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Monarch chair

That's 595g of chair (in a natty bag) in new money.

Interesting slubber interesting.
Wouldn't want someone to snaffle it at £70 tho.
Also fear alcohol related injuries

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But it could not be snaffled if your arse were in it, and if your arse were not in it you would have folded it up all casual like and have put it in your back pack.

have asked sil to bring me 2 from the US

I can see myself tipping back and ending up flailing like an upturned beetle repeatedly, much to the enjoyment of the kids

(Also lightweight chairs bit pointless with 27 ton bell tent and all the trimmings to lug around.)

Does look funky though. Yay, a MN camping 'must have' that I don't 'must have' :o

Surely if you're going to part with $70 for the monarch, then $120 for the mantis is the way to go?

www.alitedesigns.com/current/mantis-chair.html

I'd be a bit worried about the tipping over, but this looks the business. Already enquired about shipping to the UK and answer was 'not yet' :-(

Yes I like the mantis but the monarch looks like fun. Fun whilst sitting down. I rarely maximise the sitting down experience but this is the little chair that might just do it for me.

Funny demographic they are aiming at. If you are go getting mountain climbing sort do you really need 'a wee sit down' at a moments notice? Are you not more likely to be doing one handed pushups or adjusting your technical clothing?

I can put my tent up faster than that!

Slubber, get a grip woman. 3 G&Ts in and you'll be head down, legs akimbo in the gloaming.

And in A&E with the kids every day having their skulls x rayed.

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You are all being very mean and dismissive of these fabulous little chairs. But they pack down so tiny wee small and the funness... I think you have all overlooked the fun angle.

Well you'll all be laughing on the other side of your faces when I am just loosely and freely sitting and then walking and then sitting again in my tiny small fun chair and you lot are all just sitting lumpenly in your big, difficult to pack dullard chairs.

And I balance perfectly even when v drunk thankyouverymuch Blu

[folds arms]

The thermarests that turn into chairs are the bees knees when it comes to uber packing,

"And I balance perfectly even when v drunk thankyouverymuch Blu"

I'll believe that when I see it posted on YouTube

really? Don't they have annoying strappy sides that cut into your back fat Lat Dorsi region?

Blu, you know that Legolas, that's me that is, but British and womanly.

I've spent all day googling working and trying to find a chair that I saw at a campsite in Brighton the other week and coveted hugely.

That was not it. And tbh I don't think my capacious arse would fit into it even if it was.

Fun is not going A over T backwards after a gin in a tin...

Balance when drunk, Slubber? Really?:o

They look like a cool festival chair, but for camping I like a chair that's sturdy and holds my drink!

Also, being so low to the ground would far more temptation than my 2 dogs could handle and I'm not sure I fancy sharing with a soggy springer spaniel.

Yes!

But look you use your legs to balance it. Your legs in whatever arrangement you desire make up the chair leg numbers 3 and 4. I think it looks genius. Only bilateral amputees and The Un-Fun would struggle with this chair.

You are all so half glass empty. So disappointing.

It's the effects of my glass being wholly empty that I am concerned with!

Har

Glass half empty obv.

If you sat in a monarch I bet by the power of fun balancing and double rip stop nylon that optimism and joy would infuse up through the buttocks.

Steady on, Slubber - it's a bit early in the week for joy infusing up your buttocks, hang on until Fri afternoon for that thread?

If the truth be told, if those things were £10 in Halfords I would be full of buttock fuelled joy in no time.

Ahem.

Need I point out that you plus gin plus balance don't really tend to frequent the same sentence?

:o

Shut it Yellow.

Blu, I know they are on the pricey side but I for light weight minimalistic camping and all those other sorts of things (think Torch relay) when you are just hanging about getting tired legs well I think they look fabulous.

And I don't think that buttock joy time should be repressed into designated time slots. If there was more fun to be had sitting down then the world might just be a happier place all round.

Low to the ground means doing the equivalent of squats to get in and out, surely. That's what would get me. Not the balancing once I'm in the chair with my beverage, but awkwardly maneuvering into and out of it.

But that is the challenge surely. When were you last challenged by your camping chair? Never I'm betting. You don't even have to hold your drinks anymore as they all come with cup holders.

Ok so nobody is getting these chairs. They are obviously far too modern and vigorous for the mn crowd.

See I don't want or need to be challenged by my camping chair. I want to sit in it, with my gin and my kindle, and relax fat chance with 2 hyper boys I don't want to risk brain injury every time I stop concentrating on balancing for a couple of seconds!

And I certainly don't want to pay 70 quid for the privilege!

Have you legs? yes I believe so. The legs attached to your body stop it from falling over. You can drink and kindle and sit and also be slightly challenged all in one go. And don't forget the buttock joy AND THE SUPREME SMALLNESS.

Right I am so getting these sodding chairs and then I will venegefully and joyfully sit in them and you will all take back your pissings on my metaphorical camp fire (chair).