And now for something completely different… Sumo Chairs
Nov 22nd, 2007 by steve

Have you ever woken up at 4.30am with a crook neck, shoes still on, sleeping like a tramp on your own sofa surrounded by empty KFC boxes and lettuce?
Or, woken up on the bathroom floor hugging the toilet draped in a towel feeling that you’re tied to a spinning wheel?
We’ve all had those moments, those drunken moments and drunken photos that end up on Facebook - chipping away at your cool, speaking of Facebook, join our BITE group and spread the gospel to all your friends.
Fear not, you can now do all that and more in style, with Sumo Chairs!
I’ve got a Sumo Chair after my partner and I relaxed all night at a sunset beach bar in Turkey on a pair of them, they were the perfect way to spend a chilled out evening watching the sun disappear into the Med. Back in England we just had to get one, but being 200 miles in land and with the obvious lack of sun in our quaint little country, was it really going to be practicle buying a gargantuan cushion for our two bed mid-terrace house?
Of course it was, Sumo Chairs are the lightweight durable beanbags of the future here today. “But just how space age can you get with simple beanbag technology?” I hear you ask.
Well, these enormous comfort lumps come with a wipe clean nylon surface, Sumo Chairs are oversize, not like the ‘just big enough for your backside’ fire hazard beanbags of the 1980’s - they’re so last century.
Sumo Chairs command presence in any room, I wonder if sumo wrestlers actually use them? …They are not objects to hand down to your dog as a place to sleep when they go flat, Sumo Chairs don’t go flat.
Ok that’s probably a lie, they will go flat, but it will take years, Sumo Chairs come packed with thousands and thousands of polystyrene balls that are locked away behind the worlds stickiest Velcro strip and the most durable childproof zip we’ve ever seen. In fact you’d have to put some bullet holes in your Sumo Chair in order to see those annoying white balls spill out everywhere, Sumo Chairs are not bullet proof and we do not actually recommend you buy a Sumo Chair just to shoot at.
So, when you come home from a heavy night out, don’t head for the sofa, nay, look for your Sumo Chair, the new mistress of pacification in your home. The moment you hit the Sumo Chair at 6 drunken miles per hour, the Sumo Chair reacts, it’s like it re-programmes its DNA to suit you, it moulds around your exact body shape giving you comfort and support in whatever position you throw at it.
I’ve tried the ‘face first star shape’; Sumo Chair was there in a blink of an eye, maximum head support and a perfect horizontal tilt. Then, ‘collapsing into the fetal position’, sumo chair was there again, I felt like a cat in a pile of clean clothes.
My friend tried the ‘just need somewhere to sit quickly maneuver’ - bang, Sumo Chair saw it coming and reshaped itself into something that I can only describe as reminiscent of the scene in King Kong where Kong picks up the damsel in distress in a very caring way while fighting 3 Tyrannosaurus Rexes’.
In a moment of clarity (whilst sitting in my Sumo Chair), now the smoking ban is enforced in all British pubs, I think Sumo Chairs would make a great addition to a pub lounge area, or a trendy student bar, you can see it now, students up and down the country searching for bars just because they have Sumo Chairs, so they may sit in various positions and discuss each Sumo Chair position, the impact it may have on socialism or other deep political agendas, …as well as taking cool pics to put on Facebook. Awesome, high fives all round!
You know I’d really like to say that Sumo Chairs would make the perfect Christmas presents for your family and friends, but hiding them is a real problem, when a Sumo Chair is delivered to your house, it looks like the postman is asking you to dispose of a body, whilst they are super light in weight, they are extremely big, so I’d suggest you just go out and buy one, or two, or three, right now and just say “I bought you a present”, “Why? Because I love you honey”. Then, when it’s home time on that next pub tour make sure you hit the Sumo Chair and leave the sofa and bathroom floor behind.
Buy yourself a Sumo Chair today and say goodbye to hard unforgiving surfaces.

I really hope this was a parody post. “Sumo chair” looks truly awful.
What the heck has this got to do with BITE?
I’ve liked reading all the other posts, but this just seems like an Ad!
Not being a beer drinker myself I enjoyed reading about something different.
I thought that was what blogs were for, you know, random!
I am going to get one for a friend for Christmas.
metoo beerdrinker2007. I would strongly advise the beerintheevening gang to think hard about keeping the site on-topic. I don’t object to overt advertising (even the laughable Beefeater link that sometimes appears through the Google ads on the front page). I don’t even object to stealth advertising if it’s related to the site content (e.g. if a brewer sends you something to drink and you review it without saying it arrived free).
But this sort of thing is a credibility-killer.
As wild as this may sound, there are only two product advertisment posts on this Blog - the above post is not one of them. However your point is very much noted and I will indeed refrain from writing about anything off topic in the near future.
I like this post. As soslinky says, is this not what Blogs are for - a little insight as to what the Bite team have been getting up to in their busy week.
Please dont give up the random blogs - not being a beer drinker myself, these make a pleasant change to all the beer reviews.
Fair enough, steve! I withdraw my complaint
These are the early days for the BITE blog, and until this post it really looked like the blog was very carefully thematic rather than personal, so this post seemed very out of step with the rest. I’m just overly cynical, having seen far too many stealth adverts in various places (and having been offered various sorts of inducements myself to do the same sort of thing).
I only noticed now you have been using category tags, so it’s easy enough for me just to look at blog posts categorised “Beer” etc. if I don’t feel like reading the other content.