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> In other words, it's like living in a Nordic country. What’s this about? Do Scandinavians have a reputation of being fake or something?
by omscs99 3y ago
> In other words, it's like living in a Nordic country.
What’s this about? Do Scandinavians have a reputation of being fake or something?
- low_tech_love 3y agoThey have a reputation of being real; that is the problem.
- jjgreen 3y agoThe Finnish word kalsarikännit means "that feeling when you are going to get drunk at home, alone, in your underwear — with no intention of going out" (I am given to understand)
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- 2143 3y agoI'm confused and curious. Please elaborate if you don't mind. What happens afterwards?
- edgyquant 3y agoPresumably you go so sleep
- jjgreen 3y agoNordics (in particular the Finns) are renown for their heavy drinking to the extent that their disapproving states try to price them out of the habit. They don't care and get pissed anyway, which I find endearing, and real in a nice way. More details: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/style/pants-drunk-time.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/style/pants-drunk-time.ht... What happens afterwards? Yeah, just fall asleep (probably in the chair).
- 2143 3y agoHuh. Thanks.
- low_tech_love 3y agoIt’s endearing from an external perspective because of how the narrative sounds to outsiders (“the government is protecting the citizens from themselves”). The inside truth is much less romantic: Nordic governments are authoritative and jump at any opportunity to tax the hell out of their citizens. Nordics don’t drink even remotely as much as for example Germans and I don’t see Germany in trouble for that. They get away with it because Nordic people live in a golden cage and as long as you conform and lower your head, everything kind of moves forward comfortably.