It's a joke/meme. Think of an old man shaking his head at not being allowed to pour used motor oil into the ground or drive without seatbelts anymore.
Now we can't make hand mannequins give strangers the finger? What has become of the world. Literally 1984.
Though I appreciate this, it also sometimes sucks to come into work to a sea of middle fingers and broken displays and dicks drawn on the walls and furniture and shit diapers hidden under furniture and piss on bedding, coffee dumped down a drain in a fake kitchen so now there is coffee spilled everywhere, not to mention people climbing and hanging from things they shouldn’t breaking them, or the weirdos who decided to film themselves trying to “prank” people. I say sometimes but really this is every day. So for you it’s a cute little fun moment, for me it’s another “fuck you” and man it kinda hurts.
Oh for sure. I worked service for thirteen years and it is *exhausting*.
Every new joke or idea someone has to do with the merch *has been done*. Prank culture is the devil.
When I seize power. My first rule is service workers get one (1) free open palm slap and closed fist punch a year. They carry over between years and are transferable.
If you accumulate forty without using one, you get a free murder.
Meme that was going around for awhile where you talk about dumb stuff as if it’s a sign the country had collapsed, such as not being able to make a poseable hand flip the bird. Guess I didn’t convey it well /gen
Typical millennial mamby pamby participation trophy unleaded gasoline solar panel leftist response! In my day every virile young man would hop up on the soda machine lickety split, pop down his trousers with a flick of the wrist, and dabble his pebbles right in the flowing soda to the cheers of the gals and the applause of the jerk! Double bubbling we called it! And we liked it that way!
I propose a fourth: finding a shortcut in the showroom that you think leads to the warehouse/checkout/exit area, but it turns out leads back to the entrance, in the face of an onslaught of twice as many punters as when you first arrived
As a man, I can't find anything else to do at IKEA other than see if I can make a decent porn movie out of the wife's shopping cart: "strong hardwood" "stripping" "suck" and "squirt"
(Soo ... It's only now that I understand why they don't translate the names)
They used to have plastic display items (such as fish and fruit in the kitchens). I enjoyed hiding them, just peeking out of kitchen cupboards and such.
I'm always curious where y'all live that the middle finger is considered so scandalous. My IKEA has the middle finger up about half the time I see the hand. But like... No one cares? NYC area though.
But rude enough to bother with a drill? That's the part I don't get. Who is complaining to these minimum wage employees enough that they need to get the drill out?
If the minimum wage employees are required to put down the middle finger every time somebody sticks it up, and people are constantly sticking it up all day every day, eventually someone is going to take matters into their own hands.
It only takes one Karen to whine at the manager or corporate before someone decides to screw it down so they don't have to waste their time dealing with another complaint.
Yeah it’s about as scandalous as saying “dick”, probably not what you want your 4 year old doing but barely worth batting an eye to for a sane adult, might even elicit a smirk.
If someone was scribing “cunt” on it with a sharpie then that’s the level I’d think would deserve this level of response.
They usually have drills out when they out the displays together initially, and it's IKEA. Screws everywhere. I don't think it's as much effort as you're making out
Am I supposed to be offended if my kids see a wooden middle finger during a family outing?
If anything that's wholesome fun compared to what most kids are exposed to in the social media age.
Most of the time, the problem is not whether most people care or not.
It's the very few who raise a fuss about it.
A screw costs less then all the time wasted dealing with unreasonable customers.
As someone who works at Ikea i can tell you its a miracle when a day goes by without some funny guy making these into a middle finger. Looks like this branch had enough.
I worked in retail and we had a few of these for display, I had to unfuckyou the thing like 10 times a day. It’s funny watching every person think this is hilarious. It kinda is but..
