People of Norway your god of lightning, the one you call Thor, his benevolence has bestowed a great bounty. Feast in his name!
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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Post by: GScholz on August 29, 2016, 11:29:36 AM
Thank you Thor! (Always thank Thor!) :uhoh
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Post by: Meatwad on August 29, 2016, 12:44:09 PM
Looks like Santa is delivering presents by foot this year
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Post by: Brooke on August 29, 2016, 01:23:21 PM
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Post by: GScholz on August 29, 2016, 02:11:03 PM
:rofl :aok
Most of that is sadly true!
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Post by: nooby52 on August 29, 2016, 03:24:19 PM
She's adorable, or pathetic, I can't decide which. :rofl
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Post by: GScholz on August 29, 2016, 04:16:22 PM
I can confirm that the "Russ" thing is real, and probably the craziest thing we do in this country. Graduating senior high school in this country starts with three weeks of insanity where everyone splits up into some sort of class structure and wears colored suits according to what they're graduating in. Most are red or blue. Red being academics and blue being professional studies. There's also black and green. Three weeks of hard partying. Most spend like the equivalent of five thousand Dollars, some much much more. Then the exams...!
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Post by: bustr on August 29, 2016, 04:59:49 PM
The population of Norway is about the same amount as San Francisco. Sounds like some of the regular weirdness that takes place out of the Castro district year round except in Norway it's probably just goofy, hetero and not pushing a "XXXX" label. The population of Norway is about 1.3% of the population of the USA. Can we discuss a 1:1 trade of populations?
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Post by: guncrasher on August 29, 2016, 05:18:43 PM
Valley girls now are in Norway. And they're worried about immigrants...?
- oldman
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Post by: Brooke on August 30, 2016, 01:12:26 PM
Tell me about it. I used to live near the San Fernando valley. (That's the ancestral home of valley girls.) Nightclub bombings, beheadings, knifings, various assaults . . . They even massacred the local Charlie Hebdo office for having a magazine cover that said, "Oh my gosh! Gag me with a spoon!" and ran down a bunch of people on Venice beach in a truck loaded with bikinis. Now, I know that most valley girls are just fine, but those that aren't -- oh, my gosh! I had to get out for my own personal safety to a place that wasn't trying its hardest to commit cultural suicide. Back to my hometown of Detroit maybe.
Title: Re: People of Norway
Post by: Brooke on August 30, 2016, 01:23:37 PM
The population of Norway is about the same amount as San Francisco. Sounds like some of the regular weirdness that takes place out of the Castro district year round except in Norway it's probably just goofy, hetero and not pushing a "XXXX" label. The population of Norway is about 1.3% of the population of the USA. Can we discuss a 1:1 trade of populations?
Currently our libertarians and "republicans" are moving to the States and your liberal-socialists are moving here. If we can reverse that I'm all for a 1:1 trade of populations.
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Post by: GScholz on August 30, 2016, 01:26:44 PM
Tell me about it. I used to live near the San Fernando valley. (That's the ancestral home of valley girls.) Nightclub bombings, beheadings, knifings, various assaults . . . They even massacred the local Charlie Hebdo office for having a magazine cover that said, "Oh my gosh! Gag me with a spoon!" and ran down a bunch of people on Venice beach in a truck loaded with bikinis. Now, I know that most valley girls are just fine, but those that aren't -- oh, my gosh! I had to get out for my own personal safety to a place that wasn't trying its hardest to commit cultural suicide. Back to my hometown of Detroit maybe.
:rofl
(I have to laugh... Otherwise I'll cry.)
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Post by: ghi on August 30, 2016, 01:36:38 PM
Detroit 2024 https://twitter.com/always_trump/status/762862170673602560 the flying cars are missing , good luck with that . :rofl
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Post by: NatCigg on August 30, 2016, 02:23:44 PM
thats funny ghi. In reality, just outside downtown, other side if the highway, grass fields are dotted with houses, not a place for a stranger. The picture trump paints is not far away, the grass is already there, just the darn people are in the way. really poor people. but there is a revival happening, millionaire Illich has teamed up with the tax payer to buy up property, tear down buildings, put up high rent business and apartments. The midwest valley girls and their hip boyfriends are buying the lot, rent and property values are skyrocketing. Oh yeah, had to get rid of the locals, check. And around the corner, the fabled wayne state university, they too are buying , destroying and building the neighborhood, funded big time HOPE and CHANGE and a 8% graduation rate. Go Detroit! And remember, the rest of the state own half of it.
