Five Crazy Things You Never Knew About Kitchen Bar Stools

You won’t find much in life that doesn’t have dark secrets but I can guarantee that you had no idea about these 5 outrageous things about bar stools…

What Does Bar Stool Mean?
The origins of the phrase bar stool can actually be traced all the way back to latin linguistics, where the latin phrase ‘barstolum’ inferred the meaning, ‘to dine hungrily’. A very interesting fact about this is that the term ‘bar’ in latin, is thought to have been a reference to eating happily and heavily in a social gathering. I doubt any of you will be surprised to hear that we use the term now to mean something quite similar.

Bar Stools as one of the Most Popular Choices for Home Weaponry
Across the entire world, an estimated 55 bar stools get thrown through kitchen windows every day in the midst of family arguments. 90% of the time, the cause of the argument is matrimonial disagreements and would you believe that the majority of people throwing bar stools through windows are actually women?

Olympic Committee Turned Down Bar Stool Racing as New Sport
In 2004, a proposal from Alabama in the United States put forward the idea that bar stool racing be made into an Olympic Sport. Bar stool racing is an old custom where all members of a community are invited to create their own racing machines built from only kitchen appliances and bar stools. The rules of the competition are simple, racing vehicles must use engines of no more than 50cc in size and must use bar stools for weels and seats.

Loving on Bar Stools
Bar stools are one of the most used items of household and kitchen furniture to be used to have sex on. The first is beds and the second, somewhat unsurprisingly, is kitchen units. Bar stools, albeit a lowly third, is still a lover’s favourite.

The Great Bar Stools of China
A fantastic fact about bar stools is that if you connected every single one from end to end and then used them to build a line around the earth, you’d be able to circumnavigate the globe 1656 and a half times! You’d also be able to see the line from space.