“Please don’t squeeze the Charmin.”
Once upon a time we were in the discovery store, and they had this gadget that projected an image into the air by swinging a bar with lights in it back and forth. When we noticed it, the message said “Touch Me” which was kind of strange, we thought, considering how fast the bar was whipping back and forth, but hey, it says to touch it… We reached out to, when all of the sudden the message changed to “Please Don’t.” Did it read our minds?? We pulled our hands back. “Please Don’t” cycle “Touch Me.” Oh! I guess whoever programed it didn’t realize how many people would see “Touch Me” before “Please Don’t”. Apparently it hurt if you followed through, at least judging from the yell we heard a short time later.
Ah, the power of suggestion.
That could be a great idea for a comfortable seat… take a big bag, maybe fabric rather than plastic as it would be less sweaty. Then fill it up with rice, or maybe, I don’t know, maybe dried beans or something, and it would mould to the shape of your backside. You need to give it some kind of catchy name, though. Rice pouch? Lentil sack?
Pea pod!
It’s still OK to stand up on the rice though?
I think so. Getting freaky may be okay as well.
Many people don’t know that they can stand up to rice.
Or you could lie down on it. I’ve heard rice makes an excellent pillau.
Er, beanbag chair?
I imagine that another issue is that if you sit on the rice bag, you’ll break some of the grains of rice.
Ever hear the sound of a rice bag flying through the air? It goes…
WHOOOOSH!
In Soviet Russia, rice sits on you!
You have killed the funny 
Do NOT get freaky with the rice. You don’t want grains stuck there.
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Leaves of ass.
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Speaking of sequential threads, I love how the mouseover for this one ends with “Why, oh, why can’t I sit on it?” And the next thread title is “No Pants!”
And I’m fixing it so it stays that way.
I was at the supermarket and they had sacks of rice piled up. There was no sign saying not to sit on the rice, and if I had my cellphone with me I would have sat on the rice and had someone take a picture of it.
…wait a sec. If there was room for “Please Don’t”, they could have just written “Don’t Touch” and not had the ambiguous cycling text.
Don’t be afraid to go against the grain.
I doubt whether ttheir is a problem with hygiene. Sitting on bagged rice and afraid someone will fart on it?
You have more faith in health standards than I have.