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Sweden turns 500 years today, after Gustav Vasa was elected king in 1523.
Jun 6, 2023 2:15 PM
CaptainHightower
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Sweden turns 500 years today, after Gustav Vasa was elected king in 1523.
JustaguyfromNH
Happy Birthday Sweden from across the pond
Drimilidrimdrim
WOHHOO
EverNotRelevant
Summertime penis statue sounds perfect for Pride!
cyberimg
Gustav Vasa? Didn't he like to play with boats?
CaptainHightower
Yeah, but he wasn't very good at it.
Goldenteckel
Not to mention the best forecast fashion.
drdavidbsmith
And yet he points at Norway! I hope it is not punishment
MyNameIsPer
His name's Nils Holmqvist, and he's the weather presenter for Svt (Sveriges Television)
Speedmetal05
Saabs were awesome...
mkreku
Still a lot of beautiful Saab's running in Sweden :)
Nokars
Tomorrow, Norway celebrates independence- from Sweden…
newsguycraigevans
Swedes in 1523
SarahTheEverlame
You're fooling yourself...
Ash321
Here - have a meatball! *bork bork*
FlyingGiantElk
I have no heritage I can claim, but I attempted a Swedish accent for a D&D character, so there’s that.
andsy
That counts. As long as you dance around the penis pole.
Kittensandyarns
The random dots over letters making me feel like I'm having a stroke. Or ströke.
LittKittenSmuggler
You are right I’m gonna go have a ströke of my own in celebration. (Googles Swedish pörn)
andsy
Fäbodjäntan. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_Blow_the_Horn
LittKittenSmuggler
Yeah I’m gonna probably have to watch that. You know for comedy.
andsy
Nah it’s a classic. You can watch it because it’s culturally relevant :) and have a sophisticated, proud wank.
Kittensandyarns
If you're going to google that, then add the "falukorv" (falu sausage). It's a classic.
FoolishMortal
G'Kar : It's an Earth food. They are called Swedish meatballs. It's a strange thing, but every sentient race has its own version of these Swedish meatballs! I suspect it's one of those great universal mysteries which will either never be explained, or which would drive you mad if you ever learned the truth.
PballQhead
They go well with a jynnan tonnyx…
aShogunNamedMarcus
Not a swede but Wasa crispbread and herring is a damn fine snack
BronyDanza
Poor man’s surströmming.
GuitarsAndCodeAndRage
"Not a swede". You are now, buddy! Välkommen!
MasterMookie
We need to teach em at least one snapsvisa as well.
4vie
Hey. He forgot the red onion and sour cream.
BarnyShark
stealthgunner385
Ah, ye olde Swedishe Chainsawe.
molltox
ElusiveThing
Happy birthday to my beloved friends and neighbours! Sending my best from Finland!
molltox
norwad
Gratulerer med dagen hilsen grannarna i vest
Hivju
As a Norwegian, I was about to make a Swedish joke, but then
Hivju
Who am I kidding, nice IKEA hats, guys. 😂Gratulerer med dagen, söta bror.
CaptainHightower
The current king loves his silly hats. http://zverige.com/kingkong/
MasterMookie
Tack våra norska bröder och systrar! Älskar er!
Hivju
🥰
BorkasonBork
Arméns musikkår has silly looking white horse tails on pickle helmets. https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/organisation/livgardet/forsvarsmusiken/armens-musikkar/
shapr
First year I lived in Sweden and they told me there was a frog dance around a phallic plant structure, I thought they were making up stuff to see if I was gullible enough to believe it.
swedeonamoose
Shot up and dance around the plant penis dammit.
andsy
It’s important for fertility!! I for one enjoy being one of the Middle aged ladies loudly referring to the circles as testicles during the decoration and raising of the pole :D
AnonymousSourceOfGenitals
Has anyone told you about Flygande Jacob? It's a casserole composed of chicken, cream, chilli sauce, bananas, roasted peanuts and bacon. It usualyy shocks non.swedes to hear about it :P
swedeonamoose
As a swede i have to admit i always skip the bananas, cant stand that shit.
shapr
I haven't heard of that, I may have to make some myself to see if I like it
shapr
There was a yearly surstromming festival where I lived in Boden. My poor American nose was not prepared for that experience.