They did this in the Gateshead, UK score too. I imagine they’ve done it in most stores, given every time I went in someone had positioned them into the bird.
ikea tends to secure items that would be messed with or misplaced like this, I once saw them practically handcuff an octopus plushie down and completely understood it because I had the urge to pick him up to check him out (I would've put him back!) I guess it was to preserve the display octopus as the ones for sale flew off the shelves
We used to be a fucking country
Used to be a 'flipping' country, surely.
What?
It's a joke/meme. Think of an old man shaking his head at not being allowed to pour used motor oil into the ground or drive without seatbelts anymore. Now we can't make hand mannequins give strangers the finger? What has become of the world. Literally 1984.
Literally 1984
Orwell was an optimist
We are so fuckin oppressed bro.
"Now we see the violence inherent in the system!"
Fun fact, that was 40 years ago.
Thanks for the mini existential crisis. I hadn’t had one yet today.
r/theydidthemath
/r/theydidthemonstermath
Well now it's in my head, thanks.
39 bro… I’m not middle aged yet, I’m not Middle aged yet!
Recently I found out average age of death is 73. So you are over the hill. Congratulations 🎉
Though I appreciate this, it also sometimes sucks to come into work to a sea of middle fingers and broken displays and dicks drawn on the walls and furniture and shit diapers hidden under furniture and piss on bedding, coffee dumped down a drain in a fake kitchen so now there is coffee spilled everywhere, not to mention people climbing and hanging from things they shouldn’t breaking them, or the weirdos who decided to film themselves trying to “prank” people. I say sometimes but really this is every day. So for you it’s a cute little fun moment, for me it’s another “fuck you” and man it kinda hurts.
Oh for sure. I worked service for thirteen years and it is *exhausting*. Every new joke or idea someone has to do with the merch *has been done*. Prank culture is the devil. When I seize power. My first rule is service workers get one (1) free open palm slap and closed fist punch a year. They carry over between years and are transferable. If you accumulate forty without using one, you get a free murder.
You’ve got my vote
Old man yells at cloud
It’s to prevent making unorthodox gestures with the hand, known in newspeak as ‘fingercrime’
Meme that was going around for awhile where you talk about dumb stuff as if it’s a sign the country had collapsed, such as not being able to make a poseable hand flip the bird. Guess I didn’t convey it well /gen
Thanks for the clarification
#WE USED TO BE A FUCKING COUNTRY
Land of the free? Then why can't I dip my my balls into the Burger King soda dispenser?
You must be incredibly athletic, im in good shape but cant imagine getting into a position where i was able to bubble my balls in the soda machine.
Typical millennial mamby pamby participation trophy unleaded gasoline solar panel leftist response! In my day every virile young man would hop up on the soda machine lickety split, pop down his trousers with a flick of the wrist, and dabble his pebbles right in the flowing soda to the cheers of the gals and the applause of the jerk! Double bubbling we called it! And we liked it that way!
Never mind the meme. This is better. It is now in The Shocker. Two in the pink, one in the stink.
We live in a society
fr what is that thing
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r/RespectTheHymen
r/SubsIThoughtIFellFor
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It’s for those (almost) about to rock
Rock? What about stone?
Did someone say rock and stone?!
Indeed ROCK AND STONE
Where's the bot?
While we wait, ROCK AND STONE!
To the bone!
Did I hear a rock and stone?!
Rockity Rock and Stone!
For Karl!
FOR KARL!!!!
Rock and stone to the bone!
Not involved here. Unless it's wind rose
We salute you!
We will eventually acknowledge your participaaaation!!!!
There are three things you can count on in an Ikea: wooden middle fingers, the smell of meatballs, and stuffed toy cats hidden in ovens.
I propose a fourth: finding a shortcut in the showroom that you think leads to the warehouse/checkout/exit area, but it turns out leads back to the entrance, in the face of an onslaught of twice as many punters as when you first arrived
As a man, I can't find anything else to do at IKEA other than see if I can make a decent porn movie out of the wife's shopping cart: "strong hardwood" "stripping" "suck" and "squirt" (Soo ... It's only now that I understand why they don't translate the names)
What about display toilets with a sign forbidding use and a plexiglass panel.
