@yakkoTDI Details details details. (grin) Here is my excuse (stolen from the internet), “woody bamboos (depending on the species) can grow up to 30 m tall and 20 cm in diameter, hence the reason they are often confused for being “trees”.”. And who knows. Maybe these are made of woody bamboo.
@Kidsandliz@yakkoTDI
Yeppers. Giant bamboo is really giant. And it grows as a solid clump that is damn near impossible to cut down. You can cut a tunnel through the middle of it, and the stalks above the cut will die, but the intertwined branches will hold them in place. Harvesting bamboo is much easier if you have really good power tools.
@2many2no@chienfou
Me too! I loved her! In the late 70’s before hair products were around for taming unruly curly/frizzy hair we had similar issues. Didn’t take much more than that to transform into Rosanne Rosanna Danna. Boy those were fun times!
For anyone who cares, Purple sells their Queen sheets for $134. I got mine from a Purple mattress trial. I think they’re great! They’re made from:
63% Rayon from Bamboo Viscose
27% Polyester
10% Spandex
This deal being 60% Microfiber and 40% Rayon from Bamboo seems tempting to try.
Also, apparently Microfiber (which can be 100% polyester) is better than polyester for breathability but does not wick away moisture as well.
@goldnectar
And since “polyester” is a very generic term for a class of fibers that includes ones with wildly different characteristics, they might as well just say “manufactured fiber”. Some polyester fibers are excellent at wicking moisture, others are given to absorbing and retaining it, and some (particularly the stuff that was used for many fabrics in the 1950s through the 1970s) are terrible at absorbing, so that clothing made from it will make you sweatier. If the description doesn’t explicitly mention that it’s one of the cool-wicking types, it probably isn’t, and if it claims to be wicking, they could still be misrepresenting or overstating the fiber’s abilities in that area.
I would buy, But they don’t like me to change the sheets here in this “institution” Don’t even know why I’m in here…Just because I hear the voices? All they tell me to do is fry bacon while nude. I guess my kids think that’s crazy.
Rayon from bamboo is basically bullshit (it has none of the positive properties of actually bamboo fiber but marketers continue to act like it does) and then to go a step further in bullshit and claim your sheets are “rayon from bamboo” when they are actually less than 50% rayon is quite the impressive stack of lies.
@ravenblack you said it! I actually need sheets but there hasn’t been a single Meh! deal ever that I know of made predominantly from anything remotely resembling real rayon or bamboo, let alone cotton or linen.
Can’t we have the occasional deal on high quality linens?
Apart from the environmental cost of microfiber pollution, a study just came out indicating microfiber and polyester fabric dust is a household breeding medium for new strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
And let’s get real, very few brands of even higher end microfiber sheets come close to approaching garden-variety cotton ones.
Good for the guest bed if you have horrible guests and want them to feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. We have sateen weave cotton sheets that cost 8X (king size) this price, and they feel magnificently soft and smooth, while wearing like iron. Life’s too short to sleep on puffy clouds of petrol.
Looking at the photos, I see that the manufacturer’s advertising people have lied with pictures here. Note that the nearest corner of the sheet has several inches of the tip laying flat on the floor, while the corner to the right just barely touches. That tells me they’ve intentionally positioned the sheet well off center to make it look like they are wider - and thereby will hang lower on the sides - than they actually are. It’s a sleazy trick, and they knew that very few people would spot what they were doing despite the fact that the evidence is fully visible.
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Holy sheet! It is like sleeping on grass!
@yakkoTDI or broken glass?
@yakkoTDI With bamboo I thought it was probably going to be more like sleeping in a tree.
@Kidsandliz Bamboo is a grass not a tree.
@yakkoTDI Details details details. (grin) Here is my excuse (stolen from the internet), “woody bamboos (depending on the species) can grow up to 30 m tall and 20 cm in diameter, hence the reason they are often confused for being “trees”.”. And who knows. Maybe these are made of woody bamboo.
@JvB @yakkoTDI
/youtube annie lennox broken glass
@Kidsandliz @yakkoTDI
Yeppers. Giant bamboo is really giant. And it grows as a solid clump that is damn near impossible to cut down. You can cut a tunnel through the middle of it, and the stalks above the cut will die, but the intertwined branches will hold them in place. Harvesting bamboo is much easier if you have really good power tools.
I didn’t know you could get bamboo from rayon. Must be some sort of reverse time-travel de-evolution thing.
@getkind
reverse engineering…
Bamboo from Rayon. Now that’s some high tech transmutation. You think they could do more with that technology than just discount sheets
@getkind @daveknowsall Are you sure it isn’t Ray sleeping on bamboo?
You should sell pepto if you have the sheets…
Meh, you are too late for Halloween costumes, again.
/giphy bamboo wood?
Does this give ‘wood’?
