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Old 12-14-2020, 10:42 AM   #61 (permalink)
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The local indigenous people used them as a major food source, but I thought it was a developed taste for the bitterness much like coffee.

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The local indigenous people used them as a major food source, but I thought it was a developed taste for the bitterness much like coffee.
Brazilian indigenous tribes often resorted to peanuts, with some growing their own varieties of peanuts differing from what other tribes used to grow. Not to mention the Brazilnuts which are prevalent in Amazon, or pine nuts which are a winter staple in my homeland Rio Grande do Sul and also in Paraná and Santa Catarina. AFAIK there is a pine nut variety in Australia that is often eaten and the water from its cooking used as some sort of tea, yet I have never seen any similar usage of the water from cooking Brazilian pine nuts as a beverage.
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Why don't you boil some Brazilian pine nuts and make your own wastewater tea?

The Canadian assembled a loft bed from a smaller and cheaper company.

He said that he only paid $800, but he probably could have made his own for a fraction as much, although there would have been a great deal of cutting!

It didn't come with instructions. You pay $800 for a kit and you need to print off instructions yourself, or pull them up on your phone and complain that your phone is small and your eyes are old.

He also complained that nothing was labeled and at least once he needed to undo a section because he thought that it went the other way.

It has the two shallow shelves that I don't like. They don't hold much, which is okay, because you need to remove everything when you actually use the bed.

I prefer the ones that look like a cabinet and have fold-out legs. They don't perform any additional purposes, but they don't take up extra space, and those extra purposes aren't usable when it is open.
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Sounds like a job for a 4-bar Watts linkage.
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This is all that I found when searching for 4-bar Watts linkage "Murphy bed"

That didn't work the first time that I posted it! Weird!

So, like that, but without the small bar near the top?

I would prefer a system without a pinch hazard for some reason.
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Interesting, but I was thinking of something that would keep the legs vertical as the platform traverses.
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Why don't you boil some Brazilian pine nuts and make your own wastewater tea?
It won't taste as good as the pine nuts do.


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It didn't come with instructions. You pay $800 for a kit and you need to print off instructions yourself, or pull them up on your phone and complain that your phone is small and your eyes are old.
Even if you're not that old, the phone could eventually run out of battery charge when you need it the most. Either to look what's the next step or to call someone to rescue you if something goes terribly wrong


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I prefer the ones that look like a cabinet and have fold-out legs. They don't perform any additional purposes, but they don't take up extra space, and those extra purposes aren't usable when it is open.
Murphy beds have never been so common in my country as sofa-beds are. Not sure if they're any harder to fold-out, but at least they're not useless at all while open.
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His phone was plugged in, but your battery should last a couple of hours!

Ah, sofa beds! Bad sofas and bad beds!

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Last edited by Xist; 03-31-2021 at 11:35 PM.. Reason: Bad sofas, not bad sodas.
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