Mitä vittu?
“Hallik” means “pimp” in Norwegian. I think even Ikea might think twice about naming a cushion that 
Oh, wow. That’s awesome.
“Don’t make me pimp cushion you, bitch! I’m going to give you a pillow so comfortable, you ain’t never gettin’ up!”
I give you …FLARKE
A $170 desk chair is a pretty cheap chair, unfortunately. I’d expect it to break in some way.
$170 is cheap?!?
I replaced my broken Ikea chairs with a couple of generic steel-frame chairs from an office supply company. They were $30 each, and they don’t look like they will fall apart.
Me, either. :eek:
We purchased two different sets of cheap chairs to go with our Ikea kitchen table (from the scratch 'n dent room, only $150 and seats 8!). The first four chairs came from Affordable Portables, I think their replacements were Ikea. Anyhow, neither set lasted. Every time we had a party, we ended up carting out pizza boxes and a broken chair.
So I went to Goodwill and happened to find some sturdy old waiting room chairs that are a perfect match! Had to clean the bejeesus out of them, but they were only $5/ea.
He got taken, then. The ones without umlauts were factory-recalled months ago. LOSER!
Maybe I’m just weird, but I would not dream of trying to get a company to honor a guarantee without some sort of proof of purchase. To Ikea’s credit, I support their policy. It might piss off a few customers, but it saves ME money, and keeps the bogans from trying to get free stuff replaced from the third-hand freecycled chair they got off the side of the road.
I bought a couple of these from Costco for twelve bucks. I’ve used them for years, while my weight fluctuated between 240 - 300lbs. (I’m 6’7’’ and stocky, so 240 is skinny for me.) They’ve never even so much as creaked under my weight. I even left two of them on the yard for an entire winter by accident, where they were repeatedly rained on and dried out and rained on again. A bit discolored, but just as strong as ever, and still in use.
Uglier than a $170 Ikea chair? Sure. Less comfortable? That’s debatable. But if the Ikea chair costs more than ten times as much, it oughta be ten times better. I have yet to see one of these Ikea chairs that won’t collapse under me, even when I’m at my skinniest.
I like their kitchen stuff, though.
I like IKEA and we have plenty of their stuff in the house (including a gorgeous slubbed “silk” curtain that I slung over a rod–sorry, rod is from Target–to make a window treatment for the dining room. Total cost: $55 (curtain was $30)). I think some of their fabric patterns are hideous–supposedly they’re “European” and “edgy”; I just find them ugly. I do like their storage stuff and the clean lines on most of their furniture.
My daughter has an IKEA wardrobe–no idea the name, probably GSURTZ or some damned thing. #1 son has an entire bedroom of MALM stuff-in the dark wood. I also bought a free standing cabinet type thing for the kitchen–it has nice glass doors and solid hinges etc. It is not going to fall apart any time soon.
That said, I also bought a $7 tea kettle–oops, I mean KETLE which doesn’t whistle anymore. I also think there is this Thing about IKEA–people tend to elevate this store into some kind of jihad or something. It’s from IKEA is a phrase that lauds stuff around here, instead of a reference to nice, cheap furniture. “We’re going to IKEA” is supposed to be a Big Deal or something. I think it’s that tendency that people like to mock. Of course, lots of people hate assembling stuff. And some of those pictographs are damned hard to understand–they’re like the LEGO “directions”. God, what is it with Scandinavian countries and charades as instructions?
I like the food there (never had the meatballs, though).
My IKEA name would be ETILUS?
All the furniture I have ever owned in my life I got from Goodwill or other used sources. The one (1) item of furniture I bought new is my futon bed. I looked in Ikea, they wanted something like $200 for just the frame or something ridiculous like that, when the furniture warehouse style store down the street would sell me a steel folding frame AND mattress for less than $150. It’s been through 5 or 6 moves and I nail Ms. Mangrove on it vigorously every day, it’s still holding up well. I concluded that Ikea stuff was for people with more money than brains, and never went there again.
I think it’s initials/town/state, unless you live in some subdivision of a town as Ingvar did.
I would be PLINY, which I sort of like, or PLAOHI, which sounds like somebody expectorating a cat.
I thought everything in IKEA was made of wood. Haven’t been in one for probably 6 years though. It’s gone plastic too eh?
This is what happens when you make a sweeping statement from a single data point. If anything, IKEA is commonly known for having cheap “college” style furniture, not overly expensive furniture. Yes, you can often find some items cheaper at other stores, name any store where that isn’t the case.
IKEA is a place where you can often get decent quality stuff at outrageously cheap prices. For my wedding, I went to IKEA and bought 100 champagne flutes because it was cheaper to buy these perfectly nice glass flutes, than to either buy disposable plastic flutes or rent glasses.
Yes, but it’s “Old World” plastic, derived from a polymerization process handed down through generations of artisans.
Catch-22 world, in’it?
I played The Sims for years until an Ikea opened here about two years ago. I waited six months for all the hoopla to die down – the first week, traffic for the parking lot was backed up to the freeway a quarter mile away – before visiting. It was like The Sims come to life. “Look! There’s that couch, and that funny lumpy lamp, and those little flower vases . . .” and on like that around every corner.
After I mulled it over, it made sense. Virtually all of the meshers making items for the game were young people with more time than money. They were just making the furniture they were living with.
Oops. So it’d be ETHOIL, which sounds like a kind of alcohol or body wash.
Would that be “freffening” or “froofering”?
Sometimes if they’re feeling exotic it’s a “freffen froofering.”