The Hobbit Hole XXXIV - But better than rain or rippling streams...

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Lot of strange threads tonight — guess the serious folks are at the beach! The blogger Wonkette says Mormons aren’t Christians in one of the weirder ones. Ever since Senator Craig hit the news only a few have had the stomach for serious commentary.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Didn’t mean to not ping you to my last post!

[ecurbh]

Ugh is right... put in 12.5 hours today. Now for a pot pie, and some bourbon and Dr Pepper, and then to bed, so I can do it all over again tomorrow.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Now for a pot pie

Thought folks are supposed to smoke that stuff!

[RosieCotton]

This is the Pacific Northwest. We’re progressive like that...

[Lil'freeper]

That. Was. Amazing. Somebody *gets* it. IKEA is not what it seems.

[Corin Stormhands]

When I assembled Luke’s bedroom furniture, I said “no more.”

In other news, I have officially resigned as the family alarm clock.

[Overtaxed]

Isn’t IKEA the ones who won’t provide plastic bags to American customers because Americans pollute too much? Like anyone can tote furniture in a plastic bag.

[JenB]

Well, if the bag was big enough. And strong enough.

[Corin Stormhands]

Isn’t IKEA the ones who won’t provide plastic bags to American customers because Americans pollute too much?

I don't ~think~ so. I could be wrong, but I think I remember plastic bags from the one in Northern Virginia.

[Overtaxed]

I thought the president (owner?) of the company....somewhere in Scandinavia...went on an ugly American rant and vowed to remove plastic bags from American stores. The thread comments went pretty much :”I didn’t see a thing I’d have.”

[Corin Stormhands]

Oh, maybe so. It’s been a while since we’ve been there. I must have missed that thread.

[Overtaxed]

Here’s the thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1788875/posts

He wanted to charge for bags.

[Corin Stormhands]

Thanks.

[Lil'freeper]

I go to IKEA about once a year. Each year, I'm amazed at the people who shuffle around the IKEA showroom circuit. They're bored city people, dressed in sophisticated clothes with sophisticated haircuts, just shuffling. They point. They chatter. Sometimes they have "european" sounding accents. They shuffle some more. I think they think they're in paradise.

It's fascinating.

[Overtaxed]

Heh. Do they leave carrying plastic bags?

[Lil'freeper]

Yes.

And they also try to tie big boxes of furniture to the tops of their Subarus and Volkswagens with that silly twine.

The lack of engineering sense boggles the mind.

[Overtaxed]

No roof racks, right?

[Lil'freeper]

Bike racks, ski racks, etc.

You'd think that folks who ride or ski would have bungees or webbing handy, or at least have a concept that bungees and webbing are a bit more substantive than IKEA twine.

[Lil'freeper]

IKEA twine isn’t even reusable.