I have always wondered this, as I have heard my Danish friends constantly telling each other swedish jokes.... Could someone fill me in plz?
swedish=stupid
All Scandinavian countries "dislike" each other.
This thread is stupid.
Let's see, Swedes are faggots, Finns are alcoholic and carry knives, Norwegians are retarded, and Danes... uh... slur their speech a lot? I can't think of a good Danish stereotype, somebody help me out here.
Danes are fucking traitors. When we were allied with them, they attacked us from Russia. All Nordic-wide headquarters of multi-national corporations (including magazines) are in Denmark, so you get spam letters with a text translated into Finnish, "signed" (more like printed am i rite) by the editor-in-chief, accompanied by a picture with his best fake smile. To top it all off, they seem to not be perpetually depressed, and actually seem to have an alchohol culture where you remember what you drank the night before.
Man, I have some kind of strange dislike for Danes, and really have no idea why (it could in part be because of "Illustrerad Vetenskap", described above). I'm looking forward to actually getting to know some of them, that should change my attitude, since I firmly believe it has no connection to reality. ; )
As for the Swedes..I think in part it's just the fact that they're the biggest country around..so picking on them is the most "fair" thing to do.
However, I think it is a pretty widespread notion that Swedes are ignorant. This is probably in part because Norwegians and especially Danes can comprehend Swedish better than the Swedes can comphrehend the other languages.
Me? I'm a Finnish Swedish-speaker, so my mother tongue is Swedish, but my identity is completely Finnish. I feel the Swedes should know there are Swedish-speakers in my country: sure, we're not Swedes at all, but we DO speak the same language.
If I for some reason would be forced out of Finland, Sweden would definitely be the best other country to live in. Still, they are ignorant when it comes to a small amount of things, and seem ignorant on many more - making it quite easy to pick on them.
All of you lots need to watch Salmer fra kjøkkenet.
>>7 is correct.
I should see it, especially since I have quite the interest in sociology.
>>4
The Swedes were always the stupid ones, not us! :(
In Norway, "swede-jokes" are very common among kids.
I guess it's the same with USA/Canada.
> Finns are alcoholic and carry knives,
best stereotype ever
well.. i live in sweden for the time being, and believe it or not, some sweds even hate other sweds (for living in a different area)
let me explain; if you live in boros for example, you often call people who lives in gothenburg (goteborgare) and make fun of them (often sarcasticly) by speaking of them with the gothenburg dialect (wich sounds alittle like a drunk farmer)..
then there is 08 (for people who live in stockholm) also a dialect..
but this is present in any given country i think..
oh, and finnish people suck!
(j/k)
There's is no reason, really.
It's just like any other types of neighbours.
Oh, and the Swedes let the germans walk through the country to get to Norway. lawl
>Oh, and the Swedes let the germans walk through the country to get to Norway. lawl
Which is why you're supposed to like us Finns who were allied with them instead? ; )
Also, >>13 signed. Therefore the correct question should be "why do you think you have a reason to dislike Swedes?".
>>10
Nah, we have Poles to blame for stupidity. Of course, with almost everyone now at least part Polish in our country, it's kinda stupid. Reminds me of the Irish jokes I heard when I lived in Pennsylvania; just trite.
>>11 It´s funny because it´s true.
>>1
Because Sweden is to the rest of Scandinavia as
Japan is to the rest of Asia or
USA is to the rest of the world.
This thread needs more Iceland flamings.
from the perspective of a norwegian:
Swedish ppl: make cars,talks funny and is a bit less smart then us
Finnish ppl:lives a long way from here , linus come from there.
Danish ppl:Don't understand a word of what they say , and they drink much.
It's common knowledge in Norway that danish people talk with a potato stuffed down theyr throat.
From the perspective of a Swede:
Norwegian ppl: they have oil and are so rich they wipe their asses with money, talk funny and are slightly more 純真 than us.
Finnish ppl: They drink almost as much as Russians, really weird language although most of them speak fluent Swedish as well, they spend 50% of their lives in saunas.
Danish ppl: Don't understand a word of what they say (which is embarassing every time I meet one), good people even though they´re nazis, 420 smoek teh weed evryday!
>>4
you're missing icelanders
who are, some of us at least, mostly the one sitting here being me actually, pretty fucking rockingest
and faroese or whatever, they're like bizarro icelanders (completely true)
>and faroese or whatever, they're like bizarro icelanders (completely true)
Hey, I've heard those people are hardcore. They have like one real bar that has to close really early, but it isn't a problem since there's an illegal bar that's more reasonable...and run by the local police. ; )
They are also the only Nordic people who can do self-sufficient population growth. [comment about not much else to do, neeeee]
As for Icelanders.....you have the safe society of Nordic countries like ^3 or something. You're also proud of your language and don't have forests (scary!). Things cost a lot but that's OK since every person has 36 jobs since birth.
I'm impressed and happy over the fact no one has cracked a "forget norway"-joke in this thread yet.
>>1
Not really. It's mainly just friendly teasings between neighbours. Scandinavians that is. Some people even use the same jokes at the opposite country.
like, "Know how to get a [insert nationality here] to [do stupid thing]?
You [utterly ridiculous thing that gullible person of that nationality falls for]!"
>>25
What's a "forget-norway" joke? o.O;;
I've only heard maybe a dozen norway jokes.
>>28
Oh.. i forgot about that.
What does he have against Norway anyways? He even pulls the same stunt in the Lapland version of Kenya. o.O
and i still don't get what a "forget norway" joke is.
It's the language.
>and i still don't get what a "forget norway" joke is.
It's just the act of saying... "forget norway."
>>32 Well I think it's quite understandable. For those who doesn't understand what he is talking about can read below.
Tres, firs, and fems stands for "tre sind tyve" and so on, which means three times twenty etc. But with halvtres and others, you have to think that "halv" is, three times tweenty but with an half twenty reduction backwards. To make it simple it's like this formula (3*20-10=50). And if you have read enough maths you know that you give priority to multiplication/division before addtion/subtraction.
I'll make an summary for sake.
Halvtreds=Halvtred sinds tyve= 3*20-10=50
Tres=Tre sinds tyve= 3*20=60
Halvfjerds=Halvfjerd sinds tyve= 4*20-10=70
Firs=Fir sinds tyve=4*20=80
Halvfems=Halvfem sinds tyve=5*20-10=90
(Fems=Fem sinds tyve=5*20=100) <---It's was used before, now it's "Hundred"
If I'm wrong you can correct me.
it's understandable, but it's not terribly practical or non-nonsensical is it now?