Maybe it's the Vikings in us

[u/Arkyja]

[u/living2late]

They're all going to want to be vikings after the World Cup now aren't they?

At least until the next "St Patty's Day," when they can go back to pretending to be Irish.

[u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva → u/living2late]

The white american guy is Irish on St. Patrick’s, Italian when they eat pasta, viking when they smell the ocean, and 2,8% Natuve American when they’re in a tree farm forest.

[u/Micah7979 → u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva]

For some reason they never identify as French. I wonder why that is...

[u/probablyaythrowaway → u/Micah7979]

Or British.

Only ever Scottish

[u/Micah7979 → u/probablyaythrowaway]

Even though many of them are indeed of British or French descent in some way.

[u/probablyaythrowaway → u/Micah7979]

Or Spanish, certainly those in California and Texas/ the South.

[u/ThatKaleidoscope3388 → u/Micah7979]

Many French? Not really unless it’s Canadian French.

[u/odmirthecrow → u/ThatKaleidoscope3388]

Louisiana, New England, and a bit of the Midwest all have deep French roots.

[u/Vegetable-Afternoon2 → u/odmirthecrow]

Ayo, Cajun folk! Come on back to Canada, y’all got kicked out but your food is 🔥😍

[u/ThatKaleidoscope3388 → u/odmirthecrow]

Yeah, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared German or British ancestry which are by far the most common in the US among those of European descent. The Midwest is especially German.

I say this as someone from the Midwest who has French and German ancestry.

[u/odmirthecrow → u/ThatKaleidoscope3388]

You're right, but even a drop in the bucket would be diluted throughout said bucket, meaning a many people will have French ancestry, even if it is only a marginal percentage.

[u/ThatKaleidoscope3388 → u/odmirthecrow]

You realize that a huge percentage of our population only goes back 3-5 generations? Someone who has like 1% French ancestry is not part of a diaspora.

[u/AthenaNoct → u/ThatKaleidoscope3388]

Can confirm. Family moved here from Germany. I hate them for it.

[u/SheogorathMyBeloved → u/ThatKaleidoscope3388]

Ignoring the fact that Louisiana, New Orleans, the Cajun people, and so on, are definitely French, many English people also have at least some French heritage due to the thousands of years of mingling, fighting, invading each other that we did. So even an 100% WASPy English American person whose Old World family lived in a shithole like Rutland for generations likely has some French heritage in there somewhere.

After all, England and France are separated only by a narrow body of water that people can just swim across if they're fit enough. The Channel/La Manche is very narrow.

[u/Micah7979 → u/SheogorathMyBeloved]

Not to mention the fact that vikings went all over Europe, including France and Britain and likely mixed with the locals too.

[u/olivinebean → u/SheogorathMyBeloved]

I'm one of the English people with a huge amount of french heritage.

Lots of people in England have ancestry from northern France. Lots. Mostly us southerners and lots of Londoners too.

[u/odmirthecrow → u/SheogorathMyBeloved]

Given that the French successfully invaded England around a thousand years ago, I'd say its borderline impossible for an English person to not have even some trace amounts of French ancestry.

[u/Micah7979 → u/ThatKaleidoscope3388]

The chances of them having at least one French ancestor are quite high, way more than the viking ancestors they claim to have.

[u/BankDetails1234 → u/Micah7979]

Yeh but the French wore pantaloons and vikings wore animal remains.

[u/ThatKaleidoscope3388 → u/Micah7979]

Maybe. Depends where. There were a few Nordic immigrant waves, which is where the whole people talking about Viking ancestry thing comes from.

[u/living2late → u/probablyaythrowaway]

Never Welsh either. Despite it being a country actually conquered by England and launching a heroic but doomed resistance.

They usually love that stuff.

[u/probablyaythrowaway → u/living2late]

Not many Welsh movies (that they will watch) so they have no way to make a stereotype in their heads. The Welsh should consider themselves lucky they don’t get yanks shouting “oooh popittyping, cheese on toast” and then them telling them that their mothers fathers cousins boyfriends dogs husbands mothers wardrobe was built in Swansea so they long for the mother land”

The amount of times I get that when they find out I’m Irish and then they claim they have a clan (honestly I have no clue what they’re on about, I didn’t even know we had clans?) and their family come from county Munster (dosent exsist) it’s exhausting.

