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[Monkeydog]

IKEA isn't that bad. Now Costco, that's a horrible place to go on the weekend.

[Kamau]

At least Costco has fantastic hot dogs. 

[Stars]

The IKEA I went to in Holland had fant-...well, the hot dogs were so-so, but they were only 25 cents.

[Kamau]

Costco's are $1.50 but they're like a foot long and come with a refillable fountain drink! :) I get one every time.

[lazlo falconi]

I've never even seen an Ikea.

[panda]

IKEA is garbage that people think is great because they get to put it together themselves.

 

It's called the "IKEA Effect" when we assign a higher value to something when we have the vested interest of manual labor.

 

http://en.wikipedia....iki/IKEA_effect

 

Sorry Sweden, you just couldn't make good furniture. On the plus side, you still have the Nobel prizes and fantastic looking women.

[lazlo falconi]

I've never heard of anyone being impressed or even okay with Ikea furniture.

[panda]

I was under the impression that lots of young Americans moving into their new apartment are so jazzed about IKEA stuff because it's so cheap.

 

 

Reddit is in love with IKEA.

[Monkeydog]

Costco's are $1.50 but they're like a foot long and come with a refillable fountain drink! :) I get one every time.

IKEA has a similar deal, and I think it's cheaper, but I've never eaten it.

 

I have some IKEA stuff, mainly tables. I'm not in love with the table, but it does what it's meant to do. It's not great quality, but for the price it's okay.

[BottomGuy]

The IKEA I went to in Holland had fant-...well, the hot dogs were so-so, but they were only 25 cents.

There was an IKEA about a mile away from where I was living in the Netherlands and I was told by the school that it was a good, cheap option to get breakfast since it was one of the only places in town that served breakfast. I ended up going only once because the majority of people going there were regulars and had a system and I did not fall within that system, and because it was heavy on the meat (sausage, sausage patties, eggs, fried eggs, fried steak) but way too light on fruit.

[Stars]

Maybe it was because we went in the afternoon, but it seemed like the one we went to only had hotdogs and soft serve (10 cents).

[kspr]

im impressed my bed made it through 4 reassemblies and still works. it's put up with a lot in 6 years, and for being particleboard, it's held up. today i got 4 "miscellaneous" cabinet doors that are going to be wall shelving, and another that's getting stain glass'd.

also, my grandma passed. peacefully. she beat the mrsa, but the Advair her dr had her on just made her heart too weak.

[Amethyst]

im not going to make any promises but ill try really really hard to do the thing where i exist here again

[Vicious Parker]

"im not going to make any promises but ill try really really hard to do the thing where i exist here again"

 

-God

[Monkeydog]

Well Ame is a God to some people, I assume.

[Xteven Xavier]

Her pokemon world is best pokemon world

[Amethyst]

<3

I dunno about the God thing though, that's a lot of pressure. Unless I just do it Haruhi Suzumiya style. I suspect that that isn't the case though

[Vicious Parker]

Just for fun, the bots were looking at this very, very related topic today:

 

http://monkeypro.net...uess-whos-back-

[Xteven Xavier]

I loved, that thread, I wish I were here for Alice and Therese. I would have had a love triangle for sure.

[panda]

Never buy a Toshiba laptop.

 

What was a manufacturing defect and should have been repaired was not covered by warranty. So since the company didn't want to rectify their mistake, I ended up converting my laptop into a desktop.

 

I found an old monitor screen, keyboard, mouse, and headphones. The laptop is resting with closed lid and no free USB port (or HDMI) under my desk, and I now have a flat "tower" to serve me.

 

 

And now I'm happy.

 

Never buy a Toshiba laptop, even if it's on sale.