Re: Tales of Home [1]

by David H Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:35 am

Mrs Figg wrote:cool what the article say in human Language not that weird Viking stuff.

It's mostly fluff. What a strange American cranberry farmer is doing in Stockholm. What museums and art exhibits I liked best. Where I'd been and where I was going next. Stuff like that.
If you want a translation though, you'll need to talk to a Viking. rendeer

I'd been staying on the Af Chapman, the ship in the background, which is run as a backpacker's hostel. The ship was having an anniversary and the newspaper wanted to write a human interest piece about the oddest foreigner they could find. Guess who they picked.... Rolling Eyes

by chris63 Wed Apr 10, 2013 5:33 am

Love the piks Norc. Was 37℃ here monday and where supposed to be coming into winter soon.

by Mrs Figg Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:14 am

I think they found the coolest person they could find Dave.

by **Amarië** Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:39 am

David H wrote:Yeah, I reduced the file size so it wouldn't take an hour to upload on my dial-up connection, but it came out pretty blurry. {{I hope you won't hold my Sverige farmor och mormor against me now. }}
I'll look for those pictures later, but I don't make any promises.

We wont hold that against you, Dave, as long as you now and then croak out a few words that might be Swedish and boast about your Scandinavian (or Nordic) roots. We find that charming, it seems. But it's not charming if you brag about being American.

by David H Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:48 pm

Amarië wrote:

We wont hold that against you, Dave, as long as you now and then croak out a few words that might be Swedish and boast about your Scandinavian (or Nordic) roots. We find that charming, it seems. But it's not charming if you brag about being American.

Thank you Amarië. Croak is exactly the right word! I keep trying to bend my mouth into those strange vowel sounds only because it seems to make you all smile, and I know I'll never get that soft G right, or some of those R sounds. Shocked

Oh, and I have absolutely no sense of your grammar, which seems to only add to the entertainment value. Laughing

Among the older generation here in America the Norsk/Svensk division sometimes runs deep, and I found when traveling in Norway it was sometimes best not to acknowledge my grandmothers' Swedish roots. But on the other hand I had the privilege to have some long talks with some of the old Norwegians who had lived through the war as children, starving while they watched the ore ships from Narvik carrying Swedish iron to Nazi Germany, and others who remembered their parents telling them about the Swedes rebuilding Finmark after the Germans burned everything. In the North they seemed to talk about these things like they happened yesterday. With these people I was always honest. It's only right.

I guess that's kind of why I wanted to come out from behind the sofa here in Forumshire.... Sofa

by **Amarië** Wed Apr 10, 2013 4:17 pm

Oh don't worry, I'm not a Swedophobic. We have furniture from IKEA and there was a Swede working at the pharmacy and I still bought stuff so we are like totally fine with it.

Sweden being "neutral" during the war is quite a sore spot. A stab in the back for some, how could our brothers do such a thing?

But for the younger generations Sweden is the source of cheap jokes, alcohol, candy and meat and, recently, "party Swedes", young folks who comes here for a while to work as waiters and such and to party hard.

So my first thought was to say something like: "You're Swedish!?! But you sound so intelligent!"
(Of course, if I was smarter I'd come up with a good joke." Swed jokes seems to have gone out of fashion, but I think perhaps the Party Sweds have brought it back...

)

by Norc Wed Apr 10, 2013 4:38 pm

azriel wrote:Going back to the pictures Norc, that guy is optomistic a bus WILL come along ? He's practically BURIED in that bus shelter !

yeah.. but they do Shocked

i am as shocked as you.they crash all the time (new bus-company, they don't know when to put chains on the wheels) they crashed today too, my friend (irca in fact) was almost stabbed by a metal pole coming in through the window.
Tales of Home [1] - Page 29 20130410_083013_4822093a

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http://www.nordlys.no/nyheter/article6595060.ece

by **Amarië** Wed Apr 10, 2013 4:42 pm

Damn, saw a picture of that. Scary!

by Norc Wed Apr 10, 2013 4:45 pm

michael persbrandt!

