25 Reasons Norway Is The Greatest Place On Earth

MadYaker · 13-01-2014 9:59pm

It's on my bucket list for the whitewater kayaking alone. Id put up with the price of a pint for a few weeks!

crockholm · 15-01-2014 12:27am

Sorry about switching the conversation to their sexy next door neighbours the Swedes,but I do remember going to a wedding outside Sundsvall in 2012 and pretty much all of the booze they had was either home brewed or imported from Germany/Poland.Seems to be more of a cultural thing-in the North it is more common to brew and distill your own and in the South they go to pubs more.
I know a few lads that have lived in both North and South and they say that the pub Life in the North is drab and nearly non-existant compared to the South,all eagerly await to be called back to work in sthlm.

Systembolaget can be a bit of a pain in the ass,but it seems it allows them to massage the figures and make up some spiel about saving people from the evils of alcohol in a more unregulated market,it ignores the amount(in hectolitres and lost Revenue) that goes under the radar.

Back to Norway, there is the possibility of working there this year and I am more than a little curious,se what the Queen bee says.

long range shooter · 17-01-2014 9:51am

ush wrote: »

Consumption would increase. It would be cheaper to buy. People would buy more. People would drink more. You only have to compare to other European countries. The bill for policing and health services increases. Which is the point of having high taxes and controls on access.

All comparable countries have cross border smuggling of alcohol. Norway is expensive to begin with. So smuggling would exist anyway. I think you're overstating the case of moonshine though. Smuggling has taken its place.

Norway have the highest tax in the world on alcohol but not the lowest consumption,get the picture.

biko · 18-01-2014 7:41pm

They do things differently in Norway

Lucena · 20-01-2014 12:23am

Is that just a typo, or does 'ass' mean something in Norwegian?

Can you imagine looking in the mirror while putting this type of gel on? Get a good mental image of it!

hognef · 20-01-2014 1:05am

Lucena wrote: »

Is that just a typo, or does 'ass' mean something in Norwegian?

Can you imagine looking in the mirror while putting this type of gel on? Get a good mental image of it!

'Ass.' is an abbreviation of 'Assortert(e)', which would probably translate to 'miscellaneous' in English.

crockholm · 20-01-2014 2:34am

^^^^^^^^

That's not entirely true,Lucena, the "Ass-Mullet" is one of the hottest Scandinavian fashion trends at the moment.It looks really cool in hotpants.

long range shooter · 20-01-2014 9:33am

crockholm wrote: »

^^^^^^^^

ThaIt looks really cool in hotpants.

Ok,so now i have to buy hotpants too,lol:D:D

25 Reasons Norway Is The Greatest Place On Earth

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