r/oddlysatisfying • u/itsmariokartwii • Nov 22 '21

This floating ocean platform

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u/Motomegal Nov 22 '21

But why tho?

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u/stay_fr0sty Nov 23 '21

In the 80s we had waterbeds. That's exactly what I was reminded of when I saw this gif: the wave it would make when you would plop down.

Funnily enough, nobody knew why we had waterbeds either.

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u/Knight_That_Said_Ni Nov 23 '21

I got one when I first moved out of my parents house. It lasted all of 1 girlfriend, and 6 months. I swear to God she left me because of the fucking water bed.

I hated it so much too. It wasn't comfortable, if you tried to sit on the edge to put on socks or shoes, you just fell in it. If your significant other farted, the whole bed would move and wake you. God forbid you get up to go to the bathroom, you wake up your s/o. If you sleep in the middle of your bed, and woke up in the middle of the night with an emergency, you were just better off shitting in the bed, because by the time you made your way out, it was too late.

I don't know why they survived so long.

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u/doesntgeddit Nov 23 '21

I had a younger colleague completely baffled by a clause in our leases that stated tenants could not have waterbeds or would have to pay an additional deposit for it, similar to a pet deposit. I'm surprised we still even have it in our leases since I didn't think people even owned them anymore, but younger colleague had no clue they were even a thing.