http://www.boklok.com/
Posted on 05/13/2007 11:41:59 AM PDT by WesternCulture
I hate to be a spoil sport—but I can’t imagine buying much at IKEA. I guess I’m not into the “Swedish Style”.
It has been estimated that one in ten babies in Europe is today conceived in an Ikea bed.
Okay -- that's a surprising fact I have never heard.
Advice from Sweden:
View IKEA only as a complement store. People who fill their homes with IKEA furniture are pitiful.
A trip to IKEA is a great way of keeping your family happy.
Allow your wife to buy some new bedclothes and then go have a beer with the boys.
Works in Sweden anyway.
http://www.boklok.com/
“I love Ikea. I was there last night buying a lamp I needed. Also, eating a hot dog. Their food is very good.”
- No doubt IKEA is a great place to shop.
On the other hand, even tough I’m Swedish I have to admit some of their stuff is of disappointing quality, but all the same most of their products offer great value.
I hope IKEA will continue trying to revolutionize the building industry. So much to be done. In many countries housing costs are ridiculous.
Little Boxes
by Malvina Reynolds
Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of tickytacky
Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same
There’s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.
And the people in the houses all went to the university
Where they were put in boxes and they came out all the same,
And there’s doctors and there’s lawyers, and business executives
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.
And they all play on the golf course and drink their martinis dry,
And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
And the children go to summer camp and then to the university
Where they are put in boxes and they come out all the same.
And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.
Did IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad write this?
Seriously.
I guess she didn't read the part where it said the apartment was intended for a single woman with one child.
The Ikea in Minneapolis has a great 99 cent breakfast.
"I beg to differ."
(Yes, I know how it's spelled). :-)
“The Ikea in Minneapolis has a great 99 cent breakfast.”
- Incredible.
IKEA meals are very affordable in Sweden too.
I don’t know exactly what IKEA breakfasts cost here in Gothenburg, but if the price is anywhere near that of their Minneapolis store, a Swedish Volvo worker would have to work a mere 2 minutes just to survive.
Despite certain disagreements in the field of international diplomacy the last decades, I believe the US and Sweden are two countries that have a lot to offer each other.
If there were no journalists and no MSM’s, Europeans and Americans would be the best of friends.
SWEDISH NATIONAL ANTHEM:
mms://stream.episerverhotell.net/nationalanthem
Translation of the lyrics:
“Thou ancient, thou freeborn, thou mountainous North,
In beauty and peace our hearts beguiling,
I greet thee, thou loveliest land on the earth,
Thy sun, thy skies, thy verdant meadows smiling.
Thy sun, thy skies, thy verdant meadows smiling.
Thy throne rests on mem’ries from great days of yore,
When worldwide renown was valour’s guerdon.
I know to thy name thou art true as before.
Oh, I would live and I would die in Sweden,
Oh, I would live and I would die in Sweden.”
Not for long.
I like REAL wood furniture.....not the crap they sell....sorry....
“I like REAL wood furniture.....not the crap they sell....sorry....”
See post 4.
Soon Malmo will be FREE OF INFIDELS!
Times are changing. People no longer buy a furniture set with the thought of bequeathing it to their heirs. Now days, such sentiments seem rather quaint. First of all, are YOU going to like that piece of furniture enough so that it lasts the rest of your life? Second, do you really think your kids or grandkids would appreciate it?
We’ve bought a few Ikea pieces and although they’re not overbuilt, their excellent designs combined with just enough quality leads to a smart purchase.
How Swedish police have to work while operating in Rosengård, Malmö, the toilet of Scandinavia:
Send these idiots back to Northern Africa and Malmö will once again become part of the most democratic, civilized and affluent part of the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJfFXIz3p4o&mode=related&search=
(I wonder what would have happened if these policemen wouldn’t have produced their weapons?)
“First of all, are YOU going to like that piece of furniture enough so that it lasts the rest of your life? Second, do you really think your kids or grandkids would appreciate it?”
- Honestly, my answer would be a plain ‘no’ to both questions.
On the other hand, I am taking good care of furniture and other things my grandparents bought in the 1940’s and 1950’s. They were rather well off and they were also quality minded.
A fortune.
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