Too many middle finger pranksters I suppose?

My young niece was soo bothered by the middle fingers when I took her 😅 She took it upon herself to change them all to peace signs.

That's somewhat adorable actually lol

She’s so funny about stuff like that. She was like, “don’t they know there are kids here that could see that!” She won’t even watch bob’s burgers with me lhaha.

Quick turn them round to amuse the brits

*laughs in French"

With that symbol we are laughing at you froggy

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Shouldn't we all?

Like any sane person

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Ok what is this Big mouth and why should I be outraged about it?

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Lol so sweet!

Yeah, I do the same every times I go there. Lets act like I am your nieces age for the sake of this anecdote.

Are you sure she's not British and just wanted to use an alternative swear?

Youthful innocence!

I was on molly at a music festival and did something similar lol. The person on stage said “everyone hold up their middle fingers” and I though that was too harsh for my vibe and threw up a two hand heart sign instead

Someone doesn't know what the shocker is Edit: My highest Karma post this year is the shocker... I'm gonna have a weird Reddit recap again.

In 9th grade art class we had to do photorealistic drawings of hand gestures. I drew mine and called it "Le Shock'ier". It hung on the wall for the whole year. I went to Catholic HS as well. Get dunked on Mrs. Pats.

I convinced my multimedia teacher that "dirty Sanchez" was a Spanish novela and printed shirts for the whole class as a project. Surprisingly never caught any flack for it.

8th grade English, turned in a term paper that was literally the lyrics to "...And Justice For All" by Metallica, but formatted in essay/paragraph form. Got a B+.

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All of this means your teacher was probably aware and rewarded you appropriately.

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Science teachers seem to be fun in general

Encarta? There's a blast from the past.

> or Encarta or whatever This would have been the 90s I'm guessing, or maybe early 2000s? I sorta remeber Encarta being a thing on CDs back when CDs were newish and interesting.

That's fucking amazing.

In 9th grade AP English we had to turn in filled composition journals we were supposed to write in everyday for a month. I filled in the first 5 pages and the rest was jibberish, a combination of speaking in toungs, writing the same word over and over, saying random crazy stuff, demonic spells, all work and no play makes jack a dull boy, and plane old blank pages for good measure. I knew there was no way our teacher was reading thousands of pages of journals. Got a B, everyone got a B teacher wasn't grading those lol.

I convinced my middle school music teacher to play "Discover Channel" by bloodhound gang because I told him it was an educational song

Un tiss un tiss un tiss un tiss

Wrote my court case report on the Larry Flynt trial. Used the word coitus for sex when I presented my powerpoint.

But coitus does mean sex, what's the sneaky innuendo there?

We had a history teacher who never actually read essays beyond making sure they were the right number of pages and formatted correctly. We proved this when one student fit the word chicken into every sentence and when I wrote the script for a Hetalia episode in the middle of it.

I went it a catholic school as well….that place was evil

*In Catholic school / As vicious as Roman rule*

I got my Sonic bruised

By a lady egg man

And I held my ring

I, too, am a recovering Catholic.

My brother took jewelry making in high school. Dude made a pipe ring. Class voted to have it on display at the local art museum. Teacher didn't realize what it was until the day off and it was too late to pull it from the exhibit. It was titled "green leaf" *after the ozzy song* Kids are the best

vaguely similar - i remember a math class where the class clown did something similar to the teacher for several weeks. He'd bring up stupidly named sex positions like "alaskan fire dragon" during class or write it on the board. the teacher had no clue what they were until she finally googled one of them and freaked out.

Yeah I told all the French exchange students it was a gang sign so now all their pictures from America have dozens of students doing the shocker 😂

Hell yeah, stick it to em

Don't shock it, Spock it.

The Spocker really lets you pinch those nerves.

How about the mini van? 2 up front and 5 in the rear

Thanks, one more vile reference for me to use frequently.

You don't wanna know about the clown car.

I’m listening…

Lmao. Is this a thing or clever, on the spot redditry?

