Fjordlandia Viking bar & kaffistove, main str. 221B, Needlehole [2]

halfwise wrote:  I'm sure the vikings were quite terrifying until they got to the war cry bit.  Then it was all "Angrep! Drepe! ...Bjork!!" and the English all fell over laughing and were slaughtered.

 

norrønt/norse is a very fun language to look into though..

They just did a feature of male and female fashion tips for the Fjordlandian Christmas Party season on Fjordlandian afternoon television.

It certainly was ... an eyeopener.

A Canadian Polar Bear. I thought this was a great picture. Like the Dead Marshes, but with bears instead of elven warriors.  

Thats amazing.  

Bluebottle wrote:They just did a feature of male and female fashion tips for the Fjordlandian Christmas Party season on Fjordlandian afternoon television.

It certainly was ... an eyeopener.

what?? 


great photo of that bear

Do Fjordian fashion tips include horned helmets?

And the bear photo is very cool.

In among all the stuff on Scottish independence on the BBC website today I found this article which I thought might interest-

Stand on the quayside at Aberdeen and you are closer, geographically, to Stavanger in Norway than you are to London.
But the Nordic country that is arguably most similar to Scotland is Norway. If you'd sailed into Oslo 30 years ago, you'd have passed shipyards and marine workshops on the waterfront.

They were, by then, already in terminal decline. There was a lot of public pressure on the government to use the country's new oil wealth to rescue the industry and save jobs. It didn't happen. Norway, ruthlessly, let its declining old industries die.

For Norway understood very early that its oil wealth, if mismanaged, would be a curse rather than a blessing. Windfall resources like that can have the effect of so inflating a nation's currency, that every other sector of the productive economy becomes uncompetitive and collapses.

Norway's political parties entered into a self-denying pact. They agreed not to spend a penny of the oil revenues in Norway itself. So they save it all instead, investing in companies overseas.

Its oil fund is now worth £400bn. What's more 96% of the interest on that fund is reinvested in it. The Norwegians allow themselves to spend only 4% of the interest each year - and none of the capital. But even that is enough to pay for 10% of the annual public budget.

Norway declared independence from Sweden in 1905. There was tension between the two nations and even the threat of war. But there were negotiations at the end of which the Swedish King renounced his claim to the Norwegian throne, in effect dissolving what had been a United Kingdom.

Echoes of that tension remain. The Norwegian journalist Marie Simenson worked for a time as her newspaper's correspondent in London, and reported from Scotland during the 1997 referendum campaign.

She told me: "Norwegians used to have an inferiority complex about the Swedes.

"The Swedes were the big brother of the Nordic countries. They ruled over Norway till 1905. It's still there especially among older people - the Swedes seem more posh, more sophisticated, and we are still like farmers and fishermen and so forth.
"I saw these same traits in the Scottish view of England. The Scots are like the Norwegians - they are outgoing and so on, but if you push their buttons, they're a bit touchy. It's the same with the Swedes. In sport, it is the most important thing to beat the Swedes."
Norway's former foreign minister, Jonas Store, told me: "We were told that we were doomed in the new global economy.
"But we've seen over these last years that the Nordic countries come out on top when it comes to innovation, creating new businesses, and flexibility.
"We have higher employment, sounder public finances, safe and solid public welfare, because we have unions that take collective responsibility and strike responsible deals. We have a high level of social capital, as well as financial capital."- BBC

A fair overview?

Norc wrote:

Bluebottle wrote:They just did a feature of male and female fashion tips for the Fjordlandian Christmas Party season on Fjordlandian afternoon television.

It certainly was ... an eyeopener.

what??

Let's just say it featured external silicon enhancers in more than two places.  

fair review, yes, perhaps, i can't compare it to scotland though

Bluebottle wrote:

Norc wrote:

Bluebottle wrote:They just did a feature of male and female fashion tips for the Fjordlandian Christmas Party season on Fjordlandian afternoon television.

It certainly was ... an eyeopener.

what??

Let's just say it featured external silicon enhancers in more than two places.  

Oh, and the trick of wearing two bras at once to make your breasts look bigger. And, yeah, more tips along those lines.

Safe to say, all my illusions were shattered.  

Eldorion wrote:Do Fjordian fashion tips include horned helmets?

Seemingly not, Eldo.  


Now that stuff can't be commonplace, surely?

illusions blue.. illusions

although wearing two bras can work, getting a cool clivache and all, it can also result that it looks like u have four boobs..or really flat ones..

 

I'll keep that in mind.  

It was the rear external silicon enhancer that came as the biggest shock though. At some point you just end up thinking, what's the point.

Now what if I tell you that you can get the same items, only for men? Hold in, push up, fake abs, underwear that lifts and um accentuates.

and it's settled... i will use this in the fan.- woops spoilers..

It did seem to tie in quite well with your picture.   (Though that's might not be what you're refering to.  )

Amarië wrote:Now what if I tell you that you can get the same items, only for men? Hold in, push up, fake abs, underwear that lifts and um accentuates.

Amarïe; I would laugh, and then go to get my vaulet.

(Ps. I might very likely not do the second part being to busy with the first.)

How completely pointless.   

Bluebottle wrote:It did seem to tie in quite well with your picture.   (Though that's might not be what you're refering to.  )

oi... what are you trying to say.. ?

 

Ha. I can see it can be read that way, but I wouldn't intimate that surely.   It would have been a lot more amusing than what I was trying to say, though.  

And we know from the fanfiction that Ringo doesn't need it and Nora looks very pretty and natural in that picture so probably isn't using it. Which only leaves us with the posibility of Eldo.

He did say he was looking a little to handsome in that picture.   

(In reality I was only pointing out the coincidence. Didn't mean to intimate any such amusing things at all.)

yesh, i got that  


we'll see what happens when i write that thing i'm planning

Ooh.

I'm really looking forward to it.  

(Though I might be said to have good reasons not to.  )

Snø!  

http://www.yr.no/sted/Norge/Oslo/Oslo/Blindern/

HAHA! LOL!













it rains here

I detest rain in winter, so pointless.  

We had 13+ degrees today.   Warmest November day in 100 years.

Friday looks good, though. And for you as well:

http://www.yr.no/sted/Norge/Troms/Troms%C3%B8/Troms%C3%B8/

meeh, it's alright.. i bit too warm. but at least it'll snow

Though it looks like that is all we'll get in a good long time.  

http://www.yr.no/sted/Norge/Oslo/Oslo/Blindern/langtidsvarsel.html

That's it. I'm moving to Tromsø.