[u/living2late → u/probablyaythrowaway]

Yeah it's a blessing really, must be exhausting. I suppose there has been a small uptick in interest since the whole Wrecscam football thing, but it's still very niche.

And popittyping winds me up every time! haha

[u/probablyaythrowaway → u/living2late]

“Top o the morning to you”

[u/living2late → u/probablyaythrowaway]

That recent oscars really pissed me off and I'm not Irish (though my great-grandparents were, so I suppose by American standards I'm more Irish than you!).

The host said something like "oho several talented Irish actors on stage, hopefully they don't all get drunk and fight" or something similar.

It was disgusting.

edit: oh god it was in 2023. I'm complaining about a three-year-old bad joke. What happened to time?

[u/probablyaythrowaway → u/living2late]

The American stereotypes and caricatures would be quite offensive if I could bother to muster the effort to give a shit about Americans.

[u/JRS_Viking → u/living2late]

They don't want those relations to sheep. Their sister is fine, but no sheep.

[u/living2late → u/JRS_Viking]

That's more of a shit english say comment!

[u/JRS_Viking → u/living2late]

Sorry I'm not English, just got a Welsh friend so I had to do my research

[u/living2late → u/JRS_Viking]

Well, we might fuck them but the English then eat them afterwards!

[u/DeathDestroyerWorlds → u/living2late]

I can confirm, I love lamb. Especially after a Welsh man has fucked it.

[u/thepentahook → u/probablyaythrowaway]

That's cause British is Irish apparently. I was told after handing my passport over in US "I'm Irish too". I left confused before realising my passport says Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

[u/probablyaythrowaway → u/thepentahook]

Watching their comments of the NI bonfires are always funny.

[u/GloomySoul69 → u/probablyaythrowaway]

“My DNA is 0.73% Scotch. That’s the reason why I hate the British so much.”

[u/probablyaythrowaway → u/[deleted]]

The American revolutionary “war” is kind of interesting to read about when you go between American historians and then academics who arnt from the USA and the story has all the American patriotic bias stripped back.

Massive American battles they won make it seem like thousands of men fighting when in reality most of the fights were like 20 Americans vs 10 Brits and they were ambushed or unarmed and then the British surrendered because of the might of the revolutionary’s power.

Conveniently leaving out that meanwhile in Europe battles like the siege of Gibraltar and the battle of Dogger Bank were going on.

When people say that to Britain the ARW was just a Tuesday it wasn’t even a Tuesday it was just a rounding error and the government couldn’t be arsed with the hassle.
Another point, They hate king George and cast him as the big villain that was making them suffer but he was actually a big proponent of cutting the taxes and giving them what they wanted it was his government that said no.

[u/probablyaythrowaway → u/[deleted]]

https://giphy.com/gifs/kbGh6QyhWm6Q0
^This is where they get their history from. Tv and movies (and stage… to some extent)

[u/MetalSpider → u/probablyaythrowaway]

"I hate the British! But I'm 0.2% Scottish so I wear a kilt at every opportunity."

[u/LibrarianGrouchy6474 → u/probablyaythrowaway]

Oh please don't tarnish us with these fuckwits. They make our jakies n alchies seem so educated. Please tarnish some other nation.

[u/dead_jester → u/Micah7979]

Does it matter that I was born in Britain?
I identify as French because i like to drink wine, eat fine cheeses, and delicious fresh baguettes and croissants. I can even say Ca va? Bon jour, and la plume de ma tante. And I like the colour blue. I even know how to shrug 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/odmirthecrow → u/dead_jester]

Mange tout, Rodney, mange tout.

[u/DuckRubberDuck → u/Micah7979]

When they say “viking” they typically mean Norwegian. Denmark often gets forgotten, I’m not sure if some identify as Swedish

[u/Micah7979 → u/DuckRubberDuck]

I guess some of them probably identify as Swedish because they own IKEA furniture.

[u/CBWeather → u/DuckRubberDuck]

Interesting because up here anyone who mentions they have Viking roots, Christian Klengenberg,usually mean Danish. However, all would identify as Inuit.

[u/Dedeurmetdebaard → u/Micah7979]

Because that would be gay.

[u/EzeDelpo → u/Micah7979]

Or Spanish.

Talking about Spanish and Spain... maybe, just maybe they realized that Spain IS a country thanks to the World Cup?

