25 May 2015, 1:12 pm
Bondkatten wrote:
haha so we are not alone in waiting in solitarity for the bus 
When my bf parents (dutch) first came to Sweden I hade to explain to them that if they sit down next to somone on the bus, if there is free seat somewhere else then they will think that you are crazy.
At some point or other I think that almost every Scandinvian country has owned another or so
Maybe also because of our neutral (shameful) history in WWII...
Or maybe just beacuse it's fun to make jokes about your neighbours
When my bf parents (dutch) first came to Sweden I hade to explain to them that if they sit down next to somone on the bus, if there is free seat somewhere else then they will think that you are crazy.
At some point or other I think that almost every Scandinvian country has owned another or so
Maybe also because of our neutral (shameful) history in WWII...
Or maybe just beacuse it's fun to make jokes about your neighbours
Lol could be
Lol I wish things are like that here
it's not that I mind people sitting next to me, but when complete strangers are eager to strike a conversation to the clueless me, it can be a bit weird, since that apparently is normal here 
i guess being an Aspie is easier in the northern countries since there is less pressure for talking?
Or there are drawbacks somewhere else.
25 May 2015, 1:22 pm
trollcatman wrote:
Well, the Finns were sort of on the wrong side in the early part of the war, they fought Russia and got some support from Nazi Germany. They didn't fight for Nazism though, just to recover the territories Russia took from them earlier.
Sweden was lucky they could afford to be neutral, the Netherlands and Belgium were between Germany and France. They really invaded our country just so they could get to France and circumvent their defenses.
Sitting next to someone on the bus when there are empty seats is also considered rude in the Netherlands. I think in most places people evenly divide space between and only sit or stand close together when there is no room.
Sweden was lucky they could afford to be neutral, the Netherlands and Belgium were between Germany and France. They really invaded our country just so they could get to France and circumvent their defenses.
Sitting next to someone on the bus when there are empty seats is also considered rude in the Netherlands. I think in most places people evenly divide space between and only sit or stand close together when there is no room.
Not here though, everyone is so eager to sit next to someone else, people here are talkative and sociable to the extreme, and everyone who isn't like that is considered extremely weird
but yes, I feel sorry for the Finns, they lost some parts of Karelia in WWII, i don't think they'll ever forgive that to the Soviets...
trollcatman wrote:
That drunken Russian is pretty far gone. I don't speak Russian but I cought "robote" which means to work as far as I know.
At first I thought it was the guy being interviewed who was drunk, but then Pissed McDrunkski walked into the scene.
I'm not too sober myself today, another holiday here, something Christian that no one knows anymore how it related to Christianity.
At first I thought it was the guy being interviewed who was drunk, but then Pissed McDrunkski walked into the scene.
I'm not too sober myself today, another holiday here, something Christian that no one knows anymore how it related to Christianity.
Pissed McDrunkski
One Finnish friend linked me to that video - I wonder who can drink more, Finns or Russians?
rabota is work here as well, but in a sense of a very tiring work.
and yes, it's funny how Christians turned every pagan tradition into a Christian one, just changed the names and costumes a bit...
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25 May 2015, 1:39 pm
25 May 2015, 1:56 pm
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Booyakasha wrote:
Even polar bears?? Wow, they go so bellow Arctic circle? One other US buddy mentioned eagles as well...I saw some of those in a zoo, but that's a pretty sad sight - they're caged in the area of about 10 m and go up and down and up and down again, i feel sorry for them.
I wish I lived surrounded with so much wilderness. I have two buddies from US who can even stargaze...here it's too polluted from all sides to even attempt.
Birds nesting in a tree?? If this happens here, everyone gets so excited since it happens so rarely, I can't imagine them bring a fish from anywhere though.
they theory is they float down on ice and come to shore. its an odd sitting but happens every so often.
yeah that sounds terrible. the fish zoo place has a bird area, from what I understand its a large inclosure, so they can fly around and stuff.
yep I could stargaze most nights when not cloudy which is sadly most times. as a kid use to go out and watch shooting stars.
we have lots of birds. some live in our house's air ducts >.< my mom wants me to trap the babies inside and let them die :'( I couldn't do it.
wow trap their babies inside??? why not let them live, I don't get such logic. who can be bothered by baby birds?
My grandma would bury young kitties like that, it's just abominable. She lived in the country side, so those cats would feed by themselves, there was no need for some anti-population politics.
Shooting stars? I only saw that at the seaside which is a bit less polluted.
Hope those bears find the way back though! With the current global warming they might be more those broken ice sheets floating....
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thanks, hugs.
Hugs back!
sly279 wrote:
idk look at our history. they are the normal ones sadly
yeah I hear Europe is pretty messed up after thousands of years of environmental abuse.
Yes, just fields of crops, towns, deforested areas, and a few patches of wilderness, not much anything else.
and due to deforestations, some mountains have been completely washed out of soil.... Some say Venice was built on our trees from Mt Biokovo, which is now bare rock.
but yes, today is so "normal" to kill in the name of just about anything that suits one's fancies....
