How many goths does it take to build some fine Swedish furniture?
Ikea runs an advert that a particular product will brighten up your dorm room, "unlike a creepy gothic roommate, who can be a bad influence."

Gothfash, the lj goth fashion community reacts predictably, with a post titled, "I am outraged by this and I am going to write a letter."

Don't miss the derrogatory useage of the word 'norms' and how the oppression of the pasty, whiney, and emmaciated is ABSOLUTELY LIKE the systemic racism directed at African Americans!

The icing on the cake is that the OP,

mme_archel is community mod and owner.

Thanks to a mouse for the head's up!

	eldritch 2007-06-28 06:52 am UTC (link)
	I just spent the past three minutes trying to pronounce the name of that duvet. Oh, Ikea. Never change. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	barankhy 2007-06-28 07:35 am UTC (link)
	"Brunkrissla" sounds more marketable than "Ploughman's Spikenard", at any rate ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eldritch 2007-06-28 10:14 pm UTC (link)
	Now, see, that just sounds like a implement of torture, rather than a plant. "The pear of anguish, the scavenger's daughter, the ploughman's spikenard... what shall we use today?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	barankhy 2007-06-29 09:39 am UTC (link)
	Now that you've put that image in my mind... I'd so buy it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dragonfangirl 2007-06-28 07:57 am UTC (link)
	It sounds like something my students would come up with. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eldritch 2007-06-28 10:15 pm UTC (link)
	It's creative, at least! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	belafarinrod 2007-06-28 05:30 pm UTC (link)
	Try it in fake german. That's how most american movies seem to attempt swedish. Or just call it poor ugly little flower duvet (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eldritch 2007-06-28 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	...but I can't pronounce fake German, either. I AM DOOMED TO FOREVER FAIL AT EUROPEAN LANGUAGES. Oh, Japanese, you're my only love. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	stopthatgirl7 2007-06-30 07:52 am UTC (link)
	日本語 FTW. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	stopthatgirl7 2007-06-30 07:51 am UTC (link)
	Damn if that isn't an ugly little flower. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	stella_polaris 2007-06-28 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	Mwaha language barriers. Piece of cake to me :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	barankhy 2007-06-29 09:38 am UTC (link)
	I'd try to pronounce it by the way of German, but Swedish has that evil way of smuggling in random sh-like sounds, so I think I'll just hide over there ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sarahkjrsten 2007-06-29 03:40 pm UTC (link)
	Don't worry, no sneaky little "sh" sounds. The really tricky one is the sound like the cat hissing. Every time I count to ten I have to skip seven because of it... "...fyra, fem, sex, SEVEN, åta, nio, tio..." (Reply to this)(Parent)