|
Edgar Allen Ho posted:swedish just sounds annoying Mr. Sunshine posted:Swedish is [...] Like upper-class British English. The second quote makes a poor case for Swedish and in fact complements the first quote.
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 07:51
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 15, 2024 04:32 |
|
|
Wtf danish beautiful... No, just no. Norwegian got a nice melody sure, but danish?!? Röööeee Röööeeee Röööeeee. Sthlm dialect Swedish "rikssvenska" sounds annoying tho, that I can agree with.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 08:11
|
|
|
It's impossible to make heads or tails of Danish, they forget to say like 80% of the letters in their words.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 08:28
|
|
|
Finlandsvensk is the winner.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 08:48
|
|
|
Free Market Mambo posted:Finlandsvensk is the winner. Obviously.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 09:08
|
|
|
Edgar Allen Ho posted:not a historical fact but a question: is it weird that I find norwegian and danish very beautiful languages but think swedish just sounds annoying? I objectively know they're similar but my lizard brain can't handle the swedish. Wow congratulations on being an honorary dane
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 10:45
|
|
|
Edgar Allen Ho posted:...my lizard brain can't handle the swedish. Have you considered applying for a Finnish citizenship? You'd surely qualify.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 11:42
|
|
|
This InterNordic slapfight reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kahnb3qnm0
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 12:05
|
|
|
sampo
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 12:53
|
|
|
Free Market Mambo posted:Finlandsvensk is the winner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SrIggv_Jbo
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 16:35
|
|
|
verbal enema posted:sampo Ei saa peittää.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 17:40
|
|
|
The Scandinavians are just the cutest little frenemies. 
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 20:00
|
|
|
Fun Historical Fact: The last war Sweden fought was in 1814 when the cowardly swedes attacked the valiant norwegians in order to subjugate them for 91 years.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 20:10
|
|
|
Alhazred posted:Fun Historical Fact: The last war Sweden fought was in 1814 when the cowardly swedes attacked the valiant norwegians in order to subjugate them for 91 years. You mean when the valiant swedes liberated their brother norwegians from the yoke of the treacherous danes?
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 20:36
|
|
|
Sounds to me like Sweden's been undefeated for over 200 years.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 20:37
|
|
|
the danish rule in norway was benevolent, mutually beneficial, and necessary due to their somewhat lower stage of evolution 
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 20:41
|
|
|
Alhazred posted:Fun Historical Fact: The last war Sweden fought was in 1814 when the cowardly swedes attacked the valiant norwegians in order to subjugate them for 91 years. You know what you did and you had it coming  You can't just go around shooting people with random old buttons, AND NO IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU'RE STANDING STILL THAT'S A TECHNICALLITY
ThisIsJohnWayne has a new favorite as of 20:45 on Mar 8, 2021 |
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 20:42
|
|
|
Carthag Tuek posted:the danish rule in norway was benevolent, mutually beneficial, and necessary due to their somewhat lower stage of evolution 
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 20:43
|
|
|
Here we see the valiant swedes liberating their unarmed brother norwegians because they were participating in the annual celebration of the constitution of Norway:
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 20:47
|
|
|
Alhazred posted:Fun Historical Fact: The last war Sweden fought was in 1814 when the cowardly swedes attacked the valiant norwegians in order to subjugate them for 91 years. Well, they had to do something after losing the entirety of Finland to Russia in 1809 because now they had nowhere to go to be pompous gits with a superiority complex. This culminated to Ice Hockey World Championship and the Eurovision Song Contest being invented some ~120 years later. Der Kyhe has a new favorite as of 20:52 on Mar 8, 2021 |
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 20:49
|
|
|
I'd joke about how Sweden + Finland looks like a dick and balls, but Norway and Denmark are also pretty phallic.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 21:15
|
|
|
Alhazred posted:Here we see the valiant swedes liberating their unarmed brother norwegians because they were participating in the annual celebration of the constitution of Norway: Seems rather unbrotherly of the norwegians to go have a constitution when there's a perfectly fine monarch in Stockholm.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 21:18
|
|
|
Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'd joke about how Sweden + Finland looks like a dick and balls, but Norway and Denmark are also pretty phallic.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 21:23
|
|
|
Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'd joke about how Sweden + Finland looks like a dick and balls, but Norway and Denmark are also pretty phallic. Denmark is the jizz that just got out, and Norway is that thing for which you really should go to a clinic to get a doctor to take a look at it.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 21:32
|
|
|
Carthag Tuek posted:the danish rule in norway was benevolent, mutually beneficial, and necessary due to their somewhat lower stage of evolution The island German’s burden.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 22:11
