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American Reacts to 14 WEIRD Facts About Norway
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2023
- As an American there are so many things about Norway that I do not understand, but luckily for me that means there is plenty for me to learn. Today I am very excited to learn about 14 weird and interesting facts about Norway and Norwegian culture. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Yes. When we are in a situation that gets a bit out of hand. The young ones call their moms and say something like: "Oh. mom come pick me up. It's totally Texas over here".
_"Det er helt Texas her"_ (Lit. _"It's whole/completely Texas here"_ )
Means chaos. Like cowboy n shooting in saloon vibes.
I live in Texas, and I think that's adorable.
Easter is not referred to as Easter Crime. Easter Crime is a popular activity during Easter. Reading crime novels, solving crime riddles on the milk cartons, and so on.
It's fun when people use expressions after they have forgotten what they mean. For instance, in America, they use the phrase "scot-free" and barely anyone knows what it means. But it is the Norwegian word "skattfri", which means tax excempt. In Norway, we have the expression "To take a Spanish one". This really used to mean using the best tool for the job, but has come to mean slightly bending the rules in order to get an advantage.
You´re way off. Thanks for clearing up the scot free - thing, that was spot on. About the "spanish one though, you´re way off. If you already have the best tool for the job, you won´t need to "take a Spanish one". The expression hints to a quick but suboptimal solution that oftenmost will work. A lot of people actually get killed deciding to "take a spanish one". It´s not at all safe, nobody considered the risks, but in theory it should work, so why not try it, because it´s faster and easier than the proper way. Death trap!
@@olenilsen4660: Why did you try to correct me when you obviously didn't bother to look it up? The modern expression is a metaphor. The original expression refeered to an actual product, which was Spanish.
After being the Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg became the Secretary General of NATO which he has been for almost 9 years now. Two terms of 4 years, plus extended term because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I don`t like that guy, Stoltenberg. fu.. him
About the prison. There is actually a prison in the USA that attempts something similar. They rebuild 1 block where everyone get their own cells, they doubled the amount of guards pr prisoners, the prisoners got meaningful stuff to do while they was there and the guards was to adress them as people, not inmates. I think they actually called it Little Norway or somethign like that. They put up a lottery among all the inmates in the prison, from white collar crimes to murderess to get an average of the population. It's a test subject to see if it can both reduce violence in the prison and if it in the long term reduces the reoffending rate. If successful, this could slowly be the norm for at least new prions in the USA.
5:26 Jens Stoltenberg is currently head of NATO, Tyler.
He wanted to resign this year but extended his stay. (Both; at least the first one, on his own volition)
The Easter thing misses the mark a little, it's referred to as påskekrim. Påskekrim is something you read or watch during Easter (påske). And it's not true crime we watch but usually British or Scandinavian crime shows.
Norway does not use 3 percent of the fund each year, but rather 3 percent of the annual return. Moreover, the fund is now almost at 1.5 trillion dollars.
Correction: My first statement isn’t accurate and is corrected in the tread.
This is actually not correct as the state can indeed withdraw up to 3% of the total fund market value for use in the state budget. For 2023 they will spent the full 3% of the 2022 year-end market value totalling around 372 billion NOK.
@@TheOftedal no he is correct. 3% is the expected return. As the fund grows since the capital isn't touched the expected return might fall even more, to 2%.
@@TheOftedal
You are of course correct. The annual state budget can be supplemented by up to 3 percent of the value of the Government Pension Fund Global (the oil fund) at the beginning of the year. However, the amount should not exceed the fund's total return for the current year. That’s of course something else. Thank you for correcting the misunderstanding.
@@RonnyWilhelmsen1001
Yes, but I kind of started to explain it backwards and left behind the essence of the rule.
@@TheOftedal I statsbudsjettet for 2023 anslår regjeringen at den totale fondskapitalen ville være 12.500 milliarder 1. januar neste år. Regner vi 316,8 milliarder i prosent av dette tallet, kommer vi til 2,53 prosent.
The Svalbard thing is very cool. The reason behind, is that Svalbard was "given" to Norway by the League of Nations in the 20s. In reality this was a compromis, as many had a claim to the area. In effect, this meant that while Svalbard fell under Norwegian law and jurisdiction, the area is still international. That's why you find a Russian city there, and that's why we cannot demand a visum for people to go there. This has some cool results. While 99% of the people living there are there as scientists, miners, or tourist/service-related workers, there has been some people that went there as refugees. I once saw a documentary about an Iranian Kurd, who had been denied status as refugee in Norway. As he had a son in Norway, he didn't want to leave. He had friends who helped him establish a mobile kebab-car and ship it to Svalbard, and he lived there (at least some time) as a Kebab-entrepenur in Longyearbyen.
Also, as a foreigner you Will need a visa to Norway, as Norway is the only contry that has airline-routes that fly there.
