Only In Texas....

[DB]

Texas, but more about the mish-mash of incomplete understanding of your laws in the article. It's not even possible to tell if BATF were implying that 3d printing uncontrolled bits of a gun is "wrong", or if that's just the BBC reporter.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-us-canada-47243007

 

My understanding: unless he printed the bits that define what a firearm are in US law, the 3d printed thing is a red herring.

 

He broke the law the moment he took possession of that part, not when he built it up.

 

I forget which piece or pieces are controlled, and I suppose it may vary from type to type. That looks like an AR, so would it be the receiver?

Edited February 15, 2019 by DB

[rmgill]

The receiver is the specifically contraband part for the prohibited person.

[Murph]

I was weak! I surrendered to our Swedish Overlords. I went to Ikea with no intention of purchasing anything at all. $50 later, I walked out thinking to myself: "What the F**k just happened?".

[Jeff]

 

 

Only in Texas would people be writing news stories about IKEA coming to town...

 

Serbia also.

"IKEA for a first time in Serbia"

Forgetting that it was already there 1979-1992...

 

Pro-Ukrainians claimed IKEA plans to finally open first store in Ukraine as major step toward Europe (they ignore the fact IKEA is present in barbaric Russia not only with 14 big shops -annual turnout is 63mln people- but also with production lines).

https://rau.ua/en/analyticsen/ikea-v-ukraine/

The ice is broken: the story of the Swedish giant IKEA’s entry Ukraine

 

 

There is literally nothing you can't drag the Russia/Ukraine shitfest into. Simply amazing. You've succeeded in becoming a caricature of yourself.

[Ssnake]

I was weak! I surrendered to our Swedish Overlords. I went to Ikea .. I walked out thinking to myself: "What the F**k just happened?".

 

Oh noes!

Next stops, Sköttbullar, Family Card, and the horrific last stage - Surströmning.

 

Räsist, Murph! Be strøng!

 

 

 

(I like how they usher the kid away when they realize what another fine mess they've gotten themselves into.)

[Simon Tan]

Sustromning is biowarfare in a distended can.

[Murph]

 

I was weak! I surrendered to our Swedish Overlords. I went to Ikea .. I walked out thinking to myself: "What the F**k just happened?".

 

Oh noes!

Next stops, Sköttbullar, Family Card, and the horrific last stage - Surströmning.

 

Räsist, Murph! Be strøng!

 

 

 

(I like how they usher the kid away when they realize what another fine mess they've gotten themselves into.)

 

My daughter got the Family card! Also chocolate and Lingonberry syrup! We are doomed..... I almost bought some of the meatballs, but we had other things to do first, so I could not keep them in the car.....

[Stuart Galbraith]

I was weak! I surrendered to our Swedish Overlords. I went to Ikea with no intention of purchasing anything at all. $50 later, I walked out thinking to myself: "What the F**k just happened?".

When you walked in, did they sit you in a nice comfy chair, and put on a coloured light show for you, like this?

 

https://youtu.be/4wwQpACwcoM?t=55

Edited February 16, 2019 by Stuart Galbraith

[BansheeOne]

It's a known effect. I once accompanied my brother #2 and SIL to the local IKEA with the intention to maybe look for some towels. I walked out with balcony furniture for about 200 Euros, more than they bought.

[Panzermann]

It's a known effect. I once accompanied my brother #2 and SIL to the local IKEA with the intention to maybe look for some towels. I walked out with balcony furniture for about 200 Euros, more than they bought.

The trick is to only buy a pack of tealights and clutch it to your chest. Making it impossible to buy anything else!

[Ssnake]

When was the last time that you visited an IKEA?

They have the tealights only near the exit of the store, by then it's too late.

Edited February 16, 2019 by Ssnake

[Panzermann]

When was the last time that you visited an IKEA?

They have the tealights only near the exit of the store, by then it's too late.

 

Focus on the tealights in your mind! Ommmmmm

 

 

Actually about half a year ago I was there last ime and they had boxes with tealights spread all over the shop.

[Soren Ras]

It is possible to develop natural antibodies through exposure over time. The wife regularly tends to ask me to pick up various and sundries from an Ikea close to my work office. I almost never end up buying more than she put on the list. Mostly because I consider their stuff pretty boring, and partly because at this point I aim more to de-clutter than to add more furniture to the house.

