The Guardian: Danmark - hvor det sker! Or... Denmark where it's at! (http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/mar/19/denmark-tv-film-food-design-fashion-books)
QuoteWith a hit TV show, an Oscar-winning film, the best restaurant in the world and covetable design, now is the time to discover all things Danish
But, of course, a Canadian has to ruin it. :lol:
Quote from: haanpcAs a Canadian of Chinese descent who moved here in the summer to cook....I would add a few more things to the list that the Danish are good at:
1) Being inadvertently or blatantly racist on a regular basis
2) Talking about being the leaders of being "green" but actually having no recycling or compost services in apartments.
3) Speaking a language that sounds like you are gag-barfing
4) Being happy...and by that I mean getting insanely drunk on a regular basis
In fairness, I really love living here, especially as a cook, there is no more exciting place to be right now. But it's definitely not all all flowers and blue skies over here...especially if you're not white.
Copenhagen is a bore hole.
The Sarah Lund sweater makes mere mortals look like lesbians and is probably very itchy, yet it's selling like hot-cakes for £236 a pop!!!
I don't get it. So why is Denmark cool?
And those awful Scandinavian jumpers are fashionable now? Ugh. I hate fashionistas.
Quote from: Brazen on March 22, 2011, 09:46:18 AM
The Sarah Lund sweater makes mere mortals look like lesbians and is probably very itchy, yet it's selling like hot-cakes for £236 a pop!!!
Funny thing that sweater is very much 2007 :D when the show ran here. Now no one wears it :D
V
What is Danish for "two turntables and a microphone"?
I liked Copenhagen, though it was no Stockholm.
When I was in Sweden, several people thought I was from Denmark for some reason. :hmm:
Denmark isn't really Scandinavia, it's more like lesser Germany.
Quote from: Brazen on March 23, 2011, 09:44:11 AM
Denmark isn't really Scandinavia, it's more like lesser Germany.
:yeahright:
Geographically perhaps, but hardly in language, tradition, history, legal practise, cultural or any other sense.
V
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 23, 2011, 07:51:19 AM
What is Danish for "two turntables and a microphone"?
"To pladespillere og en mikrofon."
Quote from: Valdemar on March 23, 2011, 09:48:28 AM
Quote from: Brazen on March 23, 2011, 09:44:11 AM
Denmark isn't really Scandinavia, it's more like lesser Germany.
:yeahright:
Geographically perhaps, but hardly in language, tradition, history, legal practise, cultural or any other sense.
V
Indeed, booze is priced there along Nordic prices so that's why Flensburg gets its own version of Danegeld.
Quote from: Valdemar on March 23, 2011, 09:48:28 AM
Quote from: Brazen on March 23, 2011, 09:44:11 AM
Denmark isn't really Scandinavia, it's more like lesser Germany.
:yeahright:
Geographically perhaps, but hardly in language, tradition, history, legal practise, cultural or any other sense.
V
I wouldn't be so sure about that...
Quote from: Liep on March 23, 2011, 09:55:22 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 23, 2011, 07:51:19 AM
What is Danish for "two turntables and a microphone"?
"To pladespillere og en mikrofon."
Dang. Beck missed the boat by not going Danish with that song.
Quote from: derspiess on March 23, 2011, 10:46:09 AM
Dang. Beck missed the boat by not going Danish with that song.
Yes, he could've been huge.
Quote from: Brazen on March 23, 2011, 09:44:11 AM
Denmark isn't really Scandinavia, it's more like lesser Germany.
Wow, British geography education is much worse than I thought.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMbbg0k4Xeo
Quote from: Josephus on March 23, 2011, 06:21:42 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMbbg0k4Xeo
I think this song better expresses Copenhagen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkOMiA_uGso
Quoteactually having no... ...compost services in apartments.
I wouldn't want compost in my apartment. Do Canadians, in general,
want compost in theirs?
:D
The guy is Chinese. He's not one of us.
Quote from: Pitiful Pathos on March 23, 2011, 07:55:42 AM
I liked Copenhagen, though it was no Stockholm.
When I was in Sweden, several people thought I was from Denmark for some reason. :hmm:
You should've washed and sobered up.
Quote from: Liep on March 22, 2011, 09:35:56 AM
But, of course, a Canadian has to ruin it. :lol:
What, he's stating the obvious. You may not see, and we Norwegians certainly don't see it about ourselves, but Scandiweenia is a self-centered, smug, holier-than-thou rich, racist suburb to Europe.
Quote from: Norgy on March 24, 2011, 02:36:43 PM
What, he's stating the obvious. You may not see, and we Norwegians certainly don't see it about ourselves, but Scandiweenia is a self-centered, smug, holier-than-thou rich, racist suburb to Europe.
The first step is admitting you have a problem.
Granted everybody else in the world would kill for your problem of being a smug rich racist people.
Every Scandiweenie country has it's own idiosyncracies. As to Norway the media's obsession there over the Third World has always struck me as peculiar.
Quote from: Norgy on March 24, 2011, 02:36:43 PM
What, he's stating the obvious. You may not see, and we Norwegians certainly don't see it about ourselves, but Scandiweenia is a self-centered, smug, holier-than-thou rich, racist suburb to Europe.
The broadsheet papers actually recognizes that, but the self-centered, smug, holier-than-thou rich, racist suburbans only read the tabloids. :P