Thank you, Gawker, for doing more than most other media outlets to bring home the hideous financial reality that "everything is FUBAR" (a World War 2 Army slang term for "fu@ked up beyond all recognition," and how cool is it to know that our dorky parents and grandparents employed wicked, Gawkeresque humor during their own dark days?).
Yeah, I know this sounds suck-uppy, but, other than Gawker, HuffPo and MichaelMoore.com, everyone else in the media is afraid to spill the real beans that this is a depression. And if you think it's awful here in NYC, my friends who live out there beyond the bridges, out there in America, wish to assure us that the recession is equally scary there too.
We in the media just have the added fillip of seeing our careers crumble because of structural as well as cyclical declines.
So, is anyone going to The Showdown in Chicago to get tear gassed and have their ears split by LRAD sonic crowd control bombs by government storm troopers outside the bankers' convention next Monday? Like they did to the protesters at the G20 in Pittsburgh last month? Sounds like it's going to quite the scene. #recessionomics
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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Yeah, I know this sounds suck-uppy, but, other than Gawker, HuffPo and MichaelMoore.com, everyone else in the media is afraid to spill the real beans that this is a depression. And if you think it's awful here in NYC, my friends who live out there beyond the bridges, out there in America, wish to assure us that the recession is equally scary there too.
We in the media just have the added fillip of seeing our careers crumble because of structural as well as cyclical declines.
So, is anyone going to The Showdown in Chicago to get tear gassed and have their ears split by LRAD sonic crowd control bombs by government storm troopers outside the bankers' convention next Monday? Like they did to the protesters at the G20 in Pittsburgh last month? Sounds like it's going to quite the scene. #recessionomics
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It's just a shame that Delicatessen appears to be in no trouble at all. #recessionomics
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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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