 

Perseverance. The Swedish infection can be overcome.

 

 

--

Soren

[Murph]

I don’t like the furniture, I like real wood, but they have some neat things there.

[rmgill]

My wife and I have had arguments about Ikea vs furniture I make.

Here's the AV cabinet I built. Mortise and tenon joints that interlock, lap joints and tongue and groove, all where appropriate. There's a plenum space in the end panels with enough space for a cross drafting fan through the entire cabinet and sliding doors in the back (AV cabinets wth solid backs are a pain in the ass to wire. This is easy, slide it out from the wall and slide a panel aside to access the cables. Oh, the doors are all wood and glass with mortise and tenon joints for the mullions/muntins. the only metal fasteners are screws for the hinges and latch, the shelf pegs inside, screws holding the fan system in and the figure 8s/screws holding the top down.



Or we could buy plasticized pressed cardboard and wood chips from Ikea...

[Ssnake]

If you don't have a workshop and/or talent as a carpenter and if you don't have a lot of money and still want furniture to look good, IKEA is a good address. Don't expect the stuff to last much longer than one, possibly two moves. If you build it and keep it in place, it's quite okay, occasionally even good.

 

Of course, at some point I stopped going there and rather designed my own shelves and cabinets and had them custom built. They are more sturdy of course, but they also cost a lot more. Past a certain income level, or if you're a DIY person, you simply aren't the target audience of IKEA. Credit where it's due, though, I think they did wonders to improve the taste of a lot of people when it comes to furniture. A lot of the stuff well into the 1980s that you could find in "other" furniture shops was rather terrible.

 

Then again, 90% of everything is crap.

Edited February 17, 2019 by Ssnake

[Panzermann]

Agree Ssnake, that that Ikea has raised the bar for what is acceptable as furniture in a shop. OTOH Ikea is global and has introduced its style everywhere by now.

 

 

I don’t like the furniture, I like real wood, but they have some neat things there.

 

IKEA also has lines of furniture made from real wood. The prices for stoves and ovens and such kithcen appliances are often lower than elsewhere, so I boght a new gas stove there, simply because it was the lowest price i could find and I needec one quickly. Everywhere else, I would have had to order and wait for delivery.

 

 

 

rmgill, I am envying your carpentry skills. My skill level ends at screwing a broken bed together (not pretty but it holds) or screwing a few boards to the wall as shelves.

[Harold Jones]

It's a known effect. I once accompanied my brother #2 and SIL to the local IKEA with the intention to maybe look for some towels. I walked out with balcony furniture for about 200 Euros, more than they bought.

The first time we went to an Ikea store was a year or so after the Berlin I&I. Jami's comment after we passed the first few living space displays was "It looks like Axel's apartment."

 

[BansheeOne]

 

I have actually referred to my furnishing style as "IKEA Zen".

[Harold Jones]

I'm fairly resistant to Ikea's charms, but if I lived in an apartment or condo it might be a different story.

[Murph]

Victoria looked at me and told me: “Daddy, this furniture would look really good in my dorm room, and you could get Sarah some as well”. I fear they have been assimilated.

[DB]

As for the Ikea mesmerising effect of making unnecssary purchases, I have a similar problem with the Bins of Desire at the local Aldi (or Lidl).

 

You can never have too many head torches, work gloves and screwdriver bits.

[DB]

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Edited February 17, 2019 by DB

[sunday]

 

It's a known effect. I once accompanied my brother #2 and SIL to the local IKEA with the intention to maybe look for some towels. I walked out with balcony furniture for about 200 Euros, more than they bought.

The first time we went to an Ikea store was a year or so after the Berlin I&I. Jami's comment after we passed the first few living space displays was "It looks like Axel's apartment."

 

 

 

I had to LOL at that!

 

As for the Ikea mesmerising effect of making unnecessary purchases, I have a similar problem with the Bins of Desire at the local Aldi (or Lidl).

 

You can never have too many head torches, work gloves and screwdriver bits.

 

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[bojan]

...screwdriver bits.

"Screwdriver bits are cheap, old screws are irreplaceable"