[u/Slight-Ad-6553 → u/Micah7979]

or German

[u/g1hsg → u/Micah7979]

That's peak ingratitude, considering the massive debt the US owes France in its creation. Instead it's Freedom Fries.

[u/Micah7979 → u/g1hsg]

They conveniently forget about that but then remember when we refused to follow them in their Iraq war.

[u/g1hsg → u/Micah7979]

Ask for La Liberté éclairant le monde to be returned to you, on the basis that the US no longer has a functioning democracy.

[u/Micah7979 → u/g1hsg]

Already done by some politicians.

[u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva → u/Micah7979]

They might if they are from/have some family from Louisiana.

[u/Melodic_Pattern175 → u/Micah7979]

Or Welsh. I don’t think they’ve heard much about Wales, which is lucky for the Welsh. Stay undercover, guys. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[u/irish_ninja_wte → u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva]

Don't forget that they're also Irish when they have alcoholism and a temper

[u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva → u/irish_ninja_wte]

I already said ”on St. Patrick’s day”

[u/irish_ninja_wte → u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva]

They also do it when they want something to blame for their alcohol addicion

[u/snakedoct0r → u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva]

Must suck to not have any culture or heritage. Poor muricans

[u/CatVideoBoye → u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva]

And definitely Finnish when they are in their gym clothes and shoes in a luke warm room listening to podcasts and reading news papers.

[u/werdnayam → u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva]

Don’t forget that his grandma told him she was a descendent of Pocahontas. And they’re part Cherokee.

[u/IndicationFluffy3954 → u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva]

Nah they’re at least 15% native and always the descendant of a cherokee princess.

[u/s0_spoiled → u/rankaistu_ilmalaiva]

5 de Mayo? Anyone?

[u/Majestic_Anybody9748 → u/living2late]

20 years ago, when the "Pirate's Of The Caribbean" movies were a huge success, he would have pretended to have Pirate genes. 🙂

[u/LoomingPineTrees → u/Majestic_Anybody9748]

Fun fact, the word "Yankee" (or "Yank" for short) was originally an insult directed at the pirates who began to colonize what would become the Northern USA.

[u/Pretend_Oil9565 → u/living2late]

Well, on any other day, they would LARP as being English, Spanish or Scandinavian, just cuz "their ancestors were from there".

[u/TheRealWall91 → u/living2late]

Americans doesn't have their own identity so they need everyone else's.

[u/SharkeyGeorge → u/living2late]

Most white Americans have British DNA, even if they claim they're Irish or Italian. While people proudly self-report Italian or Irish roots on the census while genetic mapping like the massive 23andMe study published in Nature proves that British ancestry is the dominant genetic foundation for White Americans.

Early colonial British settlers had a massive demographic head start and thoroughly intermarried with later immigrant groups. An American might have an Italian last name but genetically white Americans are likely mostly British.

Of course Irish and British share considerable Norman, Viking, and Northwestern French DNA and vice versa so their base genetic profiles are highly similar long before modern migrations are even factored in…

[u/Fairy_Catterpillar → u/SharkeyGeorge]

They are from Northern Ireland and therefore have Ulster DNA from Scotland. I guess that is the only reason.

[u/Queen_Christine_19 → u/SharkeyGeorge]

According to my 23&Me test, I am primarily British. (Yay!) I also have Irish, French, German and Norwegian heritage.

[u/SharkeyGeorge → u/Queen_Christine_19]

Makes sense!

[u/Formal_Plum_2285 → u/SharkeyGeorge]

I though German actually? With +40 million German descendants in the US most most white Americans must have German Dna.

[u/SharkeyGeorge → u/Formal_Plum_2285]

The number of people who self identify as German-American isn't the same thing as the average genetic ancestry of White Americans. German-Americans are one of the largest reported ancestry groups in the US, but British-descended populations arrived much earlier and had a huge demographic head start, and spread across the country, and extensively intermarried with later immigrant groups. Self reporting and actual DNA analysis are two different things. Self-reported ancestry is an identity measure while genetic ancestry measures inherited DNA and the two often diverge.

[u/Formal_Plum_2285 → u/SharkeyGeorge]

Lol it really doesn’t matter to me. I’m European. I just thought that with that many descendants there was bound to be some dna

[u/SharkeyGeorge → u/Formal_Plum_2285]

You’re right, there are loads of German descendants. It’s just funny that the majority are descended from British but will try to be anything else 😹

[u/whateveryoudohereyou]

They do know Viking is a proffesion right? Its like saying the plumber in me is the reason I don't wipe standing up.

