• AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.mlOP
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    4 years ago

    Canada, mostly learned by listening to the CBC (our government media outlet) Laugh Out Loud podcast:

    1. Vancouver is the weed capital

    2. Newfoundland’s “Newfie” accent/dialect

    3. Hockey fights (when players go insane and beat the crap out of each other)

    4. Quebec hates everyone

    5. Our airline is terrible

    6. We use a confusing combination of Metric and imperial units

  • TotallyNotADolphin@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The swedish button

    Here in Norway we like to make fun of Swedes as a stupid people. The swedish button originated (at least the first context I knew of) as yanking the power cable from the socket as a way of turning off an applianve such as a Tv or computer, inatead of the intended way

    One can also call other extreme/destructive ways of turning something off as the swedish button, such as hitting a tv with a hammer.