Huzzah for the Swedes

[Hosakawa Tito]

My wife and I were recently in the market for a new mattress. The old one was like sleeping on a bed stuffed with car parts, and we were not sleeping well at all. A friend recommended the Swedish Sleep System, Tempurpedic. It's not cheap, over $2000, but we were desperate, and sick of waking up every morning feeling like we had just endured a beating with a club. We've had it for about 2 weeks now and I must say I have never slept so well in my life.

Next to Swedish meatballs & hot blonde nude beaches this memory foam mattress may be the Swedes biggest contribution to civilized society.

[CrossLOPER]

Sold!

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Next to Swedish meatballs & hot blonde nude beaches this memory foam mattress may be the Swedes biggest contribution to civilized society.

Lingonberries.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Is this really a backroom topic.

How can you discuss political matters based on a matress?

Unless we can turn this into a nationalist rant thread. Any moment now Krook will come along and argue Polish matresses are better...

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

How can you discuss political matters based on a matress?

Matthew 21:22

[Lemur]

I spit on your Scandinavian socialist mattress and the Godless Europe it represents. You're all going to be overrun by immigrants and turned into the northernmost outpost of the Caliphate, you degenerate blondes.

And I am shocked, shocked that Hosa would support these union-loving universal-health-care enjoying Socialist free-sex freaks by buying their products.

(Does that make this thread sufficiently Backroomish?)

[Viking]

Labelling Swedes and other Scandinavians as blond is racist.

[LittleGrizzly]

commies are out to get you in your sleep!!

[KukriKhan]

But it isn't Swedish at all, is it? The TEMPUR(tm) technology was developed by NASA, and

The Company's products are currently manufactured at facilities located in Aarup, Denmark and Duffield, Virginia, both of which it owns

^^TPX co profile at marketwatch .com

So, what's so Swedish about this 'sleep system'? Unless they mean it's like Swedish massage, where they basically beat you up, and you're so grateful when they stop that you pay top-dollar.

There. Now we have a backroom topic.

[KarlXII]

Remember, all money spent goes to fighting COMMUNISM.

[TB666]

So, what's so Swedish about this 'sleep system'? Unless they mean it's like Swedish massage, where they basically beat you up, and you're so grateful when they stop that you pay top-dollar.

The founder and creator was swedish.
Anyway, happy that you enjoy our lovely mattress

Now go and take his precious bodily fluids.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Labelling Swedes and other Scandinavians as blond is racist.

Oh, there's that many Arabs there now?

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Come on guys, I'm trying to make this nice and Backroomy, give me some help.

[KukriKhan]

It took a bit of digging, but I've found that TB666 was mostly correct. From a 90's about.com article discussing the provenance of the product:

In the early 1980s NASA put the formulation for the viscoelastic material in the public domain, and a number of companies began working with it to find further commercial uses, but most gave up when Temper Foam proved more temperamental than temperature-sensitive. One not so easily dissuaded was a Swedish firm, Fagerdala World Foams. Through a subsidiary, Don Foam A/S, it devoted a decade to perfecting the material for consumer use, in particular mattresses. Fagerdala branded their own version of Temper Foam in the early 1990s, naming it TEMPUR, which the company was able to produce in a number of different shapes and sizes, as well as densities. Fagerdala introduced the Tempur-Pedic Swedish Mattress in 1991 and enjoyed immediate success in its home market. Within three years of the product's launch, the company sold 50,000 mattresses in Sweden, a country with a population of just eight million. Also in the early 1990s Fagerdala awarded the North American distribution rights to a man from Lexington, Kentucky, Robert Trussell, who along with a partner created Tempur-Pedic, Inc.

A Swede company did indeed spend 10 years perfecting, then marketing, a superior product, when others had failed and given up, despite early promise.

Good on ya, Sweden! Big risk, forward vision... all that.

And if the final result is a happy back for Hosakawa Tito after spending workday after grueling workday dealing with convicted killers, rapists, con men, etc - it's a good thing.

[Papewaio]

Is that the same memory foam as you can get at that relatively unknown Swedish shop IKEA?

I've got one of those pillows:
GOSA HÄGG
OR
GOSA KÄRNA

Can't remember which exactly, but it has the memory foam and I am sleeping better recently.

That combined with using the Wii Fit and apparently I have ceased snoring... at least my wife is sleeping better. The little one still likes to wake me up early on the weekends... so no great gains for me.

[Hosakawa Tito]

I'm not sure Pape. There are several companies, at least, that make these memory foam products. We first slept on this type mattress when visiting out of state friends over the July 4th holiday. Then we purchased two of the pillows to try before making such a large investment in the mattress. I am hooked on this product and would recommend it to anyone to at least try it. The place I made my purchase has a 30 day return policy and so does the Tempur factory if you order it directly on-line.

