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[johngalthasspoken]

can't blame kayla ,Scandinavians are generally boring people & exerts no influence on the world stage,almost completely irrelevant..besides,most Americans are totally geographically challenged anyways ...In america, nothing is handed to you unless you come from an ethnic minority background or a protected class. if you want to make it,you have to work your ass off in order to work your way up..we do have a safety net for the weak & vulnerable, but nothing like the cradle to grave welfare state in Norway. It's no secret that a bloated welfare state makes people work-shy & unproductive. you should try the oil sector, plenty of jobs there..

[reasonvemotion]

I remember a friend of mine, told me when he was about 20 something, he worked in a psychiatric hospital. He had plenty of spare time to read as this is his passion. The man in charge (a sadistic SOB) took a dislike to him and made him attend an autopsy to see if he had the "staying power". Well, he stayed, but the memory has never left him. Never left me as well. That is something you would become accustomed to after while, no doubt.

In the hospital system, not necessarily psychiatric, there would be jobs as aids, cleaners, etc. Although, my little story would cancel out any desire to work there

[The Voice of Time]

it's counter to evidence to claim that welfare states by the definition of being welfare states make people unproductive. Money does not come on a silver plate, the Nordic welfare states were all built on a solid foundation, they all have a highly skilled working force being very much productive. Norway is the only Nordic country with oil, and even without oil Norway has a solid industry and industry capabilities. Oil can only make us rich in a certain degree, the rest we'll have to do ourselves. Countries like Sweden is very rich, and if you'll go there you'll find out what it means when a country completely by itself builds a strong economy and a strong following welfare state.

One of the downs of Sweden however is that it has a very weak military compared to its economic strength, which is probably accelerated by the fact that it hasn't been in at war for more than a century and is locked with Finland protecting its Eastern side, Norway its Western, and a generally peaceful and cooperative Europe on its South. Norway doesn't take either/or but with its surplus funds maintain a strong military (excused somewhat in size as its a low-population country, but the military is advanced technologically and proportionally bigger than Sweden's) at the same time as it maintains a strong welfare state.

[Kayla]

What the fuck is your problem? I LIVE IN NORWAY! I'm NOT Swedish! I'm NOT Finnish! I'm NOT Icelandish! NORWEEEEEEGIAN! How can you go through ALL the Nordic countries and forget about Norway? We are damned more important than Iceland at the least!

i am sorry i am an american we have a problem with distinctions like that

its like when i think about world war 1, i think of australian-hungarian empire

we also say things like 'its in upstate new york or canada or vancouver or something'

ok norway got it

i should have at least been able to tell it apart from finland give that the fins dont even speak an indo european language

I already told you about my problem with being a security guard. Besides you'd need to take a course which costs like 20 000+ Dollars, and you have to pay for it with your own money.

just throwing ideas out there

[Kayla]

One of the downs of Sweden however is that it has a very weak military compared to its economic strength,

sweden is highly regarded in texas for dropping depth charges on all the soviet subs back in the days on the cold war - texans highly approve of that sort of thing

i have been reading about the cod wars between iceland and the uk, and about the winter war - when soviet union invaded finland in 1939 just for the lulz and got its communist ass handed to it

i would not mess with the scandinavians

[duszek]

Danes are also Scandinavians, they live in Denmark.

A Dutchman once had to explain to an American that he had nothing to do with any caricatures ...
The Dutch live in Holland and do lots of painting but not necessarily caricatures.

[The Voice of Time]

One of the downs of Sweden however is that it has a very weak military compared to its economic strength,

sweden is highly regarded in texas for dropping depth charges on all the soviet subs back in the days on the cold war - texans highly approve of that sort of thing

i have been reading about the cod wars between iceland and the uk, and about the winter war - when soviet union invaded finland in 1939 just for the lulz and got its communist ass handed to it

i would not mess with the scandinavians

The Swedish Empire, though lowly populated, used to be a major European power. Though outnumbered mostly, it had a very effective military, a largely militarized nation, and at its height controlled these territories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Locat ... Empire.png

Oversea colonies are not shown, but they weren't as many as other European powers, and instead their primary colonies were The Baltic: Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, including Finland and parts of Modern Russia as well as fragments surrounding Denmark and a chunk of central Norway. Reading about it one can't help but be a little bit fascinated by the Swedish kings of this period, mainly for Sweden's low population and the good relationship between the king and the peasantry as opposed to the more centralised aristocracies and oligarchies of rest of Europe, in a way, it make me think about Napoleon, just that Napoleon came afterwards.

