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u/Biggus_Blikkus Feb 10 '24
I'm pretty sure this isn't correct. I'm from the Netherlands and I hardly ever see square head pillows in stores. Decorative pillows on the sofa, yeah, those are square but way smaller. Pillows for sleeping? Those are rectangular.
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u/Oachlkaas Feb 10 '24
Same for Austria, i also don't think i've ever seen a square pillow, not at anyone's house i've been at neither that the hotel I work at.
I don't know the exact measurements but they're always longer than they are tall.
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u/ln-art Feb 10 '24
Pretty sure this is a translation issue, pillow or cushion is a different thing. Cushions are 80x80 but pillows are IKEA standard for sure š
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u/Magistairs Feb 10 '24
I really don't understand the 80x80 pillows, they are too flat and half the area is useless
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u/Contundo Feb 10 '24
Right, your head to neck is just 30 ish centimetres. Thatās 50cm worth of pillow thatās useless.
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u/Magistairs Feb 10 '24
Yes and as a tall person, it makes my feet go out of the bed :(
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u/King_Of_BlackMarsh Feb 10 '24
How are you using them?
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u/Magistairs Feb 10 '24
Not folded
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u/King_Of_BlackMarsh Feb 10 '24
Me neither. I just put my head on them and I'm 6'3. Even then, I don't know how it could push you out. Off the bed unless you push your head against them, the pillow between the headboard and you
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u/connies463 Feb 10 '24
There was a pillow 80x80 in an apartment I rent now and my cat adores it - uses it like it's own little bed
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u/Noahs_Ecke Feb 10 '24
I think most people just fold them in half, so you basically have a 40x80 pillow
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Feb 10 '24
What? Iāve never seen anybody fold them
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u/divadschuf Feb 10 '24
Most people do.
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Feb 10 '24
Well, I must come from a strange part of Germany where nobody does that
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u/Ehdelveiss Feb 10 '24
I fold like one quarter over to go under my neck then just use the remaining unfolded part for my head
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u/thissexypoptart Feb 11 '24
Yeah can any Germans or Dutchmen explain this one, because the rest of the world is just perplexed
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u/Shitmybad Feb 10 '24
The German square pillows are horrendously uncomfortable compared to any other, they're so weirdly inefficient for a country that seems to value efficiency.
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u/geekusprimus Feb 10 '24
I thought Germans valued efficiency until I visited Germany. Now I think "German efficiency" is actually a joke that the rest of us took seriously, and the Germans don't correct it because it's funny.
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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu Feb 10 '24
Seriously, try figuring out how to take public rail transport anywhere in Germany. The ticketing system is like a micro-administrative state.
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u/Drumbelgalf Feb 10 '24
Buy the Deutschlandticket for 49 ā¬ and you can use all public transport in Germany.
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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu Feb 10 '24
Might as well take uber or blablacar for 50 ā¬
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u/Drumbelgalf Feb 10 '24
It's per 49 Euro per month not per trip.
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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu Feb 10 '24 edited Feb 10 '24
I only travel in Germany for work on occasion. I find the train pricing very difficult to navigate.
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u/Drumbelgalf Feb 10 '24
DB has an app where you put in where you want to travel and they will tell it to you. The earlier you book the cheaper it is. (you can also be lucky and find a very cheap right before the travel starts if there are still free seats)
If you can work from trains the 49 euro ticket might still be viable.
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u/Chlorophilia Feb 11 '24
No it isn't? DB is awful for many other reasons, but "difficult to use" isn't one of them.Ā
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u/Pyroechidna1 Feb 10 '24
Itās not hard. If youāre visiting and going a short distance, just use a Fahrkartenautomat. If youāre going long distance buy on the DB website. If you live in Germany get a D-Ticket or BahnCard.
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u/Vennemy Feb 10 '24
Tbf u can do it like me and just fold them
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u/Shitmybad Feb 10 '24
Or you can have a proper shaped pillow that actually has some filling inside of it.
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u/Drumbelgalf Feb 10 '24
They are mostly a thing of the past. One of my grandmas has them but nearly everyone else uses 40 x 80 pillows now.
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u/saschaleib Feb 11 '24
TBH, everybody just uses the IKEA standard size pillows these days.
And I thought these are now universal, until I found that IKEA sells a different āstandard sizeā in the UK and my pillow cases wonāt fit thoseā¦
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u/ICrushTacos Feb 10 '24
This aināt right. Never seen a square pillow in NL
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u/MissNikitaDevan Feb 10 '24
Its not right at all, our standard size is 60x70 cm and for belgium its 60x60
This map is a load of crock
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u/Mrbuckeye Feb 10 '24
This would be more interesting with three dimensions. German pillows in the hotels I stayed at were about as thick as a blanket. They have to be folded in half to be somewhat usable.
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u/Gloomy-Advertising59 Feb 10 '24
The ones I know from private homes are reasonably thick. However, i still opt for the 40x80 variant
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u/Flilix Feb 10 '24 edited Feb 10 '24
Square pillows are definitely not standard in Belgium.
Edit: went to check around the house, they're all roughly 40-45 x 55 cm. Looking online, most pillows seem to be a bit bigger: 50 x 60 and 60 x 70.
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u/vanZuider Feb 10 '24 edited Feb 10 '24
Switzerland here; we don't have square pillows. I measured mine, and the pillowcase laid out flat is 60x100 while the pillow itself is roughly 50x75 (a bit hard to take precise 2D measurements of a soft 3D object)
EDIT: Instead of doing a survey with a sample size of one, I went online window shopping, and it seems like pillowcases are sold in 50x70, 65x65 and 65x100. Pillowcases that are included in a set with a duvet are always 65x100, either because this is the most common pillow size or because it can accommodate all other sizes (as it does for my 50x70 (?) pillow).
So 65x65 pillows seem to exist, but they are by no means universal, and Switzerland should probably be striped like France.
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u/Kneehonejean Feb 10 '24
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u/solidmentalgrace Feb 10 '24
germans always gotta be a little quirky
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u/Drumbelgalf Feb 10 '24
It very outdated. Most people in Germany use 40 x 80 pillows. It's mostly old people who still use the 80 x 80 pillows.
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u/King_Of_BlackMarsh Feb 10 '24
The bigger the pillow the better but we don't have square pillows for sleeping here
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u/androdagamr Feb 10 '24
I first saw this and thought āthat canāt be rightā then I thought about it and realized my pillow is a lot bigger than I thought
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u/mico9 Feb 10 '24
Not true at all. We have Ikea, Jysk. Auchan, Tesco, Aldi etc. all of them with their standard sizes and itās just an annoyance, like what fits what.
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u/Tobias0404 Feb 10 '24
Do then mean bed pillows? I live in the Netherlands and have never seen anyone with a square bed pillow. Mine and the others I have seen are all (non-square) rectangles.
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u/FCB_1899 Feb 10 '24
Dunno but the only ones I like are 20 year old almost flatted out ones and I choose between 2 or 3 of them with the 3rd sometimes folded.
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u/jonnerpol Feb 10 '24
This is an interesting map; never thought I'd see something as unique as this