Reply #18: What I like about Scandinavia [View All]

[RainDog]

Lars Von Triers and his acolytes.

Fanny and Alexander, one of the greatest movies about families and children ever.

Your progressive approach to energy, to human rights in your own country, to community.

I do not think that America will ever follow a Scandanavian model because there are too many people here who hate each other. Maybe if our nation is destroyed economically, but even then I don't think so, as long as the fundies are here...

...so how did you tame all your Calvinists, anyway?

I'd like to know about your windmills and other renewable energy initiatives, and I'd like to know if someone in your country would like to invest in my city to be an example of small scale energy independence.

Long ago I was in Copenhagen and spent a little time in Malmo. They were beautiful, the people were very friendly and kind.

I remember I told this man who was working at the hotel where I was staying (I was just graduated) that it was amazing...he didn't look old, even though he was thirty! :)

He told me it was because he had a beard and kept a little weight on himself. LOL.

actually, I had meant it as a compliment, but I was a kid.

Now I am well on the other side of thirty, and I'm surprised at how stupid I was. oh well.

the open face sandwiches were good too, btw.

I think it would be hard to cope, for me, with the long winters, but the long summer days would be bliss.