{"id":156,"date":"2005-06-01T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=156"},"modified":"2010-01-09T17:02:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T17:02:10","slug":"i-do-not-understand-what-you-wants-to-formulates-you-gladly-on-something-else-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/06\/i-do-not-understand-what-you-wants-to-formulates-you-gladly-on-something-else-ways.html","title":{"rendered":"I do not understand what you wants to, formulates you gladly on something else ways."},"content":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m listening to a Dutch Classic Cock station on a tinny AM radio and running a sweep with my imaginary friend<\/a> on how soon until they play “We Built This City” so my judgement may be slightly impaired at the moment but, contrary to some people, I love Ikea. <\/div>\n
Not as in “I love Big Brother<\/a>“, or even “I love Big Brother<\/em><\/a>“, but truly, honestly, genuinely love it: from its cheap, unobtrusive shelves for my books and records, to the $2.50 breakfast that makes the resident chef cry when he’s overrun with pikey students and backpackers. I know some people get the collywobbles and bitch about about the place<\/a>, but they always end up coming back for more. <\/div>\n
Now, my love for Ikea has a face, and a name: Anna. We’ve had some great conversations<\/a>:<\/div>\n

If your Swedish is not up to scratch, she speaks English too, but only on the American Ikea website. I don’t know why she doesn’t appear on the Australian website: perhaps that’s a reflection on the respective qualities of service you can expect in each country. Better still, American Anna has been given a box with extra headroom to live in, which gives the tantalising suggestion that if you ask the right question she will start jumping up and down.<\/div>\n
I started searching Ikea homepages for other countries in hope of meeting exotic Annas around the world, particularly to see if the Saudia Arabian incarnation was wearing a burqa, but no luck.
<\/div>\n
But then, I was going to introduce my new best friend Anna to a colleague in London, and got a disturbing surprise:

What the hell happened to the real Anna?<\/em> British Ikea gives you advice about life, love, and chipboard furniture through an Essex girl<\/a>. Luckily, original flavour Anna is alive and well in Sweden and\/or the States, but why this different look just for Britain? Are they trying to test us with some sort of Paula Wilcox\/Sally Thomsett<\/a> judgement-of-Paris dilemma? Contrary to appearances, British Anna is as reluctant to give out her phone number as Swedish Anna.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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