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Post by mandene on Dec 11, 2015 9:51:23 GMT -5
I heard that the only thing that is sent abroad are the (incredibly boring) prize ceremonies.
So for your enjoyment, here are the snippets from yesterday's banquet (peppered with some other stuff):
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Post by maeglhachel on Dec 11, 2015 13:12:40 GMT -5
Anna Ternheim (LOL ... I need to find out how to turn off auto-correction in this browser .. Tierheim) Good choice. Tarithel has performed "The Longer the Waiting"
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Post by mandene on Dec 12, 2015 5:30:57 GMT -5
And the alst thing for this week: Lucia
Did you see that when they speak of fire, they are showing the burning Gävle Goat - at 2:07 Although the "true" Lucia day is tomorrow December 13th, the celebrations start today. The tradition is to stay up all night and/or get drunk. In my experience it's easier to grasp the idea of what the whole thing represents when you're tired and/or have a hangover and siting far back squinting at the light sheen: The cutest Lucia ever! Lucia on ice: And this is what they make us watch each year on TV You of course need your own Saffron Buns (Lussekatter). Here's how to make them! By the way, there is an easier way of rollig the buns . She's a noob. And you also need the glögg! for drinking while you're watching the Lucia. Or the night before.
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Post by lucid on Dec 15, 2015 11:25:49 GMT -5
There are lots of reasons one might point out to explain why it would be undesireable to live in Scandanavia.
But whichever country you're in up there... the flag is a big plus.
(badum tsh)
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Post by mandene on Dec 27, 2015 5:09:48 GMT -5
Tonight the Gävle Goat has burnt! The video shows how the 25-year-old perpetrator, while drunk, first sets one of the legs on fire, and then comes aflame himself. It takes less than 20 seconds for the goat to turn into a fireball. Only the guy's hair burnt, so his injury is a very minor one. tv.aftonbladet.se/abtv/articles/104097?service=embedded&autoplay=falseThis is a great video of what the thing looked like before it burnt down
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Post by mandene on Dec 29, 2015 16:08:42 GMT -5
Finally it feels like Winter! -9 degrees Celcius.
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Post by Duerbloodhammer on Jan 5, 2016 20:10:52 GMT -5
I dislike the cold. I prefer it warm, with the AC as an option.I don't even like any of the outdoor stuff associated with snow. Skiing, snow mobiles, any of it.
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Post by mandene on Jan 6, 2016 18:11:02 GMT -5
I dislike the cold. I prefer it warm, with the AC as an option.I don't even like any of the outdoor stuff associated with snow. Skiing, snow mobiles, any of it. Then do what the swedes do when it's dark! - Fika (look it up) and play video games. Or work longer hours, so that you get time off when it's spring. Aaanyway! It's suddenly Winter! Two places had -40 Centigrades. My town "only" had -14, right now it's around -18.
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Post by mandene on Jan 7, 2016 4:07:09 GMT -5
This morning the temperature was down to -22. How to survive this? Quite easy! For you who nevr had the pleasure to experience anything lower than -5 centigrades, here's something probably difficult to believe. Everything lower than -10 is easier to keep warm than the temperatures between 0 and -5. The simple explenation is that the air is dry - all moist has frozen. If you can keep dry, then you can keep warm. It's the cold moit air that makes it so difficult and freezing. In the cold cold temperatures - if you can keep dry (mainly avoid swet) then you can keep warm. Layers are very important here, not just because layers mean more isolation from the cold, but also to lead swet away from your body. Being a montain trekker, I'm very familiar with layaring. However! If you live in a city, and specifically are a woman, and/or really don't want to look like you're on your way to a ski-slope or taking a tour on your snow-mobile. And don't feel like carrying your office wardrobe with you (impossible to wear a skirt, and if you wear a pair of pants they will be wrinkled!) What do you do if you don't want to choose between being stylish and not freezing your kidneys off? Here's my favorit solution: Thermo/Thermal Skirt! Just put it over your nice-wear and there you go!
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Post by DM Grizwald on Jan 7, 2016 12:15:13 GMT -5
I dislike the cold. I prefer it warm, with the AC as an option.I don't even like any of the outdoor stuff associated with snow. Skiing, snow mobiles, any of it. Then do what the swedes do when it's dark! - Fika (look it up) and play video games. Or work longer hours, so that you get time off when it's spring. Aaanyway! It's suddenly Winter! Two places had -40 Centigrades. My town "only" had -14, right now it's around -18. It's starting to drop at -29 here at night but during the day we get around -10 or so. We're fairly high up in altitude here so the temperature just torpedoes down post 5 pm. That's when everyone goes indoors. Except for those silly smokers. HA! They have to freeze to enjoy their ciggies!
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Post by appleseedy on Jan 7, 2016 12:43:37 GMT -5
i don't think we've had anything below zero even, still wearing shorts in fact to stroll up and down the road
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Post by mandene on Jan 13, 2016 18:18:21 GMT -5
Learn how to do magic!
