Only in Norway

After a lovely breakfast

I crush your puny electric car in this…

[QUOTE=ombugge;195005]Norwegians drive electric cars charged by hydro-electric power?: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/24/this-country-has-hit-a-major-milestone-for-electric-cars-heres-how.html[/QUOTE]

Electric cars?!? Hey Honey, they shrunk the cars again! They look like enclosed scooters with no room to pack enough ammo for the weekend. How embarrassing for you. My pickup can run on flex fuel and burn rubber in four wheel drive while towing your toy car. Get some.

[QUOTE=ombugge;195005]What has cost of Gasoline got do do with it when more and more Norwegians drive electric cars charged by hydro-electric power?: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/24/this-country-has-hit-a-major-milestone-for-electric-cars-heres-how.html

The priveleges may have as much to do with it as the environmental aspects: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/07/power-to-the-ev-norway-spearheads-europes-electric-vehicle-surge

As for whether Norwegians can afford to own and operate cars, gasoline, diesel, bio-fueled or electric driven?
Yes they can, being among the highest disposable income earners (after tax) in the world: http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Cost-of-living/Average-monthly-disposable-salary/After-tax

If traffic jam is a sign of riches the US is indeed the richest country in the world. Who else can afford to waste $124Bn/yr. on this problem and don’t try to do anything about it?: http://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2014/10/14/traffic-congestion-costs-americans-124-billion-a-year-report-says/#3a3731d16252

Other countries, incl. Norway does though: http://www.roadtraffic-technology.com/features/featuretraffic-miracles-anti-congestion-projects-that-worked

My second home, Singapore, maybe more than most, by high tariffs on cars, high cost of fuel and investment in public transport. Here is the Singapore solution: http://sbr.com.sg/economy/commentary/singapore-reveals-3-economic-solutions-traffic-congestion-asian-peers[/QUOTE]

Buggie, stop riling up the natives. Hell, we all know Norway is somehow wonderful, but ya know what, there are more people living within a 100 km of here than live in all of Norway. Hell, I’d be plenty happy to stop at the police station in Aalesund and apply for immigrant status on my way to the hardware store there, but there are more people between my house and the nearest supermarkt than in all of Aalesund. So we ain’t the same, and besides the weather sucks in Sunnemore from October to May. (although my buds have sent some pretty cool hiking in good wx photos from last weekend).

[QUOTE=Fraqrat;195007]After a lovely breakfast

I crush your puny electric car in this…

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First of all: everyone knows that vehicles with wheels are inferior to vehicles without wheels (unless you want to call the helm a wheel).

Secondly: Bacon is not on the list of recommended lubricants for any machine.

If I don’t do it, who would?? Left alone the natives would just pat each other on the shoulders and agree on everything. (c.captain exempted)

I agree, Norway is not among the most populous places in the world, nor the densest populated. (I know, I have lived in Singapore, which is)
Norway is “somewhat wonderful”, but not for everyone. If you are born here, live here all your life and eventually die here, there is NOT much to complain about. You are taken care of all the way “from cradle to grave” like nowhere else in the world. (Except maybe Brunei and the oil rich Gulf states)

As for the weather, the famous Norwegian saying; “there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing” applies. Thus, with clothing from Helly Hansen there are no weather problem. (Except if you have lived in the tropics all/most of your life)
That Sunnmore gets it’s shear of shitty weather is a given, since we are situated where the weather divide between North and South is. If it is good weather in the South it stops just short of here, likewise when Northern Norway have nice weather.
But we are also where the axis of the Gulf Stream hits the costs, so the climate is temperate, with the average temperature in January being well above 0C, with days above 10C not uncommon. Unfortunately the Summer high is no much to brag about.
To me it is the darkness of winter that is the most depressing.

Out there in Fosnavaag the problem is the wind, with driving rain or sleet being horizontal. But when the sun shines it is beautiful:

They do occasionally have snow on the ground for a few days. They still talk about the winters in the 1950s when the snow stayed for weeks in the middle of the Herring season:


Those were the days, before Global Warming and Offshore Oil.

Just about the only thing that gets imported from the US these days are the Tesla S-series electric cars: Tesla Model S is Norway’s top-selling car in September | Electric Vehicle News

Seen here at the North Cape in midnight sun:

Did you know that there are Rednecks in Norway?. Not imported, but born and bred here: http://pluss.vg.no/2017/02/12/2697/2697_23914184

[QUOTE=ombugge;195139]Did you know that there are Rednecks in Norway?. Not imported, but born and bred here: http://pluss.vg.no/2017/02/12/2697/2697_23914184[/QUOTE]

If this lame attempt at rapprochement is based on the assumption that I am a redneck and is supposed to make me feel better, it’s not working.

FAKE NEWS or ALTERNATIVE FACTS. No doubt written by somebody with an agenda to prove that Socialism doesn’t work.
In fact Norway is doing quite well, thank you.
The mainland economy (w/o Oil & Gas)is doing OK, thanks to seafood, Aluminum and ferro allows, among others.

How would Norway have fared without Oil & Gas?: https://www.quora.com/Would-Norway-still-be-a-wealthy-nation-without-oil-reserves

Or more to the point, how have Norway fared the last few year of low oil prices?: Norway Balance of Trade
How COULD they!! They have actually managed quite well, with a trade surplus to envy.
That is an insult to everything you have been told to believe in.

