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...
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.
Sounds like camping in Australia, in about six months of the year...
Almost literally impossible to sleep past 6:30am, ha. Great if you want to get up for a hike - not so good if you've been drinking around the campfire, or you're at a festival, from extensive experience, lol.
But yeah, we don't generally build with East-facing windows, for exactly this reason.
I mean, Korra got pretty "woke" towards the end there, with the alphabet soup shit, so this is not that surprising, unfortunately...
As a fan of the OG series, the first few Korra seasons were ok, but man did it really fall off a quality cliff/jump the shark, storyline-wise, there (much like GOT, I guess)...
But yeah, this is much, much more blatant, obviously, lol...
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...
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...
The left's determination to connect everything and everyone they don't like really has reached new levels of desperation, hasn't it..?
And this isn't even some obscure far left group/nobody, this is the fucking Rolling Stone (apparently)...
Madness.
Appreciation of beauty makes you a fascist sympathizer now. Because of course it does (in their minds)...
I briefly considered going to "Design School". Went to an Open Day, saw the type of shit that students were producing for their final projects, and had a similar visceral reaction...
Though at least "Industrial Design" has the potential to be useful, arguably...
Pity that the type of students attracted to it are busy wanting to "change the world", rather than actually doing shit better or more efficiently, but still...
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. 🖕🏻
This is a pretty weird way to cover for the fact that Gemini fucked up those historical images this week, lol…
If this is an attempt at “covering arse”, it’s a pretty poor one, to say the least…
Yeah, I know. Guess I should have tagged it as “Old”.
I think he left in 2022, though. Like halfway through the season or some shit…
But yeah, 10 seasons, though it stops being actually watchable without becoming pure cringe around… Season 6, or 7. After that it… Never recovered.
Should really have ended when the grandfather died (IRL, George Segal of course), but anyway…
As the other comment says, probably "post-wall women" in general...
She genuinely seems like a nasty piece of work. She always has. And extremely thin-skinned, too. Anytime anyone would say anything even remotely critical of that show on, say, Twitter, she would be out attacking them and even threatening legal action...
Also odd that she went from "star" of said show to one of the head writers, by the end, so perhaps she got rid of Garlin as some sort of "rival" or "threat" to her star power...
Who fucking knows, honestly.
Oh, they're both Jews, btw, for the people in the back. At least, I believe so. I mean, it's "The Goldbergs". I think that's pretty much a given, at this point...
Side note: "Hollywood" ruined this poor girl (and her family, by the sounds. There are three sisters - all actresses), from said show.
This is the before (although she's already had some work done here, including teeth and completely changing her hair - colour, style, et al (RIP redheads) - https://archive.is/kU1gf
The site is trash, yes, but it's surprisingly hard to find before pictures...
Aaand this is her now, specifically her Instagram, which I would archive, but you can't: https://www.instagram.com/natalynlind/
Just another cyborgian freakazoid narcissist with too much money, and too little sense. She's had everything done, now. Like Dove Cameron, or Erin Moriarty, or any of these other generic "washed out' blonde lookalikes. There's clearly something in the water at DC Films, unfortunately (all three have acted in DC series)...
Sad, IMHO. She was damn cute, before.
I believe that when they brought her back for a guest appearance on said shit show, they almost had to completely rewrite her character, because she bears virtually no resemblance whatsoever to her former self, lol. It was rather uncanny...
If the Conservatives somehow manage to win the next election, I will attempt to eat a hat (apparently people have tried before, though I'm not sure I even own a leather hat).
There's historical precedent, of course (mostly from the 90s, in the UK and Australia), but it seems... Almost failingly unlikely.
I expect, and hope, much like you do, that they get absolutely obliterated...
I fucking hate Starmer (slimy fuck), but at least he doesn't pretend to be the exact opposite of what he really is, is actually able to string a speech together (or, ya know, read from the teleprompter) and not look like a fucking clone, and, finally, doesn't have an inherited net worth higher than the GDP of several countries, like fucking Sunak and wife (definition of "Brahmin nepo babies", if ever I saw one).
Sunak makes my skin crawl. Somehow even more than Starmer does...
