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my mother maintains the inauspicious position of being the only person i've ever known to insist upon a waterbed, and one of the kind with minimal baffles at that. i'm more baffled than that bed.
I always thought the unspoken point of the waterbed phenomenon was that you could use the rhythmic wave motion to power assist sexual cranking.
I was born after they were more or less gone from the scene, but the cultural references were always that dudes who bang a lot have waterbeds, ceiling mirrors, tiger print, etc.
this is not an elaborate "your mom" joke, I swear lol.
i dunno tbh with you, my mom's deal is that she's autistic and refuses to believe it. it's like a sensory comfort and cool in the summer or something
I liked them as a little kid, but never got to sleep on one. now that I'm an adult, all I see is the logistical nightmare of setting one up and the catastrophes that become possible with some giant bladder of water inside the house that could leak or burst.... and the whole time growing up, all the adults said they fail all the time, the sleep isn't restful because of all the rocking, etc.
I slept on a big ship for a while, where some people need like Dramamine and stuff. I was out like a light being subtly rocked like that.
I would totally love some hassle free opportunity to try one out for a week.
I feel like nobody with a water bed had pets
Like my cats would absolutely fuck it up and flood the bedroom if I had one
Not only that, but having a bladder full of high heat capacity water sucking up every joule of body heat from you will make for a very sniffly waking up.
When I learned that almost every waterbed needs a heater I wondered how much energy is wasted on something that cloth and foam can do by just existing.
It fought back at you, actually. Very difficult to get a good rhythm going. But they did have heaters and that was amazingly comfortable.
I read that while looking at your avatar and just imagine Dr. T'ana grumbling about waterbeds too.
Turns out, the 80s boomers had horrendous aesthetics
No shit, just look at the clothes of the era. The jean jacket was probably the only good clothing item in circulation at the time, which shows how low the bar was.