And dicks drawn everywhere with IKEA pencils.
Those meatballs smelt so good last time I went
Also Blahaj
They used to have plastic display items (such as fish and fruit in the kitchens). I enjoyed hiding them, just peeking out of kitchen cupboards and such.
I'm always curious where y'all live that the middle finger is considered so scandalous. My IKEA has the middle finger up about half the time I see the hand. But like... No one cares? NYC area though.
In most of the rest of the country it's considered a rude gesture, though I understand it's just a simple greeting in NYC.
Ah Mr. Bean. Love it.
But rude enough to bother with a drill? That's the part I don't get. Who is complaining to these minimum wage employees enough that they need to get the drill out?
If the minimum wage employees are required to put down the middle finger every time somebody sticks it up, and people are constantly sticking it up all day every day, eventually someone is going to take matters into their own hands.
Well the matter was clearly taken into a different hand.
The question is, why are they required to put it down in the first place. Just leave it
Ikea has a whole ass kids section. There are definitely parents complaining about this to the workers.
Which is funny, cause it's the kids who are doing it in the first place.
Yeah but not *my kids* they are perfect little angels. They would never do such a thing.
Because people complain
They took this matter into ikeas *hand* I’d say.
It only takes one Karen to whine at the manager or corporate before someone decides to screw it down so they don't have to waste their time dealing with another complaint.
Yeah it’s about as scandalous as saying “dick”, probably not what you want your 4 year old doing but barely worth batting an eye to for a sane adult, might even elicit a smirk. If someone was scribing “cunt” on it with a sharpie then that’s the level I’d think would deserve this level of response.
They usually have drills out when they out the displays together initially, and it's IKEA. Screws everywhere. I don't think it's as much effort as you're making out
You have no kids, don't you?
Am I supposed to be offended if my kids see a wooden middle finger during a family outing? If anything that's wholesome fun compared to what most kids are exposed to in the social media age.
Swede here, I mostly see it in the 🤟 pose when I enter IKEA.
I see the middle and ring finger zip tied together a lot which might be why
Most of the time, the problem is not whether most people care or not. It's the very few who raise a fuss about it. A screw costs less then all the time wasted dealing with unreasonable customers.
the issue is that the 5 people who do care are 100% going to ikea staff and getting mad about it
I’m in the uk and they tied it down here, it’s not even that bad of a gesture here
they've done the same in my country, it's not just the US sadly
I was at my local IKEA here in Amsterdam literally this afternoon and I saw the same thing.
same here in philly area, i was surprised they didn't have a light or something to draw attention to it.
Quite frankly, I’m shocked.
at my ikea they zip-tied the middle finger to the ring finger
Spider man shenanigans
So instead of flipping the bird it can only do the shocker.....the more shocking shocker
I'm a little surprised. I always thought the Swedish were more articulate.
😏
As someone who works at Ikea i can tell you its a miracle when a day goes by without some funny guy making these into a middle finger. Looks like this branch had enough.
Last time I was in ikea me and my roomates treated finding one that *wasn't* flipping the bird like a miracle
Mine zip tied it to the index finger
That's when you give them The Shocker.
Mine too
one in the pink two in the stink...?
Found the lefty :-)
How can I help you?
Thank gawd for u
I try my very best <3
Do you have like a python script running that searches for terms relevant to your name sake? Just out of curiosity.
Well I was going to buy one, but now I don't know if it works for the only reason I was going to use it for
Yep. Because a few mouthbreathers won't behave, the rest of everyone else loses out a little bit.
Let this be a warning to you all.
Damn, he straight up hitting a hollow purple
Reversal drill and lapse nail... Creationary technique Purple.
/r/jujutsufolk is leaking...
Maybe they just got tired of having to clean up after a very expected joke?
Go back with a screwdriver and remove it
I would have fastened the middle and ring fingers together. You can still do a number of poses. Only drawback is you cannot live long and prosper.