I feel like even then, you would have the issue of regionalism in bureaucracy... Like, even if they did that, the current system means that all of the constituent parts of the UK apart from England would still maintain their parliaments, public service, etc.
And you've presumably heard of how dysfunctional Stormont (Norn Iron) and Holyrood (Scotland) already are..? I don't know enough about Wales, but I think it may be similar, too (politics there is even fucking weirder, in my understanding)...
With Norn there's almost no chance of overcoming the sectarianism there enough to get one of the not-explicitly-sectarian parties over the line (also power sharing, which is a nightmare), and with Scotland... There's not really much of an "opposition" to the SNP apart from Labour (they hate the Conservatives up there, with a passion)...
There's also the fact that "the North" only really voted Con because the Cons promised to deliver on Brexit, and then utterly, utterly failed to do anything of substance beyond that. There is almost zero chance of the North not voting Labour again this time around, and that's a huge chunk of the population right there...
So while I like your idea, I'd go so far as to say that it's more than just extreme - it's almost functionally impossible, sadly.
But also yes. That would be the only hope. But I just don't see it happening, like, at all...
Yeah, as a non-American, that footage was pretty horrific to watch...
I think I just said "Oh no, not again", when I saw the Swedish news footage over breakfast.
But unfortunately we're all fairly used to seeing this sort of stuff coming out of the US, no offense to you guys.
It is most unfortunate.
Like, I despise that football team, Mahomes, Kelce and Swift, but no one deserves what happened this week, and especially not the fans.
Just... Yeah.
Wow, what an entitled, horrible fucking bitch. I've been with women like this before. There are signs. So, so many signs...
Anyone who demands you send her a "Good Morning" text? And then gets shitty like this when you forget?
Run, run for the fucking hills. "Dump that arse", as I'm sure this bitch would happily say, if the roles were reversed...
Uber-cringe...
As much as I hate OnlyFans and everything it represents, this is much, much more than just OnlyFans...
This woman has been "prominent" in porn for pretty much as long as I have known about porn. She was interviewed in a Louis Theroux documentary about it, and she only went back to OnlyFans after apparently (unsurprisingly) "struggling" to move out of the industry... And she's fairly well known for having mental health "struggles", apparently, so perhaps this isn't that surprising at this point.
So... It's not as clear-cut as your title makes out, in this case. The "fundraiser"/GoFundMe does seem a bit... Rich, though, given that this woman allegedly had a pretty decent nest egg net worth set up. Unless she blew all that/was in debt somehow, or wrote her mum out of her will or something.
But regardless, I will never celebrate someone's death, whether I agree with their "profession" or not. I just won't.
So she can push him down the Falls..? 🤔
I don’t get it, but I’m curious, lol…
But nah, the British one, this is. I think the boyfriend lives in Southwest England somewhere, but I don’t really remember - she stopped talking about him after she got what she wanted (Canada), so… Idk.
Canada was definitely single, at the time.
Ironically, penguins in zoos are one of the main examples they usually refer to, as if being kept in an obviously artificial environment, with high stress levels, and an extremely limited choice of mates - a choice which is in turn outside of your control, wouldn't fuck with the penguin's brains, lol...
There ain't nothing natural about "penguin kingdom" at the average local aquarium, I'll say that much...
Yes. Like, literally. But the wiki insists otherwise (despite contradicting itself while doing so), because of course it does…
Many such cases, and such.
And unfortunately, it works…
Even I, myself, have thought, “But wait, aren’t you just girl-next-door-number-12..? Oh, you swing both ways? Well that’s a point… Difference”, on at least a few occasions, lol…
Side note: “bravado” is so foreign to Swedes, in the 21st century, that it’s remarkably easy to bluff, and to use that to your advantage…
Not that I do anything bad with it, but it sometimes gets me free shit, or otherwise gets me into “sold out” or “closed” events, ha.
Because they just don’t do that kind of shit (i.e. having the confidence to balls-it through), so they’re so thoroughly unused to it, and sometimes seem to even like that approach, when I do it.
Can’t complain about that one, tbh.
I know you meant “chose history and anthropology”, but I had a few fun moments picturing you somehow studying the history of the garden hose, and its relationship to anthropology, lol…