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Current affairs in Sweden

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  • #62
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,748 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Zaph wrote: »
    This is a complete non-story. It's right there in the OP:



    It's a political message so therefore isn't allowed in accordance with the existing rules. I'm not entirely sure why it warranted a thread of its own in that case.


    Ah it brings the usual "characters" out, good craic is had, no one gets hurt.


  • #63
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Aww you went through the trouble of posting a pic of trigger from only fools and horses. How sweet of you. That determined I get your pointless point across. Nice try though. I’ll applaud your effort

    See now that's a reasonable put down and you even by passed the point. Good man. Keep your lazy Trumpisms for the weak minded Alt-Right lads. About their speed.

    Speed-3-Pitch-Keanu-Reeves-Video.jpg


  • #64
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    See now that's a reasonable put down and you even by passed the point. Good man. Keep your lazy Trumpisms for the weak minded Alt-Right lads. About their speed.

    Speed-3-Pitch-Keanu-Reeves-Video.jpg

    I have to give it to you liberal leftists. You are relentless. Boring but relentless


  • #65
    quokula
    Registered Users Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭quokula


    Zaph wrote: »
    This is a complete non-story. It's right there in the OP:

    "Therefore, signs that are deemed inappropriate are rejected, for example if they contain political messages or offensive words"

    It's a political message so therefore isn't allowed in accordance with the existing rules. I'm not entirely sure why it warranted a thread of its own in that case.

    Yep, of all the things to be outraged about, another country applying its standard regulations for custom car registration plates is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.


  • #66
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    dodderangler wrote: »
    I have to give it to you liberal leftists. You are relentless. Boring but relentless

    I'm not American comrade. Did you grow up watching too much Nickelodeon or are you from there yourself?


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  • #67
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,400 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    I have, and in the city I stayed in white Europeans were very much in the minority.

    What city is this?

    Edit: I see that you have (yet again) been corrected for your blatant misinformation.


  • #68
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Kista's not a city. It's a small district in Stockholm. So the city you were in was Stockholm.

    According to the SCB (http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/), there was 320,902 people with a "foreign background" in Stockholm in 2018. That would include white Europeans from other countries.

    There were 641,252 people with a "Swedish background"

    So native Swedish people aren't in any way in the minority, let alone white Europeans.

    Maybe the same brown people were walking past you multiple times?

    I spent a few weeks in Kista, have you been there in the evening? In the Kista Galleria?


  • #69
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    I spent a few weeks in Kista, have you been there in the evening? In the Kista Galleria?




    It's not a city, so your claim is overblown (to put it very nicely).


  • #70
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Odhinn wrote: »
    It's not a city, so your claim is overblown (to put it very nicely).

    Fair enough. Have you been?


  • #71
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Fair enough. Have you been?




    To sweden? No.


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  • #72
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Odhinn wrote: »
    To sweden? No.

    Great, maybe you should, sounds like you would love it.


  • #73
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Great, maybe you should, sounds like you would love it.




    And that prediction is based on...........?


  • #74
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Odhinn wrote: »
    And that prediction is based on...........?

    I assumed you were a fan of multiculturalism. Perhaps I got that wrong.


  • #75
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,236 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Sweden offers a lot of examples in many ways but control freakish and authoritarian they can be is overlooked.

    This is just a very mild reminder of that.


  • #76
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    A bit of fun

    Romanian Police confiscate Swedish number plates with swear words against ruling party
    The Romanian, who lives in Sweden and whose car is also registered in Sweden, recently became one of the main topics in local media and social media, after he entered the country with a car whose number plates display a text that reads as a swear against the Social Democratic Party (PSD).
    https://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-number-plates-psd-car-sweden
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  • #77
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    I assumed you were a fan of multiculturalism. Perhaps I got that wrong.


    Any major city in Western Europe has ethnically diverse populations.


  • #78
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,905 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    I spent a few weeks in Kista, have you been there in the evening? In the Kista Galleria?

    Me going there won’t decrease the numbers of white Europeans, so don’t be worrying you’re little head about where I’ve been.

    Why did you claim that in the city you stayed in “white Europeans were very much in the minority.” when that clearly isn’t the case? Did you not think you were going to be caught out? Does your world-view require lying to justify it to yourself or others?


