He gets a special version with Mother’s face photoshopped onto the bodies of all the women in the catalogue, along with the addition of conservative clothing. It’s the only way he can look at the catalogue and not worry about inappropriate lust creeping into his heart.

I thought I was the only one! I looove building furniture

What can even be done? This a direct consequence of American interference in the Middle East in the past, and we have a completely ineffective, sociopathically uncaring and incompetent administration to deal with the aftermath in the present, and there are going to be ripple effects of our actions in this region for…

If I fucking hear one more conservative asshole say that we shouldn’t have to help or take in refugees I’m going to fucking shove copies of this article down their throats. People in other countries are being tortured, raped and killed in the most unimaginable of circumstances and they come here, or to Europe, or any…

Because they likely witnessed or were accomplices to it and if they talked about it would likely find themselves in jail or never allowed back in (border security has been lax as it’s hard to tell it seems which side they volunteered on without proof).

absolutely. the world is an awful place and i feel it’s getting worse by the day. *loud sigh*

I wonder which “no woman” version is being sent to the Naval Observatory*?

Being a child of a Holocaust survivor I read up on it to try to understand the trauma and my Mom’s survivor guilt. I was always amazed that there was always a new way that the victims of the camps could be made to suffer.

I’ve never understood how converts to that cause, who come back to Europe or the US or wherever, never talk about this aspect, which had to be known about in the camps or cities ISIL held.

“Human Devastation Syndrome”

No joke, whenever I feel reeeeeeeally depressed about being single and childless at 38, I go to Ikea on a Saturday and, voila, I instantly feel super happy to not have to wrangle overhyped kids and yell at my husband while choosing a new sofa!

I love how the instructions have no words and still get the point across with strategic smiley and frowning faces. I’m a cam lock master.

I love ikea. It’s fun to walk around in, the furniture is fine, the food is decent, and building that shit is like solving puzzles. My mom invited me over last week just to put together two wardrobes for her. It was great.

Aside from the prices, Ikea has this reputation as an Experience. You don’t just go to get furniture at Ikea, you quest through a Labyrinth-like maze to find your one specific bookshelf, fight the goblin king for the right to take it home, and then put it together under a haze of gin and Swedish meatballs.

I have been accused of missing a few screws, myself.

I always have pieces left over. Am I doing something wrong? Do they hide all the missing US screws in European packages?

It generally has decent quality for the price- you can get something really shitty for $5 that functions, or you can pay more and get something decent. The same is not true for the vast majority of places- Target/Walmart/Etc is all shit, Higher-end stores tend to be a lot more money.

I just love that the ‘no woman’ aspect is repeated for multiple communities. It’s a nice reminder that, worldwide, overt misogyny is alive and well!

If IKEA replaced all of the models in its catalog with cats, I think I’d maybe actually pick the thing up and peruse it.