Man, that article is texas.
Norwegians Use the Word “Texas” as Slang to Mean “Crazy”
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#42Any of you fine fellows typing this from your mobility scooters?
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#43Anders Breivik was certainly texas.
In Texas, a dude who murdered 77 people would have already faded into the background by now (unless he did it in a memorable way, like Charles Whitman)
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#44Well that we should, if you look at what Texas does to our textbook selection process for the entire US. (Edit: downvote me all you want, but it's Texas that's enabling intelligent design proponents to inject their nonsense into our science textbooks. Similar factions are using that inroad to whitewash history, as well)
In fairness, there are dozens of other states who would happily do the same, but don't have the single-market pull to manage it.
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#45Texan here: this makes me kinda proud. As a side note: I briefly lived in the UK. Once while on vacation on the continent a tour guide asked everyone in the group where we came from. The other Americans in the group all said "America" or "the States", but we said "Texas". The tour guide said that's always what Texans say. :-)
As an American living in Germany, all I can say is: you guys are the Bavaria of the U.S.
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#46I was born in Texas and have lived here for most of my life. I travel a lot and get to see many locales and cultures, especially in the US. Texas really has two sides to it: There is the traditional 'Texas' that most people outside of Texas probably think of. It's the guy on his land that walks around with his gun in one hand and the bible in the other, literally and metaphorically. Many of these people are close min…
Yes, Dallas and Austin are nothing like Texas' Hollywood persona. BTW ping me -- I live in Downtown Dallas too.
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#47As a Swede that has visited Norway probably 60+ times (I've worked for norwegian companies since 2004 - cause oil money) I have noticed they have an affinity to reuse English words for different purposes, sort of like the germans. I also get the impression that their vocabulary changes quicker than that of most other countries, perhaps due to the small size of the population.
Could be tech-specific, but in the Danish tech industry Norwegians are often found funny for the opposite reason, that they more often invent translated native terms for things where Danes use a loanword. For example a Dane would "download" a file, while a Norwegian would "laste ned" (literally "load down") the file.
Gulebøj. :)
(Banana!)
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#48Somewhat related: As an (northern, not southern) American tourist, I was visiting Scotland when I left my car in a parking deck after hours. I buzzed the gate-keeper to unlock the gate, and upon hearing my accent he said, "What? Do you not read signs? Ah, you're from Texas; the lone-star state. We don't have guns here. We're much more civilized." I had not mentioned anything related to Texas. Speaks a lot of his thou…
I couldn't get your point. Was the gate not actually locked and you had assumed it would be? I assume you came back with some equally witty country stereotype like "well being Scottish I'm just glad you're sober after 6pm"
No, sorry, I should have mentioned the parking deck closed early, and was signed (though not in an prominent way) as such. So we could not get out. We made no witty reply, but did have a good laugh about it later.
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#49Anders Breivik was certainly texas.
In Texas, a dude who murdered 77 people would have already faded into the background by now (unless he did it in a memorable way, like Charles Whitman)
Texas has over 5 times the population of Norway and I don't think there's ever been a spree killer there that even got close to Breivik's 75 victims (but I'm happy to be corrected). But it seems likely spree killing is more common in Texas than Norway.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could you cite your sources? I'd like to know more.
sure: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/9302... and http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1989083_21... reminds me of Woody Allen's "Bananas", and Goldie Hawn as the detached from reality liberal do-gooder who'd visit a prison and lecture bewildered staff about how she thinks inmates should "decorate their own cells... with their own personal decorators" and so on even Allen - not ex…
Re: your second link;
Breivik is not in Halden prison - which is pretty fancy, even by our Norwegian standards.
Also; that whole debate about punitive vs. restorative justice, logic and empiricism.