[CountArach]

commies are out to get you in your sleep!!

*Hunts in the night*

[Rhyfelwyr]

There's a Red under your Tempur bed!

[Kralizec]

Now go and take his precious bodily fluids.

Great reference

[Papewaio]

Then we purchased two of the pillows to try before making such a large investment in the mattress.

That's my thinking with the pillow.... its about half the depth of a normal pillow, but I seem to be waking up more refreshed.

[Fragony]

Like everything made in scandinavia, enjoy it while it lasts which is usually very, very short.

yes I am still bitter about my Bang&Olufsen breakdownmania. Not once, not twice not even 3 times but 4 times epic faillure, get it back, breaks down again, bring it back, get it back, turn it on bzzzzzzztBANG surprise mange tak for buying our overpriced crap!

[yesdachi]

I sleep on a mattress stuffed with duck feathers and the crushed dreams of my enemies. It is incredibility comfortable. But if Swedish foam keeps you happy, congrats.

[Somebody Else]

The material I like to sleep on has no foam. Nor any feathers. (Unless we've been particularly kinky...)

I'm not the greatest fan, but I'll accept some silicone on occasion.

Awesome pillows.

SE

[Moros]

If you think that's great? Think about their copyright law !

[Innocentius]

You're most welcome, Hosakawa Tito.

Since there's constant daylight up here in the summertime, the little spare time we have after visiting the nudist beach, the smörgåsbord and frolicking around in our horned helmets drinking moonshine, we are so exhausted we're quite simply forced to constantly invent better and better mattresses.

Thankfully, we have those nine months of constant darkness, horizontal blizzards and polar bears in our morning coffee to spend on such useful activites as inventing yet better mattresses.

Oh, there's that many Arabs there now?

That's very bigoted and ignorant, once you get to know them you'll be surprised how many are of southern Slavic, Persian or Indian ancestry.

[Viking]

That's very bigoted and ignorant, once you get to know them you'll be surprised how many are of southern Slavic, Persian or Indian ancestry.

It was meant humorous. Anyway, I believe you do not have to point to non-ethnic swedes to find non-blonds; I am anything but blond myself..

Oh well, keep carrying on with this...matress.

[Martok]

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Since there's constant daylight up here in the summertime, the little spare time we have after visiting the nudist beach, the smörgåsbord and frolicking around in our horned helmets drinking moonshine, we are so exhausted we're quite simply forced to constantly invent better and better mattresses.

ROFL!! That maybe shouldn't have been as funny as it was, but I couldn't help myself.

I gotta ask, though: Where did the drinking moonshine come from? I wasn't aware that was considered a stereotypically Swedish activity....

Thankfully, we have those nine months of constant darkness, horizontal blizzards and polar bears in our morning coffee to spend on such useful activites as inventing yet better mattresses.

I can sympathize with the darkness and blizzards part, but you've got me beat on the polar bears.

Anyway, back on topic:

So do these mattresses truly allow one to sleep better? I ask because to be honest, I always had the impression that they were kind of a sham. It seems hard to believe that they can make that much of a difference.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

That's very bigoted and ignorant, once you get to know them you'll be surprised how many are of southern Slavic, Persian or Indian ancestry.

It was a joke, read the spoil.

[LittleGrizzly]

Is it just a more satisfying sleep or would an insomiac benefit from such a bed ?

I can't afford one anyway and even if i could theres a long line of things i want more but for future reference i guess... or curiousity...

[PanzerJaeger]

Volvos and Saabs used to be uniquely engineered, really well built, and just plain cool cars. Then the Borg(detroit) got a hold of them and blessed them with their magic touch(mediocrity).

[Innocentius]

It was meant humorous.

So was I.

It was a joke, read the spoil.

So was mine.

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Irony never works...

I gotta ask, though: Where did the drinking moonshine come from? I wasn't aware that was considered a stereotypically Swedish activity....

I recall a German IKEA commercial featuring a bunch of, predominantely blonde, Swedes, all dressed up in national costumes, on a muddy field gathered around a wooden table with a "maypole" in the background, celebrating midsummer. They all get hideously drunk on moonshine (or possibly mäsk, basically undistilled moonshine), dance around the maypole in the mud and then something something. The commercial was later withdrawn for its stereotyping, but it should be available on Youtube. Anyway, I just figured it to be a rather common stereotype, but now that I think of it the drinking part sounds more like what the stereotypical Finnish man would be doing. And in the end, how many great mattresses have the Finns ever given us?

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Apologies to Finnish people EVERYWHERE.

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I'm a Finn myself, though I have to say my own family goes with the stereotype.