No Cal-King…
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Wait, what? Rayon?
Never mind.
/youtube never mind emily litella
@2many2no
I miss Gilda!
@2many2no @chienfou
Me too! I loved her! In the late 70’s before hair products were around for taming unruly curly/frizzy hair we had similar issues. Didn’t take much more than that to transform into Rosanne Rosanna Danna. Boy those were fun times!
@2many2no @Lynnerizer
SNL was a monster in those days!
So we have Ray on bamboo, presumably backing up what’s his name, the singing cowboy, on guitar.
No split king. Sad day.
@fatterinperson Isn’t a split king just two twin mattresses pushed together?
@dred two twin XL mattresses
Again with the plastic? Good cotton would sell out a pallet load in minutes.
@craigcush Good cotton did sell out - which is why the leftovers that Meh gets are plastic.
For anyone who cares, Purple sells their Queen sheets for $134. I got mine from a Purple mattress trial. I think they’re great! They’re made from:
63% Rayon from Bamboo Viscose
27% Polyester
10% Spandex
This deal being 60% Microfiber and 40% Rayon from Bamboo seems tempting to try.
Also, apparently Microfiber (which can be 100% polyester) is better than polyester for breathability but does not wick away moisture as well.
@goldnectar
And since “polyester” is a very generic term for a class of fibers that includes ones with wildly different characteristics, they might as well just say “manufactured fiber”. Some polyester fibers are excellent at wicking moisture, others are given to absorbing and retaining it, and some (particularly the stuff that was used for many fabrics in the 1950s through the 1970s) are terrible at absorbing, so that clothing made from it will make you sweatier. If the description doesn’t explicitly mention that it’s one of the cool-wicking types, it probably isn’t, and if it claims to be wicking, they could still be misrepresenting or overstating the fiber’s abilities in that area.
I would buy, But they don’t like me to change the sheets here in this “institution” Don’t even know why I’m in here…Just because I hear the voices? All they tell me to do is fry bacon while nude. I guess my kids think that’s crazy.
@Bumplepimp We’re just jealous because the Voices talk to you and not to us.
@Bumplepimp
frying bacon while nude is definitely ‘crazy’. That popping oil will really ‘light up you life’ if you know what I mean!
Rayon from bamboo is basically bullshit (it has none of the positive properties of actually bamboo fiber but marketers continue to act like it does) and then to go a step further in bullshit and claim your sheets are “rayon from bamboo” when they are actually less than 50% rayon is quite the impressive stack of lies.
@ravenblack
So today’s product offering is bullsheets.
@algae1221 @ravenblack
sort of reminds me of this:
which you would think is 100% CRANBERRY juice… but it isn’t.
@ravenblack you said it! I actually need sheets but there hasn’t been a single Meh! deal ever that I know of made predominantly from anything remotely resembling real rayon or bamboo, let alone cotton or linen.
Can’t we have the occasional deal on high quality linens?
Apart from the environmental cost of microfiber pollution, a study just came out indicating microfiber and polyester fabric dust is a household breeding medium for new strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
And let’s get real, very few brands of even higher end microfiber sheets come close to approaching garden-variety cotton ones.
Finally! Something from meh that I can get my behind on, 100%.
I have these. I hate them.
It is like crawling into a Ziploc sandwich bag at night to sleep - both in how the texture of the fabric feels, and its moisture retaining abilities.
You wake up feeling like a soggy sandwich left in the bottom of your backpack - sodden, mushed, and unappetizing.
@dragoncmndr thanks for saving me from these and soggy sandwich sleep. I’d have been so mad!
@dragoncmndr @Vee19 so i am offered a soggy plastic bed that also makes me hungry?
Can you label stuff accurately, please?
Microfiber = polyester + nylon
100% rayon = “from bamboo”
90% rayon + 10%(polyester+nylon) = “sort of from bamboo”
40% bamboo + 60%(polyester+nylon) = “from an oil well”
Good for the guest bed if you have horrible guests and want them to feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. We have sateen weave cotton sheets that cost 8X (king size) this price, and they feel magnificently soft and smooth, while wearing like iron. Life’s too short to sleep on puffy clouds of petrol.
Rayon = good (breathable)
Polyester = bad (plastic)
If it’s 60% Polyester, don’t call them Rayon!
Looking at the photos, I see that the manufacturer’s advertising people have lied with pictures here. Note that the nearest corner of the sheet has several inches of the tip laying flat on the floor, while the corner to the right just barely touches. That tells me they’ve intentionally positioned the sheet well off center to make it look like they are wider - and thereby will hang lower on the sides - than they actually are. It’s a sleazy trick, and they knew that very few people would spot what they were doing despite the fact that the evidence is fully visible.
FedEx sent my sheets to the wrong city and tried to deliver them… wtf?!