NationStates Jolt Archive


Ikea Catalogue Controversy

Norgopia
30-08-2006, 15:45
In this summer's IKEA catalogue, there's something that might surprise you.
Some Canadian NSers may have already heard about this.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060825/ikea_photo_060825/20060825?hub=TopStories

It's kind of funny. And kind of wrong.
Ilie
30-08-2006, 15:48
Ridiculous...but it DOES look like that.

I love Ikea. I wish I could live there. In the Ikea universe.
Deep Kimchi
30-08-2006, 15:49
I don't see anything wrong with it.
Norgopia
30-08-2006, 15:52
Look at the dog. Look closely. Thats not a leg.
Katganistan
30-08-2006, 15:55
Ok, I'm not seeing it. Maybe you need to be predisposed to look for a doggy's doohickey? ;)
Colodia
30-08-2006, 15:55
...ooooooooooooooooooooh....yeah I wondered why /b/ was laughing at that last night...
Smunkeeville
30-08-2006, 15:56
Ok, I'm not seeing it. Maybe you need to be predisposed to look for a doggy's doohickey? ;)

that's okay, I didn't see it either.
Deep Kimchi
30-08-2006, 15:57
Ok, I'm not seeing it. Maybe you need to be predisposed to look for a doggy's doohickey? ;)

Your penis detector must be switched off.
Zilam
30-08-2006, 17:32
Your penis detector must be switched off.



It takes a dick to know a dick?:eek:
Sumamba Buwhan
30-08-2006, 17:55
looks like a leg to me - and it's not like I dont have an imagination but you hafta try really hard to see a dick there
Deep Kimchi
30-08-2006, 18:28
It takes a dick to know a dick?:eek:

No, you have to like dick to see one hidden in a picture.
Dobbsworld
30-08-2006, 18:58
No, you have to like dick to see one hidden in a picture.

Then I'm frankly surprised you didn't see your own there, DK.
Deep Kimchi
30-08-2006, 18:59
Then I'm frankly surprised you didn't see your own there, DK.

I thought that was yours, so I left it alone.
Laerod
30-08-2006, 19:17
Dang. The article just couldn't come out and say what it was. How inhibited are they?

As for IKEA... a steady source of free, albeit small, pencils. :D
IL Ruffino
30-08-2006, 20:56
Am I the only one who noticed the boy's translucent feet, and not the doggydoo?
Khadgar
30-08-2006, 21:09
I happen to like dick, and I still didn't see anything til I'd studied it for a bit. Oddly I don't check out a dog's equipment immediately.
Deep Kimchi
30-08-2006, 21:15
I happen to like dick, and I still didn't see anything til I'd studied it for a bit. Oddly I don't check out a dog's equipment immediately.

Suddenly, I feel better about you.
Sarkhaan
30-08-2006, 23:46
I'm more confused about the person randomly doing headstands in bed...
New Xero Seven
30-08-2006, 23:52
Its not a pee-pee. And even if it was... who cares? Even animals gotta procreate.
Neu Leonstein
31-08-2006, 00:23
I happen to like dick, and I still didn't see anything til I'd studied it for a bit. Oddly I don't check out a dog's equipment immediately.
And besides, a dog's equipment doesn't really look like that. It's a picture of the dog's leg.

Dammit I hate people sometimes. Why can't they just look at the picture, and giggle like a schoolgirl if they have to. Why does this have to be a public issue that appears in the news, for crying out loud?

I blame Christianity. Screwed up our relationship with anything sexual for all eternity.

Although it must be said that according to the article, there were only very few complaints or inquiries.
German Nightmare
31-08-2006, 02:15
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/NedFlanders.gif
OMG
OMG
OMG

Honestly, I only make out a leg. :confused:
On the other hand, the kid doing the headstand had me go WTF?
Laerod
31-08-2006, 04:33
Honestly, I only make out a leg. :confused:
On the other hand, the kid doing the headstand had me go WTF?
Yeah, he's got a belly button. I want one of those :(
WangWee
31-08-2006, 04:37
I would have never opened the catalogue that came in the mail a couple of days if it weren't for the OP.
And I found a really cool combined stove-wardrobe-coathanger unit too which I can screw together with a clever little bit of metal.
Demented Hamsters
31-08-2006, 04:45
Reminded me of the Coca Cola poster from the 80s:
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/poster.asp

They also posted them around NZ. At the time I went around and asked a few shops for one, cause I figured they'd become collectors items but they were all under orders to return them.
Shame really. That was my chance to make a fortune gone.