nordic countries

ILX's tentacles reach everywhere.

except Iceland

I really don't get the love for Sweden! But you know, to each his own

Finland - awesome culture, people, language. Norway - one of my favourite landscapes, climates, anywhere, super-friendly people, fun times, totally the hungover, hardbitten, all-weather, all-terrain underdog to the preening cockatoo that is Sweden

http://www.charlieandpeggy.com/Palm_Cockatoo1.jpg

I was walking through the rain, in Bergen, this biblical rainstorm, through the harbour, and there was nobody around. I passed this statue/mannequin of some kind of salty dog, norsk sea-pirate when all of a sudden his HEAD TURNED and he looked at me with this squinty face like melted wax covered in bristles of reddish beard. It was terrifying! He was a real person, a real pirate-person, standing in Bergen in the rain giving the stink eye to anyone who happened to pass by. That's Norway.

I mean like

http://simplyxmas.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/trollnflag078.jpg

tempting to vote for denmark rather than the land of quisling, vikerness and riise on the grounds that its inhabitants are so self-deprecating that describing it as basically just an unremarkable region of Germany constitutes patriotic fervour

^amdrl, that sounds like every day in Bergen! Actually it's hot _right_ now.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

hi abcsfk! Norway!!

I didn't know we had Norwegians on ILX. I'm really honored to be in your presence. Uhhh...Hygellig a treffe deg

Geir surpasses mere nationality

Hongro is its own country

So what have we learned, what have we proved?

Can we do "countries in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" next or is that too controversial?

Good poll. ILX has LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (<--Swedish related ref!)

On Finland - it would have beeen an interesting winner, given its non-Nordic language.

http://team.forsvarsmakten.se/english/

poor Denmark

norway >>>>>>> the rest

Is there a "Nordic Noir" thread for discussion of the various Wallander films, Arnaldur Indridason novels etc?

Disgusted at the result of this poll, tbh.

Sweden has all the best bands. But I want very badly to visit all of these some day.

Some discussion of Wallander on the Police Procedurals thread, I think.

http://i.imgur.com/6tQRweY.jpg

Since this poll have been to Copenhagen. Pretty ladies, bars you can smoke in (I don't smoke but iqet

... lol I was going to post more but my phone disagreed with me, so I'll leave it at that... it is like Germany though.