"A doctor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., calls it the 'sitting disease,' likening the ill effects of inactivity that doctors are still discovering to the discovery of the side effects of smoking."
—Okay, everybody up, right now. Let's all take a brief stroll, for our health. I myself am going to run downstairs and have a cigarette, but, really, anything is better for you than sitting, which will kill you dead. DEAD. Also, have you ever tried working at a standing desk? Doesn't it make you feel super-pretentious? Like, who am I, Arturo Toscanini? It just doesn't do it for me.
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I knew it.
my feet are tingling
Thank god for my overactive bladder!
Do they say anything about being curled up in a ball under your desk? I mean, hypothetically?
I hope you're keeping a big whiteboard with Good for You on the top left and Bad for you on the top right.
But the evidence is clear that you do need to move.
So, we've finally evolved. Into sharks.
@Clarence Rosario There are two kinds of people: sheep and sharks.
@boyofdestiny Both are equally delicious.
Call me when lying down is the new yoga.
I do lots of yoga. Just corpse pose.
@My Number Is My Address : I'm only buying in when the afternoon nap becomes the new bottle-in-the-desk-drawer.
But have they factored in the significant decapitation risk standers face due to low-hanging ceiling fans?
@stuffisthings how low are your ceiling fans?
@happymisanthrope Depends, how low are your standards for hysterical health scares?
I'm working on the blueprints for a pacing desk.
@Vera Knoop I tried to work at a standing desk, but all I did was little shuffling dance steps all day.
@laurel I think it might also feel like being in a puppet show. As a puppet.
@C_Webb I also had the urge to ask people on the other side of my desk if they wanted fries with that.
@laurel : I had the urge to deliver rousing speeches to my horde of fanatical followers.
I am more or less sitting on my ass up to 12 hours a day, not including my drive to and from work. I am the only person I know who hears things like "standing room only" or "we can only get in if we stand by the bar" and does a fist pump.
I bet Balk has this James song in his head now.