What’s on your mind?

[LizKat]

I put 6 together without even cutting a finger the other month.

When I assembled a little rack of shelves, I managed to give myself a hematoma pinching a finger while slamming the last piece home with what I was thinking at the time was going to be great satisfaction. Sometimes I seem to have queued up You Can't Get No Satisfaction for such occasions.

 

[Apple fanboy]

When I assembled a little rack of shelves, I managed to give myself a hematoma pinching a finger while slamming the last piece home with what I was thinking at the time was going to be great satisfaction. Sometimes I seem to have queued up You Can't Get No Satisfaction for such occasions.

I could do them in my sleep. I've certainly used worse makes.

 

[Gutwrench]

I wondered if there has ever been a study into the amount of hospital visits caused by building Ikea products, or self induced rage injuries because of assembling Ikea products?

I wonder how many search and rescue (or recovery) cases have been initiated to locate missing people lost inside IKEA unable to find the exit.

 

[LizKat]

I could do them in my sleep. I've certainly used worse makes.

Me too.... There's no IKEA handy around here so when I first got this place and my wallet was ready to upgrade kitchen furnishings to something maybe still temporary but a little better than an old door laid across sawhorses for a table, I whipped over to an Ames (now extinct) 20 miles from here and bought some Chinese import, fully aware that "some assembly" would be required.

Right so I get it home and open it up and inside are the table top, three legs and the hardware and casters for five legs. IKEA started looking a lot better to me all of a sudden.

 

[chown33]

I wonder how many search and rescue (or recovery) cases have been initiated to locate missing people lost inside IKEA unable to find the exit.

I just sat down on one of the "demo" chairs, and pretended to be testing it out, until I saw someone who looked like they were leaving, then I followed them.

 

[Apple fanboy]

I just sat down on one of the "demo" chairs, and pretended to be testing it out, until I saw someone who looked like they were leaving, then I followed them.

Lol. Apparently there’s a craze for teenagers to try and spend the night. So staff have to check all the wardrobes etc. before they close.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I wondered if there has ever been a study into the amount of hospital visits caused by building Ikea products, or self induced rage injuries because of assembling Ikea products?

Snigger.

Swedish friends - whose mastery of IKEA products is supposed to be innate - have made similar remarks to me.

I put 6 together without even cutting a finger the other month.

Consider me impressed.

When I assembled a little rack of shelves, I managed to give myself a hematoma pinching a finger while slamming the last piece home with what I was thinking at the time was going to be great satisfaction. Sometimes I seem to have queued up You Can't Get No Satisfaction for such occasions.

I know the feeling; these days, I'd pay someone to do the needful (IKEA offer that as an extra optional service).

I could do them in my sleep. I've certainly used worse makes.

My father was like that - he excelled at that sort of stuff.

 

[Mefisto]

I actually like assembling IKEA stuff. The trick is to make a day of it, start bright and early, have a big glass of whisky nearby, good music playing, always use your own tools (not the sorry excuses for tools that ship with the products), remember that getting absolutely livid at the (at that moment in time) no good piece of crap furniture you're assembling can be a useful, and cathartic part of the process, and just assemble away.

I do, however, severely dislike actually going to IKEA. The meatballs are pretty good for what they are, though.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I actually like assembling IKEA stuff. The trick is to make a day of it, start bright and early, have a big glass of whisky nearby, good music playing, always use your own tools (not the sorry excuses for tools that ship with the products), remember that getting absolutely livid at the (at that moment in time) no good piece of crap furniture you're assembling can be a useful, and cathartic part of the process, and just assemble away.

I do, however, severely dislike actually going to IKEA. The meatballs are pretty good for what they are, though.

The meatballs, yes, along with Kalles Kaviar, and lingonberry and cloudberry jam.......

However, for assembly, even with the welcome medicinal aid of a whisky near to hand, I think that I would cheerfully outsource (and pay for) that service.

 

[Apple fanboy]

I actually like assembling IKEA stuff. The trick is to make a day of it, start bright and early, have a big glass of whisky nearby, good music playing, always use your own tools (not the sorry excuses for tools that ship with the products), remember that getting absolutely livid at the (at that moment in time) no good piece of crap furniture you're assembling can be a useful, and cathartic part of the process, and just assemble away.

I do, however, severely dislike actually going to IKEA. The meatballs are pretty good for what they are, though.

Couldn’t agree more on the tools comment. Those little Allan keys they supply are not the best. When I put our office together I had a big carpeted empty room and just brought the units in one by one to assemble.

 

[Mefisto]

Couldn’t agree more on the tools comment. Those little Allan keys they supply are not the best.

I'd almost go so far as to call them the worst.

 

[Apple fanboy]

I'd almost go so far as to call them the worst.

But for some reason I have a collection of them in the bottom kitchen drawer! Why don’t I throw them out?

 

[Matz]

Your collection of Allen keys reminds me of how often I’ve observed the following:

Someone, often at a retail counter, or in an office, attempts to write with a ball-point pen, only to discover that it does not work, then puts it back in the cup or other receptacle for pens, and selects another.

Seems odd, but widespread. For I too feel the urge to simply put it back and select another. A while back I had to consciously train myself to simply throw the offending pen in the trash.

