part 348 candles in the lighthouse window

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Hey meme! How are you doing? What is up? Do you also have a candle lit in your window for the return of Himaruya? like anon who is a light house wife! I hope he returns from the sea soon, with stories of adventure and sea monsters and the life outside the island. Ah, Himaruya. Safe journeys. Safe... journeys.

Enjoy part 348!

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Dark lands: the grim truth behind the 'Scandinavian miracle'

[(Anonymous)]

Denmark: claim to be the happiest people in the world, but why no mention of the fact they are second only to Iceland when it comes to consuming anti- depressants? | the highest level of private debt in the world | work fewer hours per year than most of the rest of the world. As a result, productivity is worryingly sluggish | the reality of prime-time Danish TV is day-to-day, wall-to-wall reruns of 15-year-old episodes of Midsomer Murders and documentaries on pig welfare | highest taxes in the world | Denmark's schools lag behind even the UK's | the Danes have the highest cancer rates on the planet

Norway: there remains a disturbing Islamophobic sub-subculture | ask the Danes, and they will tell you that the Norwegians are the most insular and xenophobic of all the Scandinavians | since they came into a bit of money in the 1970s the Norwegians have become increasingly Scrooge-like, hoarding their gold, fearful of outsiders | boast of using only renewable energy sources, all the while amassing the world's largest sovereign wealth fund selling fossil fuels to the rest of us | the powerful oil lobby is "isolating us and making the country asocial"

Iceland: We need not detain ourselves here too long. Only 320,000 – it would appear rather greedy and irresponsible – people cling to this breathtaking, yet borderline uninhabitable rock in the North Atlantic. Further attention will only encourage them.

Finland: In summer, you'll be plagued by mosquitos, in winter, you'll freeze - that's assuming no one shoots you, or you don't shoot yourself | the highest suicide rate in the Nordic countries | with its tarnished crown jewel, Nokia, devoured by Microsoft, Finland's hitherto robust economy is more dependent than ever on selling paper – mostly I was told, to Russian porn barons | has slipped in the latest Pisa rankings | they're not big on chat. Look up the word "reticent" in the dictionary and you won't find a picture of an awkward Finn standing in a corner looking at his shoelaces, but you should | are epic Friday-night bingers and alcohol is now the leading cause of death for Finnish men

Sweden: If it is "the most successful society the world has ever seen", why aren't more of you dreaming of "a little place" in Umeå? | anything I say about the Swedes will pale in comparison to their own excoriating self-image | youth unemployment is higher than the UK's and higher than the EU average | for much of the 20th century, "neutral" Sweden (one of the world largest arms exporters) continues to thrive economically thanks to its distinctive brand of totalitarian modernism, which curbs freedoms, suppresses dissent in the name of consensus, and seems hell-bent on severing the bonds between wife and husband, children and parents, and elderly on their children. Think of it as the China of the north | was one of the most bloodthirsty nations on earth for much of the last millennium | will do anything to avoid sharing a lift with a stranger

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/scandinavian-miracle-brutal-truth-denmark-norway-sweden

There's been so many positive news they decided to make some negative. I guess it's supposed to be humorous?

Re: Dark lands: the grim truth behind the 'Scandinavian miracle'

[(Anonymous)]

i thought it was serious until i got to iceland, now not sure if it's facts plus humor or all jokes

and yes i'm too lazy to research further




sweden in an elevator unconsciously glaring at strangers cos he didn't want to get in with one

Re: Dark lands: the grim truth behind the 'Scandinavian miracle'

[(Anonymous)]

I know it's supposed to be funny, but I'm kind of insulted...

Re: Dark lands: the grim truth behind the 'Scandinavian miracle'

[(Anonymous)]

+1
Supposed to be funny sure, but I feel the humour falls flat.
(And some of the stuff they're talking down about doesn't seem like necessarily a bad thing)

Re: Dark lands: the grim truth behind the 'Scandinavian miracle'

[(Anonymous)]

since they came into a bit of money in the 1970s the Norwegians have become increasingly Scrooge-like, hoarding their gold, fearful of outsiders

So is Norway the new Smaug or...

Re: Dark lands: the grim truth behind the 'Scandinavian miracle'

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. Yes, he is.

Re: Dark lands: the grim truth behind the 'Scandinavian miracle'

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure these are completely false.....