This was featured on BBC R1 last week - the presenters calling random Swedes via the number looking for a 'Freida'.. it's as bizarre as it sounds.
The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede
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#12Do swedes get to opt out of this?
It's opt in. In a radio segment the other day they said 6k people have volunteered. Which makes it very much non-random, but still, cute concept.
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#13I can't image the US ever doing this.
Maybe do it at the state level?
If nothing else it would be good to hear the different accents :-)
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#14Dialed 3 times, twice got an answer in - Arabic.
0.87$ in Skype fees well spent...
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#15Can't wait to see what /b/ will do with that.
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#16Anyone try this yet? I've always wondered what Swedes think about IKEA in America...
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#17Similarly, the @Sweden Twitter account is given to a different random Swede every week.
The abuse of the @Sweden Twitter account is obvious -- just look at the lebanese immigrant Elias Kreidy who wrote “I’m the immigrant fking your daughter while you’re trying to sleep ignoring her moans calling me ‘daddy'”.
Now imagine this guy answering a phone line as an ambassador for the country!
NSFW article about the tweet: http://www.infowars.com/im-the-immigrant-fking-your-daughter...
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#18Ingenious; Will also reduce suicides;
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#19Dialed 3 times, twice got an answer in - Arabic. 0.87$ in Skype fees well spent...
Sweden today is probably the most arabized country in Europe.