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2015-01-13 Home Front: Culture Wars

Sorry, liberals, Scandinavian countries aren't utopias

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-01-13 04:40|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 "We do not allow unhappiness here!"
(There was a Twilight Zone about this...)

Posted by ed in texas 2015-01-13 07:29|| 2015-01-13 07:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, even then being made up of 99% white and Lutheran* cultural stock, may also account for some of the 'luster'. So, how about adopting that as a baseline? /rhet question

* you pay for your sins, there is no dispensation for your actions. Contrast that with other theologies and philosophies that you can get out of your venial and mortal corruption by acts of contrition.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-01-13 08:38|| 2015-01-13 08:38|| Front Page Top

#3 ed in T, that wasn't a Twilight Zone, that was a DNC documentary.

Posted by AlanC 2015-01-13 08:47|| 2015-01-13 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Beyond fantastic myth and fantasy, the physiological response to sleep deprivation and skewed circadian rhythms due to the high latitude and 20+ hours of daylight has quite a bit to do with the depression and alcoholism. Not so much how they voted.

In our case however,...

Posted by Skidmark 2015-01-13 10:06|| 2015-01-13 10:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Some 5% of Danish men have had sex with an animal

Lena Dunham is very popular there

Posted by Frank G 2015-01-13 10:30|| 2015-01-13 10:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Frank, I was wondering if their Muslim population had reached 5%.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2015-01-13 11:59|| 2015-01-13 11:59|| Front Page Top

#7 ^^^^^^^^^^ Snark of the day.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-01-13 12:09|| 2015-01-13 12:09|| Front Page Top

#8 #5 I mean. But #6 is good too.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-01-13 12:10|| 2015-01-13 12:10|| Front Page Top

#9 5% of Danish men have had sex with an animal.

WHAT, only 5%.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2015-01-13 18:27|| 2015-01-13 18:27|| Front Page Top

#10 "Sexists, they didn't even survey women for that question!"
-Rolling Stone

Posted by Charles 2015-01-13 19:12|| 2015-01-13 19:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Watch Wilbur wants to kill himself (the movie) to see why this is happening. What kind of animals? Young goats?

Posted by Alpha2c 2015-01-13 22:24|| 2015-01-13 22:24|| Front Page Top

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