IKEA coming to our area....

[KvHagedorn]

Hehe.. In English, "jerking off" is a common term for masturbating. Hence, a jerker is a masturbator.

[schmosef]

I think we just found KvH's new title!

[Dr Mordrid]

Jerker/jerk ~= UK/AUS slang term "wanker".

Dr. Mordrid

[Nowhere]

In that case, I suppose that line of Ikea furniture has different name in US?

[Dr Mordrid]

It had better be lest the people in this area will be carried out on stretchers, laughing themselves silly

Dr. Mordrid

[schmosef]

It's called a Jerker here. I'm sitting at one now. And I've got several in my office.

Currently, the Jerker is rectangular, but it had a different shape before.

[Nowhere]

Good for the price, I suppose? (note: "the price" means 166USD here, or 123 for basic model )

[Brian Ellis]

Of course, anyone who buys a large piece of furniture to house a laptop and a tiny printer IS a jerker/wanker, used figuratively

When we were in Switzerland, some of our office furniture was from Ikea, but we left it ALL behind when we moved here, with the single exception of my office bookshelves which have solid pine frameworks. The shelves are in pine-veneered MDF but are edged with a solid pine strip about 5 mm thick. Their office chairs are crap. Their metal-framed tables are robust but not over-elegant: we had one but we replaced the top with a 4 cm thick melamine-faced MDF top to house our fax machine plus dedicated accounting/invoicing computer with external drives plus printer, but we left that behind. We did not use any Ikea stuff in offices/conference/demo rooms that visitors frequented. I don't think we had any Ikea furniture at home, although my daughter started off with quite a lot of it for cost reasons. She replaced it as she was financially able to do so, mainly because it started to look shabby after only a few years. Of course, it is mostly flatpack, DIY assembly furniture.

Ikea is opening their first store here, in Nicosia, next year.

Pronunciation: in Switzerland, it was always pronounced Ick' ea with the accent on the first syllable and the short 'i', to rhyme with 'sick'. In the UK, I've often heard it as Ayekee'a with the accent on the second syllable. I'm curious to know how it is pronounced in Sweden: anyone know. The UK pronunciation grates on my ear.

Store policy: it is a one-way street. You can leave the kids in a supervised play area at the front door, but once you are engaged in the labyrinth, you are forced to go through every department, including the cafeteria. If you go just for their stainless steel toast rack, it'll still take you a minimum of 30 minutes. The labyrinth ends up in the warehouse, where you pick up the goods you ordered in your wanderings, after having passed every item they have on sale. Many spend a good half-day there!

[Guru]

This one?

I have one of those at home (easyly fits my 2 19" crt monitors)!

We also have 6 of thouse at work!

[Wombat]

Nobody mentioned the restaurant? Ikea's have nifty restaurants in them. Mmmm, Swedish meatballs.

[Technoid]

It had better be lest the people in this area will be carried out on stretchers, laughing themselves silly

Dr. Mordrid

Its almost happening in sweden as well, the way Ikea names their stuff has always been weird. (Jerker is actually a common swedish male name )

[PAugustin]

I bought many things from Ikea. Their basic furnitures (desk, chairs, bookshelf...) are ok. it's cheap, some things are crap but not all of them. They make excellent beds !!!!
They have many nice things that you can use for decoration and very good ideas.

As someone said ot's an excellent place for people xho just moved in and are low on budget. You can also find nice stuffs there if you have more money to spend

[Nowhere]

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Store policy: it is a one-way street. You can leave the kids in a supervised play area at the front door, but once you are engaged in the labyrinth, you are forced to go through every department, including the cafeteria. If you go just for their stainless steel toast rack, it'll still take you a minimum of 30 minutes. The labyrinth ends up in the warehouse, where you pick up the goods you ordered in your wanderings, after having passed every item they have on sale. Many spend a good half-day there!

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The ones here have many shortcuts - first, you can go from entrance directly to restaurant, and there are also shortcuts between different parts of the "labirynth". I'd say anyone can go through it in 5 minutes. (assuming there's not a lot of people)

BTW, yeah, restaurant is nice Good & cheap cakes. (and there's a "for smokers" part, wohoo! ) But I guess this could vary even more than "labirynth" aspect )

[UtwigMU]

Here it's popular but you have to drive 200km to Austria. It was even better before the EU as you didn't declare and pay customs and collected VAT.

In general some stuff is good, design is good, quality varies through price ranges. When buying furniture it's certainly worth taking a look. A lot of my friends furnished their new homes in Ikea. Kitchen stuff is good.

When I was buying my desks and shelves I found them not being competitive with Slovenian makers and imported stuff in local shops. Otherwise any 100$ and bellow office chair you plan spending several hours per day on it is a joke IMHO. Maybe if you make lanparties.


Doc - they have some solid wood stuff I think you're going to like (being a shot gun carrying rancher) and it's always fun putting new furnture together.

They have good online catalogue with prices, so you might want to take a look there first without wasting time and driving.

They're also very good for cuttlery, cheap household glasses (they break anyway), addons, lamps, etc...