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there is just this one small problem with the Swiss, Swedes, and Danes – they have no sense of humor…might be why everything in their countries works since they don’t know how to make fun of it
I kindof resent this fact… ok yes most Swedes don’t have much of a sense of humour… but just cause we do is no excuse… “argh ya our infrastructure is crap but we get locked yyeehh and we’ve got guinness yyeehh and we have the craic yyeehh”
The people in charge, ie architects, engineers, planners etc etc are serious people and take their jobs seriously… just because we have a sense of humour as a race of people gives us no excuse for having a shit transport system…
Granted we were a poor country for a long time, a fact that is probably forgotten about now, but still we have to get our act together…
Kinda like the ‘stiffy near the liffey’… not much dignity but what the hell !!
Goes easy on the stereotypes folks. they may appear to us to have no sense of humour, ie language barrier and all that……but I’m sure when they are among their own ilk they are a bundle of laughs. It’s the Brits who and have perpetrated such dogmas about Johnny Foreigner via the Sun newspaper etc.
I agree – I know plenty of Danes and Swedes and they have a great sense of humour….just a little different from ours. More importantly they also know how to order their society properly! Their transport works! Their roads are not congested with boy racers! They dont live in very expensive, crap cardboard houses! And they dont foul their country with litter and waste!
Re the stereotypes: well have been living in Sweden for two years now… have lots of friends who have a great sense of humour, but even they admit that as a country it is pretty dry… anyway that’s not the point… point being that we as a nation have to get our act together…
Originally posted by StephenC
I agree – I know plenty of Danes and Swedes and they have a great sense of humour….just a little different from ours. More importantly they also know how to order their society properly! Their transport works! Their roads are not congested with boy racers! They dont live in very expensive, crap cardboard houses! And they dont foul their country with litter and waste!I couldn’t have said it better myself!!!
Originally posted by GregF
Goes easy on the stereotypes folks. they may appear to us to have no sense of humour, ie language barrier and all that……but I’m sure when they are among their own ilk they are a bundle of laughs. It’s the Brits who and have perpetrated such dogmas about Johnny Foreigner via the Sun newspaper etc.I’m not getting at you, in fact I think I agree with you, but I love the irony – ask people to be nice to foreigners and not act like the dirty brits.
Very Oirish as Kelvin McKenzie might say…
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