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Post by: GScholz on August 30, 2016, 02:37:24 PM
Haven't I seen this movie? I think it had Peter Weller in it...
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Post by: Brooke on August 30, 2016, 03:26:50 PM
The midwest valley girls and their hip boyfriends are buying the lot, rent and property values are skyrocketing. [etc.]
Yeah -- I was amazed by that. I was born in the Detroit suburbs in the early '60's and moved away in the mid '80's. During all that time and longer (as my parents and relatives lived there, and I'd visit from time to time), Detroit continued on its terrible slide into the abyss. Then, the last time I was in Detroit about a year ago and after not having visited for a decade, I couldn't believe it. People moving into Detroit and property prices increasing? What the . . . ? Have we seen the nadir of Detroit's misery after half a century of decline?
I used to discuss it with my pals at work. "We should move the company to Detroit," I'd say. "We could afford an entire sky scraper. We'd just need to dedicate the first several floors to death traps and autonomous robots with gatling cannons. For the price of your houses in the Seattle area, each of you could own a mansion -- you just need to operate like the Omega Man."
I even saw a story about what house $500,000 could buy in San Francisco. This was several years ago when things were even less insane than today. It was a tiny weather-beaten shanty on a weedy postage stamp of ground. For $500,000 in Detroit, you got a mansion on its own leafy compound with wrought-iron gates. For $250,000, you got a mansion that looked sort of like a castle on a normal plot of land. I had to go down to $50,000 to find merely a beautiful Tudor-style house on an attractive plot.
I guess those days are gone.
By the way, for anyone interested in an awesome book about how to ruin a city, I recommend "Detroit: An American Autopsy," by Charlies LeDuff. Truly excellent writing. I see that many American cities these days are working hard to follow the steps required.
Title: Re: People of Norway
Post by: GScholz on August 30, 2016, 04:11:36 PM
Røyksopp's "Senior" was filmed in Detroit. "We shot it in Detroit because it is exists as a contemporary dystopia."
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Post by: NatCigg on August 30, 2016, 04:51:51 PM
is that Norway's idea of a music video? quite the journey. :uhoh
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Post by: GScholz on August 30, 2016, 06:02:32 PM
No that's Røyksopp's idea of a music video. Their name means "puffball mushroom" so yeah, they're a little "out there". But they do make eargasmic music if you're into this genre...
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Post by: Brooke on August 30, 2016, 06:07:49 PM
Røyksopp's "Senior" was filmed in Detroit. "We shot it in Detroit because it is exists as a contemporary dystopia."
I like the music, and nicely shot. A bit disturbing . . .
All of that wasteland, those locations are dotted around near the heart of the city, not on the outskirts. Several of them are within 3-5 miles of city center and the depressingly named Renaissance Center.
Here's what some city blocks of housing look like in downtown Detroit these days. This is 1.5 miles from the Renaissance Center:
https://goo.gl/maps/PYQSy3XDai52
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Post by: GScholz on August 30, 2016, 08:35:16 PM
Doesn't look too bad, but I'd sure want my 2nd amendment rights intact if I were to move there...
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Post by: Tec on August 30, 2016, 08:40:41 PM
We can't have a Royksopp thread without some flashlights and explosions.
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Post by: FLOOB on August 30, 2016, 08:55:10 PM
This thread was supposed to be about giving thanks to Thor.
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Post by: Oldman731 on August 30, 2016, 09:10:49 PM
This thread was supposed to be about giving thanks to Thor.
Well, it was. And then we got tired of that.
Graven images, all that stuff, it violates several of the forum rules. Better to talk about girls and ghettos.
- oldman
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Post by: ghi on August 30, 2016, 09:36:28 PM
The official "lightning" explanation is delivered by media for simple minds; this poor animals are victims of archons, some sort of demonic alien beings, fallen angels, advanced entities , they don't have digestive system but feeding direct on bio photons emitted by our aura,sucking the life from humans and poor animals.
