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Icelandic doesn't let you say that without context. Well, not well at least, as that google translation is technically correct but sounds, wrong. I'm making 4 in the morning frowny faces over this. If what you mean is that "You can't get anything without sacrificing" then it's "Ekkert fæst án fórnar" but if you mean "Nothing comes into existence without something being sacrificed" then it might go "Ekkert verður til án fórnar" but that is, odd. If you mean "Without sacrifice it's meaningless" then you could do "Án fórnar er ekkert" which would be literally "Without sacrifice there is nothing" but again, it's grammatically dodgy because it's shorn of context. Oh yeah and "Fórnar" is "Sacrifice" but if it's plural or an ongoing thing you use "Fórna" like in the google translation Also sorry about late reply, kinda forget this thread at times and haven't been home much.
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Ain't no thang son, I'm always here to be helpful
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Mar 17, 2017 01:25
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Tias posted:Post that poo poo when you're done
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Mar 18, 2017 16:20
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No, last election brought in what is arguably the most right-wing government we've ever had! We have actual libertarians in the halls of power now, not just dumb neoliberals Including at least one in the opposition
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Mar 22, 2017 00:40
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fantastic in plastic posted:Were necropants (the internet says the word is nábrók?) ever a real thing someone made, or is it just a folktale?
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May 10, 2017 12:47
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We've certainly killed people for lesser reasons and done more stupid things on the promise of money.
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May 10, 2017 13:18
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punk rebel ecks posted:What is this I hear about Iceland practicing anarchy in the old days? I guess it goes down to how we had a variant of the big-man societal form a fair while longer than the rest of Europe and failed to feudalize properly. We did have laws and sometimes they were even followed but yeah, there was no central authority or state as such. Retroactively giving it the status of anarchy is, hrrmm. Idk, you could I suppose.
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May 11, 2017 23:24
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Tias posted:I heard somewhere you had a law on the books saying it was legal to kill a Turkish person until the seventies or something, is that right? It woulda made an interesting hypothetical, to see what woulda happened had someone murdered a Turkish person before the law was abolished
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May 12, 2017 13:32
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airbnbs an hotels y'all, gotta grab that delicious tourist ISK also Reykjavík being the only municipality to actually be building poo poo and that's not really the social housing we need (tho better than nothing)
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May 13, 2017 19:25
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Bourgeois landowning class here too and I gotta say that sometimes it's been real tempting to pay up the loan on this place by turning it into a hotel-lite but all our tenants are good people (except one but he's being kicked out) so I'd just feel awful throwing them out to the wolves like that Though arguing with Icelanders about it can be awful "oh but its just the way the market is! the market can't be immoral!"
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May 15, 2017 14:42
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poopinmymouth posted:Nothing has been more frustrating for me as an American transplant to Iceland to see how much hypocrisy or dueling ideas Icelanders can hold. Super moral society overall, one of the main reasons I moved here, but then you can find yourself arguing with an Icelander about basic human dignity and wonder how they got so hosed up. That may gently caress up our lives in other, different ways but means that unlike a huge swathe of the mainland we seem to have intuited that racism, y'all, is bad, and ya shouldn't do it. This means that the overt and really hosed up stuff regarding muslims, rroma and others isn't as prominent here. (though there's still a shitload of it around, just not as open. we still haven't had any successful societal talks like in the US on this stuff. Maybe the new orgs might...)
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May 17, 2017 13:26
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Osama Dozen-Dongs posted:Are there actually enough of them around to prompt people to be racist out loud about them? We did have some Irish travellers but we unlawfully kicked them out if I remember right. Though I'm happy to report that a lot of Icelanders that move abroad are very quick to integrate into the most racist crowds they can and unironically talk about "those drat immigrants/foreigners". (Like some of may family! Yay!)
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May 23, 2017 01:24
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poopinmymouth posted:It's really weird witnessing Icelandic racism coming from America. The best way to describe it (and I'd apply this to Germany too) is that Icelandic society is less racist, but Icelanders themselves, when racist, are way more vocal about it. Think your super right wing grandpa that forwards crazy emails. My FiL had a book on his table about the "muslim invasion" IN ICELANDIC on his coffee table. And people won't hesitate to say something super racist in polite company, because as you said, there has never really been a societal talk about it, so people don't really know what they're "supposed" to keep to themselves and only pull out when you're sure everyone present is a KKK member. Also yea, lol, the Jew boat is something everyone finds out about after school and is like "drat" because gently caress knows the Independence party, which absorbed the Icelandic Nazi party doesn't want people talking about it Demiurge4 posted:Well I got my own place now (roommate moving out, I convinced the landlord to let me keep it). Now I just gotta fit 120k into my budget somehow.
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May 23, 2017 18:38
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Lol hanging around with a buncha working class and right wing folk mosta my life means I never had the benefit of living in the bubble some folks do. Most, of course, aren't raging racists, but those that are are almost never really challenged. And I would say it's more of a class thing, because the educated and better off folks were less bigoted in general; they didn't care if you were black or gay so long as you weren't poor. Racism is more of an old time-y XD thing, or just plain ole XB
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May 24, 2017 12:08
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Nuclear War posted:Hey Penguin, do you have an email or something you'd be willing to part with? I mentioned this thread to my wife and she suggested we pick your brain about spending a few years on Iceland culture and such wise? FreudianSlippers posted:https://grapevine.is/bestof/2017/guides/2017/04/18/best-of-reykjavik-concert-venues/ I ain't much for going out these days anyhow. Getting old and decrepit. 
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May 30, 2017 02:49
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Lol wtf aren't you Nordic??
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Jun 17, 2017 01:03
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I always thought it was a remnant of an old pan-nordic free travel deal and not Schengen, because it pre-dated it.
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Jun 17, 2017 01:29
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Tias posted:Yeah, but in that case he manages to do the very rare thing and avoid border controls. If you're taken in the German side of the border without a passport or driver's licence, it's a 35€ fine. Denmark will even go as far as to bar you entry if they suspect you're not a citizen.
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Jun 17, 2017 22:15
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It got that ole timey archaic sound but is grammatically correct. More modern and direct I guess would be "Án fórnar fæst ekkert"?
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Aug 3, 2017 17:31
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Here's my predicition: The Peoples Party, suddenly revealing their Stalinist tendencies, will execute a bloody revolution in parliament, when their wheelchairs and canes are revealed to be made entirely out of AK-47s and bullets. Revealing that their school of Marxism says that the only true proletariat are the disabled, we will all be forced into disability, with special exceptions made for moral disabilities (such as being a sociopath, psychopath or right wing). We will then enter a new, utopian state of existence. also what a time to decide to take a few days off and go into the countryside....
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The people's party has grabbed a firm hold on the disabled and aged vote, which used to be all for Samfó. It's also getting the people who vote for every new party because FJÓRFLOKKURINNNNNN
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