Of some interest. Let’s share all our jokes about Swedes, Finns, Norwegians and Danes here, for the bewilderment of the rest of the world. To start off:
Trivia: Swedish jokes about Norwegians and Norwegian jokes about Swedes are virtually identical (they’ve been told on both sides of the border since the breakup of the union in 1905). Swedish jokes about Finns portray Finns as overly manly and rough and hard, while Finnish jokes about Swedes portay Swedes as soft, effeminate sissies.
Danes are often portrayed as drunkards. A globetrotter I once met claimed that Danes at least some mere decades ago had a habit of putting out beer bottles to the trash-gatherers.
I'll have to look for the swedish bread next time I'm in IKEA.
Abecedar
It comes as wheat, flour and yeast and you bake it yourself.
On topic, check out a webcomic called 'Scandinavia and the World'. It's about anthropomorphic representations of countries, focused manly around the Scandinavian ones, but does show others (e.g. England is represented as a monocle wearing toff, America as a dim fake tanned macho man (eg in one strip the Scandinavian countries invite him to a costume party with the theme Norse gods and he shows up dressed as Marvel's Thor and is confused by their costumes thinking they're dressed as beggars), and so forth). Link: http://satwcomic.com
Danes are often portrayed as drunkards. A globetrotter I once met claimed that Danes at least some mere decades ago had a habit of putting out beer bottles to the trash-gatherers.
Admiral
My trash gets picked up every 14th day. When I have a bit extra trash, if the lid doesn't close completely, if there's something gross in it or it's just been awhille - I put out a couple of beers to the guys. Always. It's how it's done.
If you need an extra bag of trash picked up, you put out some beers. I worked a couple months as a trash collector. Where we drove the trash barrels were weight by the car and people paid fees based on that.
When we got a couple of beers, we would always pull out a couple of bags, to leighten the barrel.
Swedes: These are our mortal enemies. They come over here to drink our cheap ale, get drunk and puke. Swedish girls however… a completely different story. Bedding a swedish girl is bragging right for life.
Norway: We love you guys! SKAM has taken us by storm. We can ski at your place and #oslofærgen is legendary
Finnland: Sauna, knife, isolated, uncivilised, semi russians. I can somewhat read swedish and norwegian but finnish looks like this: “Iashaieliafiaoiyuoailsiauoilfiauslaeia.”
This is an actual finish word. Like inuit having 27 words for snow. This refers to the tradition of using a sauna, build from young birch trees, at the first full moon after the summer solstice. ... and the vodka, knife throwing competition that comes with it.
You sir, need to watch your back. Because there are now 5 million Finns ready to put a knife in you, and unlike the Hobgoblins it won't be in the back. You *will* see it coming, and the knife *will* be dull and rusty (probably because it was Swedish made, friggin elfs the lot of them).
You know why a Finn will turn down the central heating if he expects Swedes to visit? It's embarassing when the Swede starts to undress for the sauna in your house which is normally set at 23C.
It's been a bit over 200 years that Sweden has been at peace. It's also a bit over 200 years since Sweden lost it's Finnish soldiers. This is not a coincidence.
and the knife *will* be dull and rusty (probably because it was Swedish made, friggin elfs the lot of them).
snowblizz
Ah hahahaha! :P
Prior to CDO I had no idea of the fun spirited love/hate relationship among the Scandinavian countries. Over the years here on CDO, I have thoroughly enjoyed the jokes among you all.
And while I am not from that beer drinking, snow frolicking, Surströmming fly killing part of the world, I thought I would partake in this a bit, from an American view:
So yesterday I asked my fellow coworkers what were their impressions (listed in order of most numerous responses) of
Sweden:
1) IKEA
2) The women are tall, blonde, buxom and are porn stars.
3) Swedish meatballs
Denmark:
1) Sugar cookies
2) Honey ham
Norway:
1) "Nor-What? Is that a country?" ...sadly yes, nobody at my work knew what Norway was :(
Finland 1) Finland is a winter sport game played in the country of Helsinki *
* My apologies on behalf of the poor school system here.
Could be worse, bet if you asked them about Wales they'd answer "weren't they the fish Kirk saved in Star Trek IV?"
Dînadan
I did ask them this morning, nobody in my office had heard of Wales (the country).
One person did ask if Wales are from the country "Welsh"?
:(
...I told him that Welsh are from Wales.
He said:
"Ah, I thought it was something like that, I heard it from a single line in that old Michael Caine movie 'Zulu', when the sergeant at arms shouts "Get a move on, you dosey Welshman!"
Prior to CDO I had no idea of the fun spirited love/hate relationship among the Scandinavian countries.
Fuggit Khan
Well, we are all kind of family.
Finland 1) Finland is a winter sport game played in the country of Helsinki *
* My apologies on behalf of the poor school system here.
Fuggit Khan
Sadly, that's not even very far from the truth. At this very moment there's a tv show being promoed on Finnish tv along the lines of "Helsinki vs (rest of) Finland". And as far as most politicians seem to be concerned there's not a lot of importance out there except 2 elks, a wolf and bear that got lost who somehow is eligble to vote. Which is odd since the majority had not set their foot there before getting voted into office the first time.
Hey, at least they've *heard* of us.
I suppose it's an improvement at least over that guide to Europe that had a map of Europe on the cover that was missing Wales that the EU made a few years back:
Dînadan
And here I thought Greenpeace was trying to save the whales (with an H), seems I may have misunderstood what they were about.
Haha Fuggit, that common geography knowledge in America sure isn’t an urban myth then. Be glad you’re an exception to the norm! :hat off
As for the map of Wales… You don’t expect cartographers to distinguish between the rainy weather and the surrounding seas in Wales all days of the week?