Well, although you can technically stay in Svalbard without a visa, because it is a visa-free zone - you can't go to Svalbard directly from overseas territories anymore. At least not by plane. In 2019, a law was enacted that required all international travel to go through Norway, because of customs regulations. Russians are exempted from this rule though, as, well, let's not mess with the Russians.
That's so cool. Can't even imagine the culture and temperature shock. Svalbard is a completely different world.
I was my way out of my room when I hear behind my back _"That's right Norway... you're WEIRD!":_ and that made me smile lol
Tyler! Do you know who Jens Stoltenberg really is today! He is NATO's highest commander.
Secretary General of NATO is the correct title
Easter crime is also a thing because a lot of people do get a whole week off, often spent on a cabin somewhere cold. Before TV, and in bad weather, the idea of relaxing and waiting off the weather while reading light literature became a tradition. Withe "some" help from clever publishers. And yes, "Texas" is used as stated. I some cities, dodgy neighbourhoods with a certain amount of crime and gangs are often called "Chicago". In Bergen, a dense forest close to town was called the Canada Forest by local scouts, now this is the official name. Additionally, Hawaii-football is an unpredictable match where both teams forget strategy and gameplay. Inherited from "Hawaii-hockey». Because there are no hockey traditions on Hawaii. And so on. Many informal place names and expressions are «borrowed» from North America. Both because of the large emigration and close contact with US and Canada, and because of the post war poplular culture influx.
There is a caveat to live on Svalbard, though: You must have a permanent job and residence, as social security is not paid out on Svalbard.
...And you can't be buried thereå
Yes, you should watch the video when Stoltenberg was a taxi driver in Oslo, very funny😂
Tyler, you should watch the ca. 7 hrs long trainride between Bergen and Oslo. Slowtv. With cameras atatched to the front of the train, you,ll be blown awai by the nature (And tunnels :) ). But i guaratee: Once you,ve seen it, you will se it over again.
We also made the Electric Car. THINK from 1999 to 2011 here in Norway.
I used to live in Svalbard from 1976 to 1985. Today there are a lot of Thai people living in Longyearbyen. It's an amazing place.
I fought several polar bears.
Using only my wits, my taekwondo training, a paperclip and an ostehøvel, I became king of the polar bears.
Hahaha 😂😂😂😂
Yes.....we do use Texas as a slang term 😂😂😂 I use it quite often 😁
1 The main reason for buying books to libraries is to promote and preserve the Norwegian language and culture; the rest comes as a bonus (intended though they may be).
2 Jens Stoltenber (now Secretary-General of NATO) going incognito was an election fake
stunt: All participants were hand-picked : nothing random or unplanned happened or was said.
3 Prison guards are not *encouraged* to interact with the prisoners: they are REQUIRED to; it's a part of their job.
Prisoners have a (modified) right to privacy (toilets and showers). They are also allowed to vote.
4 Texas as a slang term for crazy occured in the late 1960s; possibly helped by the influx of Americans in the new oil industry then (not always too strict about following safety regulation) in addition to the reasons mentioned.
5 Tax records have been public for more than a century, first as written protocols in public officves, later online. There are certain restriction on who can access your records and how the information can be used, though. You will be informed about who has looked at your records.
Tax evasion is a problem everywhere, but there were times when people could use legal loopholes and deductions to pay zero tax in spite of having high incomes and lush lifestyles. The transparency led to the rules being changed.
6 Banning commercial phrases has more to do with the ads having to be evidently true and not misleading. A car is only green if it's painted green.
7 Polar bears are the largest land predator on earth - along the brown or grizzly bears - they can easily outrun any human. If you're unarmed and it wants kill you, your name is Lunch.
Fortunately, humans aren't normally on their menu.
8 Remember that Orson Welles' radio production of H G Wells' War of the Worlds created panic in the US just before 1940 when people thought the play was real.
Takk for at du skrev ut omtrent alle tankene jeg selv hadde mens jeg så videoen 👍
Milk cartons in Norway at easter will contain a comic strip of a crime riddle 👍
Hi Tyler. There IS a fun video on youtube, when Jens Stoltenberg is driving a taxi/cab. :- ) If you search for "taxi Jens", you´ll find it. Hopefully. I don´t know if there is a video with english subtitles, but I hope there is.
Nordahl Grieg was in a brittish bomber shot down by flack over Berlin in WW2, so he wasn't only a writer and a poet, but he fought nazisism as well.
If you look up Maelstrom, the movie, you would find a BBC Easter Crime production made in 1984 ;)
Right next to the family farm where I grew up ;)
15:15
Not exempt from tax.
Just exempt from VAT.
Basically you still pay income tax if you work in the profession, and corporate tax etc.
But you don't have to pay a percentage of the price for every sale, so to speak.
Easter crime is super fun.
Traveling to your cottage and siting out on the terrace in the sun, reading a good book, for the 2-3 weeks you have easter break as your kids play all day. In the evening a true crime or crime series like poirot or miss marple would come on and we would sit around the tv as a family with a bowl of candy and watch the episodes then bedtime. It was just and amazing tradition and still is a favorite activity every easter. In addition to easter eggs with candy inside of course.
