I agree with everything you said! I’m learning danish as a native English speaker, and I find the same struggles (also enjoyed slowly reading your Norsk)

I think a part of it is Scandinavian people being a little polite/power dynamic sensitive and switching to English for good intentioned reasons. But also, let me speak poor danish, it’ll be better for all of us in the long run!

Hey same, talk about an uphill battle!

Feed her a stew that makes her blind for 1 day

Miss nomer can i

Wow, this is so cool. I hadn’t heard of that, thanks for sharing

The term snake oil is actually especially fitting for this, due to its origins.

In Britain in the 1700s there was a somewhat common recommendation for using rattlesnake oil from the fat of the snake for skin diseases/rheumatism. The efficacy is debated but it’s got some amount of potential for change (if not help).

This turned into people in the US selling mineral oil as “snake oil” as a total panacea. So a product that actually could do stuff being used as the poster child for a completely useless product that can solve every issue ever, buy as much as you can today.

Snake oil indeed.

Marketing

Man and it’s so much less hot, less heavy

Spider

Cool, I’m gonna check it out!

Heh, recently pardoned felon.

The second to last paragraph on democrats is on the nose.

I live in Denmark and find curses surprisingly casual, even fuck. I fucking like it.

Leo Sturbgetter’s character arc is so fantastic

Hell yeah! Portimao is a cool track. So happy to see this instead of another desert street circuit in a country with no human rights

Agree!

Yeah but this one doesn’t pay taxes

Definitely part of it. I’m a huge nerd, but years ago raced motorcycles in the US. The demographic makeup difference between that and going to a local MTG event is insane. Seriously, out of hundreds of people at a race track at a time and a decade of doing this I know 2 openly gay people and 0 trans people.

Not sure you could go into my local MTG shop without seeing that many gay/trans people. It’s lovely, but I think highlights the bias in what hobbies people will lean towards or how honestly they’ll be about themselves depending on the social situation

This is a neat daily game, I hadn’t seen this before

Yeah, between buying a political party in Paris and Barcelona, maybe