Norway is out

[Winston]

Bring it on. Unlike some other Nordic people I can think of, our nuts can actually take it.

[Pekka]

So you say you like it when people kick you in the nuts? Right.. what a sexual sicko... but we knew it.

[Gangerolf]

I didn't get an answer as to why Canada sucks at skiing. But I know why. Tradition. Culture. That kind of stuff.
Bunch of transplanted Brits and French, trying hard to persuade the world they're not American. That's what Canadians are and why they can't ski.

[Winston]

Plus I heard they're still paying off installments on the 1976 Olympics. But anytime soon, funds should be available to actually look into this novelty concept of skiing.

[Pekka]

hockey > skiing.

[Gangerolf]

as for Hans Ø and Greenland. it doesn't belong to either America junior or Denmark.
I can accept that you Danes kept it in 1814. Give the Swedes as little as possible, always a good idea. But you should have done the proper thing and returned it to its rightful owners in 1905.

[Winston]

Gangy, that whole business was settled in the Hague in the 1920's. You didn't win then, and you're not going to win now.

Besides, you've already got all the oil you can eat. That's where you were smarter than us in the early 1970's, dividing up the North Sea. And our Foreign Minister at the time was drunk out of his tiny little mind during negotiations. No kidding. But hey, what do you expect from the lousy Social Democrats.

[ahasverus]

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Why? It has been mostly Danes up there since its second colonization. Just because it was discovered by Norwegians gives you no right to have it. All you had were a bunch of hunters in the north-eastern part.
Should Norway also have had Faroe Islands and Iceland?

[Gangerolf]

Just putting things into perspective. Canada and Denmark are fighting over a piece of land that belonged to Norway before Canada was even discovered and that Denmark stole in 1814.

[Gangerolf]

ahasverus, officially it was a norwegian crown colony until 1814, along with the faroes and iceland. so yes, they should have stayed with norway

[Winston]

Allright, they can have Iceland then. Fair's fair.

[ahasverus]

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But then in 1814 it became a danish crown-colony, so problem solved and if you have to complain, complain to Wellington for beating the french so Danmark ends on the losing side and as so have no saying in the Vienna-proces.

Hmm, interesting thought, what would Scandinavia and perhaps the world look like if Denmark had kept Norway?

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Pekka
Skiing is simply not appealing to young brave FInns anymore. We all want to play hockey, soccer, fight or make love.

- and drive fast cars. How could you forget that? Too bad about Kimi's engines.

[Pekka]

yeah but Kimi is annoying anyway.

And it's not driving fast cars so much as it is driving fast. You see more super crappy cars going too fast than fast cars going fast. Teens..

[Winston]

Well of course people are in a hurry to do their shopping before the knives store closes.