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Colorred posted:Are there any Icelandic video games? Eve is made by an Icelandic company. It has a greater population than Iceland itself.
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Punc posted:We did have cured shark (never again). Do you guys actually eat that poo poo or is more a "haha dumb tourists will eat cured shark" kind of thing? Mostly just for tourists, but it's also served on occasions that call for "traditional" food, like žorrablót. "Traditional" meaning "poo poo our poor-as-gently caress ancestors ate because they couldn't afford real food." It's mostly just for old people, in my experience.
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Another Icelander here chiming in. On the topic of religion, there are more than 3,000 members registered as Zuists, though as the link mentions, it's openly a protest against a tax that each citizen must pay to their religion(and is not refunded to those not belonging to any religion), so their mission is just to refund taxes paid to them. Re: The Blue Lagoon. I'm in the "it's okay" camp. That was several years ago, though, and I really only expect the place to get worse as it's marketed as the #1 destination for tourists, and they keep multiplying. Hot springs aren't exactly a rarity in Iceland, you can easily find others, though they'll be less accessible from the capital. If you have the time to travel to the north, Mżvatnssveit has both Myvatn Nature Baths, which is to the Blue Lagoon what your mother's cooking is to McDonald's, and Grjótagjį, a cave filled with warm water. I've visited both and had a much more pleasant experience than in the Blue Lagoon.
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Mar 9, 2016 18:18
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In the Icelandic news follow-up to the expose, the anchorwoman asks historian and author Gušni Th. Jóhannesson to share his opinion and analysis of the revelations. I made a gif of the moment where he, without any words, perfectly encapsulates how I, and probably a lot of other Icelanders, feel about the situation[She's asking him "What do you think stands out from what was revealed in the expose?"]: 
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Apr 3, 2016 23:21
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Deceitful Penguin posted:The left wing parties, well. Samfylkingin in still unprepared; they haven't had the new chairman vote and Įrni is still a albatross around their neck, with a lot of propaganda still working against them. VG is as it ever was, while Katrķn is popular, she isn't going to appeal to any voters they didn't have earlier. So Bjarni has to wonder if now might not be the time to strike, while they and the centre parties are being kept out. Could you elaborate on what's so awful about Įrni? I keep hearing that everybody hates him and he's the reason Samfylkingin is in such poor shape but I can't find any reason why he's so disliked.
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Apr 17, 2016 02:52
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I really ought to respect other people's opinions, but after thinking about it for a bit, I've decided that 40% of Icelanders are plain wrong.
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Oct 31, 2016 21:09
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Merry Žorlįksmessa. I'm lucky in that my parents didn't grow up with the tradition of eating skata on Žorlįksmessa. We had saltfiskur(basically just salt fish) for a while, but switched five years ago to lobster soup(or langoustine soup). It really is the best idea Dad has ever had.
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Dec 24, 2016 00:16
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Every time someone opens a bag of haršfiskur I look around wondering whose piss I'm smelling.
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Dec 24, 2016 19:41
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I had a co-worker at a hospital unironically share this awful meme* with me during a quiet hour, before going back to browsing gore sites. That was a pretty big eye-opener for me how alive and well racism is outside my carefully cultivated SJW bubble. Until then I thought it was something only confined to the older generation, like my "not racist but" grandmothers. *It's pretty telling that when I googled for this picture, the top hit was from /r/forwardsfromhitler Werewhale fucked around with this message at 20:27 on May 23, 2017 |
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If there's a snap election, we will have had five governments in eleven years...  Bold prediction:
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