The smart thing that the two of you should have done was clear the way before going up.
Shouldn’t have been that hard to eyeball the way through.
Hindsight is 20/20 obviously but it wasn’t there the last time I had been on the landing. I’m assuming one of the other guys helping had put it there.
And that’s why you check every time.
I can easily lift and hold two-hundred pounds, and carry it around for an hour or two. If I were to go to the trouble of getting it in the first place.
Sovereigns might be a little more effort than, say, fivers, but I suspect two hours would be about my limit before wanting to exchange or spend some of it.
You were beaten to it. Post 11.
The wisest of words to the wise. NEVER take ANYTHING for granted.
Welcome to the board. You sound like a dick.
Going to the gym doesn’t make you a douche or an idiot. Acting like anyone who doesn’t physically measure up to your “standards” is some sort of lesser human makes you a douche and an idiot.
I’m 165 and deadlift 225 easily.
But, I still wouldn’t want to be holding some big, awkward couch, at the top of the stairs, for an indeterminate amount of time. Couches are not barbells - they don’t fit your hands conveniently, and the weight distribution is messy.
Thanks for the laugh! Now I have to clean the diet coke off my monitor after the instant image that put into my head of a runaway casket down a steep set of stairs. 
You do realize that if you were at the top end and he was at the bottom, he was carrying significantly more of the weight of the couch than you were, right?
In fact, if you set down your end at the top of the stairs and he was still holding the other end lower down, he was still supporting more than half the weight of the couch.
So yeah, another vote for the OP being not only a dick, a douche and an idiot, but a douche-dick idiot with an inadequate understanding of basic physics. Pit hard fail.
Well yeah, but you could also stand up under a couch pretty much indefinitely if you can lock out a higher weight. This isn’t like I’m asking you to be able to deadlift the couch by yourself, I’m just asking you to be fit enough that you’re not risking death or injury by moving your couch.
I’m a douche for expecting the average human being to meet what qualifies as a novice level of strength? Like I understand not everyone does, but it really is sad and a huge flaw with our society that people are so out of shape.
If you can’t lift 200 lbs for 30 seconds…
…you are MUCH more in need of help moving than others, and should meet with willingness at ever turn because of it!
That’s incredible for that age!!!
Are you just projecting that I’m stupid because it fits your narrative that I’m a meathead or whatever? I understand basic physics. It’s why I said a 250~300 lb couch would need 200 lbs to support and not 150.
You never said the couch was 250-300.
I didn’t really think it was important to the narrative I was creating? Would you like me to describe further details about the couch and the people lifting it?
The point isn’t the couch or some arbitrary weight you should need to lift to be a man or healthy or whatever, its you shouldn’t be putting yourself in danger if you can’t lift something. If you need help moving, but you can’t do half the work safely, don’t put other people at risk because you don’t want to pay a mover.
You guys are getting caught up on the details here.
Since you knew that, you (being the muscled specimen that you are) should have taken the heavier end.
Congratulations, you’re not only a douche-dick idiot but also a liar (or maybe just too dumb to remember what you actually said).
As running coach pointed out, nowhere in this thread did you claim that the total weight of the couch in question was “250~300 lb”. In fact, what you said was
You didn’t even realize that what the lower-step guy was holding was more than “half of” or “one end of” the couch until I pointed it out to you, dickhole.
:rolleyes: Says the douche-dick idiot liar who actually started a Pit thread with a title explicitly stating some arbitrary weight you should need to lift for some arbitrary length of time.
The butthurt goalpost-moving whine of countless idiot Pit OPs after they get called out on their idiocy.
Congratulations, you’ve let us all know that you’re strong enough to lift heavy weights. I hope that glow of satisfaction consoles you for the fact that you’ve also let us all know that you’re a douche-dick idiot liar.
And the OP retreats to a pretense of concern trolling in a pathetic attempt to cover his ludicrously exposed ass:
I agree. But at the same time, we were going to have to back walk the couch around other inclines as well so the weight was going to shift no matter what. You’re still completely ignoring the point though.
Holding half of a couch doesn’t mean supporting half of the weight. You can be a pedant all you want but it doesn’t make me stupid. I promise you I managed to pass physics.
You’re still back to being a pedant because the point of the thread wasn’t the arbitrary number I picked in the OP to demonstrate my point. I could’ve said “some heavy weight for a few seconds” and it would’ve been the same thing effectively, but I wanted people to be able to visualize very roughly the weight I had in mind. If you want to say that the average person can’t pick up 200 lbs, I’ll agree. I’d say most can support it but that’s not easy to measure. I’ll definitely say the average guy should be able to pick up at least 200 lbs though because its really not a heavy weight, and as shown here, you’re very likely to hurt yourself if you can’t work with heavier weights in the real world.
I’m not very strong and that’s not the point. Do you want to defend people being unable to move safely because of being out of shape or do you want to argue the minimum amount of strength you should possess before you’re what I’d call fit? I don’t mind talking about either but the first one is what the thread is about.