tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post3607974789537735243..comments2024-03-27T11:23:43.902+00:00Comments on Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley: Lament for those Lost in IkeaWodeWosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18381754587879658356noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-55395836816501599152012-08-18T20:01:02.988+01:002012-08-18T20:01:02.988+01:00There is now a world wide web of these things. We ...There is now a world wide web of these things. We went to one in Washington, just outside DC, and could swear we were in the same place as the last one we went to in Warrington. Friends of ours left in England the furniture they bought at Lakeside, moved to China, and bought all the same things at the Beijing store. My theory is that there is just one huge Ikea store the size of the world with portals scattered around even in MK.Peter Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13395635409427347613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-50493379889436307242012-08-18T14:47:56.177+01:002012-08-18T14:47:56.177+01:00Ha! Brilliant :)Ha! Brilliant :)Yewtreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-65911403699945244602012-08-17T21:34:50.539+01:002012-08-17T21:34:50.539+01:00Ah Ikea.
As someone born without a sense of direc...Ah Ikea.<br /><br />As someone born without a sense of direction, the Ikea shopping experience is akin to torture, especially when I need the toilet.<br /><br />It’s like following the yellow brick road without the expectation of meeting the wizard at the end.<br /><br />You can enter Ikea one day, and leave days later, as the shop design is undoubtedly based on the casino principle, whereby, you’re denied any sensory contact with the outside world, so you have no audiovisual time cues.<br /><br />You go in with the certain plan to spend £50, and by the time you arrive at the checkout – as if by witchcraft – you find yourself with £300 worth of products in the trolley.<br /><br />And God forbid you should flirt with death and find yourself walking against the flow.<br /><br />Perhaps we should design church buildings according to this model?Stuart Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08198939874801282568noreply@blogger.com