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Read Girl with Dragon Tattoo - interesting observations
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:04 PM
I thought the translation was a little awkward but I liked the way that it did not try to explain how life is different in Sweden like a travel book for Americans. I noticed:
1) Average professional adults lives in a 600 sq foot dream apartment that he can barely afford ITE. Lol. His vacation home is 250 square feet. Lol.
2) A fine of 150,000 Kroner, or $20,000 is enough to bankrupt a professional and drive a newspaper into the ground. lol.
3) Apparently a top of the line macbook pro costs $5000, which is half the yearly salary of a young person.
4) lol at monogamy.
5) Lol at nanny state where a fairly normally functioning adult has a guardian.
6) Lol at prison time for libel. |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:08 PM |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:07 PM
Despite the flaws you list, Sweden is still a highly credited place to live. Everyone is blond, attractive, happy, educated, and friendly (in an unassuming way, not the pushy, boisterous friendliness of Americans). Their currency is strong and they enjoy a high standard of living without having to work themselves to death. |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:24 PM
7) Hey I know we are in the middle of a crisis, but I am going to take 4 weeks off for holiday every summer and winter!
I think the standard of living is fair if you ignore the relative lack of material goods. I bet they dont all have plasma TV's whereas even poors in the US have them. |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:25 PM |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:27 PM
Youngs are all poors and need to save up for 6 months to buy a new laptop.
Also the SHOCKING LIFESAVING payment from the billionaire for a years' work = $300,000. |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:28 PM |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 3:05 PM
their average salary AFTER tax looks to be about the same as ours PRE-TAX
so i'm not sure it's such a big deal, especially considering the free healthcare, no student loans, and other benefits they get. |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 3:16 PM |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:33 PM
then they stuck on a giant turd sub plot at the end of the film with almost no relation to the previous material. i was close to walking out for about 30 mins |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:50 PM |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:50 PM
were you not bored shitless in the last half hour? |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 3:07 PM |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:30 PM |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:32 PM |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:33 PM
what I enjoyed was the normalcy of the thigns I outlined. That's just how things are - people are broke ass, but happy and cant afford anything.
If it were an american book about thing occuring in sweden it would spend half the time obnoxiously framing the differences in a way we could understand like a tourist guide. |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:36 PM |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:57 PM |
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With VAT and an unfavorable exchange rate, it easily tops $5K. |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:40 PM |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 3:14 PM
The girls in Stockholm were uniformly beautiful. They also all looked alike, as if they were cut from a mold. They all looked like this (NOT FLAME): http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&sa=X&biw=1920&bih=876&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=VB_SUr13pTufAM:&imgrefurl=http://www.nairaland.com/874183/swedish-girls-prettiest-girls-white/1&docid=HWxmKW5sW5JPuM&imgurl=http://www.nairaland.com/download/641545&w=344&h=483&ei=jW6MT8mRJcfv0gHYxei3CQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=159&vpy=130&dur=3359&hovh=266&hovw=189&tx=94&ty=153&sig=116058491178734463424&page=1&tbnh=100&tbnw=71&start=0&ndsp=62&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:110 |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 4:40 PM
though Minnesota's probably pretty similar i bet |
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