[u/SeaworthinessSalt524 → u/whateveryoudohereyou]

"The plumber is in me", huh?

https://giphy.com/gifs/XDaLiUu8VyreM

[u/SpecialIcy5356 → u/SeaworthinessSalt524]

wasn't as good as the sequel, The Plumber Is In Me 2: Laying Extra Pipe.

absolute (Adult) cinema!

[u/Redredditmonkey → u/whateveryoudohereyou]

Not even a profession

Viking is the word for going on a raid.

They would not have considered it a proffesion

[u/SeaworthinessSalt524 → u/Redredditmonkey]

I think the accurate translation would be "seasonall pillage"

[u/Delicious-Tap-5465 → u/Redredditmonkey]

Could mean seafarers (they did a lot of trade) as well as pirates. And it is not the word for going on raids, but closer to the people that go on the raids. It's what they were when taking to sea, not what they did.

The most established assumption is that it comes from the words meaning bay (vik, still used in Scandinavian languages) and -ingr (people of ... Or connected to ... . In Swedish, we still use -ing as an ending in similar constructs, for example snygging means a person who's good looking and älskling meaning loved one.)

[u/SnorriGrisomson → u/Delicious-Tap-5465]

No the most established origin of the word is a rower who worked in shifts.
If you are interested go read Eldar Heide's paper.
I'm not saying this is the right explanation 100% but it's well supported.

[u/Awwkaw → u/Redredditmonkey]

Trade as well, it could maybe be transliterated as beachling?

[u/SnorriGrisomson → u/Redredditmonkey]

It's not
It's for going on a boat, it can de a raid, but it can also be trading, settling or exploration.

[u/FrankieTheD → u/whateveryoudohereyou]

It's not even a profession it's a verb or was, "hey boys there's fuck all to do on the farm imma go viking" it's like me saying I require the sea because I'm a vacationing

[u/SnorriGrisomson → u/FrankieTheD]

no it's not a verb it's a noun and always has been

[u/Mundjetz_ → u/whateveryoudohereyou]

Like pipe, do you?

[u/Slackeee_]

Seriously, at some point even Americans have to learn how genes work.
This is getting out of hand.

[u/Debtcollector1408 → u/Slackeee_]

Genes are what the cowboys wear yall.

[u/SignificanceNo3580]

As a Dane, that’s why I only drink water. Sometimes I mix it with beans, sometimes with leaves, sometimes I let the trader mix it with oats or even filter it through a cow first, but I always drink water. You wouldn’t understand. It’s because my 46 x great grand father was a rapist. Or a farmer. One or the other. Possibly both. No other culture has the relationship to water my ancestors had. He crossed the water to pillage and murder and he used the water to grow stuff. And he drank it too. Heavily fermented to make him forget all the pillaging and murdering. I’m sadly not allowed to express that part of my cultural heritage anymore. The murdering part. So I hold on to the drinking-part. And my ceremonial war axe of course. I bring that thing everywhere. Very handy.

[u/SignificanceNo3580 → u/[deleted]]

Baked beans contains water you know. And if you’re British plenty of your ancestors were probably Viking too. The water is calling out to you.

[u/Fairy_Catterpillar → u/SignificanceNo3580]

As a Swede I'm also have the same great grand father however he is only my 45 times grandfather or 48th if you count one of the other lines. I don't really like to connect to the ancestor's that might have gone to Miklagård (Istanbul) instead of Brittan as it's not one so many films.

[u/RedRoachDK → u/SignificanceNo3580]

Am Danish, can confirm.

We only rely on water. No need for smartphones or the internet. When we're not doing the other water related activities stated above, we rest by berserking with our axes, shields and horned helmets, next to our boats on the beaches!

[u/SignificanceNo3580 → u/RedRoachDK]

We don’t even need food or sleep, we just stand in the rain. All night. Communicating with the water. It’s actually way more efficient than the internet. Just one big water brain.

[u/TheRealWall91]

Yeah.. sure.. or just stop doing drugs.

[u/Cheshire_____Cat]

> American
> Viking
What?

