Is it just me, or does the Lounge reek of Swedish-Americans?

[Magrittes Pipe]

:shrug:

[mrboba1]

1. I think its both!

and the Screaming Lord, of course!

[JohnKleeb]

2. well you know what do when you have to many swedes

smoke em out heh.

[JVS]

3. Maybe one of the Olsen twins queefed

Diclaimer: yes I know that the name Olsen is not the Swedish spelling, and thus means that they are of Danish or Norwegian heritage.

[madrchsod]

4. hmmmm

saunas? what were the rest of europeans doing clean themselves-get stuck in the rain? it has been rumored that the ladies of england fancied the viking raiders because they bathed regularly

[BigMcLargehuge]

5. Whoot de hool are yooooo toooolking aboooot?

[Mara Steele]

6. You caught me!!

Swede on my mom's side, Russian on my dad's.

So technically, I guess I should reek of lutefisk, pickled herring, & vodka...

Doesn't bother me, guess I'm used to it... :D

[SiouxJ]

7. Hey!!! That's me, only

mom's the Russian, Dad's the Swede. Don't forget the lingonberry jam, and borsht!

Nasdarovia!

[Mara Steele]

22. Hey, cool! Great mix...

I know none of either language, but Dad's grandparents were immigrants, he was in the second generation born in America.

Mmm... borscht. Don't forget pierogies, either! And crispbread. :9

[SiouxJ]

27. Pierogies! I miss my grandmother so!

she made the best pierogies. Also a cabbage (as opposed to beet) based borscht, stuffed cabbages (I forget the Russian name for those) and blintzes. *sigh* I miss her!

[JVS]

10. Akavit, not vodka.

Why would anyone want to drink vodka, when you can have the smooth flavor of dill and caraway seeds

[jedicord]

11. Me too!

Mom's Swede, Dad's Latvian (is that Russian?)

[JVS]

14. Don't get caught saying that in Daugavpils

They'll get mighty pissed

[jedicord]

18. How do you pronounce THAT? eom

[JVS]

20. Like it's spelled

Daugavpils

Actually though, the people of Daugavpils might not mind being called Russian (See article)... but that kind of shit doesn't fly in Riga

[jedicord]

21. Dog of Pills?

Interesting!

[JohnKleeb]

15. no Lativa is its own country

You swedes heh.

[jedicord]

16. Remember "Taxi"?

Wasn't Andy K. Latvian? Is not the Swedish side - it's the Latvian side!:dunce:

[JVS]

19. Here is some stuff about them

Latvians occasionally refer to themselves by the ancient name of "Latviji," which may have originated from a "Latve" river that presumably flowed through what is now eastern Latvia. A small Finno-Ugric tribe known as the Livs settled among the Latvians and modulated the name to "Latvis," meaning "forest-clearers," which is how medieval German settlers also referred to these peoples. The German colonizers changed this name to "Lette" and called their initially small colony "Livland." The Latin form, "Livonia," gradually referred to the whole of modern-day Latvia as well as southern Estonia, which had fallen under German dominion. Latvians and Lithuanians are the only directly surviving members of the Baltic peoples and languages of the Indo-European family.
Latvians look like and consider themselves Nordics, evidenced through the strong cultural and religious influences gained over centuries during Germanic and Scandinavian colonization and settlement. Eastern Latvia (Latgale), however, retains a strong Polish and Russian cultural and linguistic influence. This highly literate society places strong emphasis upon education, which is free and compulsory until age 16. Most Latvians belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church, a sizable minority are Russian Orthodox, and Eastern Latvia is predominantly Roman Catholic.

Historically, Latvia always has had a fairly large Russian, Jewish, German and Polish minority, but postwar emigration, deportations and Soviet Russification policies from 1939-89 dropped the percentage of ethnic Latvians in Latvia from 73% to 52%. In an attempt to preserve the Latvian language and avoid ethnic Latvians becoming a minority in their own country, Latvia's strict language law and draft citizenship law have caused many non-citizen resident Russians concern over their ability to assimilate, despite Latvian legal guarantees of universal human and civil rights regardless of citizenship.

Written with the Latin alphabet, Latvian is the language of the Latvian people and the official language of the country. It is an inflective language with several analytical forms, three dialects, and German syntactical influence. The oldest known examples of written Latvian are from a 1585 catechism. The Soviets imposed the official use of Russian, so most Latvians speak Russian as a second or first language while the resident Slavic populace generally speaks Russian as a first language.

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/d/de/demographics_of_latvia.html

[JohnKleeb]

8. Swedish Americans who were gonna pummel me with their chests heh

[SiouxJ]

9. Sorry, I swear I put my deodorant on today

:shrug:

[JVS]

12. They were putting a new floor in my bathroom

I'll wash up by Monday though

[bikebloke]

13. Jag pratta svenska, men...

...I'm of Scots descent. though I reckon there could be some link waaaay back when the Vikings sailed over for a wee rape, pillage and bowling for the weekend.

[flamingyouth]

17. You say that like it's a bad thing!

:D

[Magrittes Pipe]

23. Well, I did name you as a "cool" one, so....

:P

[flamingyouth]

24. You did?

WHERE? :D

[Magrittes Pipe]

25. Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=1468708&mesg_id=1468708

[flamingyouth]

26. Awww.

Thank ye so. :loveya:

[SarahB]

28. I am not stinky!!!

I smell great, dammit! Usually I smell all flowery, but right now I smell like banana suncreen. Either way, it's all good. :D