Danmark - hvor det sker! Or... Denmark where it's at!

[Liep]

The Guardian: Danmark - hvor det sker! Or... Denmark where it's at!

With 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.

As 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.

[Ed Anger]

Copenhagen is a bore hole.

[Brazen]

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!!!

[Josquius]

I don't get it. So why is Denmark cool?

And those awful Scandinavian jumpers are fashionable now? Ugh. I hate fashionistas.

[Valdemar]

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 when the show ran here. Now no one wears it

V

[Eddie Teach]

What is Danish for "two turntables and a microphone"?

[Camerus]

I liked Copenhagen, though it was no Stockholm.

When I was in Sweden, several people thought I was from Denmark for some reason.   

[Brazen]

Denmark isn't really Scandinavia, it's more like lesser Germany.

[Valdemar]

Denmark isn't really Scandinavia, it's more like lesser Germany.

Geographically perhaps, but hardly in language, tradition, history, legal practise, cultural or any other sense.

V

[Liep]

What is Danish for "two turntables and a microphone"?

"To pladespillere og en mikrofon."

[Duque de Bragança]

Denmark isn't really Scandinavia, it's more like lesser Germany.

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.

[Mr.Penguin]

Denmark isn't really Scandinavia, it's more like lesser Germany.

Geographically perhaps, but hardly in language, tradition, history, legal practise, cultural or any other sense.

V

I wouldn't be so sure about that...

[derspiess]

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.

[Liep]

Dang.  Beck missed the boat by not going Danish with that song.

Yes, he could've been huge.

[Jacob]

Denmark isn't really Scandinavia, it's more like lesser Germany.

Wow, British geography education is much worse than I thought.