When you think of swedes...

[Rambuchan]

Pretty much how I think of Norwegians.

No need to be nasty now.

IglooDude: Got pics?

 

[CurtSibling]

When you think of swedes...

I think of Nordic glory and Odin's Svear horde.

...

 

[Atlas14]

Gustavus Adolphus and hot blonde chics and Michigan

 

[sysyphus]

The only think Sweden makes me think about is massages and Peter Forsberg.

How would that work? Would you massage Peter Forsberg or would he massage you?

Of course, the greatest Swede of all time is Borje Salming.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

What else? Lutefisk.

 

[sysyphus]

Also, when I think of Sweden, I think of Ikea. My house is full of Ikea furniture. It makes moving quite easy.

 

[Berrie]

Ikea, vodka and sauna (the last two could also work for Finland)

 

[oagersnap]

People who take the ferry to Helsingør and Frederikshavn every saturday and get drunk. And pillage the streets of Denmark.

 

[DNK]

when thinking fo Swedes, I think of beautiful, long-legged, sexually open women who run around naked all day listening to heavy metal music...

I pretty much second this.

 

[The Yankee]

I don't think I have much of a stereotype for Swedes. The closest contact I came with a large number of them was going through the town of Lindstrom, Minnesota, which has Swedish flags everywhere, yet not much pedestrian traffic.

Oh, and http://www.swedishbikiniteam.com/team.html

 

[silver 2039]

I think of Gusav Adolphous leading a cavalry charge naked, with only a blue sash around him and his privates covered by the saddle.

 

[Princeps]

I'm still recovering from the elementary level Swedish language studies --- I can't think of anything Swedish without wanting to kill something.

 

[sysyphus]

I'm still recovering from the elementary level Swedish language studies --- I can't think of anything Swedish without wanting to kill something.

Is your name Don Cherry by chance?

 

[REDY]

I have never met Swede. But sterethype is that they are tall and have large faces and they are blondes or gingers with beards.They are listening bubble pop or heavy metal and like fishing and yachting.

 

[McManus]

All swedes are teh ghey X)

Thats what we think...

 

[Yeeek]

Vikings?

tenchar.

 

[Love]

I use to think of myself...

 

[ParkCungHee]

I think of my Currect Hearts of Iron II game and how I can beat the German Panzers in seizing Archangelsk.

 

[Phlegmak]

when thinking fo Swedes, I think of beautiful, long-legged, sexually open women who run around naked all day listening to heavy metal music...

That sounds like Heaven.

I typically think of the Berserker unit from Civ 3. 8 feet tall people, who are all blonde, with huge facial hair on the males, weilding giant axes, wearing the furs of bears, and with skin that's whiter than mine.

 

[Maimonides]

I can't think of a Swedish stereotype I know. I've never been there, but it's on my list of places to visit.

Swedish meatballs & Swedish Fish have already been mentioned. I'll add the Swedish Chef from the Muppets. I know Swedes don't really talk or act like that, but that character is hilarious.

I used to know a Norwegian-American man who repeated the following limerick constantly:

"Ten thousand Swedes
came out of the weeds
chased by one Norwegian."

It was his tongue-in-cheek way of showing his pride in his Norwegian heritage at the expense of the Swedes.