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Post by mandene on Jan 21, 2016 16:53:58 GMT -5
Here's one from Finland! If you can't be bothered to chop out a hole in the ice to do this: Then of course you do this!:
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Post by mandene on Feb 9, 2016 9:10:55 GMT -5
Celebrate Shrove Tuesday (or "Fettisdag" = Fat Tuesday) with Semla! While this is the ONLY day one is supposed to eat this wonderfully sinful bun, you can buy them from the New Years (although I've seen some already on Christmas Day) to Easter. How to enjoy it? Sometime ago ppl started with a cake, or mini-semlas Last year they started with Semla wraps: The thing this year seems to be smoothies. (o.O) Take hot milk & semla and mix it to a smoothie. It can be OK, or totally gross, depending on the taste I guess. But this video claims that the thing of this year is a gold-semla!
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Post by DM Grizwald on Feb 9, 2016 18:33:46 GMT -5
yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Post by mandene on Feb 15, 2016 1:56:47 GMT -5
Eh! O.O
They are claiming today on the news that it's possibl that the "Meteorological Spring" will start today.
If that's true, should I end this thread?
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Post by mandene on Feb 28, 2016 12:58:01 GMT -5
Quotes from "SWEDEN - The Secret files"
The Swedish summer
The Swedish summer is the warmest day of the year. And as Sweden is a very normal country, it is normal for the Swedish summer to be a bit colder than normal.
The Swedish winter
The geography book will tell you that, although the country is on the same latitude as Alaska, Sweden has a mild climate and the Atlantic Gulf stream gives warm winters. The truth is that there are two types of winter in Sweden. A grey one and a white one. Swedes survive the winter only by dreaming of what they are going to do on that summer’s day.
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Post by Savoie Faire on Mar 1, 2016 21:06:20 GMT -5
I know enough to know I cannot survive a winter in caribou/reigndeer country. Winter on the North coast of the Gulf of Mexico is winter enough for me. I would invite any Scandinavian to give it a try; there is nothing quite like 45 degrees F at 88% humidity.
I highly recommend you Polar types stay away during our summer. Our temperatures seldom exceed 100 degrees F, but the humidity usually equals the temp. I've seen Northern guys do a fair immitation of Frosty The Snowman in the greenhouse.
The fun part is, the water warms up to about the temperature of blood, so even swimming is no relief. You learn to move slower and bathe more often.
Which reminds me: it's March now. Summer starts in just a few more days.
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Post by mandene on Mar 2, 2016 4:55:56 GMT -5
I know enough to know I cannot survive a winter in caribou/reigndeer country. Winter on the North coast of the Gulf of Mexico is winter enough for me. I would invite any Scandinavian to give it a try; there is nothing quite like 45 degrees F at 88% humidity. I highly recommend you Polar types stay away during our summer. Our temperatures seldom exceed 100 degrees F, but the humidity usually equals the temp. I've seen Northern guys do a fair immitation of Frosty The Snowman in the greenhouse. The fun part is, the water warms up to about the temperature of blood, so even swimming is no relief. You learn to move slower and bathe more often. Which reminds me: it's March now. Summer starts in just a few more days. Usually, the most southern parts of Sweden get spring this time of year. We have something that is fondly called "Spring Winter" (Sw. vårvinter). Which means, it's still wintery, but bright and can become rather warm in between. 1st May is here considered to be the first day of Spring, and this is celebrated during Valpurgi's Eve (30th of April). Yep! Pretty much same calendar-occasion as Greengrass on FRC. Sometimes that day is hot(-er) and you can run around in T-shirts (think Scandinavian T-shirt weather, so anything above 15 oC). Sometimes it's snowing . Where I live, humidity is standard. I live by Lake Malaren that is connected to the Baltic Sea, which is connected to the Atlantic Ocean. The relative humidity here sometimes is up to 90%. So 45 oF at 88% humidity? Yep; had that. Low humidity happens here too, though.
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Post by mandene on Mar 12, 2016 14:06:57 GMT -5
Spend Saturdays watching the local Eurovision competitions. (Watching the Swedish Finale now!)