by **Amarië** Wed Apr 10, 2013 4:46 pm

by Norc Wed Apr 10, 2013 4:48 pm

chris63 wrote:Love the piks Norc. Was 37℃ here monday and where supposed to be coming into winter soon.

yeah, enjoy, we have lovely snow to ski in so suck on that . with only two days practise on slalom, i am a master. srlsy. norwegians are born with skiis on their legs.

btw. pikk means dick.

by Norc Wed Apr 10, 2013 4:51 pm

David H wrote:
Amarië wrote:

We wont hold that against you, Dave, as long as you now and then croak out a few words that might be Swedish and boast about your Scandinavian (or Nordic) roots. We find that charming, it seems. But it's not charming if you brag about being American.

Thank you Amarië. Croak is exactly the right word! I keep trying to bend my mouth into those strange vowel sounds only because it seems to make you all smile, and I know I'll never get that soft G right, or some of those R sounds. Oh, and I have absolutely no sense of your grammar, which seems to only add to the entertainment value.

Among the older generation here in America the Norsk/Svensk division sometimes runs deep, and I found when traveling in Norway it was sometimes best not to acknowledge my grandmothers' Swedish roots. But on the other hand I had the privilege to have some long talks with some of the old Norwegians who had lived through the war as children, starving while they watched the ore ships from Narvik carrying Swedish iron to Nazi Germany, and others who remembered their parents telling them about the Swedes rebuilding Finmark after the Germans burned everything. In the North they seemed to talk about these things like they happened yesterday. With these people I was always honest. It's only right.

I guess that's kind of why I wanted to come out from behind the sofa here in Forumshire....

well.. the war isn't that long ago. My grandparents still remember.

by Mrs Figg Wed Apr 10, 2013 5:16 pm

OI! take care on those buses Norc. thats a really horrible thing that iron bar coming through the window.

by David H Wed Apr 10, 2013 5:23 pm

David H wrote:In the North they seemed to talk about these things like they happened yesterday.

Norc wrote: well.. the war isn't that long ago.

That's exactly my point! Nod

Edit: I should say we're the same where I live. 100 years isn't so long ago.
I know many of my families stories of fighting in Europe and suffering under the rationing at home. I think the people of your grandparents' generation would sometimes tell me their war stories only because I was willing tell my family's stories. We seemed to understand history the same way. Sharing stories helps everybody put their own stories into a greater context.

by David H Wed Apr 10, 2013 6:02 pm

I just watched that video Amarie. I'm pretty sure I'm NOT a Party Swede. Suspect

by chris63 Thu Apr 11, 2013 3:06 am

Norc wrote:
chris63 wrote:Love the piks Norc. Was 37℃ here monday and where supposed to be coming into winter soon.

yeah, enjoy, we have lovely snow to ski in so suck on that . with only two days practise on slalom, i am a master. srlsy. norwegians are born with skiis on their legs.

btw. pikk means dick.

by azriel Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:27 am

As much as that is such a scarey,dangerous thing to happen, your Country is amazing ! Well worth a visit when I can one day !!

by Norc Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:31 am

well... naaah... yes. yes it is.

by azriel Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:49 am

I love the "whatever" attitude I feel from your pics & posts, It feels like...yeah, avalanche happened,lost the bakery,but Il just get my cakes at the shop down the road.......

by Norc Thu Apr 11, 2013 12:01 pm

haha, well, i do take the avalanges seriously, though i was out skiing yesterday. it was so windy on the top you couldn't see the tracks. it was awesome.

by azriel Thu Apr 11, 2013 12:59 pm

by Norc Thu Apr 11, 2013 1:21 pm

by Mrs Figg Thu Apr 11, 2013 1:50 pm

omg freezing brrrrrr! I hate snow

by Norc Thu Apr 11, 2013 1:51 pm

ssh.. snow's great, man.

by Eldorion Thu Apr 11, 2013 3:03 pm

After snowing here just like two weeks ago we had two back to back days of 90 degree weather (32 in Celsius). Now we're back down to the 60s and apparently the weekend will be even cooler. Sadly that's pretty much par for the course for schizophrenic Maryland springtime weather. Rolling Eyes