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Edit: Awesome discussions and the front page. I wish they were this entertaining on the tour busses :D This is shamelessly stolen but I also use it shamelessly for imaginary points. Message me your nations stereotypical weekend drinks ;)
SleepWillCome
Leperthings....lepercoons....midgetcunts...fuck it it gnomes. - op probably
TheMayorOfTittyCity
This is really gonna resonate with the 12 people in Iceland who are on the internet
GenericNord
“It’s complicated.” I’m okay with that.
SanderTheStrange
"Forgot to write things down" Actually made me laugh out loud
theGlovedHand
“Very emotional.” Haha!
DisgruntledFerret
A hotblooded mediterranean guy? Impossible!
DVSBSTrD
@OP "Beat" friends forever?
Solkanarmy
beat friends ever?
Appel99
Lol 'we took slaves from there'. Well that was my great great great great grandmother, don’t think I’ll forget that.
aRockInTheOcean
WOW. Yous grandma was born in the 900s
tiracorreu5772
"Which is which" indeed
TheEvenPrez
Its complicated
YouButStronger
They know what they did
buttonguy3
"Taking over Iceland." Not so nice when the raping and pillaging is on the other foot, is it?
aRockInTheOcean
Hah! Made me smirk
jake557
Pfft, we have plenty of nice food. Stolen from all over the world.
Polygonmaster
Glorious
matchugegs
Spain 2, the sequel!
TheFearlessGoat
SPAIN 2
julmakeke
Funny thing is that Turkish pepper is actually Finnish.
Vulvarella
Danish, I thought. "Tyrkisk Peber"?
Tomatohacker
Originally Danish
YouButStronger
As an Icelander I can relate to most everything here xD and it's weeeeery complicated when it comes to denmark
BozoThePie
*Looks at poland* Is there a single nation in all of europe that's not being overrun by the polish?
ematic
Shit, they're onto us....
Mappen22
"Forgot to write things down" My friends doesn't understand, anyone care to explain?
larsmaehlum
Yeah, I.. My friend didn’t get that one either.
renamedmyaccount
My friend too
aRockInTheOcean
1/2 Icelanders have been writing everything down since the 1100s. Everything we know about vikings, viking times and Norse paganism...
aRockInTheOcean
2/2 (Odin, Thor etc) comes from Icelandic scripts. The Norwegians did not write stuff down.
Mappen22
huhh, cool.. ill tell my friend
acatch22
But then again the Icelandic people were mostly Norwegians that had to flee the country, and a lot of their stories came from Norway. 1/2
acatch22
Also, it is not impossible that the Norwegians also wrote down a lot of history, but a lot can be lost and destroyed in a thousand years 2/2
cutedeadfox
"Germans=good at most things". This post is clearly written by a German
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
No. because it is also humorous.
cutedeadfox
Good point
TheInvincibleDoge
We never laugh, we only work.
malakim
How many germans do you need to change a lightbulb? One, because we're efficient and don't have humor
karamelone
German humour is no laughing matter
Predicto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoDZpcagVyQ
BenWiskin
Being English this has to be the first time I think, "wow, a country that doesn't hate us".
rando84
Let’s just hope the Cod Wars don’t resume anytime soon.
Selerox
Best I can tell, most of Scandinavia seems to think we're ok. But you're right, there aren't many places that don't hate us :\
BenWiskin
What did we do?
Selerox
We're either "perfidious Albion" or "colonial oppressors". No-one likes us and are usually pretty open about it. Which is depressing...
SirMalloryofCoventry
Eh I'll take the good humour and the food isn't that bad.
aRockInTheOcean
One word "Bacon"
SirMalloryofCoventry
Along with pie, the full roast, Tika Masala, Greggs, Pizza and the glorious kebab shop. Iceland has rotting shark. Our food ain't bad
aRockInTheOcean
Scottish, Mid European, Indian, Italian, Middle East. No English? Iceland has the best lamb in the world and some of the best fish around.
bakulaspectacula
Depressed and hilarious? Finland sounds like my kind of place.
