Really? You think so? I mean, other than the snarky headline which I immediately took back. (It did get you to watch the vid, so my bad behavior is being rewarded.)

I think it is a great idea. I would probably be using the area myself, if they had Ms PacMan.

Is it the beepers? I think that is so there is a system to mandate "turns". At least, that is how I took it.

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Yeah, you know...this is actually pretty insulting to men. Like, really.

I just fell in love with you a little bit.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

IKEA is one of the few stores I actually enjoy shopping at, there is cool stuff everywhere. It's the monotony of clothes shopping that really bores the crap out of me, but that's what books are for.

IKEA is one of the few stores I actually enjoy shopping at, there is cool stuff everywhere. It's the monotony of clothes shopping that really bores the crap out of me, but that's what books are for.

This is just stupid. The man either needs to be there or they don't.

If you actually need a new couch/desk/bookshelf/whatever and if you don't want to look at some flat pack crap every day, you might want an input into it.

If you don't need to be there, FFS grow a pair and tell your partner you don't actually want to go shopping with her. Do you really want to spend your free time at some stupid "man creche" in the soulless hell hole that is Ikea?

http://videosift.com/video/IKEA-introduces-Daddy-Day-care-MANLAND

Thanks. It is a great idea, giving a reprieve to the nice men of the world.

Fuck IKEA. I'm done with them . Everything in their store is well below shit quality. I don't care how cheap it is, most of it is not even worth having. I'll never buy another piece of furniture from IKEA.

First example: their tealights. Wow, 100 tealights for $5!? Seems like an incredible bargain. But a tealight that won't even stay lit is worthless at any price. IKEA tealights just don't stay lit... the wax doesn't burn away fast enough, and the wick is limp. So the wick dips over and snuffs itself in the liquid wax. Don't ask me why I'm fucking around with tea-lights (I used to have girls over and light candles etc... now that seems like a previous life). I'd rather pay $10 for 40 tealights that will actually stay lit until the wax is gone. I bought a bunch of IKEA tealights back when I moved into this place... I was there every week for a couple months, and half the time I'd just snag a pack of tealights thinking they were a great bargain. It took me a couple years to finally accept that those tealights were worth less than the plastic wrapped around them, and just throw them all out.

Don't get me started on the lightbulbs they sell... Every once in a while I get some new bulbs for all the little underlights I have around for vases and shit... the bulbs last a few weeks of infrequent use on average.

Their tea-lights

I bought a whole bunch of IKEA shit just under five years ago when I moved into this apartment. Shelves, lamps, some mats. Most of it has literally started to fall apart from regular use. One of my BILLY bookshelf sets sufferend a "pancake collapse" of the shelves inside, which could not (ironically) support the weight of the (comic) books I was storing on them... the shelves are now basically useless until I figure out some kind of repair on the parts where the shelves connect to the bookshelf body... that's where it all came apart.

And once you've put doors onto a BILLY shelf it's up around $250 for a set (maybe more? I can't remember), at which point you may as well look at some real shelves made for grown-ups.

if anyone is interested. this song was produced from idea scratchpad until final master in Nuendo, using TONS of native instruments FM8 synths. The video was filmed in the hallway outside my studio, the lights we used are just stuff from ikea, and i filmed with a little sony handycam video edited in sony Vegas with piles of newbluefx in it.

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IKEA had one of these after some new regulation happened a couple of years ago, it was super subtle while pretending to just present facts pro and con about unions it used the right language and imagery to try to be anti-union. This Swedish company trying to dissuade people from unionizing struck me as particularly ironic.

-Karl

PS. pretty much every job in Sweden is a union job and part of the purpose of IKEA is to promote Swedish culture in case you were wondering.

PPS. the youngsters at the IKEA where I used to work could tell they were being fed propaganda even though they didn't know anything about unions. I took that as a good sign for the future.

the host's teeth look like destroyed ikea furniture

I think so... and it looks like this WiiCult congregates at their local IKEA.

>> ^bareboards2:

I find myself kind of freaked out by all the white clothing and the silence..... this some kind of cult????