Scandinavia SUCKS

Terxpahseyton said:
I had been slapped on the butt once in a while by a girl a while back. It was a bit odd - and I never quit understood why this even happened (it isn't exactly common in Germany from my experience)
But in the end I liked it (am I now a whore?).
I think it could only be any kind of serious problem for me if in some sort of professional environment a superior woman did it. However, I can see how it could be also unpleasant in a private context. Though I can not imagine it to not be something I could very well handle.

In my teens I also occasionally slapped a class mate with a really good butt on said butt. Even though we did not actually know each other very well. It was just a very slap-able butt. I am pretty sure she liked it. However, nowadays I just have to laugh when thinking of it, because I definitely would not do this these days and I am actually baffled that I did back then.
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It is a horrible issue- if the woman is not hot (or is insane). :)
 
Kaiserguard said:
Simply put, a female who gropes a male finds the guy attractive. A male who gropes a female is a pervert.
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You can blame history and the resulting conventions for that.
 
Angst said:
It's not uncommon for girls to grope men in Denmark. Well, for both genders to grope each other. We grope a lot.
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Does the groping extend to strangers? Or just people you know? Can I do this in Norway and pretend that I think I'm in Denmark? Will people slap me? Kick me? Grope me back?
 
warpus said:
Does the groping extend to strangers? Or just people you know? Can I do this in Norway and pretend that I think I'm in Denmark? Will people slap me? Kick me? Grope me back?
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The State of Norway would ask that you do not grope our citizens on your visit here. As you were.
 
Kaiserguard said:
I have been groped by women in the past. I'm okay with it since I considered it acompliment, though I'm also pretty sure that if I did the same with women I would've ended up in jail, so I wouldn't think of ever doing it myself.

Simply put, a female who gropes a male finds the guy attractive. A male who gropes a female is a pervert.
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Or they might just be drunk.

warpus said:
Does the groping extend to strangers? Or just people you know? Can I do this in Norway and pretend that I think I'm in Denmark? Will people slap me? Kick me? Grope me back?
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This is a fun post, imo.

http://universitypost.dk/article/comment-feeling-danish-guys

I mean, it's not that normal, but it's normal enough for me to say yeah I have no idea how it works in other countries but I can relate to awkwardly being touched by girls (while some of my friends do the groping themselves)
 
Once again, SATW had me prepared for this Dane thing... spoilered for size.

Spoiler :
 
I might be a fool for not getting a jokester like game going on in this "scandinavian chicks m'I'rite" discussion, but here goes anyway. As stated in the first post:

Angst said:
Denmark is a land of 5.3 million homogeneous people. Everyone talks the same, everyone looks the same, everyone thinks the same.
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Well, that's not true at all, is it. There's a huge difference between cosmopolitan academic hipsters, the Marxist anarchists in Copenhagen, the rural conservative middle class, the Christian or Inner Mission farmland, the poverty-ridden conservative Muslim underclass and weird things like the inhabitants of Christiania and our Old Norse romanticists. Also, "talks the same" isn't very well put. Denmark has dialects that are completely incomprehensible to North Zealandic Danes, following a completely different grammar structure, phonemics, more grammatical genders etc. One of my exes grew up with a West Jute family and she doesn't understand that language at all. She's 22 now. I mean, the dialects have been disappearing ever so slightly since the 60's but this statement is just wrong.
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Now what's important to not forget is that diversety is not limited to geographical extent and social classes, but Individuals themselves. "What do norwegian girls like?" is, not meaning to be offensive, a stupid question that disregards the fact that people are different. What someone wants from a guy varies wildly, sometimes they aren't interested at all. Even I, a social awkward who bearly knows any girls at all, know this.

I don't really know how you imagine to go through with such a project at all, Warpus (Unless you're joking, sorry if so).

Now a completely different thing: I don't really know how much the conglomerate grouping "Scandinavia" is used abroad compared to the three countries individually, but the former seems more common to me, and I think it should stop.
As Angst pointed out, there are several regional differences within Denmark, and such differences are much more prominent between the three countries. Their realities differ, in some ways greatly, and I am under the impression that even behind the somewhat silly rival act, there is a sense of bitterness between especially Sweden and the two other.

I'm really bad at writing and don't have a proper conclusion.
 
Careful Mr. L, that entire paragraph about Scandinavia/constituent states might be read as a carefully constructed point by point on how to engender empathy through similarity to the American reality. :)
 
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He asked a lot of them, you know. Can't argue with that.
Over the years I have asked many Danes about these happiness surveys—whether they really believe that they are the global happiness champions—and I have yet to meet a single one of them who seriously believes it’s true. They appreciate the safety net of their welfare state, the way most things function well in their country, and all the free time they have, but they tend to approach the subject of their much-vaunted happiness like the victims of a practical joke waiting to discover who the perpetrator is.
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"Equal before the law"? More like "stale before the law".
I asked epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, the author of The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, if he thought there might perhaps be any downsides to the low Gini countries. Didn’t the most equal societies also tend to be, you know, a little boring? All those lists of the best cities to live in are always made up of places with clean streets, cycle paths, and touring productions of Phantom of the Opera, like Bern or Toronto; it is never the really scintillating, stimulating places like New York or Barcelona. As soon as I asked the question, though, I realized that, compared with the social ills examined in The Spirit Level— crime, teenage pregnancy, obesity, cancer, and suicide—a lack of decent street food and interesting graffiti were hardly serious complaints.
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Well I have read through this thread, well you could say scandinavia could be a bad place in some situation if you compare to other "heaven places".
But in the end scandinavia like some other places are the "heaven" of earth:)
 
As to the thread title, Scandinavia seems a rather exotic name for a gal who performs an expected end-of-first-date act.
 
SS-18 ICBM said:
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He asked a lot of them, you know. Can't argue with that.
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Yea, he probably asked more than all the surveys. Gotta listen to his anecdotical experience. And for that matter, it's important listen to his anecdotical experience in particular. Not mine, you know, the Danish experience.

"Equal before the law"? More like "stale before the law".
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Obviously you need crime and poverty in order to be an exciting place!

Who cares about a whole part of the capital dedicated to microbreweries, fashion, drugs and quirky cafes? Let's arbitrarily yell about street food and "interesting grafitti" (whatever that means, I've seen plenty here.)
 
Take away their money, but give them entertainment, and nobody will complain. At all.

As a citizen of an undisclosed nation to the south of Romania, I can vouch for that, you guys.
 
Angst said:
Obviously you need crime and poverty in order to be an exciting place!
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:lol:
I call it the tourist-POV. For the spectator / the one who is in a good place him or herself it may be intriguing. But that doesn't mean it actually is better.

Sort of like a backpacking-trip through India will probably be more exciting than through New Zealand (well, regarding the country itself, if you are more about partying than go to New Zealand). But would the average Indian also find it more exciting to live in India than New Zealand? That is a very crass comparison, of course. But I think the general idea applies for this sort of arguments.
 
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