Aside from in a chair and leaning with your back against something, there is no easier way of sitting than indian-style. It's the first one they teach you in school. Hell, it's generally the first thing they teach you in school. You just cross one of your legs over the other, bend them in, and there you are: compact, well-balanced, and seated. Piece o' cake. Since we're all in agreement here, you can imagine our horror when Vice ad guy Ryan Duffy—a person who has both attended and graduated from college—walked over to where one of us was seated as such on the couch and said "How are you doing that?" What followed was the most embarrassing two minutes of effort we have ever seen.Already seated on his ass, Ryan took hold of his left ankle and, like an aging dockworker prying open a crate, wrenched it into position beneath his thigh. Then following—no joke—a minute-long break, he wrapped his hand around the other ankle, inhaled sharply, and wedged his right foot in place. It was like watching somebody operate a paraplegic marionette. And even after all the literal huffing and puffing, he still wasn't sitting right. His knees were all pointed out at a 45-degree angle to the ground and both keep kept slipping forward like it was taking all his strength just to keep them under his legs. It was more of a crouch than anything.The video we shot of the ordeal is far too boring to post here, so we broke it down to just the key frames (click above to make them bigger). Look at the strain in panel three. Amidst his grunts, Ryan kept trying to tell us how indian-style sitting was a big Deweyesque conspiracy to condition kids into being docile and subservient, but all we could see was one of the most damning indictments of American public education folding itself, slowly and ineffectually, before our eyes. We also think this would be a good PSA poster for early-onset arthritis osteoporosis or whatever the fuck it is that has put him behind five-year-olds in the field of sitting.