Yes

> on the spot With enough fingers, you’re bound to find it, right??

Quantity over quality is always the answer for poor accuracy.

At my IKEA its all middle fingers and shockers on those displays.

I go around on the self serve screens and type deez nuts on all of them 💀

Back in the late 90s, the electronics section of KMart used to have all of the alarm clocks out for display (yes, i know.) -- I used to set the alarm on all of them for 10 minutes and turn the volume up and walk to the other side of the store.

Set the alarm for 5 minutes before the store closes.

Set it for 5 minutes after open.

The IKEA pro move with the whole basket of kitchen timers is setting the first to 30 min, the second to 29, the third to 28 and so on down to one minute. Then slowly retreat to the next aisle and wait for unsupecting victims...

I have a lot of timers at work. I do this to my coworkers and I subtly hide them.

Back in the late 90s I work in the Sears electronics department and we purposely kept all the displays in the alarm clock section unplugged.

Similar, but I would set the alarm for 4:55, because 455 is literally my favorite sequence of numbers.

My local IKEA is big brained. They tie the middle and ring fingers together.

You can still do the shocker the way that's tie-rapped

yeah, our local Ikea does this to, turned them all to the shocker, was ;aughing like a school kid all the way round, i am a fully grown man

Gotta love those scallywags. I was in a store earlier, and walked past lots of ticking kitchen appliances that someone had clearly just set off

I remember back in the day people at places like Walmart setting off all of the alarm clocks at once, back when they used to have them on display.

The real move would have them all go off at different random times.

Yeah they went off somewhat sequentially since they hadn't been all set at the same time. I should have been more clear. As a worker it would probably be more annoying if it was every minute or two though, having to go back to the same spot.

I dealt with teenagers spelling swear words with different displays at Target. The jokes are very unoriginal and the Karen’s get very upset.

I have fixed those letter displays, whether they be the standing ones, or the hanging ones, just as a customer.

Lol I work in an elementary school and one teacher had put up a bunch of paper hands on their bulletin board. Kids kept pulling all the fingers down except the middle finger so they had to staple all the fingers down and then eventually just removed the whole thing.

All those madlads with a wild idea no one has done before.

Yep. I walked around an ikea, and that’s what was there, flipped

Ohhh, I thought people were sticking them where they shouldn’t and then putting it back. I was wondering why they wouldn’t do the same for the rest of the fingers.

I find myself guilty of doing this at least once.

It also covers the British version ✌️

I went a week ago and a display of 3 of these hands were all flipping the bird lol

yup lol. they got sick of putting the middle finger down multiple times per day

I used to work in a department store and the mannequins in accessory section had those hands and as soon as I saw this I wished I had thought of it back then. I was putting middle fingers down about ten times a day. And I am sure every one of those people felt very clever and unique when doing it.

Can still do the shocker tho...

Not enough "two in the pink one in the stink" pranksters

Ikea worker here. We don't really care about the middle finger we're just tired of hearing complaints from other customers about it. I personally turn them into devil horns if I'm walking the area for maintenance.

I know you can't really do anything about complaints but holy shit if they're so offended why can't they fix it themselves??? They're right there in front of them.

But then these people would have nothing to be fake-angry about.

I was at Ikea not too long ago and snapped a pic of one of all the hands flipping everyone off. As I'm taking the pic, this woman walks up and huffs, looks at me and asks did you do this? I told her nope, just find it funny as hell. I think she was wanting a bigger conversation catching me in the act and I shut her down hard. If it's such a hassle, put them up on the wall where you can't get to them but they still can be displayed for purchase without all the evil.

ikea display standards generally want customers to be able to pick up and move/use the object. thats why they will have dulled knives that you can still pick up to get a feel for the weight/handle. same with furniture, you should be able to sit on/at at least one form of each object we used to just rip the middle fingers off. Lol

If you pick up something you’re far more likely to buy it.

That's what they told me at the orphanage.

And yet no one took you? (Sorry not sorry)

Until they hear someone say "happy holidays", or see someone in drag, or learn that a character in a Disney movie is bi, or...