Gleipner
How long ago was this? I've lived in Boden for 6 years right now
shapr
I can't remember my address in Boden. I had crazy adventures with migrationsverket. I caused two court cases to clarify the immigration laws, entirely by accident!
shapr
I moved back in 2006, used to live in apartments near the river. If you were there pre-2006 do you remember the webbhaxor company? (web witches) Perhaps you know my awesome friend Ove J who started and sold natverket?
Gleipner
I'm sorry I'm afraid I don't know about either. Sound like it was some good times at least. I'm from southern Sweden and I'm in love with Boden and the nature in the surroundings
rabiesraeven
I'd say Sweden began in the 10th century with the unification of Götaland and Svealand under Erik Segersäll.
swedeonamoose
the svear and götar basically played game of thrones for 400 years so they kinda screwed up our nation building.
GhoulsGW
Yeah, but Gustav Vasa said it started with him, and he was a king so you know he'd never lie about his importance.
drduffer
Not a Swede by known ancestry, but Scots/Irish in the main, so there’s probably some DNA shared amongst us. 83rd cousins, perhaps? Happy Sweden Day! 🎉⬆️
diezl97
Same and then my dad took that creepy genetic ancestry test and we found out we're largely scandinavian followed by Celtic - guess there had to be children from all the raping and pillaging of the Viking era.
MasterMookie
Probably more likely Danish blood as they were the big invaders on the big isle. But either way Viking blood in ya.
sparklepantsthedestroyer
Most likely you're no more than 76 generations separated from a common ancestor from almost anyone on the planet. In some places it's a much smaller number.
hiiamluciole
that would be roughly 1900 years .... that seems very small, do you have a source, please and thank you ?
sparklepantsthedestroyer
Here's one: http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jtc5/papers/CommonAncestors/Nature_NewsAndViews.pdf Roughly speaking, average number of generations back to random pair of individuals' shared ancestor is about the base-2 log (n), where n = population size (assuming random mating, which we don't). So with Earth at n=8e9 people, average generations back is about 33 if we really did mate randomly, which we don't so 33 is too low. There's more to consider, but these estimates are decent bounds.
sparklepantsthedestroyer
To note, there's a birthday paradox thing going on here: this is for the most recent common ancestor of *two random people*, NOT *everyone's* most recent common ancestor. That will also make this number a lot lower than expected.
Valharroth
Ok, I might not be Swedish, but have you even lived if you've not had pickled herring with a boiled egg, sour cream and leek on top of a crackhead?
Valharroth
Bread. Crackbread.
holymolyicanchangemyusername
BothnianBayViking
Problemwoodchuck
FishDimension
pareidoliaperson
Is that a moose or a müss?
HardcoreMango
Älg
SarahTheEverlame
A Møøse once bit my sister...
Santorrr
Måse
mormacil
Cool elk bro
swedeonamoose
Älg in swedish, or Elg if you are from stockholm xD
Beardedgeek72
Elk and moose are not the same thing.
mormacil
The word moose doesn't exist outside of American English. In British, Australian etc, English the above animal is called an elk. In part because this animal is native to Europe and the rest of the English speaking world saw no reason to rename the animal once discovering the Americas.
Beardedgeek72
A moose is this:
mormacil
The word moose doesn't exist in the queen's English. That is called an elk. Related to the Swedish word Älg and the Norwegian Elg.
Beardedgeek72
An Elk is this:
WeekendWarriorMark
Looks like a deer to me. Anyways… Wikipedia if that is less confusing but tbh the other guy did a pretty good job: «The moose (pl: moose; used in North America) or elk (pl: elk or elks; used in Eurasia) (Alces alces) is a member of the New World deer subfamily and is the only species in the genus Alces.» Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose
mormacil
In the queen's English that's a wapiti not an elk.
localdisturbance
now I want some surstromming
GRaffted
ja ja...
andsy
You can have mine 🤢
swedeonamoose
potatos, red onion and sour cream on some flat bread and its not too bad.
rihani3
rihani3
Ok, now the obligatory "damn Swedes" have been posted: https://youtu.be/JgtxhP0C9FU
LittlePinkAnimal
As a Swede, I have way more respect for the Danish queen. She seems like a legit cool and intelligent person. Our king is and always has been a fucking joke. If Victoria doesn't do a better job let's dismantle the damn monarchy already.
chbarts
Hey, it's the grandparents at a little league game!
