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Anonymous
Submitted by Anonymous on April 15, 2008 - 12:19am.
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Let's not forget those "extra" pieces that you later realize weren't extra. =S

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jadedcritic
Submitted by jadedcritic on April 15, 2008 - 2:55am.
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Mental note - Don't buy Ikea. If mechanical engineers pause; lord knows I don't have a shot.

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SomeKiwiGuy
Submitted by SomeKiwiGuy on April 24, 2014 - 8:40pm.
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My brother and his girlfriend are mech engineers. All three of us are motorbikers who regularly tinker with our bikes/maintain them. And all of us still avoid IKEA or other flat-pack assemble-it-yourself furniture because of pure frustration.

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richardmayer
Submitted by richardmayer on July 11, 2014 - 10:00pm.
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Reading the entire comic strip and as well as the other comments, looks like that this is "slap in the face" and a criticism for IKEA, it is a big company that sells furniture and other home furnishing needs, so why this has been happening to them. If there will be a continues count of disappointing consumers, surely in time comes this will be the start of IKEA's decline in business. Lucky for me that my closets and other doors needs was all from Caldwells door store, they are located in Bay Area, San Francisco, you can check this for their site portfolios.

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Bungothemonkey
Submitted by Bungothemonkey on April 15, 2008 - 7:28am.
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I'm from Sweden and I can say, after lots of experience, that the IKEA furnitures takes lots and lots of patience and fire. And violence. Fire and violence solves everything.

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Submitted by Tenchi555 on April 15, 2008 - 9:33am.
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I LOVE putting together furniture or really anything. The more frustrating the better for me oddly enough. I love things that are physically there and hard to solve. My desk that I'm typing on right now was a bit of frustration, it's made out of pulp wood and they have you drill holes in it to insert screws and a few other things. Let me tell you, drilling into pulp wood is NEVER a good idea, I have a few areas on this desk that's missing chunks, but regardless I got it together, and I love this desk because it HAD the extra room I needed...I filled it up with clutter.

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the_fozz
Submitted by the_fozz on April 15, 2008 - 9:57am.
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Dania is owned by the same parent Ikea company. Ikea directions are a booklet, Dania is one sheet. Took me 3 hours to assemble my bed frame from Dania cause the directions were shit. Atleast Ikea tries a little harder. haha.

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silent_knight
Submitted by silent_knight on April 15, 2008 - 10:06am.
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That's hilarious!

But really. All you have to do is read and follow the directions. When no one's looking of course... (This is why you build furniture alone.)

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Radikal
Submitted by Radikal on April 15, 2008 - 11:05am.
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hehe, my bed is ikea, i sleeped on couch 2 days after we got it... -.-'' XD bestå is no the 1 u should buy, it's Pass in norwegian (not swedish) XD

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Zombiedude
Submitted by Zombiedude on April 15, 2008 - 12:49pm.
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Still better than target, i got a dresser from them and it fell apart in less than a day...>_<

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Twich
Submitted by Twich on April 15, 2008 - 11:39pm.
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ahhh ikea furniture. . .I remember once we had to build some sort of cabinet, and at the time it appeared the only way to get it done was to build it around me and then extract me from the finished product. Still don't know how we came to that conclusion. . .

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Johnicus
Submitted by Johnicus on April 30, 2008 - 8:29am.
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oh my GOD lol! I have experienced this brand of suffering so many times ><

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cmstewart87
Submitted by cmstewart87 on May 13, 2008 - 12:25am.
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I once bought a build-it-yourself house from Ikea...I bought it 3 years ago...Still have yet to find the exit...

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Jam
Submitted by Jam on May 13, 2008 - 10:15pm.
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cmstewart87 wrote:I once bought a build-it-yourself house from Ikea...I bought it 3 years ago...Still have yet to find the exit...

You need to use the Alan wrench!!

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timt
Submitted by timt on May 18, 2008 - 11:35pm.
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heh :D i also own the expedit thingy - nothing compared to my 'as cheap as it gets'-kitchen - took 3 people 3hours to build ONE of the cupboards - then we gave up o0

after 3months or so we were able to cook :p

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Matt-Hi!
Submitted by Matt-Hi! on September 28, 2008 - 6:19pm.
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Ha ha so true!

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psilorder
Submitted by psilorder on November 4, 2008 - 9:06pm.
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Submitted by psilorder on November 4, 2008 - 9:07pm.
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Amake
Submitted by Amake on November 6, 2008 - 12:56am.
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In the interests of "The moar you know*" I'll provide translations of the featured Ikea items:
Galant - Gallant (duh)
Bestå - Withstand
Expedit - Clerk
A bizarre mix of arbitrary nouns, verbs and occasionally adjectives. . . Ikea is weird that way.

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Edana
Submitted by Edana on January 3, 2009 - 7:06pm.
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AHHHHHHHHHHHH CRAP I JUST BOUGHT THE 5x5 EXPEDIT BOOKCASE AND DESK FOR MY APARTMENT NOOOOOOOOO this is gonna suck.

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hendertime
Submitted by hendertime on January 4, 2009 - 2:14am.
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All of the furniture I own except for my bed and a dresser are from Ikea. Woo, assembly.

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Gaijin
Submitted by Gaijin on April 11, 2009 - 8:07pm.
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Maybe they could rate them like Japanese model kits? The Gallant desk would be HG (high grade), Besta...probably MG(master grade), and Expedit is a PG(perfect grade)
They are about as difficult to assemble and have a similar amount of parts per model type i'll bet. :)

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Power Moose
Submitted by Power Moose on May 26, 2009 - 10:32am.
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O.K. what self-respecting Mecchie admits to having problems putting IKEA stuff together?

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mrjams96
Submitted by mrjams96 on July 8, 2009 - 12:56am.
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so, no idea if someone has posted this, but it was on the website here: http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/40047675
Two people are needed to assembly this furniture.

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bearpelt
Submitted by bearpelt on August 21, 2009 - 10:42pm.
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OMG I love IKEA. It's so much fun to go there and see everyone be all like "THIS IS SO NEW AND COOL" and have my mom be like "That was in Sweden generations before I was even born". lolz (My mom's a foreigner from Sweden, but you can't tell. No accent. =P)

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Tinky
Submitted by Tinky on September 13, 2009 - 11:22am.
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I've come to call ikea's furniture "large scale 3d puzzles" for a reason.

i live 2 subways stations away from ikea. pretty much all my furniture is from there, haha

:c

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Brittanic
Submitted by Brittanic on September 14, 2009 - 9:15am.
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Everyone knows that Ikea exists soley for meatballs, hot dogs and ice cream. Maybe some energy saving lightbulbs.

Biggest laugh was seeing an ikea in China..

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ConnorElzaim
Submitted by ConnorElzaim on November 15, 2009 - 1:52am.
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I'm reminded of how gay I am when I read this comic, like I pine for player housing in WoW, when I go with my sister to the bay I 'like' fawning over the dish sets they have on display and I imagine myself buying a house then decorating them with said pretty things. Though I've no doubt my first furnishings will be thanks to IKEA.

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fabbelabben
Submitted by fabbelabben on December 12, 2009 - 4:45am.
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I advice you to assemble that lying down on the side, if the picture looks anything like what really happened.

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r21187
Submitted by r21187 on January 8, 2010 - 1:09am.
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my father gave me a sub ... and is a fucking 5 level the more hard and have like a kabillion of tiny pieces ... i am goin to pay for some one do it and says i did

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