LeSethX
And from what I understand, have to add naked saunas
proileri
You are welcome to join. As we say, there's plenty of room behind the sauna.
CirB
Just be forewarned: that hilarity is kind of a dark shade.
bakulaspectacula
That's when it's at it's best.
HQDefault
Spain 2 is basically how America sees Portugal, too
Selerox
They were the bit of Iberia that *didn't* hate Britain and were allies with us for ages. Aside from that they're pretty much Spain 2.
mormacil
I mean honestly what is Portugal known for since 1900? I'm legit drawing a blank on that one.
Sauroctonus
Pastel de nata
aRockInTheOcean
Port wines I guess
mormacil
That's an excellent point, I need to finish that bottle...
DisgruntledFerret
They were neutral in WW2, then they lost all their colonies in the '60s and '70s and became a democracy. Now they're pretty chill.
mormacil
There known for none of that and quite a few countries did similar things. I mean like Belgium is known for chocolate and Congo etc.
Navir
Football?
gatofeo
During the Peninsular War, the Portuguese irregulars gave the French army and Spanish quislings a good slapping.
mormacil
Wasn't that like before the 1900's?
rjSampaio
Decriminalise drugs? we like radical ideas, the same way we abolishing slavery.
mormacil
They didn't though, they just decriminalized possession, production is still a criminal offense as is selling.
rjSampaio
I know the difference, it's still a gift to the world. Ps I'm Portuguese.
mormacil
Then don't write it wrong :P
idontknowyoufromadam
Nordic Germans? So that means we are good at most things! Nice ...
TheWombatStrikesAgain
At most nordic things. Like skiing, eating rotten fish, and being afraid of Finns.
swedeonamoose
only finns with knifes, the others we ruled for several hundred years.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Okay. I will send word to the Finns with rifles that you said that.
swedeonamoose
it is the russians we swedes fear, we happily gave up finland just to get some distance from the russians.
nigelandco
Wow Icelandic people are the first ones to understand Finnish people.
sukkerfar
No no, thats how the entire world has thought about you for decades..
purgethefilthyheretics
Yeah, but anyone should be Nordic Germans, it's the Danes. Fucken low budget Nordic Germans at that// Sweden
varsipieru
Also as a Finn I can definitely agree with most of these. Although Sweden would say ”we hate you”.
purgethefilthyheretics
Nah, as a finn in sweden i can definitley tell you it's the Finns who give Sweden the most shit. Swedes honestly don't care about Finland.
varsipieru
I knew my comment was badly written. Naturally meant that Finland hates Sweden. I’m sure the Swedes don’t give a damn. But still I love 1/
varsipieru
how all the other Nordic countries share the same gentle hatered towards Sweden.
jarrot
Only in icehockey, but even then it's this kind of brotherly hate/love thing...
NachoPete
It looks accurate to me. Am I actually Icelandic??
HeyHalcyon
You love the Faroe islands?
AstartesLibrarius
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aRockInTheOcean
Yes we are "beat" friends
aRockInTheOcean
Well, there was a lot of raping during the Viking raids... Sooo maybe you are part Icelandic.
NachoPete
I am mostly Swedish & Scottish so there's bound to be a bunch of vikings in there.
imnotyourdudebro
I heard the Vikings gracefully and selflessly saved treasures and pretty women from burning villages and cities.
TheBoysInTheLab
Was the guy who told that wearing a helmet with horns on it? And did he also tell you Vikings don't wear horned helmets?
Sauroctonus
But most of the Vikings who came here were Danish.
aRockInTheOcean
Go back to history class Bubba
Sauroctonus
They didn't call it the Danelaw for nothing.
aRockInTheOcean
The king was Danish, yes, but the people mostly came from Norway, with strays from the rest of Scandinavia. Also lots of Celtic slaves.
