June 29, 2014 - Diversion

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Jan

Tell me your worst Ik-- er, IDEA stories :D

Also, I can officially bring this comic out of beta, since the cast is back in action ^^

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Spud • 06/29/2014

Wolf is the Spawn of MacGuyver?! XD

Sonic Wolfe • 06/29/2014

Ummm actually I don't have bad IK....err IDEA stories.....

And Wolf! Don't make us (as wolves in whole) embarrassed again!! (Doubt he won't....)

OHHHH!!! I thought one! Once we bought Swedish Cheese and thought it was butter...... (My parents are not good at english...)

Zaphire D'fox • 06/29/2014

Never bought anything from "IDEA" before. Went there once, got lost, 30 minutes later finally found the exit, never went back. I have bought a futon from "Wal.. something". Came with extra parts, none of the tools, and no instructions (not that I needed them). There was a plastic bag with some paper in it, didn't look important though.

Rei Loire • 06/29/2014

Let Wolf into your house when you are still assambling furniture (or coockin, or reading .... let's just say whatever you do)
Celebrating the success of passing all exam's in your first year at uni with neglecting your normal resistance against your (so called) friends intentions to get you heavily drunk and you ending up in hospital because of acohol poisining where you did horrible and filthy (I really mean filthy) things in your intoxicated mind that you try to forget for your life and luckily mastered to convince your family you have no accountance of.

Rei Loire • 06/29/2014

Damn wrongly read the assumption. Have no IDEA stories as I never bought there.

Jade • 06/29/2014

I'm not allowed in "Idea". There's Pictures in all world wide "Idea" stores, with a big red circle and a single diagonal line through it with my face in the background. Theres a reason your not allowed to take your own allen keys into "Idea", apparently...

Jade • 06/29/2014

soriac • 06/29/2014

"Spawn of MacGyver"?? Oh, come on, when Mac assembles a sofa, it would be stabile like a tank, but would normally NOT explode :-)

WAtheAnum • 06/29/2014

XD made my day

Tvorsk • 06/29/2014

"... and we're out of beta, we're releasing on time"? Hey, you never promised any specific date. :p

As of IDEA... amusingly, all furniture I've got from there in the past was of the type that did not require an allen key to assemble. And it serves me still, well past its expected lifetime...

AkiraFireheart • 06/29/2014

The only thing from "Idea" that was an adventure was letting my pride tell me that a Mustang can bring home the stuff I buy. And that I'd wait to buy that mattress. And that TV stand can wait. Cut to an hour later, and we've strapped the mattress to the roof with twine ( and lots of it! ) and the TV stand was MOSTLY in the trunk/back seat.

Next time I think I'll listen to Dad and borrow his SUV....

Interstate2011 • 06/29/2014

Did Shiera just step on nails? In her bare feet?

Vanbael • 06/29/2014

If only I could say this to Wolf: "Just because you reassembled a bunk bed in college doesn't mean you should keel assembling them!"

I see this coming back to haunt Jan in the future.

Spiritwolf-Inc. • 06/29/2014

Oh lord, this brings me back to my Freshman Year in high school.

One of my friends is almost EXACTLY like Wolf. I'm trying to assemble a Futon in my room and he decides to... HELP. I tell him: "I really don't feel like dragging you to the hospital again. (He tried to fix my window and ended up with a concussion. ._.) But he doesn't listen. So... My girlfriend took action and tied him up and taped his mouth shut. We actually assembled it... But then when we let him go he jumped on the dang thing and it collapsed.

Ah... The good ol' days.

RedMane91 • 06/29/2014

What kind of fascinating new improvements will Wolf add to the sofa bed? and by improvements I mean possible harmful settings.

jprime • 06/29/2014

@Interstate2011 There's no indication she did.

awalker1829 • 06/29/2014

I think that was Wolf. Wolf and assembling/fixing things do not compute.

Dragon Furry • 06/30/2014

Ik.. IDEA is pretty good in Denmark. For the most part ^^; Only odd story I can come up with is the one time, when getting a sofa-bed, very much like the one she is building atm. It was in order at one warehouse. But my dad and I ended up having to travel to a diffrent one because they had sold out. That again got a us a bit late for dinner and my mom got a bit upset about it :p Was just 10 or 15 min.

PS: It was not hard to put together. The instructions was well laid out.

Jan • 06/30/2014

Due to the large number of IDEA fails I've had*, I only shop their food aisle now. Their biscuits are yummy. XD

This one happened to my cousin: http://www.tigerknight.com/stuff/p1120519.jpg

1. Uplight that transitioned from being orthogonal to the ground to parallel; 2. mattress that sagged like a hammock; 3. bed that fell apart (headboard disconnected); 4. wall shelving unit that slanted, straining under its own weight; 5. desk lamp that, for all intents and purposes, twisted itself into a pretzel; 6. light bulbs that turn on once and only once; 7. new spatula that lasted 30 seconds (roommate broke it); 8. chair that fell apart (seat disintegrated)

LionkingCMSL • 06/30/2014

Never have shopped at "Idea", though I have put many AIY (Assemble It Yourself) items together. The only one that has ever given me problems was a side lamp who's clamp, that holds the two pipes together, cracking due to poor materials and a lion that got a little too enthusiastic on tightening it. I have still have the lamp and the clamp is "assisted" by two wrappings of electrical tape, above and below said clamp. :=3

David • 06/30/2014

I may be danger prone, but at least the thing I'm working on usually still works afterward...(remember to cut the power before putting your hand into a tangle of electrical cables; that "tingling" feeling is not a good thing...)

TheMjohann • 07/01/2014

Ah, IK... IDEA. My worst would be when i moved to my own place and needed a bed. Simple thing, i just had to attach the legs to the frame. I woke up the next day when one of the legs broke and i was thrown on the floor.

Silverwolf • 07/04/2014

Later...

Jan: "Wolf...what in the name of all that is holy possessed you to try to OVERCLOCK a sofa bed?!"

Tracer • 07/05/2014

My brother-in-law bought a wardrobe. Disassembled, but not IKEA. He easily assembled the shelves and walls, but needed to screw on a back wall. When he tried to screw in a wood screw he broke his screwdriver (cheap, Chinese, bought in Auchan). I gave him my screwdrivers and offered to help. With better screwdrivers we managed to shear off the slots of several wood screws (country of origin unknown). Then I offered my staple gun. The back walls were affixed in a minute. Then they stuffed the wardrobe with clothes. The back walls fell off in a week. If the wardrobe wasn't squeezed between a wall and a fridge, it would have collapsed sideways.

Muddypaws • 07/06/2014

"Spudgers"?

That a potato based gastropub?

And, never send in Wolf to do an Engineers job.

Sonic Wolfe • 09/23/2014

@Muddypaws

"Trust me, i'm an engineer ! " - wolf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp8hvyjZWHs

Sereverus • 10/01/2014

i assembled a chair perfectly as instructed, nothing was missing even had some extra bolts and such that the company provides as extras, it was graded for a person of up to 800 pounds, i at 125 pounds upon sitting, bent the legs, broke through the seat, and broke the back, not a good product, in addition, i discovered that not long after i purchased it, it was discontinued for unlisted reasons, and they wouldn't give me a refund......never shall i shop there again.