|
|
|
Historical fun fact: Sweden and Denmark has spent most of their existence trying to carve up northern Europe between them, and have been at war with each other some 20 times between 1205 and 1814 - more than any other two nations, including England and France. Contemporary fun fact: Though Sweden likes to claim it's been at peace for 200 years, it's not quite technically correct. Yes, the last time we declared war was in 1814. But we've been at war in Afghanistan for the last dozen years or so. Sounds reasonable enough, right? There's swedish soldiers fighting in Afghanistan, of course they're at war! But, no. See, for some reason Sweden decided to join in on the US Forever War back in 2002, and sent a handful of soldiers to Afghanistan. But up until 2009 or thereabout, those soldiers operated under peacetime law. So when a Swedish officer got killed in an ambush there was an honest-to-god murder investigation opened up by the police back in Sweden - because that's what the law said you had to do when a soldier is killed in peacetime. "He got killed in combat by the enemy, what the hell do you want the cops to do?" wasn't a valid response, since technically he hadn't been in combat since technically we weren't at war. Shortly thereafter, parliament decided that swedish soldiers in Afghanistan operated under wartime law.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 22:39
|
|
|
Mr. Sunshine posted:So when a Swedish officer got killed in an ambush there was an honest-to-god murder investigation opened up by the police back in Sweden - because that's what the law said you had to do when a soldier is killed in peacetime. "He got killed in combat by the enemy, what the hell do you want the cops to do?" wasn't a valid response, since technically he hadn't been in combat since technically we weren't at war. Shortly thereafter, parliament decided that swedish soldiers in Afghanistan operated under wartime law. the best part was when they found out both the officers who died got friendly fire’d by their own machinegunner
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2021 22:51
|
|
|
Understandable. From what I've seen, the left hand is not usually controlled by the same puppeteer as the right hand- thus leading such tragedy.
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2021 03:15
|
|
|
Comrade Koba posted:the best part was when they found out both the officers who died got friendly fire’d by their own machinegunner Ah, the old "Charles XII". Time-honoured Swedish tradition.
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2021 04:00
|
|
|
3D Megadoodoo posted:Ah, the old "Charles XII". Time-honoured Swedish tradition. More than 2/3rds of the regiments in that campaign came from the eastern half of the country. They were your ancestors too.
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2021 05:26
|
|
|
3D Megadoodoo posted:Ah, the old "Charles XII". Time-honoured Swedish tradition. Better than the 'Adolph Fredrick' tradition.
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2021 08:54
|
|
|
Samovar posted:Better than the 'Adolph Fredrick' tradition. Actually the opposite is true.
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2021 08:58
|
|
|
Samovar posted:Better than the 'Adolph Fredrick' tradition. Please tell me how a liberal monarch who ensured unbeforeseen civil liberties to his people, made snuff boxes as a hobby and died from liking partying a bit too much was a worse exemplary than the war-addicted patron saint of Swedish neo nazis who brought nothing but ruin to his people.
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2021 09:12
|
|
|
Death by semla beats death by button any day of the week.
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2021 09:38
|
|
|
Mr. Sunshine posted:Death by semla beats death by button any day of the week. Please note that if you order a semla in Finland, they'll give you a fralla instead.
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2021 09:46
|
|
|
For those not in the know, the Swedish king Charles XII spent his entire life fighting in places like Poland and Ukraine, and died in a trench outside a Norwegian castle, shot in the head by musket loaded with a coat button. Adolph Frederick was a chill dude who "died in Stockholm on 12 February 1771 after having consumed a large meal, consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, kippers and champagne, topped off with his favourite dessert: hetvägg, made of semla pastries served in bowls of hot milk" - 14 of them, to be exact.
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2021 09:49
|
|
|
3D Megadoodoo posted:Please note that if you order a semla in Finland, they'll give you a fralla instead. Life in the lost territories is a dark and dismal struggle.
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2021 09:56
|
|
|
Mr. Sunshine posted:musket loaded with a coat button. How do they know it wasn't just a fat guy sneezing or something?
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2021 10:03
|
|
|
3D Megadoodoo posted:How do they know it wasn't just a fat guy sneezing or something? There were no fat people in Norway until 1963.
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2021 10:10
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 15, 2024 04:32 |
|
|
3D Megadoodoo posted:How do they know it wasn't just a fat guy sneezing or something? There was a widespread belief at the time that kings were magically protected from death. The assassin stole a button from Charles's own coat; because it had been on his person, it could be used as a weapon against him. Albrecht von Wallenstein, a general from a few decades earlier, was assassinated on a day that his horoscope predicted would be exceptionally unlucky for him. Bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
|
|
#
?
Mar 9, 2021 10:23
|
|
