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[keenoled]

Glee owns my soul. No surprise there.
Last episode totally smashed my brain, too, and my crush on Chris Colfer has reached truly numbening heights. Like, youtube marathon stalking sessions heights. Where I sit and am adored by him putting on a really credible fake Russian accent with Cory or watch him swirl tiny swords around or just, seriously, the

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[septemberoses]

I come over here and your life is like a soap opera (only it's Swedish, so I'm thinking... it would have a Volvo? And IKEA, right? :D You have a new job, maybe a new apt., AND chicken pox? How's that all working out for you?

PS Just read another thriller (Iceland!) talking about how prejudiced they are against Thais. And a Finnish thriller with prejudice against ... well, everyone, sort of -- black people, Swedes, etc?

[keenoled]

Saab all the way, baby

[septemberoses]

Yes, insane suicide rates and teen drug addiction! Comes through loud and clear in the fic (Arnaldur Indridason?) Also: fun fact -- because Icelandic names use patronymics the US libraries shelve under AR rather than IN, I told them I thought this was stupid

the finnish way of drinking (Swedish comedian)

[septemberoses]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAl9OyGYxOg&feature=related

I thought it was hilarious, and I don't even know what he's saying...

[anonymous]

I'm going to stop threading... the librarians' argument (I'll spare you the online geek-link) is ICELANDERS use the first name for their alpha filing -- like the phone book. Arnaldur Sweinsson = Arnold, son of Swein or whatever. My response is, yeah, that's great, but in the USA, 99.5% of anyone looking for a book by that author (ie anyone not Icelandic or a librarian) is going to look under SW and wonder why the hell it's not there

[keenoled]

Oh Icelanders, we used to do that too. Eight hundred years ago, that is

[septemberoses]

Why do you think there's so much drinking/drunkenness -- public or not. No, seriously. Again, not judging. Just the way it's done? Here... everyone drinks a lot in college (even tho they're still illegal, drinking age is 21!) but by the time you're in your mid-20s if you are still drinking that hard, people start to wonder what the problem is. Is it the weather? Social lubrication for shy people? Something else

[keenoled]

Totally social lubrication. People here have a problem to let loose and just have fun, because someone might be WATCHING and JUDGING, but as long as you have the excuse you were drunk, everything's fine. Half the people you see acting drunk probably haven't even had more than half a beer or something. But yes, lots of people get really really drunk

perrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrkele

[septemberoses]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imwgloZ2MR0

I have no idea. But it sounds great. I bet it's just random swear words.

I can't do that rolling-r thing at all.

Re: perrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrkele

[keenoled]

Perkele, I use that a lot. This is not a Finnish guy cussing though, right? This is like, a Swedish guy with a terrible accent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITLmIfcCIXY

Re: perrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrkele

[septemberoses]

haha, yeah, in another video, someone says that, they say, dude, your accent is so weird. So I was hoping you could guess.

Re: perrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrkele

[septemberoses]

Lol that was BEAUTIFUL. Our commercials suck.

Goteborg!!!!

[septemberoses]

Just got my used books in the mail, forgot the name of the author, Ake something? But they're all set in Goteborg, I think. Yesssss!

Re: Goteborg!!!!

[septemberoses]

Also the lone Finnish character in the book (who moved to Sweden) just said something perkele.

Why can I not be there in reality and not just in fic?

Re: Goteborg!!!!

[keenoled]

It's reeeeally nice here right now. Warm and sunny and spring all around. :)

[septemberoses]

PS in another Youtube video, the Swedish reporter asks a Finnish guy to say something in Swedish - I think it's about accents? And the Finnish guy (in Swedish) says "I'm gay," and everyone around him laughs. So I'm thinking, oldest joke in the book.

[keenoled]

Can I see? Because now I wanna know if the guy knows what he's saying, I mean, I can't imagine he doesn't know. :P

[septemberoses]

I think this is it, but the one I watched, there were people there laughing, which is why I thought it was a joke?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nZBYKosvaU&feature=related

[keenoled]

Okay, they're interviewing random people in the streets, and he's trying to fake knowing Swedish by spouting off some random phrases. He knows what he's saying. :)