I bought a Tempur pillow and it says on a label 'Not for sale on the Japanese market'. Why would this be? It seems very specific.
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May 04, 2024
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Information here may be outdated?
Possibly an infringement of an existing trade mark if they sell under that name.
or it's a rude word.
FWIW, the brand is sold in the US as 'Tempurpedic'. This may be something similar?
Except it should then say 'Not for sale on the US market' ???
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Yes, but I was just mentioning another anomaly in naming between countries.
It's not as though Tempur don't have a Japan-specific website
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Could it be that the pillow material is different in Japan due to some clash on safety rules; but we are guessing; why not ask them? Brian
I thought that Japanese folks used carved wooden 'head supports' instead of pillows. Perhaps a soft pillow might offend some of them ?
Andrew
Then more off-topic. Why would a GP ask how many pillows you use , during a consultation nothing to do with insomnia, neck pain, back pain or anything seemingly related to pillow depth
Because it’s sometimes a sign that someone has a degree of heart failure (when they’re using them to prop themselves up when sleeping).
Tim
That makes sense.
Another GP oddity. A previous GP who always used a 14lb sledge hammer as a door prop to keep the door of his consulting room open. Eventually , on a quiet day with no one in the waiting room, I asked him why. His answer I'll place here after a few suggestions.
Reducing White Coat syndrome by allowing an off topic chat prior to the consultation?
Andrew snipped-for-privacy@btinternet.com wrote
No they don't all do that.
Still no reason to ban selling soft pillows there even if that was true.
N_Cook snipped-for-privacy@tcp.co.uk> wrote
Likely to get some idea of how most people do things when the GP gets lots who have a problem with insomnia, neck pain, back pain or anything seemingly related to pillow depth
Close enough, he simply said it was a conversation piece.
I knew a GP who used to take the dog to the surgery. I assume he told the patients it was a therapet.
He's lost the fire extinguisher.
I was waiting for someone to suggest 'knee reflex hammer'.
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