Ask actual janitors/cleaners which public toilet they prefer cleaning, the answer is almost universally the guys toilet.
Ask male barstaff which kind of venue causes the most disruptions and inappropriate behaviour, the answer is almost universally hen parties.
You can then do the same and ask the staff of gay bars which the same women will still crash those places.
Public services despise Karen types and a combination of alcohol plus society treating them with kiddy gloves means constant abuse and harassment from them that rarely if ever gets addressed.
Lol, I just had a Swedish girl this morning try the “because I’m a woman” approach to demanding first dibs on something (not important what. We both paid for it), even though I was there first…
I just laughed and walked away. She just sighed and moaned.
Not middle-aged, but looked exactly like the type of girl you would expect to do that (glasses, bullring). Just thought it was rather amusing…
I ain’t giving you priority just coz you’ve got tits, love. 🖕🏻
Also, for the non-Nordic people out there, like me...
Sweden doesn't really have personal/private laundries, like is the expected norm in most Western countries. Unless you're very wealthy, you just don't.
Living in a house, rather than an apartment, is unusual. Even in small towns. Therefore everyone is relying on these shitty communal laundries in their apartment buildings, and fighting over one or two machines for hundreds of people.
Because laundries are seen as "luxury items". As are cars. As are houses. As are fucking enclosed showers (i.e. not just a wet room).
But no public laundromats either. Because that would mean a) cash, and b) having to potentially talk to strangers, both of which are anathema to the "Swedish condition", in modernity...
This is a very fucking strange place, I gotta say. Like, fuck, you think Western Europe is "foreign"..? Try living here.
The 1970s (when "socialism" first came here, and the government began seizing property and demolishing private houses) have so much to answer for, in this stupid country...
Any country where windowless bedrooms (technically illegal in pretty much all Anglo countries, including the US) are not just legal, but encouraged, is no "socialist utopia", whatever the propaganda may say...
Sweden doesn't really have personal/private laundries, like is the expected norm in most Western countries. Unless you're very wealthy, you just don't.
Today I learnt that I was very wealthy :D, More seriously though you are not wrong in regards to most apartment blocks got this communal laundry mat. But in later years this has been moving away to some extent and even some apartments due to the problems with modern culture has been upgrade to have it inside.
Still private laundries are nowhere to be found. And yes cash is almost not used by the old people these days and we are pushing the digital ID.
Example of communal laundry there was another video someone linked with example of the system (Government monopoly on alcohol) among other things.
Any country where windowless bedrooms (technically illegal in pretty much all Anglo countries, including the US) are not just legal, but encouraged, is no "socialist utopia", whatever the propaganda may say...
You want to have the privacy to evade the quarrel created by the booking and usage of the communal laundry, it also helps against people throwing nades into your window xD
Slight rant, but I hate the communal laundry system... It is the dumbest, most open-to-abuse thing I have seen in a long time...
Allows for ridiculous shit like the bitch from yesterday booking out six hours over the course of two days, and then deliberately only using half the laundry for a brief time, but still complaining that someone impinged upon "her booking" (because again, I got there first, and I was finishing up when she arrived), and then to still fuck with everyone else (like she did with my washing), and keep her stuff in the dryer all afternoon...
Because unfortunately that's the reality of human interaction, and a system like this (plus not knowing your neighbours, because Sweden) opens the whole thing up to obvious abuse...
It feels, no offence, but very Swedish, to me. To just assume that a system like this will work, because "people respect each other" and "that's just how it is". And then to sweep it under the carpet when the "system" breaks down, ugh...
I had an ex who lived in an apartment building with the same system, in Sydney, but that was probably only 20-30 people sharing, so it was slightly less crazy. But yeah, even that experience, of staying with her, was enough to put me off the whole idea, lol.
I really don't understand why the garbage room is locked up, but the laundry is just open to the whole building like that. That's bizarre, to me.
It's kind of more like the opposite, in Aus, for the most part, tbh.
One positive thing I will say, though, is that people massively exaggerate how bad winter is, here (at least in Svealand and south of here. I haven't been particularly far north, sadly).
Like, if this country just embraced Winter more, and didn't attempt to hide from it/close everything for most of the day (lol at 11:00 to 16:00 opening hours), then it really wouldn't be that bad.
The weather is not the problem, IMHO... It's the weird fear of winter that is more "problematic", I feel. At least once you get used to the early sunset, which took me... Maybe one month, to adjust?
But yeah, maybe the "winter is coming" fear made sense for a culture of agrarian people, but not when you live in a city of a few hundred thousand, lol.
I will admit that it was incredibly depressing living out in "proper" rural Sweden for a while, when it started to get dark and cold. So I get that bit I guess. That sucked.
I can certainly attest to royally hating having a bedroom with a window facing East. Turns your room into a sauna at 7 or 8 AM until maybe the early afternoon, and without some really strong shades your room will turn into the brightest light show just about every morning.
Update to this: This is a communal laundry situation (unfortunately).
Bitch followed up by taking my wet, not-yet-fully-washed clothes out of the washing machine, dumping them, and writing me a passive-aggressive note saying that next time she would throw my clothes away, for "disrespecting her", which she left on top of the clothes...
Amazing. Extraordinary levels of entitlement. And this was after I tried to help, this morning, by warning her that one of the dryers in said communal laundry wasn't working properly...
Actual definition of "nasty woman". What no sex and 50 years of hardcore feminism disguised as "equality" does to a mofo, I suppose.
But still, wow...
You just don't usually experience that level of sheer pettiness in similar situations in Aus. In general. That's a cultural thing, and it's nasty...