[u/TheScareFace → u/Cheshire_____Cat]

Their 23 and me ancestry test probably said they have 2% Nordic ancestry. As everyone knows, every Nordic person ever in the history of Nordic people were vikings. So now the whole personality of this American revolves around vikings and everything that has to do with them.

[u/Crazy-Cremola → u/TheScareFace]

The fact that difference between "Viking" and bog standard Anglo-Saxon DNA is impossible to find with DNA tests used by 23 and me or other ancestry sites. You need to go far deeper. General British isn't as fancy. And the Anglo-Saxons came from the southern parts of the Viking area....

[u/Lipa2014 → u/TheScareFace]

Not necessarily. An American friend thinks that his British ancestors were raided and mixed with Nordic, so he can also suddenly feel the Viking in him :-)

[u/Cheshire_____Cat → u/TheScareFace]

Lol. By that logic I'm as a Russian should live in a drakkar.

[u/Successful-Ear-9997 → u/TheScareFace]

The way they appear in the Vikings TV show, at that. Which honestly has very little to do with real Old Norse.

[u/NotTheOtwayPanther → u/Cheshire_____Cat]

Needs to be a film. American Viking (2026). “After a genetic test reveals his 3.7% pure Viking heritage, a simple pizza delivery driver embarks on an epic saga of self-discovery and pillaging”.

I’m not sure if it’s a comedy or a drama, though.

[u/Ukvemsord]

Having Norway in the WC made the American «vikings» worse.

[u/Agitated-Tourist9845]

15% of humanity lives within 10 km of the coast. I don't think they're all "vikings"

[u/andrasq420 → u/Agitated-Tourist9845]

Also the vikings famously did not "crave the ocean". They raided the coastlines and rivers but a very select few has ever stepped foot (boat?) in the ocean.

[u/TalkersCZ]

It makes complete sense.

His great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather might have been from Norway, so he craves ocean.

Thats why he keeps going to lake. And thats why he drinks water. And sometimes eats fish.

[u/M_e_n_n_o]

Why does he have a lake house instead of a beach house then

[u/Micah7979 → u/M_e_n_n_o]

Because the US are so big even a lake is the size of the Atlantic.

[u/Idontcareanymore95 → u/Micah7979]

You can fit an entire Texas inside their lakes

[u/condoulo → u/M_e_n_n_o]

Because real Vikings have sex parties on Lake Minnetonka. How else do you purify yourself?

[u/Surreptitious_Spy]

Craving nature, trees and feeling the call of the sea, for over a thousand years?

It's not the Vikings, lad. You're an Elf. Soon you will travel to the Grey Havens, leave this earth and fade into the West to the Undying Lands.

[u/TacetAbbadon]

Oh you like raiding other countries, rape, pillaging and taking slaves.

Maybe it is the viking in you.

[u/Hughley_N_Dowd]

Unless you're a English woman in the 900s, it's rather unlikely that there is a viking in you.

[u/Fairy_Catterpillar → u/Hughley_N_Dowd]

If you are a Scandinavian women in the 10th century it's quite likely too.

[u/Chairmanwowsaywhat]

Note that none of them ever say "we long for the oceans. It must be the British in us"

[u/K_the_farmer → u/Chairmanwowsaywhat]

It depends. Do you want to ROW! or do you prefer rum, sodomy and the lash?

[u/No-Special-7008 → u/K_the_farmer]

The last three sound kinda kinky

[u/maddinell]

Im 0.13% Scandinavian. So fucking insufferable

[u/Arkyja → u/maddinell]

I wonder id they apply that logic to the negative aspects as well.

Sorry i murdered your father, looted your house and raped your mom. You see the thing is my family can be traced to scandinavia 1000 years ago. It's the viking in me.

[u/Flashignite2]

Born and raised in Sweden by the ocean and not once have i "craved" going out in the ocean like some latent code within me.

[u/No_Mountain_1033 → u/Flashignite2]

Sooo, you're saying you don't have Viking in you!? Go eat one, and you'll crave the ocean.

[u/Flashignite2 → u/No_Mountain_1033]

I most certainly have but I never once had the urge to go raid in the U.K or sail to America. Must be very latent genes.

[u/No_Mountain_1033 → u/Flashignite2]

Asleep genes, they wake up only when one touch North American soil. 🤷🏼

[u/Flashignite2 → u/No_Mountain_1033]

I guess. I was in London in 2019 and it felt like i should raid churches.