RadishIsAMeat
Most nations can criticize the food in the UK. Iceland is not of of those nations. If it's not pickled the Icelandics won't eat it.
LDawgg360
Except they vehemently dislike pickles.
AFelineMassofEyes
I mean, their national dish is dried, rotten shark....
ShadeEmberi
Iceland is a supermarket brand here after all xD
XanZi
I like English food *shrugs*.
RigoryMorty
If it's pickled it has strong flavor, so I can see how you'd disapprove of that. The land of bland...
aRockInTheOcean
Come and try our food first. The fermented and sour stuff is the traditional food, just ancient storage techniques.
Snabelsatan
Come and try whatever american chains popped up because of the army base?
sanjisama
we dont even have mcdonalds
Snabelsatan
You dont have KFC or TGI Friday's either I guess? Though I was there before your economy went to shits so maybe its different now
aRockInTheOcean
Hmmm... Guess who hasn't been to Iceland! YOU! ;)
RadishIsAMeat
Well you clearly haven't been to the UK since WW2 if you think we don't have good food. Lets swap recipes?
Snabelsatan
I have been to the depressing rock. I didn't compain about the food, why dont you link some genuine icelandic non traditional food?
aRockInTheOcean
Sure thing boss - https://icelandiclamb.is/recipes/
LetsTalkGameDesign
I am English, and would like to take you up on your offer. Got a sofa I can crash on?
aRockInTheOcean
I might let you tag along on a tour but the sofa is off limits
littlegingerone
gnomes?? gnomes??!!! they are leprechauns you uncultured gobshite. completely different breed of mythical creature.
Dots77
Exactly lad well said, fucking bullshit.
PoweredbyOSengine
+1 only for making me read "uncultured gobshite" today.
dohawill
Not a gnelf, not a gnoblin, I’m a gnome! And you’ve been gnomed!
RobJenkins
Gingers gypsies Guinness and gnomes
derekjohn
But they're Celtic, and therefore dyed blue. And we know that all woads lead to gnome.
pyronoia
Haha, very impressive wordplay!
HelloToe
BozoThePie
Actually, I'm fairly sure they are within the same taxonomical family, Gnomidae, diverged at some point in the Miocene period
thefreestyler
Also, the "wee folk" used to be imagined as very tall..!
pomax
Pretty sure they meant the Irish.
JamesDaviau
Quick someone call tumblr, someone is racist against fictional peoples
bomber672
LOL
TheGalacticLeprechaunwithtinynipples
teach em, Paddy!
littlegingerone
gnomes are more related to smurfs and elves while leprechauns are more your impish/ fairy creature
aoenofhorus
Also, Smurfs have zero relation to the same folklore at all. They were completely made up by the Belgian artist who invented the franchise.
mormacil
You're aware that the fae and the elves have the same origin? Faeries from English folklore are influenced by Germanic elves.
Lupinze3rd
Thank you I learned a new word today. Gobshite. Please share more. I need more arsenal for my friends and enemies.
keoghberry
You'll also enjoy eejit.
aRockInTheOcean
Yeah right! Like we're gonna write that amalgam of characters! They're gnomish enough.
PostMoThoin
Wait doesn't half of Iceland believe in literal gnomes? Or elves maybe?
aRockInTheOcean
No, it's just the crazy 20% that do
ender00000
So that's about 120 people, right?
aRockInTheOcean
117
RazzleDazzle69
That's just a lie we tell tourists to seem more interesting
HaniiPuppy
How do we know that's not just a lie you tell us to seem more compos mentis?
littlegingerone
dude... it was a joke..
najtrows
you are both joking with each other. kiss and make up
CharlieTheCharlingCharlie
You’ve been gnomed
sturmhauke
Pretty sure we're all aware this whole thing is a joke. Maybe you need to adjust your Bailey's/coffee ratio.
pennarsson
sturmhauke
thanks, I hate it