Bitch followed up by taking my wet, not-yet-fully-washed clothes out of the washing machine, dumping them, and writing me a passive-aggressive note saying that next time she would throw my clothes away, for "disrespecting her", which she left on top of the clothes...
So she was dumb enough to leave evidence of what she just did to you. Use it.
Ask actual janitors/cleaners which public toilet they prefer cleaning, the answer is almost universally the guys toilet.
Ask male barstaff which kind of venue causes the most disruptions and inappropriate behaviour, the answer is almost universally hen parties.
You can then do the same and ask the staff of gay bars which the same women will still crash those places.
Public services despise Karen types and a combination of alcohol plus society treating them with kiddy gloves means constant abuse and harassment from them that rarely if ever gets addressed.
Lol, I just had a Swedish girl this morning try the “because I’m a woman” approach to demanding first dibs on something (not important what. We both paid for it), even though I was there first…
I just laughed and walked away. She just sighed and moaned.
Not middle-aged, but looked exactly like the type of girl you would expect to do that (glasses, bullring). Just thought it was rather amusing…
I ain’t giving you priority just coz you’ve got tits, love. 🖕🏻
Also, for the non-Nordic people out there, like me...
Sweden doesn't really have personal/private laundries, like is the expected norm in most Western countries. Unless you're very wealthy, you just don't.
Living in a house, rather than an apartment, is unusual. Even in small towns. Therefore everyone is relying on these shitty communal laundries in their apartment buildings, and fighting over one or two machines for hundreds of people.
Because laundries are seen as "luxury items". As are cars. As are houses. As are fucking enclosed showers (i.e. not just a wet room).
But no public laundromats either. Because that would mean a) cash, and b) having to potentially talk to strangers, both of which are anathema to the "Swedish condition", in modernity...
This is a very fucking strange place, I gotta say. Like, fuck, you think Western Europe is "foreign"..? Try living here.
The 1970s (when "socialism" first came here, and the government began seizing property and demolishing private houses) have so much to answer for, in this stupid country...
Any country where windowless bedrooms (technically illegal in pretty much all Anglo countries, including the US) are not just legal, but encouraged, is no "socialist utopia", whatever the propaganda may say...
Today I learnt that I was very wealthy :D, More seriously though you are not wrong in regards to most apartment blocks got this communal laundry mat. But in later years this has been moving away to some extent and even some apartments due to the problems with modern culture has been upgrade to have it inside.
Still private laundries are nowhere to be found. And yes cash is almost not used by the old people these days and we are pushing the digital ID.
Example of communal laundry there was another video someone linked with example of the system (Government monopoly on alcohol) among other things.
You want to have the privacy to evade the quarrel created by the booking and usage of the communal laundry, it also helps against people throwing nades into your window xD
Slight rant, but I hate the communal laundry system... It is the dumbest, most open-to-abuse thing I have seen in a long time...
Allows for ridiculous shit like the bitch from yesterday booking out six hours over the course of two days, and then deliberately only using half the laundry for a brief time, but still complaining that someone impinged upon "her booking" (because again, I got there first, and I was finishing up when she arrived), and then to still fuck with everyone else (like she did with my washing), and keep her stuff in the dryer all afternoon...
Because unfortunately that's the reality of human interaction, and a system like this (plus not knowing your neighbours, because Sweden) opens the whole thing up to obvious abuse...
It feels, no offence, but very Swedish, to me. To just assume that a system like this will work, because "people respect each other" and "that's just how it is". And then to sweep it under the carpet when the "system" breaks down, ugh...
I had an ex who lived in an apartment building with the same system, in Sydney, but that was probably only 20-30 people sharing, so it was slightly less crazy. But yeah, even that experience, of staying with her, was enough to put me off the whole idea, lol.
I really don't understand why the garbage room is locked up, but the laundry is just open to the whole building like that. That's bizarre, to me.
It's kind of more like the opposite, in Aus, for the most part, tbh.
One positive thing I will say, though, is that people massively exaggerate how bad winter is, here (at least in Svealand and south of here. I haven't been particularly far north, sadly).
Like, if this country just embraced Winter more, and didn't attempt to hide from it/close everything for most of the day (lol at 11:00 to 16:00 opening hours), then it really wouldn't be that bad.
The weather is not the problem, IMHO... It's the weird fear of winter that is more "problematic", I feel. At least once you get used to the early sunset, which took me... Maybe one month, to adjust?
But yeah, maybe the "winter is coming" fear made sense for a culture of agrarian people, but not when you live in a city of a few hundred thousand, lol.
I will admit that it was incredibly depressing living out in "proper" rural Sweden for a while, when it started to get dark and cold. So I get that bit I guess. That sucked.
And so I left there, ahaha...
Huh, I always kind of preferred sleeping in a room without windows, maybe I’m psychotic?
I can certainly attest to royally hating having a bedroom with a window facing East. Turns your room into a sauna at 7 or 8 AM until maybe the early afternoon, and without some really strong shades your room will turn into the brightest light show just about every morning.
Update to this: This is a communal laundry situation (unfortunately).
Bitch followed up by taking my wet, not-yet-fully-washed clothes out of the washing machine, dumping them, and writing me a passive-aggressive note saying that next time she would throw my clothes away, for "disrespecting her", which she left on top of the clothes...
Amazing. Extraordinary levels of entitlement. And this was after I tried to help, this morning, by warning her that one of the dryers in said communal laundry wasn't working properly...
Actual definition of "nasty woman". What no sex and 50 years of hardcore feminism disguised as "equality" does to a mofo, I suppose.
But still, wow...
You just don't usually experience that level of sheer pettiness in similar situations in Aus. In general. That's a cultural thing, and it's nasty...
So she was dumb enough to leave evidence of what she just did to you. Use it.