Sweden don't have an oficially accepted national anthem. we have a traditional one we use and one royal that we don't but bacicly it can be any song we feel like.
On one ocurrence after a game in Moscow where a swedish team had won they couldn't find a recording of the traditional anthem and nobody could play it on the piano they had so the team sang helan går wich is a popular (or at least prolific) swedish drinking song.
The only national anthem that actually mentions Sweden is the polish one.
NoSlottedToaster: The American South East isn't all Inbred and Slack-Jawed, Just Mississippi and Arkansas
I beg to differ
I've been to Florida (Jacksonville, Miami's OK) and Louisiana (New Orleans and Baton Rouge) and you will have to add those two states to your list at least. Maybe because I'm from Nor Cal but any state where people still proudly display confederate flags is redneck to me.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas
Just to name them ALL, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! SLACK JAWED IDIOTS THAT HATE ATHEIST BECAUSE FAMILY GUY DISLIKED BRIAN FOR BEING ONE, AND THEY ALSO FOLLOW BILL O' REILLY
Alright now, you're treading on very dangerous ground. You do realize this website was founded and is based in North Carolina, yes? We are very clearly not inbred, nor slack-jawed, but rather intelligent, thoughtful sorts. :)
Also:
-NC is among the top producers of apples, christmas trees and peanuts in the nation. -After New York City, Charlotte, NC is the largest finance center in the US. -NC is home to part of one of the oldest, if not the oldest, mountain ranges in the world, the Appalachians. -Speaking of the Appalachians, a large percentage of the people who live there are of Scotish heritage, and in fact some of the accents from the NC mountains belie that fact. -My hometown, Cary, NC, is sister city to County Meath in Ireland. -If you've ever seen "Bull Durham" (arguably, the best sports movie of all time) then you've seen the hometown of The Escapist. The movie was filmed largely in Durham, NC and is based on the Durham Bulls baseball team. -Yes, there are rednecks here, just like they are all over the world - we do not corner the market on rednecks in the south. And the way to tell a Real redneck, is call them one - they'll thank you.
Canada wasn't actually a multicultural country until maybe the sixties, or later. In fact, during WW2, we had Japanese immigrants sent to camps in Canada, and siezed their land and possessions.
Rawker: I find this painfully obvious, but America is full of the most racist bastards on the planet. not all of us are, but I don't think other countries have cults devoted to being racist (KKK)
Yeah...
Man, no wonder so many countries think we suck.
And that's how we elected a black president. Just can't win can we?
SakSak: We named the Molotov Coctail, expanded for the glory of Finland.
As the Russians were bombing our capital, Helsinki, minister Molotov of Russia told in various interviews and communiques that they are simply dropping bread to the hungry, oppressed workers of Finland. Hence the russian bombs gained the nickname Molotov's Bread.
Now, since us Finnish are nice people with sense of propriety and hospitality, naturally we had to repay this kindness showed to us by minister Molotov. So, since Molotov gifted the bread, we had to gift the drink. It was delivered in large quantities to the Russian troops, coming to liberate us and lead us to a new age of prosperity, by offering their tank crew stout drinks as thanks.
Hence, Molotov's Coctail.
yay Finland woooooo
(I just moved here and everyone knows a bout the US, ummmmmmmm go Caps!)
X123Lewis123X: Scotland: Not every1 weres kilts, only to weddings and such. We dont all sound like an angry cat hissing, we just have a normal british accent. We dont all eat chaggis, mince and tatties, (tatties are potatoes), i love potatoes and hate haggis and mince, yuck!! Last, we dont all play the f-ing bagpipes!! they suk i think!
how the hell can you hate haggis!? I freakin' love the stuff, and I'm not even from Sctoland! :P
3 Despite popular belief some of us don't drink alcohol at all. 4 True, but in my experience the only difference of opinion is on just how much we hate them.
And to all English people, those six county's in the north, despite your collective arrogance ARE NOT PART OF YOUR COUNTRY.
THEY ARE ALSO NOT PART OF OURS. If anything northern Ireland is a country within its own rights. And not everyone hates the British thank you.
Everyone hates the British, even the British don't like the British, along with those damn Scot/Welsh/Irish gits
Norway. The cheese plane or cheese slicer (I really don't know what the english word for it is), is a norwegian invention. woot. Also I think the paper clip is a norwegian invention too.
poncho14: Scotland, well we don't wear kilts unless it's a wedding or something, We only have haggis 2 times a year and thats Rabbie Burns day and St andrews day. We are not English . We can single handley stop a terroist because no one fucks with us we don't care if your on fire.
How the hell can you go bear hunting in Siberia then?
3 Despite popular belief some of us don't drink alcohol at all. 4 True, but in my experience the only difference of opinion is on just how much we hate them.
And to all English people, those six county's in the north, despite your collective arrogance ARE NOT PART OF YOUR COUNTRY.
THEY ARE ALSO NOT PART OF OURS. If anything northern Ireland is a country within its own rights. And not everyone hates the British thank you.
Everyone hates the British, even the British don't like the British, along with those damn Scot/Welsh/Irish gits
While I understand your point I'm talking about Irish people. We have a whole culture built about them being the cause of everything bad even though: A We would have done the same B They gave us a lot of benefits.
Anyway Ireland. I would love to start but there is too much to just pick so the basics. 1 We dont sound like we are from some crappy film from the 50's 2 We have the most complicated age of consent laws in the world 3 We dont all drink Guinness as it is horrible. 4 If you mention the British everyone has a different opinion. 5 Dont mention the civil war. 6 Dont mention the failed rebellions apart from 1798 7 We dont have leprechauns. We killed and ate all of them ages ago 8 Any further questions? 9 We all really hate tourists. 10 Our economy is so doomed we might get kicked out of the EU.
