Cancer Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER They wander around saying "bork" a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER True story: our intramural basketball team in grad school broke up when our starting point guard (and only player with intercollegiate experience) got pregnant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ^^LOL Actually, our good friend is married to a Swede, so she spent a year or so over there with him. While she was there she came down with an illness that required surgery, I think it was appendicitis, but not positive now. Anyway, she went to the hospital assuming things would be just like over here, and to cut a long story short, they gave her all the things that she would need to prep herself for surgery and sent her home. Apparently, she was going to have to wait for several days, and the day of her appointment she was to prep herself for the surgery and then the surgeon would do the rest... Yeah... Her reaction was what one would expect from anyone familiar with medicine here in the states. However, that is just the way things are done there with the socialist medical program they have. And to the Swedish doctor's credit, she did say that he did an excellent job and she was in and out in no time flat, and there was only the smallest of scars from the surgery. However, she insisted at that point that they had to return to the States as soon as possible before something worse had to be fixed. I'll say this, if that is typical of Swedish medicine, those Swedes are some tough cookies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yes. Break-yer-tooth cookies! ^^ Any idea where and when this took place? How cases are handled varies somewhat between counties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER The city was Kiruna, and it had to be 6 or 7 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Hah! My county! ^^ Can't answer for what the routines are like up here, though -- I have surgery next term, I think. But it would seem that the surgeons judged her case to be sub-acute, and would have taken her in for the procedure immediately if her condition worsened. The physicians at Kiruna hospital are pretty good at what they do, and have to be, since the nearest regional hospital with a broader competence is my hospital at Sunderbyn -- almost two hours away by commuter air travel and something like four hours by train. None the less, Kiruna is full of miners, Sami, Finns, and northern Swedes. They have two solid months of darkness without sunshine every winter. They break teeth. They are not knappsu. ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Definitely remote... Carrie, our friend, mentioned that she was north of the Arctic Circle and that it was so remote that the dialects were even different. She went down south to visit with some of her husband's family and said that she couldn't understand a word they were saying because it was so different sounding. What's knappsu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER "Unmanly behavior." Like pushing strollers and putting up curtains. Until recent years, at least, the inland mountains and the Finnish border had a very macho culture and mindset. And regarding dialects -- thanks to cultural mixing, Kirunites speak as near as standard Swedish as damn. ^^ The borderlands -- the Torne river valley -- and the Sami of the mountains have a very distinct dialect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER And how do you pronounce it? What I find sort of amazing about the dialects is how a country's terrain has such a huge impact on segregating the language for so long. I'm sure tradition and family culture plays a huge role as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER "Knappsu?" Pronounced like it's spelled. ^^ Not "ker-NAP-su" but "KNAPP-su." And while we're on the subject, it's "Knut", not "Canute". Sorry, pet peeve, there ... This part of the land has been under Swedish rule since about the 1300s. Before then, we spoke various Finnish dialects. 600 years without most people hearing outsiders speak is a lot of time to develop dialects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I'm not a philologist, but yeah, that's plenty of time. Over here, of course, the electronic media are doing their best to grind down any differences like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Fluff Butt doesn't like snow. Hobbes loves it, once it's on the ground. Isn't keen on falling snow, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER More dynamic weather here. Forecast is a high today of 25 F, low of 24 F, high tomorrow of 26 F, low tomorrow night of 25 F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Enjoy the variety! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER We're getting a bit wider variety of temps, but there is a chance that San Fran will be getting snow for the first time since the 70s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER You'd enjoy life here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I remember a snowfall in San Jose in the winter of 1961/2 (or perhaps the winter before that). Nice snowball snow. It was all gone by 4PM. That was the only snow I'd ever seen until we got to Germany in December 1962, at which time there were 17 cm of ice on Tegler See in Berlin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER How's that for a culture shock? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Probably more of a general environment shock than culture, though of course it was accompanied by culture shock, as we went from central/south California where we'd lived all my life, into West Berlin shortly after the Wall went up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... Oh yeah -- the Wall. The one without any bricks in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, the first one was bricks, mortar, and some barbed wire. In early 1963 there was still a lot of that one in place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That, too, proved temporary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Even then they were building new versions inside that original quickie barrier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... You said "quickie." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER It gets the idea across, because the Wall put up on 13 August 1961 was literally bricks and mortar slapped together as fast as the masons could trowel it sort of in place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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