🇸🇪 Sweden | Impressions of Sweden

[The]

One of stereotype of Swedish girls is they are progressive (read it as easy). Do you tend to agree or you did not have luck in Scandinavians?

[zender]

I haven’t been to Sweden, but I know a little about the place… mostly learned from the Muppet character- The Swedish Chef.

[superking]

@zender

mostly learned from the Muppet character- The Swedish Chef.

That’s a pretty accurate portrayal of Swedish people. So you can call yourself an expert.

Swedish Chef - Meatballs

[strung.in]

my main exposure is from reading karl ove knausgaard but he’s norwegian living in sweden.

i DO worry about the people of Gallinge though, this is their ONLY radio station and it only plays this song…

Listen to live Gällinge radio on Radio Garden

note: you have to turn off https everywhere for the site to work

note 2: it’s called Spinning Seal FM in case you need to choose another city and go back to Gallinge

@Dr_Milker you’d appreciate this

[Brianjones]

I lived in Sweden for a while…My God was I bored. No wonder they like visiting Thailand so much…The worst part was, generally speaking, their abysmal lack of social skills and standoffishness although that seems to have spread throughout much of the world right now. Swedish ppl overseas are easier going.
Beautiful country though.

[BiggusDickus]

Stranglers, Sverige

[Deca]

@The

One of stereotype of Swedish girls is they are progressive (read it as easy). Do you tend to agree or you did not have luck in Scandinavians?

True and also not. The stereotypical US approach of (humble)bragging about your accomplishments would not go over very well. Culture crash.

[Deca]

@Brianjones

The worst part was, generally speaking, their abysmal lack of social skills and standoffishness although that seems to have spread throughout much of the world right now.

Sort of accurate. Scandis I guess suffered relatively less in the pandemic, social needs already supressed.

[OysterOmelet]

@BiggusDickus

Airports are an odd location to judge a nation’s fashion sense. People tend to dress comfortably when flying plus you get all nationalities in airports.

If it were the basis for a thesis it would be an automatic fail.

I saw this all over Sweden, Finland, Germany, and (to a lesser extent) Iceland. I just had time to take pictures at the airport because I was waiting.

[Deca]

@OysterOmelet

Scandinavia? I think it’s cute how Nordic people stick together. There appears to be no agreed upon definition among Swedes what Scandinavia encompasses.

Some ignorant Swedes you met there, the defs are pretty clear-cut.

Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark. Linguistic and cultural.

Nordic: +Finland and Iceland. And the much ignored-Faroe Islands.

[OysterOmelet]

@Deca

the defs are pretty clear-cut.

Have you asked them? There’s no consensus.

[Deca]

@OysterOmelet

Have you asked them? There’s no consensus.

There really is.

Fex you probably have heard of Scandinavian Airlines. Who are in… Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

[OysterOmelet]

This is from the Iceland National Museum.

62% of modern Icelanders’ mitochondrial (maternal) DNA comes from the British Isles.

80% of their Y-chromosome (paternal) DNA comes from Nordic countries.

Vikings took Celtic wives on their way to Iceland.

[OysterOmelet]

@Deca

Fex you probably have heard of Scandinavian Airlines. Who are in… Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

The Scandinavian mountain range extends to Finland.

[deepshelter]

Do you have photos besides the airport?

Not sure what you call Swedish equivalent of weeb but 100% me.

[KHHville]

@rooftopclown

@OysterOmelet

In the US, women wear clothes that fit.

Maybe in New York City and parts of CA, but certainly not in North Dakota, West Virginia, South Carolina or East Montana.

Okay. Out with it. What’s a clown doing in those parts of the great plains?

[OysterOmelet]

@deepshelter

Do you have photos besides the airport?

Not sure what you call Swedish equivalent of weeb but 100% me.

Yes. Most of them have me in it, but here are a few:

I took this panoramic shot.

This is at a famous church near central station in Stockholm.

I posted this in the other thread.

[deepshelter]

Thank you!! Does the shrimp cheese taste like shrimp easy cheese?

[OysterOmelet]

@superking

The worst things about Sweden are volunteers and capri pants? Sweden is doing a great job then.

I agree 100%. Sweden is awesome.

[OysterOmelet]

@deepshelter

Thank you!! Does the shrimp cheese taste like shrimp easy cheese?

Is that what it says on the tube?