• f4hy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I can tell the author is a smaller person. Someone over 195cm (6’5") does not feel like there are oceans of bed.

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        2 days ago

        You want the California king then. It’s the same size in width but longer.

        Edit: Never mind, they actually do shrink slightly in width.

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            I feel safer with my knees hitting the back of the seat in front of me, it’s cosier that way. And if my head scrapes the ceiling I can push up and stabilize myself if there’s a sharp turn. These are perks, I say.

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      Dutch person here. My bed is 220cm long. Default size here is 200cm long (basically a king in length) but 210 or 220 are not hard to get.

      Also if you both snore you’re going to end up in different beds anyway.

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      I think it’s primarily written by someone used to a queen. When my wife and I had a queen, I’d get to bed a little later than her, have to shove her over to her 3/4 of the bed, and sleep while doing a delicate balancing act on my little sliver of bed.

      After about a decade doing that we got a king size bed. I no longer have to shove her to get room for myself, but I still sleep on a same-size sliver that I’m used to. If I reach for my wife I can just barely reach her. It would be easy to reach her if I slept on a reasonable area of the bed, but that’s not what I do.

      TL;DR: They’ve maintained the same distance from the edge they were used to, so all the new bed real estate ended up as a chasm between them.

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        It’s not, but when the subject matter is hyperbolic fantasy that’s not in line with reality, it doesn’t really go anywhere.