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Swedish House Mania 

1. The mental state of a person when they come home with a car full of IKEA stuff and stay up all night putting it together.

2. The rage that occurs when you are staring at a set of IKEA instructions and can't decipher the illustrations, and you throw your hands up in despair. Symptoms include arguing with your significant other; and throwing or kicking pieces, tools or hardware across the room.

3. The mad combination of adrenaline and frustration you get, when you're running around the self-service area trying to find all the different packages you need for one item.

4. When you are waiting in line 10 minutes before closing, fuming and having a meltdown because you're standing behind 30 people with their carts overflowing with stuff, and you just want to get your meatballs and GTFO.
1. Taylor and I bought a few Pax wardrobes at IKEA this weekend, drank a bunch of coffee and spent 16 hours putting it together. We were up till 4 in the morning! Talk about Swedish House Mania...

2. Well, the bookshelf got a few scratches on it when Steven smacked it with the hammer in a fit of Swedish House Mania.

3. I swear we couldn't find Aisle 3, bin 24, where the doors were supposed to be for that cabinet we were buying. I got Swedish House Mania at the thought of having to come back for it another day.

"IKEA was a shitshow last night. It looked like everyone in line had Swedish House Mania, waiting to check out." or, "I was sick of sleeping on the floor, so I finally I braved the Swedish House Mania at IKEA the other night, to get a new bed."

swedish nose manual 

A manual trick that I made up on a skateboard. Its like a nose manual only your back foot is facing forward and under the tail of the skate; lifting up the tail so that its harder to fall back.
swedish nose manuals are way harder than regular nose manuals.

Swedishman 

That swedishman took a dump in a dumpster
Swedishman by tHE exTeRIoll OtTEr November 25, 2020
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