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Wigan woman retains Flatpack World Championship title (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 3 months ago by shish_mish@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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Who knew there was a championship in flat packing.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Flatpack World Championship

WTF is this? Is she some world leading package manager?

and broken her personal best assembly time in the process.

I guess it must be, they probably mean compiler and not assembler, did she overclock her computer? Or use specially compiled compilers?

building a bedside table in eight minutes 20 seconds.

Goddammit! What does that have to do with "flatpack"?

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I came here to make the joke you already made and you made it better so I'll just show myself out.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm guessing bedside table is slang for a small table, and to be honest taking more than 8 minutes to build a small table isn't very impressive for any app.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Flatpack vs flatpak

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago

Ahh, so there's a fork? Hadn't heard of it

[–] Maiq@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago

I did a flatpak list but it didn't show much about her. Guess I'll never know.

[–] mech@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Flatpack furniture is furniture that comes packed flat.
The most well-known producer is Ikea.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It's so weird that the article just assumed everyone would know what a flatpack was. With all the talk of Lego, I assumed it was a Lego-like toy.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

IKEA world championship.

What a time to be alive.