kulo.net @ Rio de Janeiro

• You rummage through your plastic bag collection to see which ones you can keep to take to the shop and which ones can be sacrificed for rubbish.
• The first thing you do upon entering a bank/post office/chemist etc. is to look for the queue number machine.
• When a stranger on the street smiles at you, you assume:
  a: he is drunk
  b: he is insane
  c: he’s an American
• A friend asks about your holiday plans and you answer “Oh, I’m going to Europe!” meaning any other Western European country outside of Sweden.
• Silence is fun.
• Your coffee consumption exceeds 6 cups a day and coffee is too weak if there is less than 10 scoops per pot.
• You pass a supermarket and think “Wow, it is open, I had better go in an buy something!”
• Your notion of street life is reduced to the few teenagers hanging out in front of the railway station on Friday nights.
• You eat herring in 105 ways.
• Indoors you wear sandals with socks, regardless of the season.
• You know that more than three channels means cable.
• It’s acceptable to eat lunch at 11.00.
• You associate Friday afternoon with a trip to systembolaget.
• You get extremely annoyed when the bus is two minutes late.
• It doesn’t feel like lunch unless it’s a hot, full course meal drenched in gravy.
• You get into a Mercedes taxi cab and think nothing of it
• When offered a bottle of beer the first thing you look at is the alcoholic percentage.
• You think it is normal EVERYTHING is regulated and you obey the rules voluntarily.
• People keep showing you print outs of this list on the bus.
• You wear a dress or skirt over your trousers and combine them with training shoes (this is especially problematic if you are male)
• You can’t throw a plastic bottle away with out having a guilty conscience.
• You can use bra, fart, and slut in the same sentence without giggling.
• Food is supposed to often be white in colour.
• You no longer look for toilets marked specifically male or female
• You are accustomed to every other front page headline in Expresson or Aftonbladet being about some food/drink/activity being dangerous for your health
  
• YOU CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE LIVE ANYWHERE BUT IN SWEDEN!!!!

from: aussies in sweden full list here