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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #11940 on: November 07, 2015, 03:32:35 AM »
Anyone experiencing snow yet this season? It's one of the things I miss the most about living in Norway. Like, that really nice thick snow that isn't wet when you touch it, but all fluffy. I might just say this though because I don't get to see snow often anymore, a lot of snow can get annoying!



Me - but that's just because Iceland has a weird attitude to weather. Anything can happen at any time of the year, and no weather ever lasts for long in Reykjavík (the snow in the above photo has melted away already, now we're just having non-stop rain and winds between annoying and AUGHSTORMAUGH) unless the winter is unusually cold or snowy... but when it is you kind of start thinking a bit less snow would do.



This was the year before last, I think.

EDIT: totally unrelated but holy wow LOOK AT THIS! It's a piece of Svínafellsjökull (a part of Vatnajökull on the east side of it) breaking off!

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #11941 on: November 07, 2015, 06:56:52 AM »
Double-posting like a moron but I felt like this topic deserved its own post... the Icelandic Police on Twitter is at times the most hilarious thing you can read on a Saturday morning.

Leigubílstjóri óskar eftir aðstoð lögreglu, keyrði fram á unga konu sem situr æi vegkanntinum og er döpur. Við á leiðinni!

= A taxi driver wishes for help from the police, drove past a young woman sitting by the side of the road being sad. We're on our way!

Óskað eftir aðstoð lögreglu. Óvelkomið par búið að gera sig heimakomin í kjallara.

= Help from the police asked for. An unwelcome couple moved into a basement.

Tilkynnt um mann á svölum Alþingishússins. Slökkvilið aðstoðar við að ná manninum.

= Notified of a man on the balcony of the house of the parliament. Fire brigade helps to get to him. (There's a great photo of this in the link)(old houses in Reykjavík just aren't that tall).

Hávaðaútkall í Breiðholti. #erekkitímitilaðfaraaðsofa #eðaniðuríbæ

= Noise report (útkall is kinda hard to translate... basically the police is being called to investigate some matter asap) in Breiðholt. #isn'tittimetogotosleep #orheaddowntown
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #11942 on: November 07, 2015, 08:57:29 AM »
Double-posting like a moron but I felt like this topic deserved its own post...

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #11943 on: November 07, 2015, 10:51:15 AM »
Double-posting like a moron but I felt like this topic deserved its own post... the Icelandic Police on Twitter is at times the most hilarious thing you can read on a Saturday morning.

Leigubílstjóri óskar eftir aðstoð lögreglu, keyrði fram á unga konu sem situr æi vegkanntinum og er döpur. Við á leiðinni!

= A taxi driver wishes for help from the police, drove past a young woman sitting by the side of the road being sad. We're on our way!

Óskað eftir aðstoð lögreglu. Óvelkomið par búið að gera sig heimakomin í kjallara.

= Help from the police asked for. An unwelcome couple moved into a basement.

Tilkynnt um mann á svölum Alþingishússins. Slökkvilið aðstoðar við að ná manninum.

= Notified of a man on the balcony of the house of the parliament. Fire brigade helps to get to him. (There's a great photo of this in the link)(old houses in Reykjavík just aren't that tall).

Hávaðaútkall í Breiðholti. #erekkitímitilaðfaraaðsofa #eðaniðuríbæ

= Noise report (útkall is kinda hard to translate... basically the police is being called to investigate some matter asap) in Breiðholt. #isn'tittimetogotosleep #orheaddowntown

The Icelandic police are just the best :D

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #11944 on: November 07, 2015, 11:09:19 AM »
I wish we had more snow here... unfortunately Alaska and Canada steal all of it! :*)
I love snow so much though... I doubt we will get any this year. But who knows, we might?
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #11945 on: November 07, 2015, 01:33:30 PM »
I saw a thing on FB and went to check if it was real and sure enough, some Icelander has trolled the Wikipedia entry on Sugar-apple a leeettle bit. Since it's making rounds on social media at the moment it'll probably disappear in the near future so I decided to screencap it while it's still there:



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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #11946 on: November 07, 2015, 02:10:56 PM »
^^ That's perfectly accurate. It's exactly what I'd say if I saw that thing.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #11947 on: November 07, 2015, 02:43:36 PM »
I saw a thing on FB and went to check if it was real and sure enough, some Icelander has trolled the Wikipedia entry on Sugar-apple a leeettle bit. Since it's making rounds on social media at the moment it'll probably disappear in the near future so I decided to screencap it while it's still there:



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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #11948 on: November 08, 2015, 05:30:14 AM »
Well, I have returned from my stay in the city.



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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #11949 on: November 08, 2015, 02:36:51 PM »
Before this, I think "Gro" was the least-English name I'd encountered.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #11950 on: November 08, 2015, 03:14:30 PM »
I'm feeling two things tonight: One is mild amazement that there's a food market in New York in a place called Smorgasburg - I wonder if they serve Swedish smörgås. The other is despondency because it came to my mind that the age of exploration and adventure is over - meaning the odds of me ever getting a shot at being a travelling pirate mercenary are rather slim.

Either may be caused by the fact that the weekend came and went way too fast.

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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #11951 on: November 08, 2015, 03:33:11 PM »
I'm feeling two things tonight: One is mild amazement that there's a food market in New York in a place called Smorgasburg - I wonder if they serve Swedish smörgås. The other is despondency because it came to my mind that the age of exploration and adventure is over - meaning the odds of me ever getting a shot at being a travelling pirate mercenary are rather slim.

Either may be caused by the fact that the weekend came and went way too fast.

Of course you can still be a travelling pirate mercenary, you could be a travelling space pirate mercenary. There's still lots to discover out there.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #11952 on: November 08, 2015, 03:43:39 PM »
Of course you can still be a travelling pirate mercenary, you could be a travelling space pirate mercenary. There's still lots to discover out there.

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« Reply #11953 on: November 08, 2015, 04:45:19 PM »
Of course you can still be a travelling pirate mercenary, you could be a travelling space pirate mercenary. There's still lots to discover out there.

Yeah, like Mark Watney? Gotta work on the getting into space part, it's a lot more complicated than getting on a boat they say. For now.



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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #11954 on: November 08, 2015, 04:47:25 PM »
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