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That doesn't sound like Ikea. The Ikea here in Seattle has a nice, quiet baby care room next to the restaurant with changing tables and comfy chairs for moms to nurse their babies. They want families with babies to shop...
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Commented on Brilliant self-contradictory quote from President Bush
We're going to miss these gems come January 20th. If you can pretend that the last eight years were not a presidency and instead were a federally funded piece of dadaist performance art, I've found that your blood pressure doesn't...
Commented on Report: Atari sues game site for publishing review without permission
Wow! Who knew that these game publishers would take a page directly from the White House press strategy! Wired asked one editor why they comply, and the answer was direct and to the point: because his writers were in danger...
Commented on Home movie from 1962 Seattle World's Fair
You know, if time travel was available, this is the place I'd go and the time I'd choose. The Century 21 Exhibition in Seattle was probably the purest expression of American optimism we would ever see because it was all...
Commented on Daniel Clowes' "Mister Wonderful" free PDF download
Great post for SAD (Singleness Awareness Day). What Marshall felt in this story was so uncomfortably close to how I feel at times that I almost cried in my cube while I read this at lunch. Dan Clowes is a...
Commented on Driver blames pterodactyl for crashing into pole
@Gollux I would not recommend that anyone smoke anything grown in or around Wenatchee. Probably full of apple orchard pesticides and other crap they spray on the fruit crop....
Commented on Driver blames pterodactyl for crashing into pole
And that's why I moved away from Eastern Washington to Seattle - it's not the pterodactyls that'll getcha; it's the drunk, dirtweed smoking tweekers that'll do you in....
Commented on Record industry practices revisionism about music recording
Actually, I should have said Sony/BMG where I wrote "major labels". As all of you smart cookies out there (smarter than me, anyway) already know, 3 of the big labels do distribute DRM-free tracks on a limited basis. I still...
Commented on Record industry practices revisionism about music recording
We just need to make sure we protect ourselves from a legal standpoint long enough for the major labels to die. It's going to happen sooner than we think. I just read an article saying that CD sales during the...
Commented on Hello Kitty contact lenses
Yikes - more like Hell Kitty....
Commented on Pancakes in a pressurized can
@EH I think Peter North would be a better choice......
Commented on Cutaways of Fantastic Four's Baxter Building
So Sue and Johnny commute from the suburbs? That could be an interesting train ride. "Attention passengers! There will be a slight delay this morning as Galactus has decided to devour Earth, starting with this rail line. We apologize for...
Commented on Evel Knievel in LA Weekly
I remember that back-cover comic book ad for Evel Knievel's line of toys vividly. I eventually conned my parents into getting me the Stunt Cycle, Stunt Chopper, and the Sky Cycle. Never was able to get the Scramble Van, though....
Commented on Costco's funeral department
@GARYINMIAMI: I believe it's against the law in most states for a funeral director to prevent you from providing your own casket, other than to stop you from using one that doesn't meet jurisdictional standards. (No popsicle stick and macaroni...
Commented on Costco's funeral department
Actually, Costco has been providing caskets and urns for a couple of years now. As to the question of whether a casket is expedited or shipped standard, Costco is marketing to people who are realistic about death and its inevitable...

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jafi commented on IKEA sends breastfeeder to the toilets
I've had the receipt thing at Best Buy. What irritated me - was there was no one else checking out and the guy asking to see the receipt was standing 3 feet away and saw me being rung up by the clerk. What, I was going to take something between the end of the counter and him? I told him not a chance, he looked shocked and started to argue, I think the look on my face dissuaded him. WRT to the Redhook Ikea and merchandise returns - they're obligated to follow the corporate policy on returns. I'd go to...
AirPillo commented on IKEA sends breastfeeder to the toilets
If retail employees detain you, they better have you bang on for a shoplifting (or other criminal) charge, or they are in deep doo-doo. Though, security staff in particular are famously bad at obeying the law. They are occasionally far more dangerous to society than shoplifters. Anyone remember the case a while back where two Wal-Mart security guards held a man pinned down against scorching hot asphalt until he died? I think one of the real problems at play here is that, overall... there are very low standards of training and qualification for security staff. They'll hire any moron...
AirPillo commented on IKEA sends breastfeeder to the toilets
I'm aligned pretty strongly with Boingers on most things, but I have to say that I disagree with some of the comments made here. First, turning the inconsiderateness and stupidity of one (or a few) individuals into an indictment of U.S. culture and people is patently ridiculous. Turning it, by itself, into an indictment of our culture? Yes, ridiculous. However as a part of a larger trend dating back nearly as long as the nation has existed, American culture does firmly believe in revoking any rights that the majority thinks is "wrong" or merely distasteful. Research the history of...
Ronald Pottol commented on IKEA sends breastfeeder to the toilets
In San Francisco, my wife has only been hassled by born again Christians (at the church she used to attend), and flamingly gay men (at Rainbow, of all places (by another customer, not staff) and the Pride Parade). She's blown them off (heck, I'd expect the staff to give anyone a talking to it they cught them hassling a breastfeeding mom)....
jgs commented on IKEA sends breastfeeder to the toilets
A little too much tarring the whole U.S. with the same broad brush going on here. My wife has breastfed our daughter in various public places (library, restaurants, parks, etc) for about a year now with nary a single eyebrow being raised. It does get my blood pressure up whenever I read about this kind of silliness though....

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