charlottegelin said:

Okay, here we go:

tall - Check! I'm 190 cm.

blonde - Used to be, but not anymore.

tanned - Tanned? Why the heck do they expect people from a country with eleven and a half months of winter to be tanned? But yeah, I tan quite easily.

outdoorsy - Hmm, not really. I love nature but I'm not one of those moss-eating, fire-with-stick-making, sleep-on-ground-loving freaks.

very specialised tertiary qualifications - Not on paper, no. Sadly, maybe I should add.

into weird music like Men at Work - Hell no! I love other types of weird music though. Moder Jords Massiva rules.

is not married but LIVING with a significant other - Used to be me. Half-check!

lives in a really small apartment that only has one room - Nope.

has travelled all over the world even Uluru - Pretty much. Check!

knows everything and is happy to give you his opinion - I know that a lot of Swedes love to express their opinions. And they do it in quite an arrogant way too, even though they don't think so themselves. Swedes feel morally superior. I can be a bit arrogant and I do like to express my opinion so; three-quarter check!

I suppose I'm more Swedish than I think, at least according to the Aussie way of stereotyping us.

TheFrog said:

I've had my share....

:frankmcAvennie:

BertSchweitzer said:

fathermcmeekle said:

Und yoo vernt wee fat gingerz heart attack herr ven I met you. Yoo vere tall und thin, wit der glasses.

retina said:

You are VERY swedish!!!
we get the stereotype from all the backpackers we see - who have usually travelled the whole of asia first before they get here and are so tanned it's not funny.

fathermcmeekle said:

charlottegelin said:

Honestly? What I get to hear when I'm abroad is that I'm not typically Swedish. But I think that has to do more with my personality than the more practical things you're mentioning. Sometimes I feel like I belong everywhere, sometimes nowhere. In any case I've never really felt like the others in Sweden. And they've usually treated me like something the cat coughed up. We have a nice mutual feeling that way.

retina said:

I know the feeling. REAL Swedes I meet around here are visibly appalled I haven't kept up my Swedish. I am more Australian than anything, getting to feel a little (actually a big ) Argentinian also

BertSchweitzer said:

I guess that'll be in inherent scottish low-self-image!

charlottegelin said:

You just had to squeeze that in, didn't you?

Seriously though, I think nationalities suck ass. I don't care where people are from or what their citizenship is. I think borders are fucking annoying. We're all stuck in the same boat together with aging bodies, relationship problems, ambitions, frustrations, joy, pain and the rest of this crazy package called life. There's really nothing to gain by defining ourselves according to a stupid social system that we were born into and never chose anyway. I want to live and act according to what my heart and soul dictates. The noise from the outside can be so deafening sometimes that it's hard to block it out and hear our own wishes, but really, if we don't try our damndest to listen to them, then we're fucked. And I won't be fucked. I will fulfill my potential. I will give a little back as a thank you for what I've been given.

And anyone who asks me even one more time if I listen to Abba will get a Dalahäst shoved up their bum.

So there.

retina said:

What's a Dalahäst?

Not very...

I don't think I'm stereotypical anything...

2the9s said:

thats right, and I randomly burst into song ala Mary Poppins too.

LleeLlee said:

A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down?

CarrieMpls said:

Watch out so you don't get Abba shoved up your bum.

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retina said:

oh THOSE things. Yeah, they're all over here in little shops in norhern Minnesota. A lot of swedes settled here. Along with the Norwegians. Minnesota's very scandinavian, dontcha know.

2the9s said:

A kick up the jacksy makes the medicine go down



anyhow, you're very American, I mean in your orgnotes you're always going on about how you was "Born in th U.S.A.." Bruce Springsteen style.

good lord.
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CarrieMpls said:

I know. I've been to Minneapolis. It was the second most boring city I've been to in the States (after Atlanta) and that's most likely the Swedes' fault.

I went to Glam Slam and was denied entry. That was the highlight of my two-day stay there.

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retina said:

OK, I'm just not having that. Mpls is a fabulous city. There are a million things to do. You just gotta look for them.

Not so much my country
as I am my rock 'n' roll.

retina said:

Hey, did I tell you I ran in to your parents the other day?

JDINTERACTIVE said:

Pom!

CarrieMpls said:

You just gotta show me.

althom said:

Everybody's moved away from you.

I like to shop here:



I love Cadillacs:

JDINTERACTIVE said:

retina said:

Any time.

charlottegelin said:

and I am taller than them

charlottegelin said:

I didn't know the Dalahäst went up so far it made a bulge on your belly! The next time I'll settle for a gentler shove.

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retina said:

I never said anything about ABBA