Slog - Comments on You Can't Do That on Fernsehen

Comment by La Mareada

La Mareada — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:18:35 -0800

Can we start using "Thank you for forgoing intercourse" as an all purpose internet insult? especially with Fnarf, Will in Seattle, Elenchos, Bellevue Ave, and Mr. Poe?

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:24:53 -0800

Life without Mr. Poe is like a day without the summer sun.

Comment by Sir Learnsalot

Sir Learnsalot — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:35:01 -0800

Seconded.

Comment by Mike

Mike — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:47:08 -0800

How would this entice you to buy Ikea?

Comment by elswinger

elswinger — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:57:21 -0800

#1 You just named the four people who make reading Slog fun.

Comment by Simac

Simac — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:58:25 -0800

I think you and Patrick wanted to use "Fernsehen" (television) as opposed to "Fernseher" (television set).

Comment by Brendan Kiley

Brendan Kiley — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:00:30 -0800

You are right, Simac. That was my mistake, not Patrick's.

Comment by Amelia

Amelia — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:19:27 -0800

Wow. When I was in Scandinavia, we just drank moonshine out of cereal bowls. It had been "flavored" by dissolving a Fisherman's Friend cough drop in each bowl, leaving a nice scum slick floating on top.

Then everyone went outside on a frozen lake and lit firecrackers and held them in their teeth while they went off.

Comment by Judah

Judah — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:27:26 -0800

For some reason it just never occurred to me -- though it seems obvious now: Ikea is the European Wal*Mart. It's a giant super-distribution network, controlled by one family, with extensive price-fixing and vertical control of its product line that moves into local economies and destroys them. The Ikea where I lived in the UK had furniture, appliances and groceries, pretty much like a Wal*mart, and it was just far enough outside the center of town to be destructive to the city market's foot traffic.

So, you know, further proof that Europeans are at least as avaricious, short-sighted, acquisitive -- and, evidently, racist -- as we colonials.

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:28:49 -0800

the fat women looked more like americans than scandinavians.

Comment by ams

ams — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:27:28 -0800

@9- they don't sell many foods or toiletries, clothes, etc. In europe, Ikea is not somewhere a family goes a few times a week for "essentials", but a destination store for furniture. It is quite different from WalMart.

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:19:47 -0800

Now, Carrefour, on the other hand, is more like WalMart ...

But it's French.

Comment by smiller555

smiller555 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:52:40 -0800

wait. can we talk about the video for a second? how it's better than about 80% of art video out there? wow. this thing made my day.