American business-school graduates tend to think ‘The Internet’ runs on magic & other people’s money, and if there’s something they need to know about it, their IT guys will just fix it for them.
Or at least all the ones I’ve ever met since the 90s think like that. I could be generalizing.
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I liked the gutvik bed
in German pronunciation it’s indistinguishable from “gut Fick” (good fuck)
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Now I know! What’s a shit glue that makes my joke work?
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It runs afoul of our “truth in advertising” laws, though. That is definitely not the right bed if you’re looking for a “gut Fick”. 
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Library paste, or glue stick.
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Mucilage?
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Substantially less effective than snot.
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I like them.
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I really liked their coffee table with a spring-hinge lift-top mechanism - but I’ve see them elsewhere so no need to risk buying a lemon from these jokers.
Yes, I have a junk/mess problem. Yes, I’ve resigned myself to hiding it.
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[looks around]
Is it 1999 again?
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I’ve ridden in one. Kinda fancy!
That pushbutton transmission is a trip, though.
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I bought a $500 couch from Big Lots and it’s falling apart. However, the purchase was more than 6 years ago, and it has sustained what I’d describe as heavy use (e.g. both kids jumping on it, son who’s a large kid usually parking on one end).
We moved away over 14 years ago, and for many years we told others about how we’d move back, someday. Now with El Azteca (and the Airport Blvd. Tamale House) gone, I am not so sure…
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I haven’t bought any furniture there (other than an office chair) but my experience with their various household items has been hit-and-miss. Tableware? Can’t really hurt it without great effort. Glassware? Oops, my fault. But I had a baking dish that split in two, in my hands, as I pulled it from the oven.
I’ve seen other people’s Ikea couches leaning to one side because one leg had collapsed underneath. However, for all I know this was assembly error (granted, that damned ẙğğsfriğğsdütti can be a bear to put together).
Yeah, I wondered about that… I guess they don’t sell the EU meatballs in America, either, but I’m not sure that makes the American ones better…
I didn’t think the 1960 model was so bad…
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One very frustrating thing about IKEA is how varied things are. For all their love of flat-packed unified systems, their furniture’s all made by different designers, often with very different ideas of what’s reasonable assembly. My housemates recently bought a new wardrobe and a set of couches from IKEA; the wardrobe took around four hours to assemble, with a billion tiny screws of different sizes, types, and materials, and still came out all crooked.
Each section of the couch was four pieces. It took maybe five minutes.
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Yes. I keep having to cling to my memories of Austin and realize I’ll never go back there to live.
But as long as there is Torchy’s and Alamo Drafthouse, I’ll go visit.
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I’ve read that Edsels were way overpriced, which turned people off. Probably helped with their demise.
And I’ve always wondered if there was sexual symbolism to that grill . . . .
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Thing is, I can get Torchy’s up in DFW Suburbia, where my folks live…
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