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Yeah I know, I saw their website!

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Okay, now I know your joking. My dad's vcr is still flashing 12:00

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:rofl::rofl:

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I *heart* IKEA.
They have good food and good service, and in my many years as an IKEA-shopper, I've never had any trouble putting anything together. I had a piece on my futon break (my own fault), and got it replaced, no questions asked.

YYZlover - I bought kanelgifflar there the other day - yummmmm. :D

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I have a bed and two units from Ikea.

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:rofl:. Thats naughty :p;)

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It was all done in THE BEST POSSIBLE TASTE!

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Well, no wonder! He's probably too busy uploading erotic imagery!

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Well, I'm not sure how erotic it would be. It may do it for some I guess.

Don't send me the url.

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IKEA always reminds me of this:

Twenty or so years ago, my then boyfriend and I decided to buy a small dining table and some chairs from IKEA (there use to be an IKEA in Victoria by it closed up a long time ago). We walked there, found the table and chairs and got it all home by borrowing the big bike tricycle and trailer thingy they had for people who didn't have cars.

Got home, put it all together and over a nice meal we made (well BF made) , we talked about what we wanted to do that summer. We decided that we did not want to get domesticated and that instead, we wanted to hitch hike across Canada.

So next day, we took apart the table and chairs, repacked them, went borrowed the tricycle thing and took it all back to IKEA. With the refunded money we went and bought two huge backpacks. Then we both quit our jobs, put our belongings into storage and off we were thumbing on TCH 1 within a week. :thumbup: And had a top-notch summer!

Yeah, kinda sappy, but true.

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Hmmmm, they must have closed the IKEA in Victoria about 20 minutes before I moved there. Where was it?

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On the corner of Yates and Vancouver... kitty-corner from London Drugs. I think the building houses a Moxie's now. I'm trying to remember when they shut it... it must have been the early 90s. Not sure.

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HAHAHAHAHAHA!

I used to work in the factory that makes them. Loooooong time ago. Mainly I worked with "Skorpor" but every so often they'd send me over to "kanelgifflar" as well.

Hot out of the oven they rock big time.

Zap them for a coule of seconds in the nuke and you know what I'm on about.

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Wow! Did you get to eat as many as you wanted? And did you weigh 400 pounds? I know I would. ;)

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Well, the rule was that we were not to eat the merch - but we did.

Night shift was the best one. One line did the soft flat bread. Perfect pizza size. So one would bring cheese, another some ham, each basically brought some sort of topping.

Then half way down the oven (all bread go through ovens on conveyor belts) open hatch, pull out a half baked piece of flat bread, prep it with the topping. Move to the opening of the oven, put it back on the belt. Go down to the hatch, open every so often to not miss it and pull out perfecty baked pizza when it comes 'round. YUM!

I still love Skorpor.

Funny, I quite enjoyed the work. It was well payed, I normally got varied tasks as I was quite mcanically apt so always got placed at packing machines that were playing up as I could do most fixes without having to call the mechanic.

Aprt from when I got a finger stuck in a 2mm gap between two steel plates and they had to take the machine apart to get me unstuck, then drive me to A&E for x-rays. Only soft tissue damage, no cracks or fissure. Basically tore off most of the tendons and ligaments. I was back at work in a couple of days. Company nurse was livid and was going to send me home. I wasn't having any of that.

Pinky finger still doesn't function as it should. Doesn't help much that I also cut it wide open about ten years later when doing dishes by hand late one evening. Another trip to A&E and 4 stitches.