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18453. Ms. No - 2/8/2006 6:58:06 PM Pelle,
I'm sure he'll get lots of business so long as he doesn't increase the price so much that he negates the IKEA savings.
I find IKEA to be pretty painless for the most part, but I generally know what I want before I go there. I figure out that I have a need. I look through the catalogue to see if IKEA can fill it. I go to the store and check out the display to make sure it lives up to what I want and then I head down to the warehouse.
Now, I'm certainly guilty of the occasional impulse buying along the way, but all in all I'm fairly efficient. I go right when they open before the crowds descend. I don't wander. I don't take wanderers with me. I know where I'm going because I go often enough. And I find their assembly directions easy to follow as long as there's no glue involved.
I hate glue.
I've had problems with a bookcase that was too heavy for me to lift alone once I got it assembled and also with some check-out/schlepping/customer-service/return stuff before I learned the ropes, but now I've got it all down to a science. I'm generally in and out of IKEA in about 30 minutes.
18454. Macnas - 2/8/2006 7:23:47 PM Whenever we talk about furniture, I always say " I'll make it, I've a good idea for that, see..."
And my wife looks at me with a tired expression and says " We need it next week, not in 2 months time".
So we buy the unit and I spend a few hours swearing and blinding, cursing the fellow who thought this turn and twist bolt capture device was a good idea. My wife usually leaves the house while I engage in this ritual. 18455. arkymalarky - 2/9/2006 5:51:29 AM You can't buy a freakin pack of gum in Wal-Mart in under 30 minutes.
I have to do all the putting together in our house. Bob gets too mad. I'm sure that's a purposeful technique of his, but it works. 18456. Neato - 2/9/2006 10:18:22 AM Well, incidents of "Ikea rage" are reported in Australia from time to time, and Russell Crowe had an attack of this. I love the place myself. When New Zealand comes to Australia they are thrilled with it all, as they lack Ikea there (NZ). There's a great episode of a local comedy in which a character disappears for days in Ikea.... 18457. Macnas - 2/9/2006 10:40:04 AM Hello Neato! 18458. alistairconnor - 2/9/2006 10:56:30 AM Neato, don't be a stranger!
Australians exhibit "Ikea rage"
New Zealanders suffer from "Ikea envy"
I confess at least half of my furniture comes from the Swedish supermarket, or from a local knock-off of the concept. And I have issues with that bolt-capture device. 18459. wonkers2 - 2/9/2006 5:47:32 PM Compared to the typical American furniture store which sells poorly made and horribly tasteless junk, IKEA is tremendous. 18460. PelleNilsson - 2/9/2006 6:03:17 PM There is a technique for dealing with the bolt-capture thing. Contact me before your next assembly session. 18461. alistairconnor - 2/9/2006 6:07:31 PM Engineers Without Borders!
Selfless Swedes succour the suffering bolt-capture-challenged Ikea clients. 18462. Macnas - 2/9/2006 6:18:46 PM I can think of many very satisfying techniques of dealing with the bolt capture fixing.
I've no issue with making it work, I just hate it when the routed section has to be relieved due to poor sizing and I detest anything that cannot be taken apart easily once installed. 18464. Ms. No - 2/9/2006 10:04:48 PM oops, that should've gone to Sex and Gender.
Mago, pardon me for moving it, but I don't know if you're around at the moment. 18465. Ms. No - 2/9/2006 10:10:57 PM What's the bolt capture device? --- Oh, wait, is it the thing that looks like an eye-pencil sharpener that you twist to lock the bolts in? Once I finally figured them out I thought they were pretty damn cool.
I was also thrilled with the little plastic nail pinscher that holds the tiny nails at the same perfect distance from the edge of whatever I'm working on and keeps me from smacking myself.
18466. wabbit - 2/10/2006 2:33:21 AM Contrary to popular belief, there is indeed enough Chuck Norris to go around. And you can say so on your t-shirt.
It was just a matter of time. 18467. judithathome - 2/10/2006 2:59:05 AM Chuck Norris is passé now...it's all about Jack Bauer!
Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas! 18468. Macnas - 2/10/2006 10:38:19 AM Hey, Chuck rules.