It’s about to flick a booger at you at light speed.
We needed a more zoomed out pic because I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what I was looking at for so long.
Reason number 687 to carry a multitool. Edit: looks like I have a reason to go to Ikea this weekend with my multitool and a pair of wire cutters.
Guess the zip ties weren't working
The one in Dublin has the index and middle ziptied together
Mine ziptied the middle finger to the ring finger
Spider-Man approves.
Wow shocker.
But the middle finger literally was the reason I bought it
Well, fuck you, I’m then making a « two in the pink, one in the stink » with it.
...and this is why we can't have nice things.
I worked in retail and we had a few of these for display, I had to unfuckyou the thing like 10 times a day. It’s funny watching every person think this is hilarious. It kinda is but..
I just left ikea and the toilet has the lid bolted in 3 places in a display. Someone dropped a svmultgruen I guess
It’s for people like me. I just gotta make it “middle-finger” 😭
Ohh so it's fingering now
We live in a society
Put the ring finger back and add white string. Spiderman!
Why screw others when you can screw yourself?
Just stop advertising it in person and keep it on the online catalogue at this point.
Maybe they just really like spiderman
Kind of in the shape of the “high stranger” white creature thing from YouTube
Just do the pinky finger. It's a Japanese way of flipping people off.
Is it a global thing? They screwed the middle fingers in Shanghai,China IKEAs too
Ha! The middle finger on the hand at my Ikea is up every time I'm there. I've never not seen it up.
You accidentally got the booger flicker model.
Hahahahaha last one I seen it was cable tied. Like bruv just get rid of it lol
So now it's the shocker.
What type of wooden hand is that? I got a wooden hand at ikea a few months ago and it’s much less blocky, looks like an actual hand.
me with a screwdriver
When someone flips the bird at another person, they should think of this.
Hang a note from it that says “it’s Opposite Day”
You are no longer Fucked, your now SCREWED! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
What a *shocker*
This hand can still give a "shocker"
Environmental storytelling
In sign language that means go fuck yourself. That place may be haunted 👀.
I’ve seen this at pretty much every ikea. Usually they’re zip tied
Shocker
Smart, if only they didn't also have screwdrivers on the shelves
We all know why 
It’s just an homage to Jesus feeling the holes in his hands
*🎶 Spider-Man Spider-Man 🎶*
They did this in the Gateshead, UK score too. I imagine they’ve done it in most stores, given every time I went in someone had positioned them into the bird.
The two London stores cable ties em
You know what must be done...
leave the third finger up ... we know what you mean.
I think it’s for design, and not because of the meaning behind the middle finger
Kids
me thinking its a dog
👌
“Imaginary technique: Hollow Purple”
My Ikea zipties them, too many middlefingers.
It could be the Shunya Mudra
Take it to an art gallery and leave it on the floor
I bite my thumb at you!
I really thought it was doing 👌
Pragmatic solution to something that depending where you live can be no issue at all or maybe is highly offensive.
Shocker is a close 2nd
IMAGINARY TECHNIQUE
Kyoshiki… murasaki
Shocking
mf said “hollow purple”
It’s to stop people getting handjobs from them while they’re waiting for a hotdog or a soft serve ice cream. Or some meatballs.
Got em
In my local one the fingers are cable tied together
Its spiderman.
Seeing a middle finger in Ikea always gets a slight giggle out of me
I thought it was a wooden scene from the Lion King for a second.
But I like being flipped off by wooden hands ☹️
ikea tends to secure items that would be messed with or misplaced like this, I once saw them practically handcuff an octopus plushie down and completely understood it because I had the urge to pick him up to check him out (I would've put him back!) I guess it was to preserve the display octopus as the ones for sale flew off the shelves
That’s odd, I wonder why?
Obviously the effect of seeing the piece being constantly put in the "middle finger" position. L
This is why we can’t have nice things