25 May 2015, 2:59 pm
The Netherlands is only 11% forest, rest is all cities and farmland. Pretty much all big animals are wiped out, such as wolves and bears. Long ago they even had elephants and lions and other animals usually associated with Africa, but they were wiped out looong ago. They still find bones from those animals in the North Sea, that area used to be land some 8.000 years ago. Here's a map of Doggerland, the bit between Britain and the continent. People also used to live there, the first humans in Britain likely just walked there:
26 May 2015, 3:26 am
Booyakasha wrote:
wow trap their babies inside??? why not let them live, I don't get such logic. who can be bothered by baby birds?
My grandma would bury young kitties like that, it's just abominable. She lived in the country side, so those cats would feed by themselves, there was no need for some anti-population politics.
Shooting stars? I only saw that at the seaside which is a bit less polluted.
Hope those bears find the way back though! With the current global warming they might be more those broken ice sheets floating....
Hugs back!
Yes, just fields of crops, towns, deforested areas, and a few patches of wilderness, not much anything else.
and due to deforestations, some mountains have been completely washed out of soil.... Some say Venice was built on our trees from Mt Biokovo, which is now bare rock.
but yes, today is so "normal" to kill in the name of just about anything that suits one's fancies....
well they are annoying and noisy and when one dies it lets bugs come into our kitchen from the dead bird.
problem is how to know when they all moved out to cover it with mesh.
thats terrible she should be punished
thats a bummer. though i like the coast, but you probably wouldn't like ours.
I think they'll seen usually moving north. I imagine bears have some way of knowing where to go. like birds migrating during winter.
thats horrible. we lost a bunch here from strip mining they literally washed mountains away.
yep
26 May 2015, 3:27 am
trollcatman wrote:
The Netherlands is only 11% forest, rest is all cities and farmland. Pretty much all big animals are wiped out, such as wolves and bears. Long ago they even had elephants and lions and other animals usually associated with Africa, but they were wiped out looong ago. They still find bones from those animals in the North Sea, that area used to be land some 8.000 years ago. Here's a map of Doggerland, the bit between Britain and the continent. People also used to live there, the first humans in Britain likely just walked there:
watched a show about his on the hitler channel(history channel) it was interesting and nice to have a break from hitler.
26 May 2015, 6:27 am
26 May 2015, 7:42 am
trollcatman wrote:
The Netherlands is only 11% forest, rest is all cities and farmland. Pretty much all big animals are wiped out, such as wolves and bears. Long ago they even had elephants and lions and other animals usually associated with Africa, but they were wiped out looong ago. They still find bones from those animals in the North Sea, that area used to be land some 8.000 years ago. Here's a map of Doggerland, the bit between Britain and the continent. People also used to live there, the first humans in Britain likely just walked there:
Very interesting, so only in Scandinavian peninsula forests have been preserved?
Wow, elephants and lions?? That must have been before glaciation periods.
We don't have any lions or elephants here, just some dinosaur fossils and Neanderthal bones in Krapina Cave.
26 May 2015, 9:03 am
26 May 2015, 9:28 am
sly279 wrote:
well they are annoying and noisy and when one dies it lets bugs come into our kitchen from the dead bird.
problem is how to know when they all moved out to cover it with mesh.
thats terrible she should be punished
thats a bummer. though i like the coast, but you probably wouldn't like ours.
I think they'll seen usually moving north. I imagine bears have some way of knowing where to go. like birds migrating during winter.
thats horrible. we lost a bunch here from strip mining they literally washed mountains away.
yep
Oh I'm sorry if those birds are causing so much trouble with dead bugs...hope it doesn't happen too often. What specie is it?
Anyway, my grandma is dead, but practices like that one are considered "normal" for the rural parts here. Dogs on a chain for all their lives, kittens killed like that, if you care about such things you're not considered "normal".
that's cool if they can navigate like that
i heard some claim they have an internal compass which can sense earth's magnetic field.Strip mining sounds horrible
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26 May 2015, 5:29 pm
How .....how one becomes a pro escort?
26 May 2015, 5:55 pm
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
How .....how one becomes a pro escort?
You go to the park where the gay men hang out when looking for sex.
28 May 2015, 12:38 am
Booyakasha wrote:
Lol could be
Lol I wish things are like that here it's not that I mind people sitting next to me, but when complete strangers are eager to strike a conversation to the clueless me, it can be a bit weird, since that apparently is normal here
i guess being an Aspie is easier in the northern countries since there is less pressure for talking? Or there are drawbacks somewhere else.
Lol I wish things are like that here
it's not that I mind people sitting next to me, but when complete strangers are eager to strike a conversation to the clueless me, it can be a bit weird, since that apparently is normal here i guess being an Aspie is easier in the northern countries since there is less pressure for talking?
Or there are drawbacks somewhere else.I think that in some ways it might be easier because people are generally not excellent conversationalists here, so it might make it easier in some ways to fit in. But I think there is still a great stigma here like elsewhere to have any problems that originates from the brain, in some ways it’s the same as with how most Swedish people view immigrants. There is an acceptance on the surface, but it’s only for show. There is still a great prejudice against anyone different, even from people that should know better (doctors for instance).
But because of the culture of distance and fewer words, it does make some things a bit easier. But people are also a lot less caring, and simply rude a**holes sometimes. I think that the culture of distance sometimes make it easier for people to not care about anything but themselves.
28 May 2015, 12:58 am
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28 May 2015, 1:14 am
trollcatman wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
How .....how one becomes a pro escort?
You go to the park where the gay men hang out when looking for sex.
It's time to retire I guess.
