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Title: Is anybody denying Scandinavian ancestry this weekend?
Post by: Mart 'n' Al on Friday 06 July 18 13:51 BST (UK)
Or refusing to accompany their wife to IKEA?  And not playing Abba records, and wishing they hadn't bought a Volvo?  And as for those Swedish meatballs...

Martin
Title: Re: Is anybody denying Scandinavian ancestry this weekend?
Post by: Top-of-the-hill on Friday 06 July 18 21:45 BST (UK)
  Is this by any chance a football question? ::) They haven't beaten us have they?
Title: Re: Is anybody denying Scandinavian ancestry this weekend?
Post by: Blue70 on Friday 06 July 18 21:53 BST (UK)
I like the Swedes they speak better English than what we do ;D


Blue
Title: Re: Is anybody denying Scandinavian ancestry this weekend?
Post by: Milliepede on Friday 06 July 18 22:13 BST (UK)
No they haven't beaten us - the game is tomorrow afternoon. 
Title: Re: Is anybody denying Scandinavian ancestry this weekend?
Post by: Skoosh on Friday 06 July 18 22:19 BST (UK)
Had a Shetland granny & will be rooting for Sweden! Skol  ;D

Skoosh.
Title: Re: Is anybody denying Scandinavian ancestry this weekend?
Post by: jim1 on Friday 06 July 18 22:26 BST (UK)
We haven't been to war with the Swedes for over 200 years when they changed sides. Perhaps they'll do it again & it will be 21 vs. the Swedish goalkeeper.
Title: Re: Is anybody denying Scandinavian ancestry this weekend?
Post by: jamcat95 on Saturday 07 July 18 07:39 BST (UK)
at the moment I am a very lonely Englishman in Sweden and nowhere to hide.

Ian

Title: Re: Is anybody denying Scandinavian ancestry this weekend?
Post by: Mart 'n' Al on Saturday 07 July 18 16:53 BST (UK)
Ian,
And as the whistle blows, I am sure they will all take you welcomingly under their collective wings, and even laugh at your re-telling of The Swedish Chemist Joke...

Martin
Title: Re: Is anybody denying Scandinavian ancestry this weekend?
Post by: JohninSussex on Saturday 07 July 18 19:42 BST (UK)
So do the Norwegians and Danes in Sweden behave like the stereotype Scots and support the other side?  Or is there nordic solidarity?
Title: Re: Is anybody denying Scandinavian ancestry this weekend?
Post by: jamcat95 on Saturday 07 July 18 19:55 BST (UK)
Ian,
And as the whistle blows, I am sure they will all take you welcomingly under their collective wings, and even laugh at your re-telling of The Swedish Chemist Joke...

Martin

The Swedes are pretty good in defeat so no worries there.
I think you'll have to re-tell that joke. I don't know that one.

Ian

Title: Re: Is anybody denying Scandinavian ancestry this weekend?
Post by: jamcat95 on Saturday 07 July 18 19:59 BST (UK)
So do the Norwegians and Danes in Sweden behave like the stereotype Scots and support the other side?  Or is there nordic solidarity?

No they don"t.
I can say that the Swedes got a lot of Twitter support from Scotland and Wales.

Ian

Title: Re: Is anybody denying Scandinavian ancestry this weekend?
Post by: Mart 'n' Al on Saturday 07 July 18 23:06 BST (UK)
Ian, "The Swedish Chemist Joke...", one to research privately on the internet.  Harmless really, but subject to vetting...

Martin
Title: Re: Is anybody denying Scandinavian ancestry this weekend?
Post by: jamcat95 on Sunday 08 July 18 10:13 BST (UK)
Reading the joke doesn't have the same effect. Just seen the tv version. No comment :)


Ian

Title: Re: Is anybody denying Scandinavian ancestry this weekend?
Post by: Skoosh on Thursday 12 July 18 15:51 BST (UK)
Well, that seems to be that!  ;D

Skoosh.
Title: Re: Is anybody denying Scandinavian ancestry this weekend?
Post by: Mart 'n' Al on Thursday 12 July 18 15:54 BST (UK)
To be continued in 2022.

Martin