"I reduced it to a legal size, so the law is on my side. That's my reason."
I'm reading the news from Norway after getting sucked in by some damn thing about Obama's Nobel Prize being regretted by one of the individuals involved in bestowing it, a person who now has a book to flog.
There's better news from Norway. In addition to the Norway man who sawed his neighbor's house in half, there's the new school for Vikings, "where students will learn essential Viking crafts, such as sword forging, jewellery making, and roof thatching."
There's the voting official in trouble for saying "Are you really taking the 'homo ballot'?" to "an old lady who asked for a voting slip for Åpen folkekirke (Open people's church), at a polling station in Oslo."
There's the heavy rain about which a government meteorologist said "This just does not happen in Norway, we have a hard time believing that it’s true... These are figures that you only normally see in the jungle." Someone else says: "The animals were really afraid, the cows don’t understand what was happening."
There's the artist whose hanging-naked-in-a-tree installation went wrong and left her hanging naked in a tree for 3 hours. "The video ends when the camera shuts off, but I was there calling for help for another 30 minutes."
September 18, 2015
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There's better news from Norway. In addition to the Norway man who sawed his neighbor's house in half, there's the new school for Vikings, "where students will learn essential Viking crafts, such as sword forging, jewellery making, and roof thatching."
I'd like to sign up for the sailing, pillaging and ravaging classes please.
University of Nottingham has Norse Language and Viking Studies. You think it's practical or just an exercise at being esoteric. Like learning Ancient Mayan Language http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pgstudy/courses/english/viking-and-anglo-saxon-studies-ma.aspx
Given a choice between looking a half an outhouse or an attractive young naked woman swinger. I went for the outhouse of course.
The term for matters pertaining to Norway is "Norwegian."
This is a really annoying practice of the present newsmedia that the otherwise neat and fastidious Professor Althouse should not be emulating.
I went to the Norway thing at EPCOT and all of the young women who worked there wore the same style dress, had long blonde hair, and were about 8 feet tall.
Norwegians believe in the existence of trolls, apparently, and worship them by baking tasty pastries and by constructing elaborate log flumes.
Gotta love those kooky Nowegians!
Hanging yourself from a tree ... how can you get more kooky?
the new school for Vikings
Will they be hitting the beach in Scotland? Rape and Plunder 101? Berserkers?
This might not end well.
Hanging yourself from a tree ... how can you get more kooky?
looked like a form of deadfall trap called a spring pole snare
http://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gallery/survival/2013/03/how-build-trap-15-best-survival-traps/?image=1
OT but right on topic, one of the reasons that the Scands are an attractive people is that they didn't load an fat ugly Irish wenches on the boat to take home.
Who would want to read a story about all the people who regret supporting Obama anyway. I thought the "It never rains like this" story was the best. I hear that all the time here too. It is never this hot! Except for last year.
"The term for matters pertaining to Norway is "Norwegian." This is a really annoying practice of the present newsmedia that the otherwise neat and fastidious Professor Althouse should not be emulating."
I'm just copying the headline and repeating it for humorous effect. It's like the "Florida man" meme. Something is lost if you say "Floridian man."
"OT but right on topic, one of the reasons that the Scands are an attractive people is that they didn't load an fat ugly Irish wenches on the boat to take home."
"Norway's men soon to be among Europe's fattest."
Really? It wouldn't be Floridian Man Eats, it would be Florida Man Eats or Floridian Eats. Likewise Norway Man/Norwegian.
Though Norwegian Man is I suppose correct. Anyway it seems a cop out so the young don't have to know things.
I like Viking food...........
Trollhunter (movie) is a really fun Norwegian mockumentary film. Hand held camera, deadpan humor, Norwegian folklore culture, sublime and ridiculous. Rotten Tomatoes gives it an 82% rating.
It sets a bad example for the students.
And Drill Sgt. is wrong again. The older cities on the east coast of Ireland all began as Norse settlements.
And the Icelanders habitually raided Ireland for wives and slaves.
Obama sawed neighbor's house in half. One part is "Spring". A second part is quagmire. The other part is hanging on Iran.
My daughter's university recently got hornswaggled into buying a modern art installation due to federal requirements that a percentage of the project cost be spent on art for the project.
The installation consists of a whole lotta aluminum canoes and johnboats, all cabled together atop a pole, to look like a tree made of metal canoes. It is both ridiculous and hideous, and as artistic as a sales brochure for Osage Canoe, which is a company that makes fine aluminum canoes but understands that they are not works of art, just canoes.
Ever since the installation the engineering department students have been joking about how to disable the multitude of campus security cams to enable them to disassemble the canoe tree, and reassemble it using something else, like inflatable sex dolls.
Currently, they think they have it figured out how to safely install inflated sex dolls in every canoe in the installation, in anatomically correct positions.
Soon, soon.
I, for one, would volunteer to drive a delivery/getaway truck.
Democratic societies should not invest in public art works. It just ends up in taxpayer rip-off scams.
And the U.S. is a very democratic country.
I watched the whole movie. It was great. I think it's up to 73% on the Tomato meter.
I think a sequel is in the works, "Hanging From a Cell Tower"
"here's the new school for Vikings, "where students will learn essential Viking crafts, such as sword forging, jewellery making, and roof thatching."
I do not think those were the essential skills of the Vikings, especially the males.
Murder 77 people - 21 years
Cut a shed in half - 6 years
Hm.
If you murder 11 people in Norway, do you get 3 years?
You have got to see the A&E network show "Vikings"! Politics, love, sex, mysticism, and battle in generous portions. Really good writing.
Ragnar holding a French bishop at bay: "Make me a Christian so I can see my friend in Heaven!" I can't think of another show you could use that line in.
(Travis Fimmel is hot, btw.)
"[...]in anatomically correct positions."
Please tell me they're also installing a plaque titling the modified exhibit "American Beer".
she said. "Luckily, someone I knew came.”
I bet, since the video posted, lots of people she didn't know, came too.
I hope that was an ash tree, since that's the traditional one to hang from. At just three hours, though, she's a piker. The All-Father did it for nine days and lost an eye in the bargain.
She's also lucky she didn't lose her foot. That looked pretty tourniquety to me.
The All-Father did it for nine days and lost an eye in the bargain.
Yeah, but he was after wisdom. She was just after a university degree. Apparently a degree is worth 1% of wisdom.
Cutting apart someone's toolshed without using a surveyor to verify boundaries qualifies as some sort of stupid. Only 6 years? A proper court would also make him pay for a proper survey of his boundaries and the rebuilding of the neighbor's shed (and the other neighbor's stone wall).
Hanging yourself from a tree without having someone there to keep an eye on you in case something went wrong? That lady clearly isn't the sharpest tack in the bulletin board. Would have been a truly artistic video if a pack of wolves, or even feral dogs, had come upon her while she was hanging helplessly.
a-ha is from Norway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL779EjNA5A
Scott said...
You have got to see the A&E network show "Vikings"!
Loosely based on Ragnarr Loðbrók, played by Ernest Borgnine in The Vikings (1958)
I particularly like the part where she fell, head down, from the branch and just hung there upside down for a while. That was great! She is a sure fire winner for the Darwin award.
No, Dr.D, you have to be dead to win one of those. Of course, it is technically just a matter of time, the only question being whether she will find some offbeat way to off herself before reproducing.
If an artist falls in the forest, and no one hears it, is it still funny?
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