Thursday, July 31, 2008

IKEA Wisdom

Yesterday I bought a thermal carafe at IKEA for $4.99. It has a name, of course: Skaffa; and it looks like this:
Now, usually when you bring home an item from IKEA, no matter how complicated an item, its instruction sheet contains absolutely no writing, other than the name of the item. They usually look like this:




Or like this...But the instructions that came with the Skaffa were very different... quite, er... wordy. How wordy? Thirty-nine pages of verbosity. In 18 different languages.

Here is the cover...


Here is the table of contents...


And here is what it says in English...


I guess they couldn't figure out a way to draw a picture that said to use washing-up liquid or that the product fulfills European Standard requirements for keeping drinks hot.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Europens are not worried about keeping drinks cold.

I don't worry about drinks staying hot. I'm a quick slurper.

yellojkt said...

"Scaffa" is the perfect name. It's like a combination of "carafe", "coffee", and "scald".

Anonymous said...

actually, scaffa is not carafe orscald, it is to get hold of, obtain.

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