kulo.net @ Rio de Janeiro » Rootsi http://www.kulo.net kulo.net @ Rio de Janeiro Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:32:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 You know you’ve been in Sweden too long when … http://www.kulo.net/2007/07/03/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-sweden-too-long-when/ http://www.kulo.net/2007/07/03/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-sweden-too-long-when/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:21:29 +0000 kulo http://kulo.net/?p=543
  • 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

    ]]>     http://www.kulo.net/2007/07/03/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-sweden-too-long-when/feed/ 0     Katusel http://www.kulo.net/2007/07/02/kaime-katuseid-mooda/ http://www.kulo.net/2007/07/02/kaime-katuseid-mooda/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:17:52 +0000 kulo http://kulo.net/?p=542 .flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }

    ]]>     http://www.kulo.net/2007/07/02/kaime-katuseid-mooda/feed/ 0     Rootsi http://www.kulo.net/2007/06/26/rootsi/ http://www.kulo.net/2007/06/26/rootsi/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:16:19 +0000 kulo http://kulo.net/?p=541 .flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }

    Jargmised moned nadalad Rootsis. Kui Brasiilia viisa valmis, siis (T)HERE.Brazil

    ]]>     http://www.kulo.net/2007/06/26/rootsi/feed/ 0