DrDresDog
Who are these people
TheAnswerWasAlwaysMoreLube
Royals
GnomeDeGuerre
Swedes and the longest reigning living queen and a great and kind person really.
KILLERCHROMATIC
King speeden. Queen Denmark. Reason: Sweden was part of Denmark before becoming its own country 500 years ago. Their loss I say
Ash321
At least our stores are full of kamelåså's :)
BorkasonBork
Sweden was NEVER part of Denmark. We had a union of countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmar_Union
KILLERCHROMATIC
Yeah ok this is correct…
SalaSSin
Left the Swedish king, right the Danish queen
ThePastmaster
Who are also cousins. XD
rihani3
I mean... So is the entire European monarchy... :P
ThePastmaster
Now I'm curious how closely related they are now. Since many of them have married non-royals.
YippeeKayakOB
don't forget queen Silvia!
swedeonamoose
Who is a perfect example on why we cant expect perfect swedish from immigrants /s
Ash321
Give her a break, she's only lived here 47 years :)
CrisprCAS
I don't remember much Swedish, but I do remember "Små grodorna, små grodorna, är lustiga att se"
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RevengeIsIceCream
Koa-ka-ka koa-ka-ka koa-ka-ka-ka-kaaaa!
WinterOfMyDiscontent
Also "bork, bork, bork"
Santorrr
"Pienet sammakot, pienet sammakot, ne lystikkäitä on", what do you mean we were a colony of Sweden for hundreds of years?
CaptainHightower
It's originally a military march from the French Revolution, "La Chanson de l'Oignon" ("The Onion Song").
Cohacq
TIL!
FoamingToad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oQ7LWjCZ9A
Gleipner
Used in the French foreign legion to break down and humiliate recruits
PubMed12927120suckssobad
Joo betchu by golly, luuk, Der goes another meetbol
CrisprCAS
Go to sleep.
Dracalia
I like the Norwegian version better: «små rompetroll, små rompetroll, de hopper fort avested!» translates to:
mobbatbarnmedautomatvapen
Vafför gör du på dette viset!
Dracalia
“Small butt-trolls, small butt-trolls, they jump quickly away!” Butt-troll is what they call tadpoles for some reason XD
WoodfolkFae
You don't have to split up comments like that anymore you can type 500 letters.
Dracalia
I have an old phone and can’t update Imgur anymore :(
WoodfolkFae
have you tried typing something longer then the max and pressing send regardless of it saying you can't send it?
soulsource
Only on the broken UI that randomly scrolls whenever you resize the window.
InfocalypseRising
Sign me up for one sëa of mëätbälls please
ChloeRed
*signs up after you*
andsy
My grandma would make meatballs from moose. That was pretty Swedish of her, I guess :)
andsy
Her entire cooking “skills” honestly consisted of: Take any slab of meat. Mince it yourself. Then either roll it up into a ball or stuff it into sausage. Either way serve end result with boiled potatoes and lingonberries or apple jam. The end. And strong black coffee is served at 06:00, 11:00 and 15:00; the latter two come with a homemade cookie of a hard and dry variety that tastes stale even when it’s fresh from the oven. :)
andsy
InfocalypseRising
Ëxtrëmëly Swëdish
ThePastmaster
A Swedish hunter would silently judge you for wasting perfectly good mince moose on making meatballs.
andsy
She was poor and extremely frugal. She got the meat from hunters when they shot moose on her (very small) land so for her it was “the free meat” 🤣 she would turn in her grave if she knew what it would cost to buy that in a store
ThePastmaster
I was surprised it wasn't higher to be perfectly honest. XD
Borgham
Why would they wtf, most hunters I know make at least some moosemeatballs every now and then
ThePastmaster
It was half in jest. Meat snobs are a thing here as well. They'd prefer if you make something fancy like Wallenbergers.
