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   Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 02:31:48 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

   It’s not real IKEA furniture unless you draw blood assembling it

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 02:40:43 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     This time I whacked myself in the head with a shelf

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 02:41:08 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

     @gsuberland assembled two pax (the really tall ones that they no longer sell I think) by myself earlier this year 😂

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     Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 02:41:10 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     @thomasfuchs I have never been so angry at furniture in my life.

     no flat pack assembly process should take two people >6 hours and require me to have to go stand outside by myself for a while to calm down so I don't snap and throw the whole thing in the nearest canal.

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     Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 02:41:12 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     @thomasfuchs do not remind me about my ordeal with the PAX wardrobe.

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 03:06:26 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

     @gsuberland yeah I cursed quite a bit, at least I didn’t have the glass doors

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     Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 03:06:28 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     @thomasfuchs I later found out that there's an entire support group subreddit for PAX because it's the final boss of IKEA products and people need somewhere to vent after doing battle with the damn things.

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     Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 03:06:29 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     @thomasfuchs also they get you to install the internals of the thing first (shelves, drawers, etc.) which I still maintain is a terrible order to do things in. getting the doors on the tracks properly and attaching the retaining screws requires standing inside it. so they get you to make it impossible / very awkward to stand inside, THEN put the doors on, then take them back off because fuck you

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     Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 03:06:31 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     @thomasfuchs we did one of the really tall, really wide ones with the sliding glass doors.

     the instructions are *awful*. they get you to put the doors on, which is the most horrendously fiddly thing to have to do with a door that's made of glass coated aluminium, heavy as fuck, bigger than you, impossible to hold, and with a mechanism you can't see. then they refer you to the second manual. which tells you to TAKE THE DOORS BACK OFF. I almost fucking lost it.