3 Despite popular belief some of us don't drink alcohol at all. 4 True, but in my experience the only difference of opinion is on just how much we hate them.
And to all English people, those six county's in the north, despite your collective arrogance ARE NOT PART OF YOUR COUNTRY.
Someone's a bit bitter!
In the UK it is illegal to eat mince pies on christmas day. Really. Look it up.
Captain_Maku: Well, we Welsh have always been referred to as 'sheepshaggers'. While this may be true for some of us, did you know that there are actually more sheep in our neighbouring England than in Wales?
This does seem to make sense considering the proportion issue there is that England is of course bigger than Wales.
Not to mention Scotland has the largest sheep/people ratio in the UK.
The Bulgarian people have had great influence on Europe in the past, the Bulgarian country had a territory stretching to 3 seas in the past. Also they were great warriors, greatly weakening the Byzantine Empire leading to it's darkest periods. And now we are a crappy country twisted by 500 years of Turkish slavery and temporary reign of extreme Communism.
I Fiend I: Fact from Russia. There are no bears!!! absolutely none, no matter what you may think. Also Moscow is the city with the most millionaires living in it.
I don't know if
Summerstorm: Germany here. We are not all bavarians. They are the ones with the "Lederhosen", white sausage, beer and strange festivals. (Although beer is good everywhere here). It is like thinking that all americans are like texans, or californians.
Also: Yes we see what the U.S.A is doing, and we copy it exactly. So yeah, we see what will not work and KNOW: Yepp in three-four years our politicians will do the same and we will all pay for it.
The common misconception is that all Germans are not blonde hair blue eyes. Infact that stereotype is more swedish than it is German, germans are more commonly brunet.
Code_Red: Not everyone in Ireland drinks and we don't all speak with that stereotypical Irish accent,believe it or not.
Of course not, the tourists don't have the drinking capability of the Irish, and foreigners that move to dublin have an extremely hard time with the accent.
Also Brian is a talking animated dog...so whats your point?
People listen more to the Television than real people.
I have actually been beaten for being Atheist, I was called a terrorist, I have never been back to school since
...Ok seriously dude go back to school. If you got scared away by a bunch of idiots who called you a terrorist then there is no helping you. You will encounter idiots in your life, my advice is to have confidence in your own beliefs (even if by the fact of being an atheist your belief's are flawed) and dont listen to what anyone else says (including me, if you really stand for what you believe in...or dont believe in...whatever).
Besides I personally would fault Brian more for being a Hillary Clinton supporter than an atheist...but then I remember that he is a fictional character and move on with my life...now the real character you should hate in that show is the giant chicken who gives Peter an expired coupon. ^_^
They had a gun. I was told not to go back to school, I am now homeschooled.
I will not go back to school until I leave the bible belt
I usually dont condone this sort of thing but in your situation I would suggest a lawyer. Even though personally I think you are being judgmental based on one experience, and despite my own feelings about Atheism. People cannot legally keep you from going to school because of religion (or lack of it).
1. Without Scotland the world would not have, amongst other things: televisions, telephones, penicillin, pneumatic tires, etc. 2. We have heard of other music. We don't all listen to the bagpipes. Honestly, that instrument sounds like a strangulated cat being ran over with a drivable lawnmower. 3. Haggis is NOT an animal. Haggis is oats and other stuff boiled inside a sheep's stomach. 4. We don't always wear kilts. We're not still living in the age of the Jacobites. 5. WE KICK ARSE. Seriously, the Jacobites managed to march all the way down to London before being dissuaded from their course by a big filthy stinking lie. Plus we owned the English at several major battles. Like Bannockburn or Stirling Bridge.
Janisterzaj: Slovenia Little country in Europe. Don't think many people here know anything about it. Once I spoke to a guy from LA, and he didn't even know that Slovenia existed...
Okay. Common misconceptions about Americans.
We are not all idiots. I could point out Slovenia on a map and that is because my crappy american public schooling. We are not all racist. We are not all Old and Republican, and Inversely we are not all peace loving hemp wearing democrats. The stereo types are pretty even between the parties. We dont all judge the european countries by stereotypes, and when we do it is just as a joke (well atleast the people i know.)
Prior to contrary belief the south will not rise again. The confederate flag does not stand for racism, people use it as a sign for rebellion, and actually stands for a farming economy unlike the North's Industrial Economy. Mostly all our founding fathers smoked pot. Lincoln did not end slavery to end slavery, he ended it to keep europe from siding with the south. He has actually been quoted to say "if i could have saved the union with out ending slavery i would have".
Not all American's are irish, although they will all tell you differently during St. Patties day. We don't all drive SUVs, we dont all drive trucks. We don't all fly american flags.
We don't care what the facts are, as long as we are concerned we did it first, we did it best, and if it wasn't for us Europe would belong to Germany Twice. Seriously, American's all truly believe that we are the sole cause of victory in world war 1 and 2.
Sweden don't have an oficially accepted national anthem. we have a traditional one we use and one royal that we don't but bacicly it can be any song we feel like.
On one ocurrence after a game in Moscow where a swedish team had won they couldn't find a recording of the traditional anthem and nobody could play it on the piano they had so the team sang helan går wich is a popular (or at least prolific) swedish drinking song.
The only national anthem that actually mentions Sweden is the polish one.