My bud light! *cries*

Saw one earlier that was throwing out all his Bud Light from his [Rockstar](https://www.pride.com/news/rockstar-energy-drink-pledges-100k-lgbt-organizations) fridge and replacing it with [Coors Light](https://denverpride.org/coors-light-supports-the-lgbtq-community/) he was pulling out of his [Ford](https://twitter.com/FordNewsEurope/status/1408361803407572992?s=20) truck

This is the most pragmatic thing I've ever seen on this website.

That's the first thing that I thought too lmao imagine seeking out an employee because you see some prankster left a prank

They might think it’s there on purpose and that’s why they got offended.

That's some next level stupid if true.

Moms probably bitch to them about it

Some parents get real uptight about this kinda thing. I worked at Kmart when the first Jackass movie came out and we had a display for it. Some guy got so angry at me about his kids seeing that word (and my subsequent refusal to immediately disposed of the display) that he threw one of the DVDs at me lmao. They’d be in their 20s now, I sure hope they turned out okay after seeing a swear at a shitty old store one time 😔

😁 creating a human being that will without a doubt experience heartbreak, grief, loss, despair, tragedy, and death 😡 having it see a word

We used to have a wall of dish towels just hanging there by their little strap. Had to take them down because apparently someone thought they looked like KKK hoods.

Wtf is wrong with a person that that is what they think when they see that?

Maybe they were in the market for one and was disappointed

I see the devil horns all the time. I see it and go "Can't make this a middle finger now, it's too good" Signed: Middle finger maker PS: I also make the humanoids dab

why are there wooden hands at Ikea?

Not a bad way to display jewellery and pretty decent reference tools if you're drawing hands in different poses.

oh, they’re selling the hand. I thought it was used as a prop for furniture.

> I personally turn them into devil horns if I'm walking the area for maintenance. It's always fun finding random devil horns in the wild, thank you for your service.

Get back to work Steve.

It also shortens the lifespan of the mannequins when people pull on the articulated parts constantly. Bunch of the mannequins with articulated hands at my old job were missing parts of or whole fingers because people can't keep their hands to themselves

Nice zipties you got there, would be a shame if someone just slid them down this smooth surface.

lmao i literally had this experience just 10 minutes ago trying to tie 2 lamps together for something Felt like some kind of diy king until i stand them up and the whole thing just slid down

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Luckily my survival has not yet come down to zip-tying two lamps together. But one day…

Wait why were you doing that in the first place?

so basically i have this new fish tank that i want to grow a little bit of algae in and in order to do that you'd need strong lights but with my current one i'm not seeing any result so figured i'd try tying 2 lamps onto this thing lol If other fishkeeper were to read this maybe they'll find it weird since overlighting + algae growth are things to actively avoid but yeah i just kinda like the look

It makes sense! I have some hydroponic plants and definitely get algae from the needed light. Maybe see if there is a small algae eating creature that could coexist and never truly cleans it. I was expecting some tweaker contraption tbh

You're still a King in my book fam.

Slid it up works better

I should just have written "off" It's what I meant. Luckily you found out without further instruction.

Can't be Sweden, because every time I go to IKEA, every single one of these things is giving me the middle finger. We let our hand models flip you off freely over here.

Must be nice to live somewhere where you can tell puritans to deal with it.

We don't really have that many of them here, and the ones we do have are all old people and just like young people, nobody cares what they think.

America, the land of the free of having to see anything that would offend puritan middle aged parents.

that's when you hit them with the "two in the pink one in the stink" gesture

What a Shocker

It's a sign of city pride here in Wichita. Our college team is the Shockers. Unfortunately we do not have an IKEA.

HAHAH YOUR NAME

HAHAHAHA YOUR NAME TOO. But no, really, I hope you get the help you need

I'm so proud. Came here to comment this

Two in the snapper, one in the crapper

That alone is far more hilarious than just seeing one of those things giving the middle finger. When you see it with the middle finger up, you just assume some middle schooler came by and did that. When you see it cable tied together, that tells you that it happens all the fucking time.

