is how do other countries get on beds less than a foot off the ground without breaking them? Like, am I supposed to do a quick core workout and squat onto the bed? Or should I take a knee and roll into it?
I try to lay down gently but at 6'2" it's still a looooong way down to the mattress.

@AmericaTheBigBoned

Most of the world doesn't have our average girth,.. yet.
Give them another decade or two of American fast food.

@SeanR
Oh, Samoa is way ahead of you.
Mind you, it's ALSO the USA's fault.

If you have Netflix, check out a infotainment program called "Patriot Act, with Hasan Minhaj" Volume 5, episode 1. titled: "How America is causing global obesity". :/

So that really big and scary monsters can hide under the bed, to torment little children.

@Louhikaarme wtf, i love it

@Louhikaarme Like Granny Weatherwax, I walk unafraid through the darkness, secure in the knowledge that it is filled with strange and terrible things, and it's me. (also applies to sleeping arrangements.)

American’s need big everything to make up for lack of proper English and manners.

I feel personally attacked from this comic...

Look, I'm 193cm (6'4"). I NEED a tall bed.

@Lichruler
You need a longer bed, not taller -unless you sleep standing up. It is a y axis and x axis translation issue.
I sleep with an ice pack on my head for the headache because I watch too much news. -and my bed it too tall.

@GaryM No, tall is more necessary than long...sleeping curled a bit is less of a pain that standing from a sort of crouch. (I'm only 5'11", and getting out of my (low) bed involves a sort of kip-up.)

@GaryM No Can confirm. My husband is tall it is fine if his feet hang off but the getting up and down can be a pain. we are working on our house so it is just a mattress on the floor if he had to do a lot of squats at work it's hard to get up when it's low better to be in a sitting position to help get his legs under him.

American beds are perfect! Much easier to get into and out of for adult size people. The storage space is a bonus, but it is nice that they can be at the height of a chair rather than a low sofa.
It is us Europeans who are doing it wrong.
Same thing with cars . Nothing worse than a low sedan where you feel your butt is just above the road. You feel you put the car on, rather than sit in it. Better with a pickup or other reasonably big car, where you sit down in the same height as you would on a chair.
God bless the US for being nice to people who are tall (and/or overweight) :-)

Also: I'm telling you, American beds are the greatest....it's true! ;-P

@eLVeeJay I am both tall-ish (six foot) and overweight, and I MISS low-slung cars. I used to have a 1995 Pontiac Bonneville SSEi that cornered like a cat even if it weighed 3900lbs. My current Chevy Equinox is the same weight and nearly half again the power, but it feels like a bloated pig compared to the Bonneville because it's too damned tall.
I do like a taller bed, though.

@Asciender low cars are definitely more fun. I had a 1993 Honda Del Sol, despite being (er. Hold on, let me math,) 183cm and built like a stereotypical American. But it didn't matter to me that it was harder to get in and out, the driving experience was worth it and then some.

Also, I sleep on a mattress on the floor, so maybe I'm just weird, for an American.

Why so tall? 1. You can store boxes of yule ornaments & wrapping underneath 2. The cat has somewhere to hide when you need to get them to the vet 3. Dust Bunnies need a lair to grow properly.

I think box-springs are much more popular in the US. My bed in the US had about the same clearance underneath, but was a bit taller than my bed in Norway because over here the mattress is built into the frame and just has a topper on it, whereas in the US there was a frame, box-spring, mattress, and mattress-topper. As for why box-springs are more popular in the US, I have no idea.

@NobleHam The box-springs used to be actual springs, before mattresses with springs inside were a thing. Then, after inner-spring mattresses, the mattress makers introduced "box-springs" to make beds the same height they had been with "outer-springs," so bed coverings would work the same. Which are silly otherwise, since that box-spring is just a box. A satin covered box.

Personally, I got one of those raised frames, so the mattress is still the same height, with over twelve inches of storage underneath, instead of less than six. This does illustrate how useless the box-spring is, even to mattress makers, though. The last time I bought a mattress, I told them to keep the box-spring, as I didn't need it, and they took a whole ten dollars off the purchase price. Meaning it's basically worthless except to add a bit of bulk.

More room for guns?

@DarkMage7280 Nah dude we keep those under our pillows
(that's why American pillows are so big)

@AmericanButterfly They're tank-sized? Wow. I'm impressed!

@DarkMage7280 Could you stop making fun of Americans? No we don't put tanks under our pillows. We put them in the garage like civilized folks.

@Lichruler Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to offend.
It's just that whenever I run out of vodka and Swedes to beat up, I tend to get a little sarcastic.

@DarkMage7280 ha ha not really it was a joke about a troop in very old shows were sometimes a character keeps a gun under their bed either that or a bat

@AmericanButterfly Yeah, I know. I was mildly concerned that people would misinterpret my comment, but this is a comic about stereotypes after, all.

@DarkMage7280 now I'm imaging America's bed being in a tank, kind of like those racing car beds but with a tank

kind of like this



only bigger and with a real tank

(that was the best picture I could find)

@AmericanButterfly I don't like guns, but I love tanks. (Hypocritical, absolutely.)
I'd love a bed like that!

,I@DarkMage7280 I'm neutral as people have licenses and don't use it to kill others and follow proper gun rules I don't care

oh and keep guns away from kids