In Sweden there is a rule, that all citizens can become Prime Minister, except for the one person who is CEO of IKEA.

Because they know, he would spend 4 years just assembling the cabinet.

@randahl what's the Denmark version of this joke? 😺

@ben @randahl

... and the reason: the CEO would never Lego of the position.

@ben @randahl

... because they knew a Lego-based government would end up with nothing but knobs at the top, and be painful for the next leader to step into.

@ben @randahl probably something with Lego :) (Lego is Danish right?)
@randahl very good sir 🫡
@gulfie It was heavily inspired by a meme I saw. But too good not to share.

@randahl There is a story (almost certainly apocryphal)* about a Prime Minister who wanted his obituary to refer to him as a "cabinet maker" so that it looked like he'd actually done something useful with his life.

* and, upon googling to see if it's apocryphal, it turns out to also have been said about other PMs than I've heard it said about... so forget the "almost"...)

@randahl @cstross Also, all warships have barcodes on the side, so when they return to port, they can scan the Navy in
@randahl comedy show used to depict PM Jean Chretien as having a cabinet. After a few shows they talk him into opening it and it had chips and booze in it.

@randahl

And they'd probably insist that all key ministers be called Allen.

@randahl that gave me a good belly laugh. Thank you.
@randahl Macron, the President of France, had to do an internship at IKEA and, worse, he lost the assembly instructions.
@randahl ...also because he moved to Switzerland and structured his company to evade Swedish taxes. <duck> Talking about Ingmar Kamprad, obviously, not Jesper Brodin, who seems like a nice person.
@randahl @mistercharlie And at the end he'd have a couple screws loose
@randahl See? Swedish people are rational, aren't they? :)