An American visited IKEA for the first time while in the UK, but was left baffled by the signs left on the display toilets in the showrooms. However, this observation wasn’t what left Brits rattled about the video.
In a clip uploaded to the @Swfinds TikTok, viewers can see the camera pan to one of the showrooms in a London IKEA store. At the end of the video, the camera focuses on one of the toilets, a clear plastic film blocking the toilet bowl and a “Polite reminder” note, reports MyLondon.
The note stuck to the toilet read: “Polite reminder. This toilet is for display purposes only. If you need to go we have real toilets by the customer restaurant!”
@Swfinds wrote a caption in the video, saying: “Did you know there is a huge British department store in the UK called IKEA that have to do this or the people will poop in the show rooms?”
The video racked up more than 12,400 views, 467 likes and 53 comments, at the time of writing. But that wasn’t what got people riled up, many viewers pointed out something glaringly obvious the TikToker had gotten wrong.
One irate viewer simply wrote, “IKEA IS SWEDISH,” as another said, “Bruv, IKEA is Swedish”. A third commented: “Swedish chain of stores with over 20 in the U.K.”
Other viewers focused on the main question of the video - why need to point out the toilet was for display purposes only? One person wrote: “They do that to the display toilets at IKEA here in the states also.”
Another joked: “They started covering the toilets because Americans were using them.” A third pointed out: “Bro they even have IKEA in America so have you been living under a rock.”
According to IKEA’s website, the brand has 71 locations across North America, including the US and Canada. There are 277 in the whole of Europe, with Germany having the most number of stores in the world.
In a previous video, @Swfinds captioned a clip on them inside Paddington Station: “How do British people tell the time if all British clocks don’t have numbers but strange lines instead I’m so confused?”
As the camera focuses in on the clock, viewers could see the original poster was looking at a clock face which displayed Roman numerals rather than actual numbers. The clock read from one to 12 in Roman numerals, like many other clocks.
The video racked up more than 717,100 views, 38,500 likes and 6,920 comments at the time of writing. However, viewers in the comments didn’t take lightly to the confusion, asking whether the American had even heard of Roman numerals. One person said: “By “strange lines” do you mean Roman numerals.”
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