You need no better sign that The Empire is on the wane then the “Tush Turner,” a swiveling seat cushion that makes it easier to get in and out of your car without all that “contorting.” Just sit your ass down and spin in and out. And maybe with the few extra seconds it gives you you’ll be able to escape the Visigoths hunting you down as fuel for their war machines.
$19.99 + $6.99 (that’s $26.98) gets you one of these bad boys, and for just $4.99 more (that’s $31.97), you can get a second one, for your dignity.
But hey, it’s made with memory foam! And the cushion is bound to the rotating disc!
Tush Turner [Official Site] (Thanks to GitEmSteveDave!)
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This would be perfect for moving my Grandma around. She has fairly advanced alzheimers so she rarely leaves the nursing home, but when my grandpa died a few years ago she was in and out of cars a ton for the few weeks it took to get everything in order. For the $30, it would have made my parents lives much easier and saved her a lot of pain.
Wow!! EVER! Like so many other non-exciting things..
These products. Are not. For. People. With. Well. functioning. Bodies. They are. For. The. Disabled. You. Fucking. Douchebag.
The gratuitous boob shot at 0:30 is hilarious.
Have you seen the size of some people’s butts? And the donut they support? There’s enough friction there between the butt and the seat to keep them imprisoned forever. That swivel is a great idea for people that don’t want to lose weight.
Have you noticed the actors stumble in and out of the car BEFORE they put that swivel cushion in?? Only then do they swivel their hips to get in and out. What a crock. While some elderly and disabled people could use this to help them swivel, most people just need to learn how to get in and out properly.
While I agree this is kind of goofy, I can see the usefulness of it. I’m only five foot ten, pretty damn average, and I still find it unpleasant and sometimes fairly difficult to contort myself as necessary to get in and out of many regular “cars” (as opposed to vans, trucks, minivans, economy pickets, and all the other clases…so I guess anything like a sedan or smaller). I can only imagine how bad it must be for people with less mobility.
Another person chiming in to say that readers wouldn’t be so scornful if they’d seen my grandmother struggling to get out of even large, low sedans in her 80s and 90s.
I have seen similar products in Adaptive/Assistive equipment catalogs. This is the proper way to get in an out of the car with knee/back/hip/balance issues. I am a physical therapy student and have showed many patients this exact way of getting in and out of the car. I don’t recall anyone actually having an issue with the turning part though, usually people can manage with all of the handles and dashboard to spin themselves around. But it might be good for some!