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2. Keith Duke 19 min later

   @zachleat Isn’t that like a twin rotated 90 degrees?

   1. Zach Leatherman 22 min later

      @kduke the mattress is the first problem, the frame is the next

3. Eric A. Meyer 1 hr later

   @zachleat Can we also have a tall king size? Mostly for winter, in my case.

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @Meyerweb I think we only get that by exploiting the workers—by hanging on to our dated imperialistic dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society!!

      *clip clop clip clop*

4. Stephen 2 hr later

   @zachleat call it the Charles I.

5. Amelia Bellamy-Royds 1 day later

   @zachleat Just turn the Queen sized mattress sideways, Zach. 5 feet long, 6½ feet wide. 😁

   (Also, looking up mattress sizes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_size#North_America) just makes me angry. Why isn't a king bed just square? 3½ inches longer than wide? Who picked that? Clearly not someone who's ever had to put a fitted sheet on a bed!!!)

   1. Stuart Langridge 1 day later

      @AmeliaBR @zachleat ok, that size is just stupid and literally designed to make everyone in the whole US put the sheets on wrong. I didn't realise this (king-size beds are 5ft x 6ft6 in the UK, which is apparently queen-size elsewhere? not sure if this changes now we have a king and the queen died). You would think "don't make a thing tantalisingly nearly square" ought to be a rule for everything made anywhere

      1. Zach Leatherman 2 days later

         @sil @AmeliaBR monarchy makes for terrible hierarchy

         1. Stuart Langridge 2 days later

            @zachleat @AmeliaBR yes. On the other hand, hierarchy is literally the one thing they’re really good at knowing about

      2. bkardell 2 days later

         @sil @AmeliaBR @zachleat I'm frankly surprised no kings have demanded like a "UK King" which is, you know, bigger than an American king or something... A bed race, basically.

         1. Stuart Langridge 2 days later

            @bkardell @AmeliaBR @zachleat last time we demanded that you lot had a U.K. king, you threw a bunch of perfectly good tea into the ocean

            1. Zach Leatherman 2 days later

               @sil @bkardell @AmeliaBR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh4mDKnijlI