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Glee owns my soul. No surprise there.
Last episode totally smashed my brain, too, and my crush on Chris Colfer has reached truly numbening heights. Like, youtube marathon stalking sessions heights. Where I sit and am adored by him putting on a really credible fake Russian accent with Cory or watch him swirl tiny swords around or just, seriously, the

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Yes, insane suicide rates and teen drug addiction! Comes through loud and clear in the fic (Arnaldur Indridason?) Also: fun fact -- because Icelandic names use patronymics the US libraries shelve under AR rather than IN, I told them I thought this was stupid.

I'm on another Nordic thriller bender -- which, okay, is like learning about the U.S. by reading one of the creepier crime novelists. So -- LARGE GRAIN OF SALT. (does that translate to Swedish? Means: don't take too seriously.) Icelandic book, one of them, was all about Thai brides. Swedes: look down on Norwegians and esp. Finnish (drunk, large knives?), Danes are okay? Haven't read enough Norwegians yet :D Finns: Swedes are entitled snobs, they make us learn their language -- oh, this book was set in *far* north I think -- Levi? On map it's way the hell up there -- ski place. My personal idea of hell. The book was set during the three (?) weeks in winter the sun never comes up, it has a name, I forgot.

Cursing is so very interesting in all languages. I'm fascinated by how many Nordic curses are actually religious if that's the word I'm looking for -- like, the devil take it, God help me, etc. Oh -- also: that Finnish curses sound more extreme to our delicate western ears because it's so gutteral. (Finnish sounds... like German/Estonian to me. Icelandic, no idea.) Compared to that, Swedish sounds soft.

Next book, I forgot the name, waiting for it to arrive -- Goteborg music festival, yessss!

Chickenpox is the worst, I still have scars. Also you get them in your mouth and ... well, you know. Ouch.

Your apartment and living issues, there's some kind of curse. I think you need to smudge your apartment, get rid of evil spirits or something, some feng shui? Maybe your bed's facing the wrong direction....

the finnish way of drinking (Swedish comedian)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAl9OyGYxOg&feature=related

I thought it was hilarious, and I don't even know what he's saying...

Re: the finnish way of drinking (Swedish comedian)

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Oh god, it's funny because it's truue. He's truly speaking gibberish. Well, some words exist, perkele is an actual cuss word, but kaskelot is Swedish for sperm whale.

Until I got Finnish friends, I really thought it was exaggeration, the drinking. But it's really really not. Their drinking stories makes me wonder how they're still alive.

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Heh, isn't it still a last name thought?

We use salt as well, but instead of grain, we pinch. You take it with a pinch of salt.

You really have to see to the history of our countries to make sense of stuff, haha! Finland used to be Swedish, they were considered subpar Swedes who spoke the language funnily, of course they don't want to learn Swedish. Norway used to be Swedish until we granted them their country. Denmark and Sweden have been fighting over land for centuries, so we're more on even terms.
Estonia was Swedish too for a while. Also, easiest way to rile up and Estonian is to claim their language sounds like half Finnish. Which it does, for the record, they'll use the first half of Finnish words and stuff.

The cursing, I read somewhere years ago that religious countries cuss using vulgarity and non-religious ones use God. Seems to ring true. :)
People being called whore have only just popped up with larger numbers of immigrants from religious countries, like muslims.