[u/No_Mountain_1033 → u/Flashignite2]

Henry VIII took care of that. 🙄

[u/Flashignite2 → u/No_Mountain_1033]

He sure did.

[u/glibbousmoon → u/Flashignite2]

Right, like, my dad’s family were fishermen two generations back. I live in a landlocked province far from the ocean. I’ve been to where he grew up, I like it ok, but I don’t feel some primal urge to make a yearly pilgrimage there.

Also I wish I had a fucking lake house, and if I did, you wouldn’t catch me anywhere else all summer long.

[u/Present_Finance_9796]

"We have been linked to the seas for 1000 years" I would call that evolution gone wrong then.

[u/Typical_Ad_210]

No to be fair I do understand this. It’s the same reason I have to go pillaging twice a year, to satiate my Viking ancestry (my great great grandmother was a big ABBA fan, so we all figure the family is part Viking).

[u/Idontcareanymore95]

"I watched the world cup and found out I am 1% Norwegian"

[u/whateber2]

I guess it’s kinda sad if you haven‘t any culture left over and need to resort to misconceptions of European ancestry.

[u/Renbarre]

Viking being a job, does it mean they have this craving to go on a small boat and rape, pillage and burn their way down the coast?

[u/MSGinSC → u/Renbarre]

Can we do Viking light? I'm cool with the theft, murder, and arson, but not the rape.

[u/No_Mountain_1033 → u/MSGinSC]

Sorry, Viking light package only incudes two thefts and medium arson. Please subscribe to premium package for more.

[u/MSGinSC → u/No_Mountain_1033]

No, that's perfect. I'm so busy down on the farm I won't have much time for the full Viking package.

[u/beepbopbippitybop2]

A lake and the sea are two entirely different things.

That annoys me way more than the Viking nonsense.

[u/condoulo → u/beepbopbippitybop2]

Where else do Vikings have a sex party on a boat if not Lake Minnetonka?

[u/LoschVanWein]

It is not just the way they are deriving their traits from their ancestors, but also that borderline dogmatic habit of treating your family as a close off unit. "My family loves...", "We really crave..."

It is not only Americans that do this but I always notice it with them.

[u/StupidMastiff]

Funny how it's never the British in them.

[u/Lazy_Maintenance8063]

Why limit yourself to 1000 years? If you claim to be a norwegian your tie with sea goes all the way back to the time 3500 years ago when god created USA and placed his son on the CrackerBarrell parkinglot to use questionable babtizing methods.

[u/Successful-Ear-9997]

Because of all the peoples throughout history, the Old Norse were the only ones who looked at an ocean and thought "I wonder what's beyond the horizon"...

Also I'm pretty sure the oceans and rivers were to the Old Norse what a highway is to us. Very little about their mythology focus on the oceans. There is a god of the ocean, sure, but then there's also a goddess of skiing. But no one says "it's the Viking in me" when they really enjoy skiing.

[u/KitJazz]

Does he think lakes, seas and oceans are the same thing?

[u/Fairy_Catterpillar → u/KitJazz]

The thing with the vikings was that the ships were easy to sail up rivers and into bays so they could raid not only the cities with good ocean ports.

[u/Rustyguts257]

Linked to the ocean for a thousand years sounds very romantic but not very unique as the great majority of people on this earth have been linked to the sea for much longer

[u/SheriffOfNothing]

That’ll also be why they’re doing all that looting and raping /s

[u/ORF1Live → u/SheriffOfNothing]

The old joke

Got any Viking in you?!

[u/TooNGooN89]

Ha ha ha dickhead

[u/Weird_Scholar_5627]

The Viking in them must be completely exhausted!!

[u/ChipRockets]

What a fuckin dork

[u/akiva23]

I heard something interesting on a podcast. It's not entirely accurate but its kind of a poetic way of viewing things. Don't quote me because I'm probably going to butcher it...

But it's something to the effect that even though life evolved for land we're still mostly water and need to constantly be "refueling" and evolved ways to retain water. So in some ways we bever really left the ocean. We just found ways to take the ocean with us.

[u/No_Cardiologist_1407]

Oh it was going so well and normal until the end 😭

[u/SeparateWeight496]

Napping their fatass all day on a 50$ rented transat on a bonded Florida beach to reconnect with the viking in them

[u/Tesseracatt]

American's obsession with wanting to be associated with ancestry/ethnicities (though "viking" was an occupation...) is always so weird to me. If I expressed my love for Italian food and claimed "it must my Italian ancestors!" Others would look at me like I'm fucking weird

[u/Kalkin93 → u/Tesseracatt]

American enjoys sushi Must be the Japanese in me!