Norway's military history is in modern times mostly shared with Denmark, one cool thing was that during the Napoleonic wars the British bombed the Danish capital because they were afraid that Napoleon would acquire the powerful Danish fleet, which notably mostly consisted of Norwegians ^^ During the second world war Norway was the country which for the longest period resisted the German invasions, but hugely outnumbered and technologically inferior (Norway was very poor in that period) it was inevitable that Norway would fall sooner or later to the at-the-time world's most advanced war machinery. There are some cool examples however of inferior technology defeating huge German forces, when the Norwegian coastal defence sank Blücher, the largest and greatest German war ship during the period, killing nearly a thousand sailors and capturing half a thousand, only with a few guns and torpedoes nearly half a century old and the Royal Guard which is the Norwegian equivalent of those funny-looking armed men outside of the British Buckingham Palace.

[johngalthasspoken]

i would not mess with the scandinavians

maybe 70 years ago, but today, Scandinavian women are generally thought to be more masculine than their men . Sweden is "the" feminist utopia & it's a widely held belief that Swedish men are the most emasculated males on the planet

[Kayla]

maybe 70 years ago, but today, Scandinavian women are generally thought to be more masculine than their men . Sweden is "the" feminist utopia & it's a widely held belief that Swedish men are the most emasculated males on the planet

you dont know much history do you

obviously you are one of my countrymen

it was a lot more recent than 70 years ago that the swedens were sinking soviet nuclear subs just for lulz

[The Voice of Time]

i would not mess with the scandinavians

maybe 70 years ago, but today, Scandinavian women are generally thought to be more masculine than their men . Sweden is "the" feminist utopia & it's a widely held belief that Swedish men are the most emasculated males on the planet

Norway is the feminist utopia. Norway has been ranked the world's best place to be a woman by the UN.

[johngalthasspoken]

Norway is the feminist utopia. Norway has been ranked the world's best place to be a woman by the UN.

Yup, Thanks to forced gender quotas across the board & All-women shortlists. and the absurd prostitution policy which regards prostitution as an aspect of male "violence" against women that punishes men while sheltering women .those batshit crazy feminists must be grateful for an emasculated..,oh,i mean "enlightened" male population.

[reasonvemotion]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_mo ... ble_cities


http://www.hoodpoints.com/blog/best-place/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... evelopment


Well Bernard, aint that the truth!

[The Voice of Time]

Norway is the feminist utopia. Norway has been ranked the world's best place to be a woman by the UN.

Yup, Thanks to forced gender quotas across the board & All-women shortlists. and the absurd prostitution policy which regards prostitution as an aspect of male "violence" against women that punishes men while sheltering women .those batshit crazy feminists must be grateful for an emasculated..,oh,i mean "enlightened" male population.

Well the rapid shift has left a great amount of the male population not knowing their role in society, but those the slow ones generally, not having caught up with the rest of the more smoothly transitioned individuals.

[reasonvemotion]

Not here in Australia. Men are comfortably ensconced in their role as men.

[The Voice of Time]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_mo ... ble_cities


http://www.hoodpoints.com/blog/best-place/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... evelopment

I'm sceptical about the Economist's "world's most livable cities" ranking. There are many cities in the world and I agree with the criticism landed that "The Economist clearly equates livability with speaking English.", as noted early on in the article. I would think that only the biggest cities including capitals are taken into account, and I think that would be very much a bias.

I have pondered a long time about what could cause Australia to reach second spot... a nation settled by prisoners turned into one of the most developed countries in the world, that's really interesting. I guess the vast amount of land available have helped giving the citizens more power over their own lives and capacity for comparatively much higher productions of raw materials than other countries which have higher populations and therefore higher amounts of people to share their productivity with. The lack of far-reaching warfare has probably also helped keep the country growing, as far as I know Australia was attacked by the Japanese during the second world war but didn't suffer substantial losses like continental Europe or East Asia? A bit like America which just suffered Pearl Harbour and went out of history the new world power as it was among the countries least hurt by conflict and highest developed prior, through and after it... I dunno, shed some light on this perhaps? Weren't you Australian RE?