OK, you can stop now: new 'stupid things' thread

[jm]

I guess, more realistically, I'm annoyed that people make this shit up so they can get paid money to write a book about it.

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[Greg Nog]

Looks like someone's about to have his big 2-5-uh-oh-uh-oh thrisis

[jm]

UH OH!!!!

I HAVE MADE SO LITTLE OF MYSELF IN THESE TWO THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED NINETY NINE POSTS.  I'M SUPPOSED TO BE A HUMAN BEING BY NOW AND I HAVE FAILED.  FML OMG LOL EPIC RTFM

[Ignatius]

i would love to go to ikea and eat brunch with pretty much anyone and i am in my brawny mid 20s. where are the thirty year olds and such?

[YojimboMonkey]

I'm 40 and fuck ikea

[dieblucasdie]

ikea is the worst place in the world.

[elpollodiablo]

You're thinking of Los Angeles. Ikea is where you can get sweet couches and meatballs.

[jm]

I've never been to IKEA, but I don't think I'm missing much.  I mean, I like the idea of actually being able to afford furniture (since it's really the only place with affordable furniture), but eh.

[dieblucasdie]

You're thinking of Los Angeles. Ikea is where you can get sweet couches and meatballs.

Their couches are kind of shit, their meatballs are OK, I guess, but my beef is really just with the place itself:  the throngs of people, the way it's laid-out, the way they're always on the edge of some major city to save tax $$$, even the effing parking lots.  Just everything about the experience of going there is absolutely terrible.

Also, you can get better Mexican food in LA than you can get Swedish food at ikea

[jm]

Though, now that I think about it, I have had extensive experience with their furniture, which sometimes included such as: getting two right sides of a dresser, sending one right side back with instructions that we needed a left side, and then getting another right side in return.  At which point I gave up and drilled holes in the third right side and used that.

[auto-da-fey]

I was in an IKEA a few weeks ago, jumped in the kiddie ball-pit, and got covered in kid-puke. I was already with blucas on this, but that settled it, my own stupid complicity in the hurl episode notwithstanding.

[YojimboMonkey]

Their furniture is shit.  Or I guess, it's probably fine as long as you just assemble it and put it in a room where nobody ever goes and never try to actually use it.  But now that we're talking about ikea I got a hankering for some salt licorice

[nonotyet]

I have never purchased furniture from IKEA, having been there exactly twice in my life and being terrified the whole time, but whenever I think of IKEA I think about McNulty trying to put together his kids' bunk bed and throwing parts of the bunk bed and shit. This makes me like IKEA a little, even though a small part of what that scene was probably saying was that their furniture is terrible.

[Greg Nog]

Ikea meatballs are great!  And I've never had a problem with their furniture.  The Ikea butcher-block/table/island thing in my kitchen is fucking splendid.

Also, I like going there because it's fun to watch couples LOSE THEIR SHIT and start bickering with each other.  Every day is Christmas Eve at Ikea!

[peacocks]

I have a small panic attack every time I go there (so far 3 times in 3 years) but my bed is from there and I love it.  It's really sturdy.  I can stand and jump around and do all sorts of things and it doesn't make a sound or move and it was only $100.  I also like their textiles and little kitchen doo dads.

[elpollodiablo]

We're just horrible, insufferable mundanes, because we dig going to Ikea, and we also have a lot of fun when we do. Also we've got a couch, table, bed and mattress from there, and they're all great. We've got a lot of their kitchen fixtures and they're chincy and break a lot, but then they cost on average about $3.

[coldforge]

I think some of you guys might be haters.

[elpollodiablo]

"Ikea furniture is terrible" is conventional wisdom of a kind with "Wynton Marsalis ruined jazz." You say it because it's something to say that makes you sound reasonably informed. Ikea furniture is no better or worse in the aggregate than comparably priced furniture from a department store or something.

ed. NO OFFENSE JIM. Maybe you've had some terrible experiences with Ikea stuff, I dunno. But we've owned a good bit of it and so have a lot of my friends and relatives and honestly I don't think there's any overall lack of quality.

[jm]

comparably priced furniture from a department store or something.

Yeah, this is why I'm largely indifferent to IKEA.  On the one hand, I get panicky and generally out of comfort in the kind of crowds at those places, but I'm convinced that the thing I quoted above does not exist, and certainly doesn't exist around here.

[YojimboMonkey]

ed. NO OFFENSE JIM. Maybe you've had some terrible experiences with Ikea stuff, I dunno. But we've owned a good bit of it and so have a lot of my friends and relatives and honestly I don't think there's any overall lack of quality.

Well on the other hand, I have 3 sons.  The best furniture in the world might not stand up under these conditions.  But the shit that I've gotten from there, and it's not much, a coffee table, a dresser maybe, has fallen the fuck apart at, like, a sneeze. 

[YojimboMonkey]

I'm sorry, I meant FUCK YOUR FUCKING MOTHER

[ellaguru]

I have two coffee tables from there. I don't like them very much, but I've had them for a dozen or fifteen years, moved them about with me, and they haven't broken or anything.

I don't have no three sons jumping on them, though.

[dieblucasdie]

Yeah, like I said, if their furniture works for you, great!  Some of their stuff is really good, especially at the price-point (particularly their shelving).  I don't happen to think their couches are, though.  But anyway, like I said, their furniture's whatever, but it's the experience of going there that fills me with rage.

[Maaik]

We've got some IKEA stuff--our plates, bowls and coffee mugs are from there, and they've held up for about four years now, so that's something.  We've got a few spice racks from there too.

The big hand-me-down wardrobe we've got is an Ikea, and it's alright, though it's not the sturdiest thing, having been taken apart and rebuilt at least once.  We also have one of these chairs and no one likes sitting in it.  It hurts your ass after five minutes.  That's been my experience with most of their living room sitting furniture--their couches are uncomfortable, their chairs generally suck, I probably wouldn't buy one of their futons.

But their modular kitchen stuff is cool.  I would really like a kitchen that's all Ikead out.

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it's the experience of going there that fills me with rage.

Yeah.  Thank GOD they have a cafeteria, or that place would be a wide-awake nightmare.  I kind of like it at first, but by the time we get to the shelving department, I'm equal parts fluorescent lighting zombie and barely-contained shitfit.

[elpollodiablo]

I'm sorry, I meant FUCK YOUR FUCKING MOTHER

Indeed!

But yeah, I dunno how it would stand up to young'uns. Probably not well. We made a bit of an investment in furniture after leaving NYC--we had no choice, really, because we sold or gave away almost everything we had--but for having spent less than $1.5K, we're both really pleased with what we got. Our sofa is super nice and has the added benefit of a removable cover that costs about $100, so we can replace it once the cats ruin it.