I’m sure some graduate student has written a paper on this.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Your collection of Allen keys reminds me of how often I’ve observed the following:

Someone, often at a retail counter, or in an office, attempts to write with a ball-point pen, only to discover that it does not work, then puts it back in the cup or other receptacle for pens, and selects another.

Seems odd, but widespread. For I too feel the urge to simply put it back and select another. A while back I had to consciously train myself to simply throw the offending pen in the trash.

I’m sure some graduate student has written a paper on this.

Oh, gosh, yes.

This I am very familiar with (although I write with fountain pens, myself).

My solution is to do a purge of those useless pens, and take satisfaction from throwing a selection of them (having been tested for sheer uselessness, first) in the trash.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Your collection of Allen keys reminds me of how often I’ve observed the following:

Someone, often at a retail counter, or in an office, attempts to write with a ball-point pen, only to discover that it does not work, then puts it back in the cup or other receptacle for pens, and selects another.

Seems odd, but widespread. For I too feel the urge to simply put it back and select another. A while back I had to consciously train myself to simply throw the offending pen in the trash.

I’m sure some graduate student has written a paper on this.

I always use my own pens in the office. Ever since I picked one up and it was wet. A colleague liked to put them in his mouth. Not the ends, but across the middle like a dog with a stick.

I recall my dad would remove spark plugs from the car and leave them on the side in the garage. Years later he’d try it again to see if it had healed itself!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

When my mother worked, she always had pretty good quality pens - either she or I would replace them (and bin the useless ones) as needed.

More recently, we needed a decent supply of pens regularly to hand, as the state carers who paid visits a few times a day to help with washing and changing and moving my mother (who had dementia) required pens to write their thrice daily reports, and often mislaid or misplaced them as they travelled between houses.

 

[chown33]

But for some reason I have a collection of them in the bottom kitchen drawer! Why don’t I throw them out?

You can weld them together to make interesting objects!

A hatstand for a doll-house.

Office-desk motivational sayings ("COOL", "LOL 700").

The possibilities are endless!

(Welder required. On sale now, for just $19 a month!)

 

[retta283]

I am investigating a mysterious case of bees in my bathroom. Every time I go in, one is buzzing around. I noticed they were gathered at the window. I search for cracks on the walls nearby, but no source was found. The screen is not torn, nor do I see them flying around in the window when closed.

Yesterday I went in, and crunched a bee under my boot. I then investigated the window, and found 4 bees. I was lucky enough to see one of them slip out of a small spot in between the window panels, so I have sealed it temporarily. I am now led to believe they have a nest in the wall...

 

[Apple fanboy]

You can weld them together to make interesting objects!

A hatstand for a doll-house.

Office-desk motivational sayings ("COOL", "LOL 700").

The possibilities are endless!

(Welder required. On sale now, for just $19 a month!)

Not with my welding skills! More like a paperweight or a paperweight!

 

[chown33]

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Yesterday I went in, and crunched a bee under my boot. I then investigated the window, and found 4 bees. I was lucky enough to see one of them slip out of a small spot in between the window panels, so I have sealed it temporarily. I am now led to believe they have a nest in the wall...

That's possible. If so, they may also be getting into the bathroom from the holes around the pipes under the sink. If the gaps are small, some steel wool can be jammed in to fill the gaps.

 

[Apple fanboy]

That's possible. If so, they may also be getting into the bathroom from the holes around the pipes under the sink. If the gaps are small, some steel wool can be jammed in to fill the gaps.

That’s mean! Poor bees. When they die out we all follow in three years (apparently).

 

[retta283]

I'm heading out later and will buy some caulking in order to seal off some small cracks along the walls, just to be sure. I will then investigate the area around the pipe, if I recall there is small opening there that bees would have no issue getting in from.

Just before writing this, a bee slipped through my temporary seal on the window. Whether this is because I didn't seal the area it slipped through, it broke its way through, or it came from somewhere else I do not know.

 

[Gutwrench]

Your collection of Allen keys reminds me of how often I’ve observed the following:

Someone, often at a retail counter, or in an office, attempts to write with a ball-point pen, only to discover that it does not work, then puts it back in the cup or other receptacle for pens, and selects another.

Seems odd, but widespread. For I too feel the urge to simply put it back and select another. A while back I had to consciously train myself to simply throw the offending pen in the trash.

I’m sure some graduate student has written a paper on this.

Sometimes the blame can be placed on the merchants who load ink-proof paper impervious to all forms of ink from pens into their printers.

The ink always works in the “tip” column but never in the “total” or signature block. Wtf?

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I am investigating a mysterious case of bees in my bathroom. Every time I go in, one is buzzing around. I noticed they were gathered at the window. I search for cracks on the walls nearby, but no source was found. The screen is not torn, nor do I see them flying around in the window when closed.

Yesterday I went in, and crunched a bee under my boot. I then investigated the window, and found 4 bees. I was lucky enough to see one of them slip out of a small spot in between the window panels, so I have sealed it temporarily. I am now led to believe they have a nest in the wall...

They have a nest somewhere in the vicinity of your window.

Have you any eaves, or small vents?

 

[Gutwrench]

Question for you Europeans. Last week I bought a driving jacket from a local haberdashery. Is it common for you to put the zippers on the wrong side of your coats just like you do your car’s steering wheel?