The slaughter place , Hardangervidda park, is located just south of Hessdalen; i've been surfing this UFO /live cams for years after listening a show on Coast to Coast AM, :noid very strange thing are happening in this area, has been keept under watch since ww2 ; it's believed to be a portal/ star gate. http://www.hessdalen.org/stasjon/stream3.shtml http://www.hessdalen.org/station/now5.shtml http://www.hessdalen.org/station/stream1.shtml
here an interesting documentary;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjIWPtA7P_c
It's the end times, they are cast down on earth, humans are next, will see a whole city "struck by lightning"; i read this story about some strange alien radio signal captured by SETI program over past days;no way to be alone in this infinite universe; http://www.space.com/33893-seti-investigates-strong-candidate-signal.html http://www.space.com/33904-seti-mystery-signal-wow-alien-message-debate.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/08/30/setis-alien-signal-dont-get-too-excited/
I knew i should stop after a pack of 6, :bhead
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Post by: GScholz on August 30, 2016, 09:54:13 PM
We can't have a Royksopp thread without some flashlights and explosions.
:aok
There's another band I've been listening to lately in the same genre, sort of. Highasakite.
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Post by: Tec on August 30, 2016, 10:40:50 PM
I'll have to check them out. I haven't kept up with new music as much as I should but there's some good stuff coming out of Skandinavia lately. Faded by Alan Walker, and Happy Hours by John de Sohn have been on repeat for me the last couple months.
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Post by: Brooke on August 31, 2016, 01:56:37 AM
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Post by: Shuffler on August 31, 2016, 12:43:16 PM
They may need the meat as their economy is taking a beating because of Oil. I don't think the illegal whaling is going to be enough to keep them supplied.
Hard to imagine what that strike may have looked. Simply incredible.
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Post by: Bear76 on August 31, 2016, 02:37:26 PM
A definite improvement for sure. I'd buy that for a Dollar!
:aok
By the way, "I'd buy that for a dollar!" and a couple other things in the film are homages to a short story titled "The Marching Morons", by Kornbluth (which was borrowed heavily from by Idiocracy). You might like the short story, too.
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Post by: GScholz on August 31, 2016, 05:34:21 PM
Yeah I did. Read it back in the '80s or '90s. Wish we could ship all the morons to Venus today and save the future!
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Post by: Shuffler on September 01, 2016, 07:20:20 AM
Yeah I did. Read it back in the '80s or '90s. Wish we could ship all the morons to Venus today and save the future!
Impossible as they are a heavily protected species. Hence the abundance of them today.
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Post by: GScholz on September 01, 2016, 09:29:36 AM
The trick (as in the story) is to make it sound and look so wonderful that they'd be queuing up to go on the ship...
Brooke, I also think Douglas Adams probably took that idea and ran with it in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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Post by: Brooke on September 01, 2016, 04:11:42 PM
Another great set of books! :aok
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Post by: GScholz on September 01, 2016, 09:39:28 PM
There's one thing I've been sort of dreading to reveal to you guys... And since I'm drunk right now I suppose this is as good a time as any.
No I'm not doing a Dowding here...
I'm not sure if I'm more embarrassed for Americans or for Norwegians, but we have a reality show over here that's called Alt For Norge (All For Norway). It's sort of a competition where Americans compete to be the most Norwegian person for a cash prize...
No really...
I'm not kidding! :uhoh
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Post by: Meatwad on September 01, 2016, 09:46:42 PM
Those are brits dressed as americans :old:
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Post by: RJH57 on September 01, 2016, 10:44:31 PM
A day without a Norwegian is like a day without sunshine! :) https://1drv.ms/i/s!AkGpC4yjaS1ok2QV_4DeDpLvXoVn
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Post by: Brooke on September 01, 2016, 11:56:20 PM
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Post by: bustr on September 02, 2016, 03:30:40 PM
Everybody points at Lindisfarne for viking raiding as that picture depicts. It was the Danes who really raided England in force starting about 50 years later colonizing almost 1\3 of England until Alfred the Great defeated King Guthrum the Dane forcing him to convert to Christianity.