yesterday, May 9th, was Lost Sock Memorial Day – yes, there is such a thing, apparently
more info – here
we’ve all been there, lost a favourite sock, been left wondering where it’s gone, why it left us, is it happy in its new life or forever pining for the life it once had and the loss of the the companionship it once shared with its mate ?
BREAKING NEWS – Ingvar Kamprad, it has been announced, has died at his home in Småland. He was 91 yr old – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42851668
pee on a page of the new Ikea catalogue, and if you’re pregnant, a lower price for the crib on that page will be revealed
hhmmm, must have been an interesting meeting when some one pitched that idea for a new sales promotion !
Poor buggers – as if they didn’t have enough on their plate, things just got a whole lot worse !
The UN refugee agency has placed an order for 10,000 flat-pack refugee shelters designed by a social enterprise arm of furniture giant IKEA, with first delivery planned within months to camps across Iraq, where some 2.5 million people have been displaced by conflict (http://tinyurl.com/p6eh6e4)
a 12 yr old boy ran away from home after a row with his mother and was eventually found in a local IKEA store by police 6 days later – http://tinyurl.com/mdhbfwc
[actually, they had a tip off he was there after Day 4 but it took them 2 days to find their way through the store] 😆
Gnomes put up fierce resistance when their garden is invaded by aliens from Ikea
COMING SOON – Revenge of the Gnomes
P.S. I’m sure that was Nobbly at 50 secs mark in video
As if the almost daily reports of everyday meat products for sale in shops and takeaways in Europe found to contain not beef but horsemeat wasn’t enough to make folk think of changing their eating habits, Ikea has now withdrawn their Almond cakes from sale after tests showed they were contaminated with ‘Faecal’ Bacteria – that’s ‘shit’ to you and me ! 😯
Jeez, things are getting real bad now.
Thank goodness wine and chocolate are still O.K !
A little fella (no it wasn’t nobbly!) wearing a coat to keep out the cold, surprised shoppers at an Ikea store in Toronto
The 7 month old rhesus macaque escaped from it’s cage in the back of it’s owner’s car while they were shopping and went off exploring on it’s own.
Animal Service were called out and Darwin, as they have named him, has been taken into care while they find him a suitable home.
[the owners have been fined – it being illegal in Canada to keep macaques as pets]
Click link to see short vid of Darwin trying to take the elevator to another floor – https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151189268168553
As any man will testify – it’s hard to satisfy a woman!
Whatever you do, they’ll find fault.
For instance, for years they’ve been wingeing about sexual stereotyping in the media – that women are portrayed primarily engaged in domestic chores – but when an internationally renowned company does NOT feature women when advertising kitchen or other household goods, they still complain ! – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19786862
Like I said, there’s no satisfying some women !
