APIAD wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

APIAD wrote:

Thats place is a money gobbling slut.

 
Ever been to an Ikea?

Never even heard of it.
 

Chain of department stores based in Sweden which mostly sells furnishings that require assembly. One of their first stores to open in the U.S. was in the Boston area. The day it opened, traffic was backed up onto the highway and people had to wait hours just to get into the parking lot. All for the right to buy cheap Scandanavian crap you had to put together yourself.

artie_fufkin wrote:

"It is sort of how a goose will act."

Geese are rude. We have a pond across the street from the building where I work and it's not uncommon to see them blocking traffic because they have to cross the road single file. And if you honk your car horn at them or try to hurry them along, they stop and stare at you, or worse.

Not to mention that they shit every time the take a step. 
 

alz wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

tkihshbt wrote:

Aye. And the turkey kind is $10. Beef is $7.

 
How does one prepare jerky?
We have a lone wild turkey that likes to roam around our neighborhood. From what I understand, a singular turkey is an unusual phenomenon. They usually prefer to stay in their rafter. This one tends to be alternately aggressive and passive. He's chased after children and people who try to take pictures of him, but sometimes you'll see him laying on the grass. Once, we saw him lounging in the drive-through lane at the bank. Personally, and mind you I have no training or education in zoology, I think the damn bird is mentally-retarded.

My friends dad lived next to a guy that had wild turkeys. One nested in his dad's tree line our Junior summer.... The bull was running all over the place with his wings dragging the ground and jumping on people. The only way to make it stop was to either "fight him" or hide. Fighting him entailed punting him when he came running up to you. This would need to be repeated a few times before he'd admit he was beaten, but then he'd leave you alone...

Point? I think all turkeys are mentally-retarded... Just a very bizarre animal. 
 

I wasn't even sure they could fly until I saw this one start flapping his wings. They look like dive bombers. They're huge when they spread their wings, but they don't get very far. And this one is loud. Really loud. Sometimes, if you try to take his picture, he'll screech at you.
I have no idea what Benjamin Franklin was thinking when he wanted to make wild turkeys the national bird.

APIAD wrote:

alz wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

 
How does one prepare jerky?
We have a lone wild turkey that likes to roam around our neighborhood. From what I understand, a singular turkey is an unusual phenomenon. They usually prefer to stay in their rafter. This one tends to be alternately aggressive and passive. He's chased after children and people who try to take pictures of him, but sometimes you'll see him laying on the grass. Once, we saw him lounging in the drive-through lane at the bank. Personally, and mind you I have no training or education in zoology, I think the damn bird is mentally-retarded.

My friends dad lived next to a guy that had wild turkeys. One nested in his dad's tree line our Junior summer.... The bull was running all over the place with his wings dragging the ground and jumping on people. The only way to make it stop was to either "fight him" or hide. Fighting him entailed punting him when he came running up to you. This would need to be repeated a few times before he'd admit he was beaten, but then he'd leave you alone...

Point? I think all turkeys are mentally-retarded... Just a very bizarre animal. 
 

I think it is why the phrase "bird brain" was started. I grew up next to grandpas farm. He had chcikens and you had to pick up the eggs in the evening. No big task except at one time the roaster was very temper mental. If you went in there with rubber boots on he would try to spur you as soon as you turned your back. Once I broke several eggs the thing lurched at me and I freaked alittle. My strategy became booting the thing into the wall or across the chickenhouse first thing. Still he would be back up strutting around like an asshole before you left. I think grandpa finally got the best of him. Idk what the point of having a roaster was anyway.
 

This is the funniest thing I've read all week. Thank you for that.

I find itnto be pretty good.  With the price of beef i couldnt imagen making it out of that.  5lb of ground meat doesnt make alot of jerky.  Me and my family pretty much exclusively use deer meat in place of beef.  Its just normal to us and once u get used to it and learn to cook with it i think anyone would like it.

artie_fufkin wrote:

Where does one buy deer meat?

I seem to recall that AP kills his own deer meat, has it processed and stores it through the rest of the year.

You killed Bambi?????

artie_fufkin wrote:

You killed Bambi?????

Bambi's dad probably supplies more meat.

artie_fufkin wrote:

APIAD wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

 
Ever been to an Ikea?

Never even heard of it.
 

Chain of department stores based in Sweden which mostly sells furnishings that require assembly. One of their first stores to open in the U.S. was in the Boston area. The day it opened, traffic was backed up onto the highway and people had to wait hours just to get into the parking lot. All for the right to buy cheap Scandanavian crap you had to put together yourself.

 
Please explain this phenomenon to me. IKEA is opening a new store in St. Louis today. It's been one of the lead news stories everyday since Sunday. People have been camping in front of the store since Monday morning.

We received a catalogue in the mail and I briefly glanced through it. I didn't see anything special, and coupled with the knowledge that I was expected to build anything I bought, the catalogue quickly found itself in the trash.

I'm sitting here watching the news, and every aspect of the broadcast is dominated by IKEA. Today's weather isn't expected to interfere with the grand opening, and at present the opening isn't affecting traffic. What am I missing?

Firstly, I hope both of you recycled your IKEA catalogue rather than threw it in the trash. That's a lot of paper that can be used again.

But to answer your question, I don't get the appeal either. IKEA is sort of the Zsa Zsa Gabor of retail chain stores. They're famous, thought they're not very good. Everyone knows what they are, but no one can figure out why. 

Mine never made it into the house. I've never understood paying a solid price for something I have to assemble. Either I'm paying for something nice, or I'll put it together myself and save money. IKEA is a strange middle ground that I'm completely not comfortable with.