If you like to compare, try this:

Every Norwegian has almost $170,000 in national savings

19,012,827,698,418. This is the first time the national debt has ever exceeded $19 trillion. That’s more than $58,000 for each person who lives in the U.S. today (including children)

Envy will get you nowhere.

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No such thing. Having worked with Rednecks for years I recognize one when I hear one. You Sir does not appear to come under that category.

So you mean to tell me if I read a negative story on the interweb about a country I don’t even live in and I believe everything it says but then someone from that country calls the validity into question the article is then all lies??? Damn i didn’t know it was that simple!

Fake News! I didn’t even read it and I just know it’s all lies because I just know better than you.

Alternative Facts and Outright Lies which I again didn’t bother to read because it’s just couldn’t be true because of my preconceived thoughts about Norway.

[QUOTE=ombugge;195089] …

Out there in Fosnavaag the problem is the wind, with driving rain or sleet being horizontal. But when the sun shines it is beautiful:


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Fosnavag looks a little nicer with a great big beam trawler sitting at that pier. Man they’ve got some nice kit there.

It’s cool to go around the corner and look to the north toward that island cliffs seen in the background of the photo. I’ve seen the wind pulling water straight up in what looks like tornadoes, little sheets of spray rising maybe a hundred metres. Real interesting to see. From land.

That restaurant with the eagle at the entrance is okay to visit. No recollection of the name of it.

[QUOTE=Fraqrat;195163]So you mean to tell me if I read a negative story on the interweb about a country I don’t even live in and I believe everything it says but then someone from that country calls the validity into question the article is then all lies??? Damn i didn’t know it was that simple!

Fake News! I didn’t even read it and I just know it’s all lies because I just know better than you.

Alternative Facts and Outright Lies which I again didn’t bother to read because it’s just couldn’t be true because of my preconceived thoughts about Norway.[/QUOTE]

Yes that appears to be how it works, both ways. Fake news and alternative facts is very popular in certain circles, though.

[QUOTE=+A465B;195184]Fosnavag looks a little nicer with a great big beam trawler sitting at that pier. Man they’ve got some nice kit there.

It’s cool to go around the corner and look to the north toward that island cliffs seen in the background of the photo. I’ve seen the wind pulling water straight up in what looks like tornadoes, little sheets of spray rising maybe a hundred metres. Real interesting to see. From land.

That restaurant with the eagle at the entrance is okay to visit. No recollection of the name of it.[/QUOTE]

I noticed three boats like this in town today, all with Fosnavaag as homeport:

The competition between the boys is who can pack the most “Stressless” recliners in the crew’s Recreation room and gadgets into the Gym. Not to mention having the latest and most up-to-date equipment on the bridge. (Usually doubled up, just in case)

But even more impressive is when they bring their pleasure boats to town at times:


Also with Fosnavaag as homeport. (No FOC here)

That they use 3" chains as windsocks are slightly exaggerated though. (2 1/2" will do. They are thrift people)

PS> Just found out why three large Trawler/Seiners were in town and not out fishing. They have been engaged to do fishery research in the Norwegian Sea and just left Aalesund to commence this year’s program: http://www.smp.no/nyheter/2017/02/13/Skal-forske-for-Havforskningsinstituttet-14217498.ece#cxrecs_s

Norway is not the humane and welcoming country for refugees that they have pretended for years to be.
Afghanistan is not happy with the return of unaccompanied minors from Norway: http://norwaytoday.info/news/afghan-minister-asks-norway-stop-deporting-minors/

PS> It looks like criticism may help to soften our hard line Minister of Immigration and Integration: http://norwaytoday.info/news/260-children-can-moved-asylum-housing/

If I could offer some unsolicited advice:

We rednecks hate to hear anything that sounds like, “I’m better than you.”

I know that its a flavour of nordic criac to play that game, but rednecks take deep offence to the notion. Exercise your famous cultural sensitivity a lil.

I know we are also uncomfortable with the idea that we are susceptible to the sin of being offended… but be honest: your hackles get raised whenever someone seems to put their nose in the air, enit? Our craic is fundamentally different from theirs.

On the other hand, we could be a little bit less sensitive to this tactic: it looks like insecurity to them.

[QUOTE=Flyer69;194893]Spring in Norway might he nice …
If you kan avoid møøse bites … they kan be nastį[/QUOTE]

In this part of the world they are called Elk (Elg) and they don’t bite people. They are normally solitary, but here is a flock of elks on the move: http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/dyrene/sjekk-bengts-68-blinkskudd-tok-bilde-av-17-elger/a/23926527/

They do invade gardens from time to time though: http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/dyrene/ble-vitne-til-elgkos-i-hagen/a/23867302/

[QUOTE=ombugge;195310]In this part of the world they are called Elk (Elg) and they don’t bite people. They are normally solitary, but here is a flock of elks on the move: http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/dyrene/sjekk-bengts-68-blinkskudd-tok-bilde-av-17-elger/a/23926527/

They do invade gardens from time to time though: http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/dyrene/ble-vitne-til-elgkos-i-hagen/a/23867302/[/QUOTE]

And when they invade gardens:

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Or get adopted by party-hardy scientists:

Our’s are not nearly as fun.

We need stricter laws. These wicked animals should be cut off after 2 drinks.