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hobiejoe
Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light. Gender:
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Jun 18, 2011 - 5:14pm |
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Coaxial wrote:It truly is the land of the midnight sun...Take a look at the feed now. It is almost 2 am there.
Just fabulous. So what would you call that glow? Sunset and sunrise at the same time? *edit* Damnit, I need to be on the water.
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peter_james_bond
Location: West Of The Burg Gender:
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Jun 18, 2011 - 5:03pm |
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Coaxial wrote:It truly is the land of the midnight sun...Take a look at the feed now. It is almost 2 am there.
Very Cool! Thanks Johnray63.
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winter
Location: in exile, as always Gender:
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Jun 18, 2011 - 5:01pm |
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Is that the trip from Monica Bellucci's house to visit Laetitia Casta and Aishwarya Rai?
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Coaxial
Location: Comfortably numb in So Texas Gender:
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Jun 18, 2011 - 4:52pm |
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It truly is the land of the midnight sun...Take a look at the feed now. It is almost 2 am there.
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HazzeSwede
Location: Hammerdal Gender:
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Jun 18, 2011 - 9:21am |
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This post apparently contained an image that was dragged into the post editor. Sorry, but any text contained in the post after this point has been lost.
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Coaxial
Location: Comfortably numb in So Texas Gender:
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Jun 18, 2011 - 9:02am |
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Johray63 wrote:Since 1893, passengers are traveling along the Norwegian coastline with Hurtigruten. The tour is called "The World's most beautiful voyage". Now everyone can - simultaneously - travel with the world's longest TV show!
The spectacular fjords, midnight sun and genuine Norwegian nature forms the framework around the five and a half days journey from Bergen to Kirkenes. We will send the entire trip, direct, minute by minute in 134 hours!
The journey, live on the Internet: Hurtigruten: Minute by Minute Thanks for posting this, my friend.
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hobiejoe
Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light. Gender:
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Jun 18, 2011 - 8:44am |
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HazzeSwede
Location: Hammerdal Gender:
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Jun 18, 2011 - 8:33am |
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hobiejoe wrote: Meet Hazzeswede. It's a little-known fact that the Swedes are so embarrassed about the wonderfulness of the egalitarian, nay, utopian society that they live in that they employ an official beer-drinking scuzzball to lear drunkenly at tourists on Djurgården. His pay consists of a barrel of pickled herring and all the Pripps Blå he can drink. True story. It's all in the spirit !
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hobiejoe
Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light. Gender:
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Jun 18, 2011 - 8:17am |
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Meet Hazzeswede. It's a little-known fact that the Swedes are so embarrassed about the wonderfulness of the egalitarian, nay, utopian society that they live in that they employ an official beer-drinking scuzzball to lear drunkenly at tourists on Djurgården. His pay consists of a barrel of pickled herring and all the Pripps Blå he can drink. True story.
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HazzeSwede
Location: Hammerdal Gender:
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Jun 18, 2011 - 8:04am |
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Beanie
Location: under the jellicle moon Gender:
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Jun 18, 2011 - 7:44am |
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beamends wrote: There are no ghettos in Scandinavia, and the lowest paid have a high standard of living, not that much less (relative to the rest of the world) than the well-off. That makes them happy. Since the lowest paid form by far the largest part of any economy, if they are happy that makes the country happy. There is a flip side of course, Scandinavians accept that to get their 'right' to happiness they have equal responsibilities to contribute towards it. The responsibilities is the bit the most in the world choose to ignore when demanding their rights, yet the two go hand in hand and are inseparable.
I could not agree more. I've spent time in. Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, and have found them (and the Netherlands, but I don't really consider that Scandinavia) the most civilized, best-'lived' countries I have seen. Clean, peaceful, low crime...happy.
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beamends
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Jun 18, 2011 - 7:20am |
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oldslabsides wrote: I suppose it's highly dependent upon a population's conditioned perception of "happy."
There are no ghettos in Scandinavia, and the lowest paid have a high standard of living, not that much less (relative to the rest of the world) than the well-off. That makes them happy. Since the lowest paid form by far the largest part of any economy, if they are happy that makes the country happy. There is a flip side of course, Scandinavians accept that to get their 'right' to happiness they have equal responsibilities to contribute towards it. The responsibilities is the bit the most in the world choose to ignore when demanding their rights, yet the two go hand in hand and are inseparable.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jun 18, 2011 - 7:04am |
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beamends wrote: A, generally, happy population. Scandinavian countries always come top of "happiness" surveys. Their way of doing things may be counter-intuitive in terms of "freedom" (which, as observed in the song, often really does mean 'nothing left to lose'), but it works and works well for everyone, not just the lucky few with money.
I suppose it's highly dependent upon a population's conditioned perception of "happy."
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jun 18, 2011 - 7:03am |
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hobiejoe wrote: What price hedonistic anarchy? Wait a minute....
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beamends
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Jun 18, 2011 - 7:00am |
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oldslabsides wrote: ma or pa, it doesn't matter. any way you slice it it's manipulation of behavior by taxation. what price security?
A, generally, happy population. Scandinavian countries always come top of "happiness" surveys. Their way of doing things may be counter-intuitive in terms of "freedom" (which, as observed in the song, often really does mean 'nothing left to lose'), but it works and works well for everyone, not just the lucky few with money.
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hobiejoe
Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light. Gender:
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Jun 18, 2011 - 6:39am |
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oldslabsides wrote: ma or pa, it doesn't matter. any way you slice it it's manipulation of behavior by taxation. what price security?
What price hedonistic anarchy? Wait a minute....
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jun 18, 2011 - 6:36am |
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hobiejoe wrote: I think "paternalistic" would be a better description. And it feels much more expensive for visitors as the Norwegians enjoy a much more balanced economy with a much lower level of income disparity and much higher general standards of living for the whole population than those of us toiling for long hours and poor wages in the anglo-saxon neo-liberal economies and can therefore, frankly, afford it.
ma or pa, it doesn't matter. any way you slice it it's manipulation of behavior by taxation. what price security?
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hobiejoe
Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light. Gender:
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Jun 18, 2011 - 6:32am |
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oldslabsides wrote: Ah, good old maternalistic behavioral engineering via taxation.
I think "paternalistic" would be a better description. And it feels much more expensive for visitors as the Norwegians enjoy a much more balanced economy with a much lower level of income disparity and much higher general standards of living for the whole population than those of us toiling for long hours and poor wages in the anglo-saxon neo-liberal economies and can therefore, frankly, afford it.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jun 18, 2011 - 6:25am |
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hobiejoe wrote: Very heavily taxed in an attempt to dissuade Norwegians from consuming vast amounts of it and other alcoholic drinks.
*edit* And of course, the general cost of living and doing business is high in Norway.
Ah, good old maternalistic behavioral engineering via taxation.
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Alexandra
Location: PNW Gender:
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Jun 18, 2011 - 6:24am |
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My best friends next door, growing up, had a Norwegian dad. They all took several trips there, and I got to see their pictures and videos when they returned—-that is one spectacular country.
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