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gretriever
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 Posted: 09/01/04 - 15:27 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | MechEngDropout wrote: | | IKEA makes me hate the world. |
What's wrong with IKEA? I've never been to one or even seen a commercial. |
They had the first commercial from a nation-wide business to feature an openly gay couple. It raised quite a storm, and got taken off the air in many markets very fast. This was maybe a year and-a-half, two years, ago.
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prohemp
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Posted: 09/01/04 - 15:57 Post subject: but I love their meatballs!!!!
| cherylpf wrote: | It should be shocking to all that I would disagree with Mech, but, I love Ikea
Its cheap, its easy, its trendy but can be nice... |
I've found their assembly instructions to be a bit vague
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RexRacer
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Posted: 09/01/04 - 15:59 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | I also will add, much of it was not constructed to last more than 2ish moves. I verified this theory moving an Ikea table and chairs for the 4th time in its life last week and the table sort of self-destructed....  |
So, Cheryl, just pick up your enclosed allen wrench (tork-spanndel in Ikea Swedish) and put it back together again!!! 
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cherylpf
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Posted: 09/01/04 - 16:03 Post subject:
| RexRacer wrote: | | cherylpf wrote: | | I also will add, much of it was not constructed to last more than 2ish moves. I verified this theory moving an Ikea table and chairs for the 4th time in its life last week and the table sort of self-destructed.... |
So, Cheryl, just pick up your enclosed allen wrench (tork-spanndel in Ikea Swedish) and put it back together again!!! |
No, I mean, whatever happened it looked like it had been dropped from a tall building. It was going to take a lot more than just tork-spanndel, like a lot of 'klister' as the Ikeans say to make it just a 1 piece table again....
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DCRunningDiva
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Posted: 09/01/04 - 19:26 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | It should be shocking to all that I would disagree with Mech, but, I love Ikea
Its cheap, its easy, its trendy but can be nice... |
 I like IKEA. We have 3 near us and every one of them is nice. They are so huge and have very good prices. I have a really nice tumbler set I got for 25 cents/glass there. They are my favorite glasses. Of course, I have bought WAY MORE than glasses there but that was one of my better deals! 
So sad about the deaths, though. 
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Cappy
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Posted: 09/01/04 - 19:28 Post subject: Re: but I love their meatballs!!!!
| prohemp wrote: | | cherylpf wrote: | It should be shocking to all that I would disagree with Mech, but, I love Ikea
Its cheap, its easy, its trendy but can be nice... |
I've found their assembly instructions to be a bit vague |
Yabut, you only need one tool to put it together, a hex wrench
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DCRunningDiva
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Posted: 09/01/04 - 19:30 Post subject:
| RexRacer wrote: | There are two major problems with IKEA (and since anyone who's been to our house knows it's 50% furnished from there I feel I can say this):
1. The layout is a total maze. really confusing. "Gotta go forward to go back" as Willy Wonka would say.
2. The stuff all has totally fake Sweedish-esque names, like 'Hrundel' and 'Sploork'.
I think really its just designed to encourage the impulse buy. You know you're never gonna find that lamp again if you pass it up, plus how in the hell would you ever remember the name--so you just put it in the cart and buy it. Brilliant. |
My computer desk doesn't have one of those Sweedish-esque names:
Introducing....The Jerker (...and I am NOT kidding):
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