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I'm going this afternoon. Can't say I'm looking forward to it.
I know what I want and I have a strategy. However, I'm going with my MiL. She's a lovely lady but she's quite short and wanders off. What with being IKEA vast, multi level (Ashton, so help me God) and more than likely heaving it may all get a bit too much for me.
I'll give her a spare set of car keys so that she can make her own way home.
So long STW friends, it has been a pleasure.
HTS
Like cattle strolling roung the corridors of a slaughterhouse...
Anyway, think of the meatballs you get rewarded with at the end.
you have a strategy, but it somehow includes going to Ikea on a sunday afternoon.
back to the drawing board for you HTS
Anyway, think of the meatballs you get rewarded with at the end.
I'm a vegetableist. Haven't even got that to look forward to.
This is the best news my wife's heard all year...
http://www.thephuketnews.com/ikea-to-open-pickup-point-concept-store-in-phuket-47953.php
We play the game of who can come out with the most pencils
Oh. There's a nice salmon salad thing, how about that? 🙂
Last time I checked a Salmon wasn't a vegetable.
Yeah but everyone knows veggies can eat fish.
Ive managed to reach the age of 50 and have only been to IKEA once, and only went into the cafe for the meatballs 🙂
Good luck
Last time I checked a Salmon wasn't a vegetable.
They do a nice cheese sandwich too.
They do a veggie "meat"ball.
Think of everything that's bad about Ikea. Now think of everything that's bad about France, and specifically about Paris. You will find it under one roof at the store at the (ironically named) location of Grand Plaisir. I still bear the mental scars of tryng to buy garden furniture.
[url= http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g644360-d1656256-Reviews-Lily_s_Vegetarian_Indian_Restaurant-Ashton_under_Lyne_Greater_Manchester_England.html ]Lily's [/url] veggie Indian place is just over the road.
Mighty awesome it is too.
Go for some food then pick the MiL up from lost property?
I've still got most of the contents of a bag of tea lights I bought from there 15 years ago - think I'm gonna have to start a religion just to use them up
They do a veggie "meat"ball.
Bet it's just packed out with sea biscuit.
I'm a vegetableist.
I'm pretty sure the 99p hot dog is meat free, despite their claims.
This may help....
I'm a vegetableist
They do Quorn hotdogs now 😈
I was in the Croydon store at the weekend...it wasnt pleasant with the final frustration being that the queue we were in had a broken scanner so every item number had to be typed in by hand for all the items 😡
I'm a vegetableist
What?? Does that include the pork poes at The Church then? 😯
I'm bloody sure I've seen you munching on them on more than one occasion!!
I lapse every so often. Usually on a Monday.
I made the mistake of attempting the Trafford Centre last Sunday....
My lad calls it the traffic centre.
Ikea on a Sunday when the weather is pants, nope not even I would attempt that folly.
Does that include the pork poes at The Church then? ?
I sincerely hope that's a typo!
Just make it more fun.
Try to use each of the toilets dotted around the display areas, but bring your own toilet paper because they don't supply that.
I've never eaten Ikea meatballs, am I missing out? Mind you I'd have to go to Ikea, and that's an experience I've managed to avoid all but once.
The mistake you are all making is going on a weekend, particularly if you go in the afternoon.
They are open late, go after work and it's nice and peaceful, you can have a coffee and browse at leisure. At least you can in ours.
aracer - Member
I've never eaten Ikea meatballs...
You don't have to eat them. Just drop them in the aforementioned toilets with a bit of toilet paper for maximum pleasure...
If you smear some Nutella around them first it enhances the effect.
Only been once and it was ok but I went on a week day by myself rather than under duress. The Apple cake thing I had was nice, not even tried the meatballs.
Epicyclo why do you seem to be obsessed with pooing in the ikea bogs?
You know what you need to do...
I've never been to Ikea.
Am I missing out?
Is my life incomplete?
IKEA?
Waste of a life.
MIL should've got a taxi there and back, on her own.
IKEA furniture is shite at the best of times, and so 1996.
Waste of *a life*? That's taking snob heperbole to a whole new level!
IKEA = cheap to medium furniture that is nucer looking and better made than many similarly priced alternatives. It's just a furniture shop, it's not a threat to your lifestyle, no need to fight it via nasty mouthed stw posts 🙂
No idea why the hell you lot get so bloody worked up about it.
you can have a coffee and browse at leisure.
Jesus. No. Just go in, get what you need, get out. No hanging around.
I went with a colleague to get something for the office recently and even though she knew EXACTLY what she wanted and where it was she spent 30 minutes wandering looking at stuff. I buggered off and had lunch while she did that.
IKEA = Dante's 10th circle...
I'd rather have my teeth pulled out by Geoff Capes!
You know the absolute worst thing about ikea? You get to thinking hey, these bookcases, I'm sure I could make something just as good for less. Then you go and buy the squished laminated former wood, you buy the fasteners, you break out the powertools, you invest a load of effort and time and in the end you produce something that's basically identical to an Ikea bookshelf but cost you twice as much and took half a day to make. And it's harder to move the shelves around.
We haven't been for 13 years IIRC. We bought light fittings and had to go all the way back through the maze to find the bulbs.
I'm back!
Wasn't too bad. Nearly bought a 3ft long cuddly shark. I would have called it George, but I digress.
We went to the Nottingham shopping place that grew up out of IKEA this morning. We didn't actually go into IKEA, but both kids ended up being frog marched back to the car and the missus and I only started talking to each other about an hour after we got home. We were supposed to be going to Decathlon. But the missus started some mission creep by mentioning going into Next. My face betrayed me. The kids played up no end in Decathlon and it ended in tears. Icy silence prevailed on the drive home.
It seems the mere presence of IKEA is enough to start the red mist rolling in.
Shopping. What the internet was invented for.
molgrips - Member
Waste of *a life*? That's taking snob heperbole to a whole new level!IKEA = cheap to medium furniture that is nucer looking and better made than many similarly priced alternatives. It's just a furniture shop, it's not a threat to your lifestyle, no need to fight it via nasty mouthed stw posts
No idea why the hell you lot get so bloody worked up about it.
It's because it's soul destroying at best and migraine inducing at worst.. it's like looking back in time to when furniture with canvas backs were all the rage, and chipboard was the In Thing.. like I said, 1996.
Still, you like it so there are folks willing to spend time/money in it.. 😆
I made the mistake of going to my local Wickes on a business park this morning to buy a lightbulb.
The horror, the horror...
Harry-the -spider
I came out with a 3ft blue shark, we called it Feargal. (Feargal Sharkey, The Undertones -1980s)