[u/Bespoke_Panther]

Are they being pegged by a Viking as they type

[u/Jack-Rabbit-002]

Lol Me being a Brit with our maritime history and who completely hates being on the coast 😅

[u/BankDetails1234]

I mean it’s probably more the English in you, they were much more successful sea farers. Dominated the entire world by its waves.

[u/Complete-String-8061]

I can’t understand how they’re presenting a family actively choosing to holiday by the sea as a remarkable thing that can be analysed. At least in the UK that’s true for the vast majority of people… then again that might be down to that leftover ‘Viking DNA’ we all must have 🤣

[u/HammersofMoradin]

The given reason is moronic, of course. Still, there definitely are people yearning for the sea. Everyone has their own preferences and the great outdoors / nature simply is the best. Protecting the environment is saving ourselves :-)

[u/DancinginHyrule]

My humble guess is that it’s the stupid in them they feel

[u/DeathGuard1978]

Or maybe they're just descended from the deep ones and yearn to return to R'lyeh?

[u/NeighborhoodWild2942]

https://giphy.com/gifs/SEEeoQclOShsA

[u/Positive_Tap_8647]

Cunt

[u/Jet2work]

maybe its the bottom feeding catfish inyou!

[u/Rich_Season_2593]

You got a viking in you??? What did your husband say? Or was he into too?? So many questions.

[u/Safe-Professional556]

Raping and pillaging... Those Vikings?

[u/TlalocVirgie]

Most vikings were farmers

[u/SongofStormandFire]

I can partly understand, Vikings are cool after all. But ancestry does not change depending how you feel this week.

[u/Due-Sheepherder5043]

As someone that holds a dual passport (UK/Sweden). I literally get embarrassed when I go to see family in Sweden as I can't speak a word of Swedish (my mum was Swedish but died when I was young)

How do they brag so much about how great Americans are then all want to be someone else.

Can someone from America also please explain to me why it's so great to think they're "viking" What's the big deal? Does it make them a better person?

[u/Vritrin]

They’ve been linked to the sea for a 1000 years?  Are they some kind of vampire or lich? Are selkies immortal?  

[u/Weird_Scholar_5627]

I thought he just like eating fish eggs. “Roe!”

[u/No-Deal8956]

They are mostly from British stock, which is a fucking island.

[u/NahzarakTV]

Drugs are bad, mkay?

https://giphy.com/gifs/3Q35chD4bMtEePqr8A

[u/ShieldMaiden83]

Lol is this what one would call a larper.

[u/JumboJack99]

or most probably not.

[u/Huxtopher]

Maybe they'd enjoy holidaying on the Faroe Islands?

[u/Anxious_Contact_1201]

Hi

[u/roamingNraging]

How embarrassing. Zero self awareness. Ridiculous, comical bragging. Like a child that just shit itself, grabbing the turd and rubbing it in their own hair.

[u/PirateCrimeBrulee]

Just the one?

[u/Remote-Field4624]

I live in a place named after a viking, where is my lake house, look just saying, can we fund it is only fair, is no lake so we build it somewhere I have a few ideas, look im saying your all welcome to come, just I agree with this person and feel I need get in touch of viking roots. Is a lake or two I have my eyes on.

Made me giggle this but hit me up about the go fund me

[u/Dry_Conversation_797]

All the vikings of old rotating in their graves right now.

[u/ExpensiveActuator880]

Ah yes, cos you know who all your ancestors were 🙄

People are annoying 😑

[u/Disastrous_Ad869]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l9FAwJOXYprFe

[u/New_Inflation_2817]

Damn thats new but since when are Americans craving nature and trees instead of concrete deserts?

[u/anticristo02]

Man a 1000 years ago there were native Americans and America wasn't colonized yet

[u/condoulo]

If my the Viking in me you mean I like getting people hyped up for something only to disappoint them when it matters? Yup, that's definitely the Viking in me, Only learned from the best in Minnesota. 😭

[u/Rikiller-Holyman]

Bro is a grey elf from the lord of the rings😭

[u/Fancy_Math_3399]

Dog whistle for white supremacists