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I LOVE SWEDEN!

The Naked Crisp Bread Dance can be read about in English here and viewed below. Things I particularly love: the thick dialects the guys sport, the music medley they dance to, that the judges all voted "yes", that they use genuine crisp bread rounds from the north of Sweden and that the audience chanted "ONE MORE TIME" in Swedish after the dance.

I miss home...


Date: 2009-04-22 03:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wavebreaker.livejournal.com
Who would have thought that crispbread can be so tasty... ;-)

Date: 2009-04-22 03:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com
I just love that they had THIS in their talent show, with kids watching and all. It really says something about Sweden...

Date: 2009-04-22 03:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wavebreaker.livejournal.com
It would have been perfectly acceptable in the Netherlands as well.

Date: 2009-04-22 04:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wavebreaker.livejournal.com
You don't want to know what kind of programs are acceptable in Dutch TV, some of them are downright tasteless (and I'm not talking about Big Brother, which you'd think would be the ultimate in tastelessness).

Date: 2009-04-22 03:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com
OMG!! Fantastic!

I'm still wiping tears from my eyes...

(Robin's apartment in central Stockholm is actually quite gorgeous and not to be looked down upon! It is from 1700'eds with genuine wooden floors and period kilns..)

Date: 2009-04-22 03:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seamusd.livejournal.com
"Their top pop stars live like our reality stars!"

Date: 2009-04-22 03:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com
yeah, socialism is gloomy like that!

If they would have shot the video in the summer, it would have been even more rad with all those half naked people everywhere...

Date: 2009-04-22 03:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yathin.livejournal.com
LOL! That is awesome. So, there was only one old woman in the crowd who didn't like what the boys were doing it seems! :))

I think those kids were a little nervous, and they need a little more coordination! :-)

Date: 2009-04-22 03:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com
hehe..I noticed the elderly lady..but you know, it might just be that her eyes weren't that good, because her husband sure liked the show!

(I think the lads are honing their act for the world premiere as we speak)

Date: 2009-04-22 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chocolatebark.livejournal.com
Booster Gold! What are you doing in this thread?

occupational hazard

Date: 2009-04-22 04:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com
I'm researching the word back to it's origins! (it's claimed to have started there, but I found no visual blurb evidence)

This is more modern:

Photobucket

Re: occupational hazard

Date: 2009-04-22 04:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chocolatebark.livejournal.com
I always thought it was a creation of the 17th-century Comte de Bobo, myself!

Re: occupational hazard

Date: 2009-04-22 04:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com
If that was true I'd start going to church, I would...

Date: 2009-04-22 04:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] americantjej.livejournal.com
hilarious. i have to share as well.

Date: 2009-04-22 11:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com
haha, and the non Swedish speakers don't even get the cute lyrics in the last song that they shake their little tushes to...

Date: 2009-04-22 06:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zombienought.livejournal.com
Okay, this isn't really helping your case
that Swedish men *aren't* always running
around naked.

I loved the spare bread toss!

Also, I think you've made me a little gay
for Swedish men...

Date: 2009-04-22 11:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com
Nudity is way more accepted in general (and particularly on film), but in reality it's way way too cold to run around like that most of the year in Sweden.

If you really become gay, you can go to Sweden and get married!

Date: 2009-04-22 08:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lizardek.livejournal.com
We saw it when it aired, I haven't laughed that much in AGES. :D

Plus, I was REALLY hoping they'd put those holes to good use, but alas.

ARGh (stupid typo fingers)
Edited Date: 2009-04-22 08:55 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-04-22 11:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com
I was thinking about the holes too, they are so, so...convenient, aren't they!

Date: 2009-04-23 10:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tommdroid.livejournal.com
Oh? Oh?? Oh!!!!

Date: 2009-04-23 11:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com
I thought you would like it.

Date: 2009-04-24 03:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com
LOL!!!!!

Boys with cojones, in more ways than one! ;p

Date: 2009-04-28 06:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com
And they succeed in hiding those cojones behind CRISP BREAD!!

: D

Date: 2009-04-24 07:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lelain.livejournal.com
That is hilarious and wonderful and thank God no one came into my office while I was watching that!

Re: : D

Date: 2009-04-28 06:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com
SORRY! perhaps I should have written something about "not work safe", but on the other hand, the "naked" part of the dance descriptions did give you some warning...
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