>> ^mgittle:

The problem with fractional reserve systems using fiat currency is their reliance on growth.

I haven't watched the documentary you linked, but the only part of what you said I'd really contest is this part.

How is fiat currency reliant on growth?

Perhaps you meant it the other way around -- that fiat currency is just one more tool that's used to cajole the human race into participating in this "growth" whose value has become increasingly dubious?

That's how I see it, at least on the days when I see the face and not the vase. Most days I still see markets and capitalism as a positive net influence on the welfare of the human race, but their most fervent advocates sure do work hard at making me think otherwise.

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.

I used to have one of these, but for some reason whenever I put it out, people would smash up all my vases.

GOD DAMN IT!!! WTF?? I thought she couldn't possibly get any more annoying.

I stand corrected.

And I hate that face she makes when she clenches her mouth. Makes her look like a mom trying to make her son see how disappointed she is that he broke her favorite vase.

Damn I could watch stuff go under there all day. Why just a piece of wood, a screw, and a rock? Why not guitars and cellphones and vases!!!

So why isn't this titled Puppy/Dog/Canine/Pup/Dawg Versus/Vs Shampoo/Conditioner/Lotion/Goo Bottle/Vase/Container/Plastic Thingy?

>> ^alizarin:
The vase breaks in mid air from the impact of that soft tree... rigged.
The acting was believable though.


Are you fucking kidding pal? THIS constitutes great acting?

"What was it doing on there!?!"
"That's where we keep it!!!"

The vase breaks in mid air from the impact of that soft tree... rigged.

The acting was believable though.

I'm not sure if it's fake, but I am sure the guy did it on purpose. I bet he never liked that vase.

>> ^schlub:
Umm... "Gervaze"? Seriously?


Um, yes, seriously. You do pronounce the "S" at the end. Jer-vase, almost like jerkface. Unless you're just saying that someone said the "S" too hard, so it sounded like a "Z," which is being kinda picky.

>> ^gwiz665:
Oh sure, when it's in a vase or box, it's "cute", but when it's a wood chipper, people get all antsy.


Oooh, really? [goes to make more ants]

Oh sure, when it's in a vase or box, it's "cute", but when it's a wood chipper, people get all antsy.

Thanks!

In reply to this comment by maatc:
*promote

i usually hit hard glass bottles on antique cabinets and priceless vases. works like a charm.

There once was a chimp from Madrass,
whose balls were made out of brass,
when he’d bang ‘em together,
they’d play stormy weather,
and lightning would shoot out of his... ok people, that's quite enough, really, you have dirty minds, get out of the gutter.

Go on, get out of it ya stinkin' primates, you're leaving your filth everywhere. I mean, you lot are... oh would you look at that, who knocked over the vase? Those were very expensive orchids, and now, well, they're not the same colour they used to be, let's put it that way.

Who's been sticking bananas into all of the usb ports around here? Huh? They are not USB2 compliant are they? No, no one ever thinks before they act around here.

It's always me who's left to clean up... always... *sigh*

I just... ooh... hang on *craps into hand*... POO FIGHT!