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Jaybro

Social climber

Wolf City, Wyoming

Mar 19, 2011 - 10:20am PT

Oh Man! Funny stuff!

Spider Savage

Mountain climber

SoCal

Mar 19, 2011 - 10:31am PT

I love comics!

Cool rainy Los Angeles morning. Mist & clouds draping the mountains. Really good espresso from fine Mexican beans. Long cooking Irish oatmeal. And Euro Comics. A great day. Later I'm going to go work on selling more Chinese made stuff to my fellow Americans.

We are keeping an eye on you Lolli.

Mighty Hiker

climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Mar 19, 2011 - 12:55pm PT

Thanks, Lolli - awesome! Though the dry, introspective humour may somewhat escape some from the US.

Do you have links for the site(s) the cartoons came from?

Oxymoron

Big Wall climber

total Disarray

Mar 19, 2011 - 01:03pm PT

Peruse the initial post, DoofusKong.

HighTraverse

Trad climber

Bay Area

Mar 19, 2011 - 01:55pm PT

the stereotypical Swedish woman is radically different from the stereotypical Swedish man. In fact, she is the complete opposite of everything the Swedish man stands for, so Sweden is not particular proud of her.

that explains a LOT!
;-)

Lolli: we need a national flag translator to get the most out of these. I'm afraid most of us 'Mericans don't recognize European flags.
LOVE the freedom hating Communist hippie Nazi one
And "boobs". We really ARE that hung up about sex.

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Full Silos of Iowa

Mar 19, 2011 - 02:04pm PT

Lolli,

LOL!

We Americans easily forget the European inter-relations. Man, the world of humans is a big place!

Still haven't reviewed the last third, saving those for dessert.

Mighty Hiker

climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Mar 19, 2011 - 02:16pm PT

What fun!

Syttende mai (May 17th) is Norway's constitution day, and a huge event. A significant fraction of the country's population attends parades and events around the country. The largest is that on Karl Johan Gate, the main street in Oslo, which leads from the Storting (parliament) to the palace. 5 - 10% of the population of the country is present.

Norway's independence day is actually June 7th, the date in 1905 when the country regained full independence after 90 years of union with Sweden, and before that 300 years of domination by Denmark. It's also the date on which Norway became free in 1945, after five years of occupation by the Germans. (There were several hundred thousand Germans in Norway at the end of the war, and it took a while to disarm them all and start shipping them home. Though there were secret talks between the resistance and the German military in early 1945 about what to do, plus (finally) some active help from Sweden in the last year or two of the war.)

HighTraverse

Trad climber

Bay Area

Mar 19, 2011 - 03:13pm PT

"The big story around here these days is that America have been spying on civilians in European countries without informing the government. It all started when Norway found out about it, and then other countries started looking into it and found that Americans had indeed been spying on civilians in their country.

I'd never have known that from the US news.

But there was one thing America didn’t count on: A nation just as terror-paranoid as them. Denmark to be exact. There the government found out about the spying and sent out Danish agents to spy on the American agents.

I used to work for a large Danish corporation. Nice people, intelligent, highly ethical. Don't mess with Danes. That's about the way I'd expect them to react! Good on 'em.

perswig

climber

Mar 20, 2011 - 08:28am PT

Good stuff (Estonia threw me).

Thanks for the brief deconstructs, too.
Dale

HighTraverse

Trad climber

Bay Area

Mar 21, 2011 - 03:40pm PT

Wait a minute!
Are you humon?
(that whole website is pretty d*(()AAd funny)

Brandon-

climber

Done With Tobacco

Mar 21, 2011 - 04:06pm PT

Few things make me laugh out loud at my computer, but that last one did.

bergbryce

Mountain climber

Oakland

Mar 21, 2011 - 04:09pm PT

what's the point of perpetuating useless stereo types in a thread like this??

Jaybro

Social climber

Wolf City, Wyoming

Mar 21, 2011 - 04:09pm PT

Mother Canada is hot....

Vitaliy M.

Mountain climber

San Francisco

Mar 21, 2011 - 04:24pm PT

Lolli finds another climbing site to spam with her USA hating bullsh#t...what a surprise.

bergbryce

Mountain climber

Oakland

Mar 21, 2011 - 04:32pm PT

I really didn't bother looking past the first one or two. Stereotypes are just that and not very useful unless your goal is to create divisions among peeps.

Brandon-

climber

Done With Tobacco

Mar 21, 2011 - 04:34pm PT

Really? If you can't laugh at yourself who can you laugh at?

Really?

rottingjohnny

Sport climber

mammoth lakes ca

Mar 21, 2011 - 04:37pm PT

My mom and her brothers were called block-headed swedes when they were growing up on their dairy during the depression...back then no one took these jabs seriously but now everyone freaks out...rj

Vitaliy M.

Mountain climber

San Francisco

Mar 21, 2011 - 04:51pm PT

Lola, no one 'threw me out.'
I do not need to wait for a year to call someone's BS. You joined both sites to contribute nothing but OT crap regarding politics etc. Disgusting...And as Chief said in one of SP threads-hardest climbs of your life are out of your bed, so why are you on these sites?