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1 posted on 12/01/2008 1:24:26 PM PST by voiceinthewind
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Whoops, there is an I missing from the title. Could you fix that? It should read IKEA’s. Sorry.


2 posted on 12/01/2008 1:26:49 PM PST by voiceinthewind
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Maybe they meant it as a Polish joke?


3 posted on 12/01/2008 1:27:26 PM PST by mnehring
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No big surprise. Last time I went shopping at IKEA, at least 25% of the couples there appeared to be homosexuals.

I hate IKEA, not because of the homosexuals, but because their furniture sucks.


4 posted on 12/01/2008 1:27:26 PM PST by rom (Voted for Ron Paul in the primary. Voted against Obama in the general and FOR Palin.)
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Nevertheless, the IKEA spokesman in Poland, Karolina Horoszczaková, said that homosexuals are part of modern society and the company will not change the ad. “Homosexuality is one of the elements of life in modern society. Our company cannot ignore this.”

So are teen pregnancy, drug addiction, internet addiction, and identity theft. When will their ad campaigns take these facts of life into consideration?

5 posted on 12/01/2008 1:28:22 PM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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To: voiceinthewind

Hi Ian, Hi Steve.

You should get better furniture.


6 posted on 12/01/2008 1:32:57 PM PST by schwingdoc
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“Ian and Steve,” the ad says, have no intention of having children, but enjoy their “command centre” IKEA kitchen and herb garden.

The ad tells customers, “Family life is changing ... Welcome to the new era.”

"Family life". A couple is not a family.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/family

"parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not."

"the children of one person or one couple collectively: We want a large family."

"the spouse and children of one person: We're taking the family on vacation next week."

"any group of persons closely related by blood, as parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins: to marry into a socially prominent family."

"all those persons considered as descendants of a common progenitor."

And then it gets into households that include the servants, hippie communes, office teams, mafias, and scientific groupings.

Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Nothing about two guys who pair up for sex and gardening.

7 posted on 12/01/2008 1:34:38 PM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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I like this, an appeal to their business sense:

“The letter warns IKEA that the drop in the birth rate will affect the company’s future business in Poland. “

You would think that a corporate giant would understand that catering to a group not known for prolific offspring would eventually cut into their bottom line.


9 posted on 12/01/2008 1:36:07 PM PST by voiceinthewind
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Shouldn’t it be “Adam and Steve” not Ian?


13 posted on 12/01/2008 1:48:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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Huh. There’s just something natural about a company that sells fiberboard promoting the gay lifestyle.

Well, looks like I’ll need to buy real furniture the next time I move.

Screw IKEA.


14 posted on 12/01/2008 1:49:02 PM PST by CE2949BB (Fight.)
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The Parliament threatened to take the country to the international courts for failing to implement the homosexualist agenda in its laws.

Yeah? And what are they going to do to Poland?

Invade them and force them to accept the wee sodomites? Just what power does this “court” have without the consent of people?

Poland gets a medal for telling them to bugger off.
[....yeah, I know that court is coming here and real freakin soon.]


15 posted on 12/01/2008 1:54:27 PM PST by Adder (typical basicly decent bitter white person)
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Ian & Steve have to be mock homosexuals. The real ones I know wouldn’t be caught dead at Ikea.

I guess they’re faux gay!


19 posted on 12/01/2008 4:41:32 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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“Welcome to the new era.”
Please...spare me the nausea!


21 posted on 12/01/2008 6:01:50 PM PST by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: voiceinthewind

I love the catalogs but will never purchase anything from IKEA again. Talk about cheap furniture!


23 posted on 12/02/2008 7:57:32 AM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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I saw a TV ad tomight with some woman polishing her furniture and an elderly black woman offering advice. At the end she mentioned something like, “Maybe you can meet a nice man. Or woman.” It seems that IKEA is obsessed with sodomy and perversion. That company is now crossed off of any shopping list I will ever have.


27 posted on 12/08/2008 1:55:15 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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IKEA’s Polish Catalogue Introduces “Ian and Steve” as a Model of the New Family


28 posted on 12/08/2008 1:59:30 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvxiG56M-eU)
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