30 things you never knew about Chuck Norris:
1. chuck norris's tears cure cancer. too bad he has never cried
2. rather than being birthed like a normal child, chuck norris instead decided to punch his way out of his mother's womb. shortly thereafter he grew a beard
3. chuck norris does not sleep. he waits
4. chuck norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparallelled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was finalised, chuck roundhouse kicked the devil in the face and took his soul back. the devil, who appreciates irony, couldn't stay mad and admitted he should have seen it coming. they now play poker every second wednesday of the month
5. chuck norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs
6. chuck norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, chuck met all 3 bullets with his beard, deflecting them. JFK's head exploded out of sheer amazement
7. chuck norris's girlfriend once asked him how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. he then shouted "how dare you rhyme in the presence of chuck norris" and ripped out her throat. holding his girlfriends bloody throat in his hand he bellowed "don't f*ck with the chuck!" Two years and 5 months later he realised the irony of this statement and laughed so hard that everyone within a hundred mile radius of the blast went deaf.
8. Chuck Norris once ate three 72 ounce steaks in an hour. He spent the first 50 of those minutes screwing his waitress
9. To prove it isn't that big a deal to beat cancer, chuck norris smoked 15 cartons of cigarettes a day for 2 years and acquired 7 different kinds of cancer, only to rid them from his body by flexing his muscles for 30 minutes. Beat that, Lance Armstrong
18469. Macnas - 2/10/2006 10:39:17 AM 10. the chief export of Chuck Norris is pain
11. Chuck Norris was the Fourth Wise Man. He brought the baby Jesus the gift of "beard", Jesus wore it proudly to his dying day. The other wise men, jealous of Jesus' obvious gift favouritism, used their combined influence to have Chuck omitted from the bible. Shortly after all three died of roundhouse kick related deaths
12. Chuck norris can make a woman climax simply by pointing at her and saying "booya"
13. If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can't see Chuck Norris, you may be only seconds away from death
14. There are no disabled people, only people who have angered chuck norris
15. Chuck Norris doesn't read books, he simply stares them down until he gets the inform ation that he needs
16. Chuck Norris lost his virginity before his Dad did.
17. Chuck Norris won Jumanji without ever saying the word. He simply beat the living sh1t out of everything that was thrown at him and the game forfeited.
18. Filming on location for Walker:Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris brought a stilborn baby lamb back to life by giving it a prolonged beard rub.
Shortly after the farm animal sprang back to life and a crowd had gathered.
Chuck norris roundhouse kicked the animal, breaking it's neck, to remind the crew once more that the Chuck giveth, and the good Chuck, he taketh away.
19. Chuck Norris shot down a german plane in world war two by pointing his finger at it and saying "bang"
18470. Macnas - 2/10/2006 10:40:06 AM 20. Chuck Norris died ten years ago, but the Grim Reaper can't pluck up the courage to tell him
21. Chuck Norris is not hung like a horse.... horses are hung like chuck norris
22. after much debate, president truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on hiroshima rather than the alternative of sending chuck norris. His reasoning? It was more humane
23. Chuck Norris doesn't shave, he kicks himself in the face. the only thing that can cut chuck norris is chuck norris
24. chuck norris frequently signs up for beginners karate classes, just so he can "accidentally" beat the sh1t out of little kids.
25. the quickest way to a mans heart is with chuck norris's fist
26. chuck norris owns neither microwave nor oven. when he is hungry, he simply shouts "BAKE" at his food, and out of fear it instantly catches fire
27. One day chuck norris looked in the mirror and said "no one outstares chuck!". He is still there to this day
28. before each filming of walker:texas ranger, chuck norris is injected with 5 times the lethal dose of elephant tranquiliser. This is of course to limit his strength and mobility, in an attempt to lower the fatality rate of the actors that he fights
29. Chuck Norris can eat a Rubix Cube and poop it out fully solved.
30. When Chuck Norris's wife burned the turkey one thanksgiving, Chuck said "don't worry about it honey" and went into his backyard. He came back 5 minutes later with a live turkey, ate it whole, and when he threw it up a few seconds later it was fully cooked and came with cranberry sauce.
When his wife asked him how he had done it, he gave her a roundhouse kick to the face and said "Never question Chuck Norris".
18471. wonkers2 - 2/10/2006 2:28:33 PM The Cap'n sez, "My kinda guy!" 18472. thoughtful - 2/10/2006 8:56:37 PM good news so far on my hubby. Doc said that the spot on his prostate wasn't of particular concern. He thinks the psa was elevated due to the infection and will retest it in a few weeks after he's off the antibios, and he suspects the psa will be back to normal. The kidney stone is unchanged since the last exam and the bladder and all look fine.
He also wants to do a rather unpleasant sounding test of scoping him through the urethra. Ugh.
But anyway, at least the doc didn't look at the test results and turn pale or scratch his head and say, "I never saw anything like this before!"
So, so far so good, and we're both much more relaxed about all of this. 18473. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 2/10/2006 9:02:59 PM auguri (good omens!)
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