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Post by mandene on Apr 20, 2016 10:29:04 GMT -5
I'm going to officially finish this thread with 2.. 3.. OK, 4 videos from my hometown (kinda). First one up - Shenanigans on the frozen Mälaren Lake: (one by my town, the other near Sandviken). Goodbye Winter! Here's video from March: To round it up - here's etire year in my town:
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Post by mandene on Nov 28, 2016 10:09:08 GMT -5
Burn down the Gävle Goat (or just bet on when it's going to burn down). Every year, the town of Gävle, Sweden, erects a giant goat called the Gävlebocken. And most years that goat burns to the ground, even though the local officials are struggling to keep the Goat alive.. In fact, in the 47 years that the town has erected Gävlebocken, it's been set on fire 26 times. Today, you can even bet on if it's going to survive, or if it's going to burn and when. A popular belief today is that it's the betters that burn it down. It's also not unusual that toursits do it. One year the arrested tourists were surprised that it wasn't allowed 2 Goats are erected in Gävle each year. The one called Gävlebocken is the bigger one of the two. Erecting it takes 2 days and it's always inagurated on the 1st Sunday of Advent (which this year is November 29th.) The last 5 years: 2010 On the night of 2 December, arsonists made an unsuccessful attempt to burn the Natural Science Club's goat. On 17 December, a Swedish news site reported that one of the guards tasked with protecting the Southern Merchants' goat had been offered payment to leave his post so that the goat could be stolen via helicopter and transported to Stockholm. Both goats survived and were dismantled and returned to storage in early January 2011. 2011 The inauguration of the goat took place on 27 November. The fire-fighters of Gävle sprayed the goat with water to create a coating of ice in the hope of protecting it from arson. However mild weather melted the ice and the goat was burnt down in the early morning of 2 December. 2012 The inauguration of the goat took place on 2 December. It was burnt just ten days later in the hours before midnight of 12 December, one day before Lucia. 2013 As in 2006 and 2007, the straw used to build the goat has been soaked in anti-flammable liquid to prevent it from burning in the event of an arson attack. The inauguration ceremony took place on 1 December. On 21 December the goat was burned down. 2014 At least three attempts of arson were made, but the goat survived, and was dismantled on 29 December. Gävlebocken is a giant version of a traditional Scandinavian Yule/Christmass Goat figure made of straw. Yule Goat is an old, pagan Yle and later a Christmass tradition. A popular theory is that the celebration of the goat is connected to worship of the Norse god Thor, who rode the sky in a chariot drawn by two goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr. It used to be the goat that came with the presents, and then later Father Christmass was riding on it. It could be where the idea of Santa's raindeers comes from. This is a traditional Yule Goat made of straw. Today it's just a popular Chritmas Ornament: Santa riding on a goat. This is the Gävlebocken (note the tiny fire extinguishers nearby). The burning Goat! Follow Gävlabocken on Twitter! twitter.com/GavlebockenTonight the Gävle Goat has burnt! The video shows how the 25-year-old perpetrator, while drunk, first sets one of the legs on fire, and then comes aflame himself. It takes less than 20 seconds for the goat to turn into a fireball. Only the guy's hair burnt, so his injury is a very minor one. tv.aftonbladet.se/abtv/articles/104097?service=embedded&autoplay=falseThis is a great video of what the thing looked like before it burnt down This year's Goat (and it was the Goat's 50th anniversary) survived less than 1 day! It burnt already this night. The ironic part is that they were speaking on the news how security has gotten better. They hired a guard, and then put on a system that would send an alarm to the guard when the sensors notice someone inside the "compound". Guess what? They waited for the guard to go to the bathroom, and then they put the Goat on fire. Hire more guards next time! For more: www.thelocal.se/20161128/swedens-christmas-goat-burned-down-on-opening-daywww.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2016-11-27/big-birthday-but-no-candles-for-swedens-christmas-goatkxan.com/2016/11/27/swedish-christmas-goat-burns-on-50th-anniversary/Spara
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Post by adamb on Nov 28, 2016 10:20:42 GMT -5
I'll just stay in Florida thanks!
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Post by smacrasmacrasmacra on Nov 28, 2016 11:27:31 GMT -5
As a Yank, I feel it is everyone's patriotic duty to show their national pride with explosions and fire. I approve.
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Post by adamb on Nov 28, 2016 12:28:39 GMT -5
As a Yank, I feel it is everyone's patriotic duty to show their national pride with explosions and fire. I approve. Hahahaha!!!
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Post by lucid on Nov 30, 2016 10:27:55 GMT -5
Guys you're supposed to wait for the betting pool
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Post by mandene on Dec 1, 2016 5:53:11 GMT -5
Guys you're supposed to wait for the betting pool Doesn't it start before the inauguration of the straw goat? (I don't keep tabs on that, though). Spara
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Post by mandene on Dec 1, 2021 12:56:52 GMT -5
Yep. I'm waking uo this thread. Can't believe how much time has passed since I started it. It's barely December and it's already - 10 centigrades here. Just south of me they have issues with snow after Arwen. We have no snow here, juat cold. Shocking cold since the temperature dropped from about +6. One day it was fall, and then suddenly wham.
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Post by styxxbone1 on Dec 1, 2021 13:21:00 GMT -5
My first shift in Siberia we flew out of Calgary, it was +15C. I had carried my massive Sorrel winter boots rated for -65C and winter coveralls on the Charted plane. Was made fun of by many of the guys.
Well until we got of in Nizhnevartovsk where it was -45C with a 45kph wind. Their winter gear was in the cargo hold waiting to be unloaded. So they were hopping from one foot to the other in their running shoes trying to keep their feet from freezing. So I opened the zipper on my arctic rated onesie and pretended to be too warm. I really wasn't, but revenge was sweet.
styxx
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Post by DM Grizwald on Dec 14, 2021 14:25:58 GMT -5
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