I use celsius. Triple digit temperatures would kill me.

But after a quick conversion, still single digit. Its pretty standard winter temperature just a little bit inland from where i live. I like it best between -15 and -5 °C (5 - 23F)

Joffrey, is what people call him here.

Joffrey’s at it again I see.

I pay for my parents to visit me instead.

Stop going to the usa on holiday. Its not worth it.

Her:

Some random guy criticised me for drinking double espressos in a pub. Said I should drink a real drink. I offered to drink a pint of what he was drinking for every double espresso he drank and we’d see who died first. He didn’t take me up on the offer.

When I first moved here as a Scot I was treated well but I was working an unskilled job and met a wide variety of people. Since transferring to academia there’s a lot less of it. But the states is on the good list for Norwegians. Which is probably why the little dude thought he would be fine and all the talk of fascism must be made up.

Ok but where are you originally from. Because they have a very short list of good countries. And a good many of them will say things like “yeah but you’re not one of those immigrants”. I’m not saying everyone is like this but a large number are, especially after a few beers.

TBF, when I first heard of this I didn’t realise dude was a tromsøværing. He probably isn’t that way just young and dumb.

Norwegians have this fanciful notion that all European and north American countries are essentially the same and that nothing is as bad as it’s made out to be by those hysterical foreigners. This requires some degree of cognitive dissonance because they also feel like there is no country as good as Norway and everyone must really want to be Norwegian.

So he probably assumed it wasn’t nearly as bad over there as people are saying and if he was to get into difficulty he could just say he’s Norwegian and people would just let him off because everyone loves Norwegians. Also he’s 21 so not terribly smart yet.

Not to mention that he’s probably never been in a situation where a border control person takes your phone.

To be fair she’s quite noticeable when she jumps from the top of the dining table onto my back like some sort of deranged cat.

My three year old child.

Well, in the case of Syria, decades of oppression under the Assad family combined with religious ideology.

There are occasions when it’s useful.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_heritage_by_the_Islamic_State

I’m not saying it always is but there are a lot of very unstable places run by people who just don’t care about this stuff. And at the time it was stolen it was either the British museum, someone’s private collection, or the Vatican.

Well I’m British so… fuuuck that!

I’m not saying it’s legal. I’m saying if someone wearing a balaclava tries to force me into an unmarked van, they’re getting stabbed.

If someone wearing a balaclava and civilian clothes grabs you, I’m pretty sure it’s reasonable to stab them.

Depends on the mnemonic. It has to flow and you have to know the steps individually. Although there was one time I spent so long trying to come up with a good mnemonic for the citric acid cycle that I just learned it and gave up.

I can never remember that. Thanks!