Pain releases all kinds of great neurotransmitters, adrenaline - you're never as alive as you are when you hurt like hell. There is no Santa, this doesn't cure your cancer, fuck the Swedes.
These things have been advertised in my Yoga magazine for months now, and it seriously does seem like one of those apocalyptic moments. How rich people live: paying to be hurt.
Don't buy the beds if you ever plan on having sex. In the bed. Ever.
Breaking the slats and having your mattress fall the floor mid-coitus... not cool.
At the newest Ikea in Japan, you must keep your shoes on when testing beds. Unlike the rest of the country. And the long hotdog is called the Ninja dog. On a related note, people bring their friggin pets with them. We saw a dog fight in the office chair section. It was surreal, like something from a B horror movie.
On the plus side, it is one of the rare places in Saitama with multilingual staff, and not just English speakers. But the goddamn lockers never work for me. And they pronounce it E-K-AH.
The IKEA in Athens is Disneyland with Smoking. People are insane for it in Europe, and maybe it's my Euro-dementia from living here for 2 years, but...their European stuff is actually really nice. The cookware is awesome.
@CherHorrorwitz:
Cookware, yes; some of the toys are cute, too. I am living a lie when I hate on Ikea. I just redid my kitchen in Ikea and now I'm in the middle of disassembling, dusting and moving about 80 bookshelf-metres of Ivar. -- Still, Scandinavian family living = dorm room, and for many of the same reasons as dorm room = dorm room.
@tigolbitties: I would really, really like to have a sexy story to put here, but really, I just used to sit on the chairs and occasionally play hide-and-seek with friends. I don't know if the fact that we were in high school makes this better or worse.
I'll PM you re: italics. Hopefully someone else can fill you in on everything more advanced than that.
Outdoors - ha! Have you ever been to Beijing? Everyone forsakes the outdoors, in the interest of being able to breathe. Hanging out in Ikea is a symptom, not the problem.
Have you been to Secaucus on a Friday night? People do it there as well. It's like, My Fantasy House playset - you let the kids run around, mess it up, and then leave.
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Just put a bunch of these together and lie down.
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Also, you're here during the day now? That's fun! I like you.
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Breaking the slats and having your mattress fall the floor mid-coitus... not cool.
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On the plus side, it is one of the rare places in Saitama with multilingual staff, and not just English speakers. But the goddamn lockers never work for me. And they pronounce it E-K-AH.
08/26/09
/iː/-KEH-ah is how it'a pronounced in the Swedish mother tongue and pretty much any other language except English.
08/25/09
Welcome to Western style consumerism. BUY TO FILL THE VOID IN YOUR SOUL
BUY
BUY
BUY
YAY
*6 hours later*
"Why did I buy all of this crap? Ugh."
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@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: This snugglebug of a capitalist overlord could melt even the hearts of WTO protesters.
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@snugbug:
Nealy the same taste in glasses
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Cookware, yes; some of the toys are cute, too. I am living a lie when I hate on Ikea. I just redid my kitchen in Ikea and now I'm in the middle of disassembling, dusting and moving about 80 bookshelf-metres of Ivar. -- Still, Scandinavian family living = dorm room, and for many of the same reasons as dorm room = dorm room.
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(p.s. can you, or anyone else, share how to do italics and other nifty things? thanks!)
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I'll PM you re: italics. Hopefully someone else can fill you in on everything more advanced than that.
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