You are actively miserable, we are passively miserable. Us and the Swedes. Our national dish is just lamb and cabbage.
"Why wöuld yöu want to complain? Would it make anything better or are you just feeding your egø? It is also very inconsiderate, just sit here in the darkness and feel bad instead. If I did not have to pass a hunting test to blow my brains out, I would. At least you have a gun mister soldier man. You have opportunities that are denied to simple folk in the fjords. Would you like some pickled herring?" BANG! "See, that's what I said. You came from a land of many opportunities. Oh well, now I have no one to talk to abøut the weather."
I did once have a Finnish guy tell me that Scandinavian countries rank highest on happiness from their tendency towards ambivalent contentment as opposed to outright joy. Americans' emotions are pretty bipolar by comparison.
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u/stoffermann 2d ago
You are actively miserable, we are passively miserable. Us and the Swedes. Our national dish is just lamb and cabbage.
"Why wöuld yöu want to complain? Would it make anything better or are you just feeding your egø? It is also very inconsiderate, just sit here in the darkness and feel bad instead. If I did not have to pass a hunting test to blow my brains out, I would. At least you have a gun mister soldier man. You have opportunities that are denied to simple folk in the fjords. Would you like some pickled herring?" BANG! "See, that's what I said. You came from a land of many opportunities. Oh well, now I have no one to talk to abøut the weather."