It does happen all the time, and it’s not just middle schoolers.

Reddit needs a middle finger award, specifically for this post

Here’s your free award 🖕

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I don't do the *gesture* with hand models anymore after an encounter I had at the mall once. The employee saw my friends and I pick up the model and said, "Please don't." The defeat and exhaustion in their eyes has stayed with me to this day

Lol! I have one of those hands. When it was in my laser room (not accessible to the public), I had the middle finger up. When I moved it to the showroom, I placed it out of reach to people with the "love you" ASL sign.

Are we just going to ignore “my laser room”.

they keep their most precious items in that room. only the most skilled acrobats can get through the lasers in that room to reach said precious items

It's better than a lock because the thief is taught the virtue of earning things they steal.

They make laser pointers. That’s why they had the hand. For pointing.

I'm going to assume some kind of artist.

I'm thinking Hubert Farnsworth. The laser room must be next to the doomsday devices...

If anyone needs me, I'll be in the Chamber of Understanding.

Or the Finglonger... well, of he ever invented it. A man can dream though, a man can dream.

Yeah, imagine having so many lasers, you can't fit them all in your laser closet anymore.

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Typical. I'm 4 hours late with my "original" thought.

Shocker.

Damn it. Even better.

"Come hither, come hither," it seems to say.

This is why I carry a pocket knife… my grandpa always told me never pass up an opportunity to make a fake hand flip off everyone in IKEA

can confirm, was just at Ikea yesterday, however I was able to find unsecured fingers in the children's section that I fixed :)

Yes, officer, this one right here

What it is for ? I mean the hand model.

Decorations for the house/office. Remind everyone of the 2 strikes policy. /s Probably to display bracelets and rings

They are also in the desk sections, holding headphones, game controllers, etc.

It's for learning to draw/paint hands or drawing/painting a hand in a specific pose.

I betcha thats one of those things an emplyee has to re-adjust every 30 mts.

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I think we have a violation of free speech here. Even dummies have a right.

That's proven daily

🥇 Please take my poor redditor award

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Gonna have to go in with a pair of snips..

Hey! I did this! We were getting so many middle finger pranks and children replicating it to their parents that I decided it’s probably best to cable tie them together. Don’t want to you know out my location but I can dm OP to prove it! Thanks for posting!

There still a way to shock everyone with this setup

I'm not ashamed to say I might have been part of the problem.

Now it can’t do devil horns 😔 But it can do the shocker 😎

Came here to say this! Always remember tho: if you can’t shocker, Spock her 😳

Interesting that British signs of profanity are permitted.

I mean that would require splitting the fingers so not really.

I'll never understand the middle finger thing, literally just a finger get over yourself. "Oh my I saw his third finger standing alone and it gave me the vapors"

I still have no idea what is the purpose of this hand ornament other than giving the finger...

Now we can just pose it for a Shocker

Lesbians laughing

When I go into any store with toy figurines I put them in funny positions. One time I put a Smurf in the mouth of a t-rex riding a great white shark. The great white shark was eating a Pikachu while being ridden by this rex. Another time on a date, my date and I put together a dinosaur and dragon orgy in the toy section of a Hobby Lobby. This guy put three male velociraptors in a "conga line" next to the orgy.

Damn, it sounds like super interesting date

I don't mind the middle finger, it's when the hands become sentient and try to jack me off that I feel compelled to notify a member of staff

Why? So you can write a thank you note?

Shocker.

The real questions are, who is actually buying this stuff? And why is that still an ikea thing after so many years?

Wait until they learn how the Italians do this hand gesture!

There is another

it's for the best

I bought one just so I could put my rings on it and put the middle finger up.

We can always do the Vulcan 🖖 sign instead

Put 3 up and read between the lines

just make it do the shocker and move along

They might be shocked with what I go with instead

Dictatorship

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You should have seen what they did with the monkey fist.