Bay of Tristan da Cunha.

They ought to have that in Norway. But Norwegian businesses are parasitic on parents.

The thing i like about the Finns is that most of them spend their first year sleeping in a cardboard box.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity_package

They only teach bokmål in the language courses for foreigners, even if you live in a nynorsk area. Until relatively recently school children were expected to learn both and if you were expected to reply to letters/emails in the same language as they were written in. That doesn’t happen as much now.

Perkele

Best for what purpose? Norwegian is best for understanding Swedish and Danish (Swedes have more difficulty understanding Danish than Norwegians do) Swedish and Norwegian are essentially a dialectical continuum.

Oslo dialect is heavily influenced by danish because back in the day if Norwegians wanted a decent education they went to Denmark. The more commonly used written form of Norwegian (bokmål) is still very similar to Danish (only as it’s written though, danish pronunciation is fucked up). The other form (nynorsk) was created from several rural dialects as part of a nationalism movement and more closely resembles Swedish (not in terms of spelling but pronunciation) it’s not as close as bokmål is to Danish though.

Finnish is a completely different language family but is very similar to kven which is spoken by very few people on the Northern coast of Norway. It’s a nice sounding language though and a good way to sound like you’re going to stab someone.

The correct language is the one that is spoken in the country you’re most interested in. I live in Norway so for my purposes Norwegian is obviously best. And I don’t need to revert to speaking English in Sweden or (most of) Denmark, which is nice.

If I had to learn a second north European language, I’d choose either northern Sami, Faroese, Icelandic, or Greenlandic.

Actually æ, ø, and å are regarded as separate letters in the Norwegian alphabet

Æ - like the a in cat

Ø - like the u in turn

Å- like the aw in paw

Here’s a handy song about it

If I have to play it with another human being, I will not play it. I play games to escape from the rest of the species not engage with them.

That’s just a photo of D J Qualls.

Plenty of tunnels under the sea in Norway.

With my laptop.

Nope, Scandinavia.

Well I moved to the Arctic to be away from distractions

I spilled a glass of scrumpy on the keyboard and a, s, and d no longer work. So I have to use a keyboard with it.

Find a company you want to work for, hack into their accounts and add yourself to their payroll.

Is it normal for people to set up surveillance cameras in their own home? Are break-ins that common? I just assume no-one will bother with my shitty flat.