Borgham
wallenbergare på älg!? Får skjuta den lilla rackaren på väg ut ur livmodern om det ska va på det viset!! No but srsly, I find the meat snobs aren't the ones doing the hunting, but instead people pretending to do the hunting. But maybe that's just my opinion
d0o0o0d
...elected king? I thought part of the point of being a king was not having to bother with elections.
MissSiesta
Norway actually courted and invited several to become its king when they wanted independence from Sweden. https://www.royalcourt.no/artikkel.html?tid=30094
speedislife
There have been a lot of elective monarchies historically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_monarchy
CaptainHightower
Before Vasa, the King was elected. Vasa founded Sweden's hereditary monarchy.
aPinchofMensch
Elective monarchy is a Germanic heritage thing.
Promethianfire
"You don't vote for kings!"
Txernobog
Visigoths used to elect their kings.
BeeWoman
The Holy Roman Empire begs to differ
NoNameFred
Most monarchies started out as either elective or meritocratic. Then after several cycles you wound up with some dude getting followed by his son, and soon after it suddenly swapped from that being "coincidence" to that being "normal".
trueunpopularopinions
Election methods vary, sometimes including killing the old king, overpowering his supporters, and naming oneself as the new one.
tr26
My dad always said he voted for LBJ from the grassy knoll, probably similar
MrStealYourGiF
I guess it was a formalised version of what was happening anyway in other kingdoms in that to be crowned king, the heir had to have the backing of a majority of the barons, lords, knights, major landowners, or he'd get cancelled real quick.
varesya
Yeah, it wasn't a popular vote sort of thing. Only the powerful nobles and such had a vote.
DocBeeblebrox
The Kalmar Union was an interesting time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmar_Union
swedeonamoose
The danes thought it was a swell idea, Norway and Sweden not so much.
DocBeeblebrox
The Stockholm Bloodbath probably didn't help things on the Swedish side (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Bloodbath)
swedeonamoose
Chopping off the head of Gustav Vasas father, not the best idea ever.
Kuvajainen
Grattis på din födelsedag svenskjävlaren!
ButterfaceTaintClown
Go home Sweden, you're drunk.
andsy
Tack och perkele på dig, granne :)
NeverShaveYourDuck
Kiitos, Suomalainen Torpa-kiini!
Santorrr
Close enough 🍺
MasterMookie
Älskar er Suomi! Tack <3
MasterMookie
Also sorry about Eurovision know that I voted for you guys.
LincLoud
Kommer du att fira med dem?
SpeedbumpNZ
The last reaction cracks me up the most.
Kuvajainen
That's Janne Ahonen, a veteran ski-jumper. He had no time for any kind of nonsense during competitions and exactly zero chill!
kratlusker96
Når vi vil svine dem til så kalder vi dem bare Svensker - fra Danmark 😀
Pianokrisu
Norwegurian
As a Norwegian both Swedish and danish is quite easy to understand cause our language is sort of in the middle, this is very funny
Kuvajainen
I laughed at this way too much! It has no right to be that funny!
DutchGuyMike
Don't forget the aggressive non-adapting refugees that constitute nearly half the population, who are slowly forming an independent Islamic nation from within Sweden and there's many neighborhoods where emergency services won't go without direct police support for fear of attacks. No doubt this will get downvoted?
Kuvajainen
Yeah, I'll downvote you alright. Now go do something more productive like washing underneath your nails. Use soap.
DutchGuyMike
Have fun with your neighborhoods being terrorized, Swedish flags being burnt, Churches and Synagogues being attacked and your children not being safe on the street oh and of course rapes and knife attacks. All this on a daily basis! Reminds me of those community gatherings over their children being attacked. It's horrible how this wonderful people and great nation is being attacked in this manner. Well thanks EU, I guess?
Kuvajainen
Yeah yeah, we will. I hope Putler pays you well at least for doing such a job!
DutchGuyMike
Erm mate, Norway has mobilized its army and has heightened border patrols in anticipation for a projected possible Swedish collapse. Actual factual proof: https://thewashingtonstandard.com/norwegian-government-preparing-migrant-induced-collapse-sweden/ And you can see official statements on it.
ButterfaceTaintClown
if you're going to comment on a Swedish thread, you could at least learn the fucking language 🤣
DutchGuyMike
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