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[Flop]

Tom Henrik, on Jun 17 2005, 02:51 PM, said:

Let's not turn this into an argument about which place is the best, people. This is meant to be a fun topic about strange customs, not to throw crap at eachother.

Well, I honestly don't think I was throwing crap at anyone, but if I did I apologize.

Anyway, with regards to the guy who initially developed Nynorsk, I believe he was called Ivar Aasen. Kirkegaard was actually Danish (if we're thinking of the same guy).

But what about højnorsk and rigsmål? I never quite understood if those were to be considered different languages, like nynorsk and bokmål, or if they're just dialects.

[A. J. Raffles]

Well, we were taught that riksmål was basically the old name for a slightly older version of bokmål (i.e. Bokmål 0.9. ). Dunno if that's true, though.

[DeathDude]

Hmm seeing a lot of U.S questions, well if anyone wants to throw across a Canada question that's cool cough cough , I can probably explain some of em.  

[Tom Henrik]

Flop, on Jun 17 2005, 02:43 PM, said:

Anyway, with regards to the guy who initially developed Nynorsk, I believe he was called Ivar Aasen. Kirkegaard was actually Danish (if we're thinking of the same guy).

Hmm... I think you are right. Well, that's how much I know about Norwegian History

It is extremely boring to say the truth

[taikara]

Just so you guys know, I was an East Asian studies major with a concentration in Japanese... so if you want to ask questions about Japan, I'll do my best to answer in lieu of any Japanese members.

Flop said:

Yes, sadly. Is it true that black people are still treated like crap in the US?

It depends on where you are. In some places, black people are treated like crap, although that's really not the majority anymore. In other places, black people treat white people like crap, but again, I wouldn't necessarily say that's the majority.

I would be more likely to say that in America, everybody treats everybody like crap to some extent. We do not discriminate when it comes to behaving badly

But really, you could probably say that about a lot of places, not just America. But I don't live in other places... I live here

[A. J. Raffles]

DeathDude, on Jun 17 2005, 03:55 PM, said:

Hmm seeing a lot of U.S questions, well if anyone wants to throw across a Canada question that's cool cough cough , I can probably explain some of em. 

Is it true that the Canadian government pays people who do nothing but to spot, divert (and sometimes destroy) icebergs? That should be cool enough.

[DeathDude]

Honestly I have never heard of such a thing in my entire life, but it could very well be possible, knowing how my government operates, I wouldn't put it past them to do something like that and waste our tax dollars.

[Flop]

I have a question for you DeathDude: How close to the mark is Trailer Park Boys? Do you have trailer parks like that and, more importantly, are the people who live there like in the show (I'm guessing no, but I just had to ask ). I love that show, BTW, it blows most ÚS sitcoms out of the water.

[DeathDude]

Well unfortuantely I myself have never seen an actual trailer park like the one they have on trailer park boys, is it like that? Couldn't honestly say, it's a possibilty I suppose, but no clue, none around where I live anyway.

As for the show itself, yeah it's a freakin great show, definitely one of the best shows on tv right now, very cool.

[Stroggy]

Triton, on Jun 17 2005, 02:46 AM, said:

Is it true that anti-Semitism lives on throughout much of Europe?

Not as strong as it used to be, it's usually veiled.
I think most attacks these days are perpetrated by immigrants from the Middle East.

[Puffin]

To answer the first question:

Okey. First, you hunt yourself a shark. Do NOT eat it immediately, you'll die. You have to wait couple of months or so.

You cut it down in pieces, the ones my grandpa used to make were shaped like bread. Blessed be his memory.
So. You cut it. You put it in vacuum packings, then bury it. For months. Then you take it up, most people cut it in little squares and eat with toothpics. I used to eat it in bigger slices, like bread. Now I settle for the dices.

Beware, the smell is horrible. The taste is even worse. But you're not a real man ( ) unless you eat shark   

So, GO ON ALL AND GET YOURSELF A SHARK AND FOLLOW THIS BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO SHARK-EATING!!!!  


About incest: You can marry your second cousin here. But it's not popular. But seeing how small nation we are, everybody are somehow related, and you can actually find out how. We have this online database over all icelanders, and you can see the family trees and how everybody connect. I'm a direct decendant of Egill Skallagrímsson, one of the most psychotic guy of all times. He commited his first murder at the age of 3. He was also a poet.

[Triton]

Flop, on Jun 18 2005, 01:07 AM, said:

I have a question for you DeathDude: How close to the mark is Trailer Park Boys? Do you have trailer parks like that and, more importantly, are the people who live there like in the show (I'm guessing no, but I just had to ask ). I love that show, BTW, it blows most ÚS sitcoms out of the water.

There's never anything good on TV anymore, and movies are crap these days.

[Stroggy]

I don't think a lot of people know this, but in some parts here in belgium it is common to eat raw chopped meat called Fillet Americain.

[Flop]

Stroggy, on Jun 22 2005, 10:52 AM, said:

I don't think a lot of people know this, but in some parts here in belgium it is common to eat raw chopped meat called Fillet Americain.

Isn't that tartar? If so I've been served it a couple of times, when visiting my family in Belgium.

I've never enjoyed it, though.

[Stroggy]

No, not exactly.