  • #79
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Me going there won’t decrease the numbers of white Europeans, so don’t be worrying you’re little head about where I’ve been.

    Why did you claim that in the city you stayed in “white Europeans were very much in the minority.” when that clearly isn’t the case? Did you not think you were going to be caught out? Does your world-view require lying to justify it to yourself or others?

    Lying, ffs. Cop yourself on lad.


  • #80
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,905 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Lying, ffs. Cop yourself on lad.

    Would it make you feel better if we just called it an untruth? A big exaggeration? A made up fact?


  • #81
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Would it make you feel better if we just called it an untruth? A big exaggeration? A made up fact?

    A simple mistake, Gregory. It refers to itself as the Science City. Not sure why I’m bothering, you’ve probably never left your basement.


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  • #82
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,905 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    A simple mistake, Gregory. It refers to itself as the Science City. Not sure why I’m bothering, you’ve probably never left your basement.

    But it’s not a simple mistake is it? It’s an attempt to present a certain position about race and immigration. But it turns out that there isn’t a factual basis for that position. That’s a pretty significant mistake, and one worth calling out. You’re getting very defensive about it, why is that?

    The basement comment is interesting. Very few Irish houses have basements. I’ve never been in one. Do you spend a lot of time on American websites, engaging in their politics and rhetoric?


  • #83
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    But it’s not a simple mistake is it? It’s an attempt to present a certain position about race and immigration. But it turns out that there isn’t a factual basis for that position. That’s a pretty significant mistake, and one worth calling out. You’re getting very defensive about it, why is that?

    The basement comment is interesting. Very few Irish houses have basements. I’ve never been in one. Do you spend a lot of time on American websites, engaging in their politics and rhetoric?

    You are clearly a basement dweller, whether you live in one or not is irrelevant.


  • #84
    Dr.Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 675 ✭✭✭Dr.Sanchez


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    But it’s not a simple mistake is it? It’s an attempt to present a certain position about race and immigration. But it turns out that there isn’t a factual basis for that position. That’s a pretty significant mistake, and one worth calling out. You’re getting very defensive about it, why is that?

    The basement comment is interesting. Very few Irish houses have basements. I’ve never been in one. Do you spend a lot of time on American websites, engaging in their politics and rhetoric?
    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    You are clearly a basement dweller, whether you live in one or not is irrelevant.

    My house here in Sweden has a basement, just gonna throw that out there. I'll also mention that there are no immigrants down there before Sonny noggs makes any assumptions again!


  • #85
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,905 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    You are clearly a basement dweller, whether you live in one or not is irrelevant.

    This whole discussion isn’t going very well for you, is it?


  • #86
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    This whole discussion isn’t going very well for, you is it?

    Says the lad who can’t manage simple punctuation. Makes me wonder why someone who has such a limited grasp of English is trolling on an Irish website.


  • #87
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,905 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Says the lad who can’t manage simple punctuation. Makes me wonder why someone who has such a limited grasp of English is trolling on an Irish website.

    There we are with the exaggeration again. Is this the basis of many of your beliefs?


  • #88
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    There we are with the exaggeration again. Is this the basis of many of your beliefs?

    Well done, you managed to string a sentence together without making a mistake.


  • #89
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,905 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Well done, you managed to string a sentence together without making a mistake.

    I can correct my mistakes. Can you correct yours?


  • #90
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    I can correct my mistakes. Can you correct yours?

    Go back and correct all your mistakes in this thread and then I’ll answer that.


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  • #91
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Odhinn wrote: »
    Any major city in Western Europe has ethnically diverse populations.
    Some much, much more than others.

    27% of Stockholmers are immigrants, or of non-Swedish background. Its estimated that Stockholm will hit a population of 3 million by 2045, largely due to migrants from Afghanistan and Syria.
    A study conducted by Stockholm Regional Growth, Environment and Planning is right, the growth means Stockholm will need an additional 2,000 pre-'schools' within a decade, as well as much more housing.

    Glasgow is of a very similar size (if not larger). It will have little abnormal population growth and likley remain 88% white and Scottish, 8% Asian and 2.5% black. It's considered 'not' to be ethnically diverse.
    Somewhere like Belfast might remain largely unchanged, with only very slight or marginal ethnically diversity into 2035.


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