You have 2-3 weeks easter break?
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- I guess that depends on your definition...
F.e. there is a clear difference between 'Easter' itself and how one would define 'Easter Holiday' as a concept surrounding 'Easter'.
For families with children from 'Kindergarten' through 'School' age ('Middle school'), these children usually tend to a have longer lasting 'Easter Holiday' adding in the fact that not only the days of 'Easter' and the directly connected days surrounding 'Easter' are counted.
But would as such f.e. start from after 'Kindergarten'/'School' on the Friday before 'Palm Sunday', and last until Tuesday, the first day after 'Easter'.
That's roughly 2 weeks, or 10 and a half days, if you want to be technical.
From experience, it can happen that some, if not all, schools add in 'Planning'/'Preparation' days right after 'Easter', meaning that sometimes 'Kindergarten'/'School' doesn't start up again until the following Monday.
That's roughly 3 weeks in total, or 16 and a half days if you want to be technical.
For 'High-School' and 'Work-Life', the 'Easter Holiday' is usually a lot shorter.
Starting from 'Maundy Thursday' and only counting the 'Red'-days on the calendar, and lasts until Tuesday following 'Easter'.
That's 4 days for the 'Easter Holiday'.
Quite a big difference, I would say.
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We say both Helt Texas (completely Texas) or Helt Chicago 🙂 Btw Read somewhere that it can be possible to see The Northern Lights/Aurora in Indiana tonight (13th of july) most visible between 10 pm and 2 am ( It could be fake news,but that's what it said ) 🇺🇸 And in many other states to,due to some odd circumstances .
Don’t really know if I should be ashamed or not, but I use the term ‘Texas’ for everything chaotic, stressfull or that seems out of control. I just told my friend the traffic into the city center was ‘helt texas’…
My neighboring town has an entire neighborhood nicknamed "Texas". That's because all the nutters and weirdoes in town live there. It's like a village of village idiots. And yes, OF COURSE I have some relatives living there...
No.9 - Marketing, it wasn't specific to marketing on cars, but rather marketing in general, there's laws applied where you can't promote something that isn't true or fictional. All facts that is brought up in the advertisement has to be proven (or the inability to disprove - which in fact most will not try as if it ever is possible to disprove they might have to compensate for the expenses for the "victims")
Hi im from norway and just LOVE to see you react to stuff thats normal to me and you just think its crazy its so fun to watch your vidoes i cant wait until the next one. And did you the farry (sorry for my spellig) Basto fosen sometimes dock to the farry port automaticly i mean the captain dont have to do anything at all. isn`t that cool!
Norway is NOT using 3% of the oil fund each year, we use 3% of the ROI (return on investment) each year.
We need a livestream of you watching slow-tv and reacting to it. =D
376 hour one in one setting.
I'm from Norway, but even my self learn a bit in this video. Like how the ester crime tradision started 😊
And so normal to us norwegians :) Regarding the oil fund.. I think i heard once or twice that norway owns over 1% over the world in this fund. If true, this is MAD big. We DO call crazy texas sir, kinda.. I mostly use the word to discribe hectic or stressful situations :) Huge lines or massive traffic jams comes to mind.
Slow tv is not popular sir. it was a fad, like pogs. And mostly the pensioners watched that thing. They got to old to travel and that is the next best thing?
And 376 hours is 15 days and two thirds Tyler ;) Not many weeks no. just two and bit
Easter is NOT called påskekrim. What utter nonsense? Påskekrim is referring to the crime and investigation show that our tv and some radio stations broadcast during easter. This is 100% guaranteed. And most norwegians do not read book in their sparetime.. this is misnomer. Most of us dont even have books, perhaps the older generations have them. But we younger ones use all digital media. The only paper media in this household are manga/anime
Texas (=Crazy) is at used on the west coast of Norway.
I think the point about the advertizing was that you can not even say that electric cars are environmentally friendly, only that they are more so than gas cars. Even electric cars are a problem in too large count for the environment.
I'm Norwegian and I've never even heard of number 1... The publisher has to apply for it, and... there are also value tax on books.
You say a lot of positive things about Norwegian music, but to be honest, I love "The Weekend", really great music, can't say enough positive things about it
"Totally Chicago" is also a saying for "This is fucked". I'm sure I don't have to explain considering how bad Chicago famously is.
Howdy Howdy
im from Norge,and and ate Brun Ost on hot Toast the other day,just loved it
Every library should have all the books, that is published.
The oil fund is large, but since money has to be invested in order to have value (= the potential to buy goods and services), and the oil fund is invested in production and business all over the world, the fund's value also fluctuates with world economy. If world economy were to collapse, so would the Norwegian oil 'wealth'.
Slow-tv of this year is cycling around some islands in norway.
We don't spend 3 percent of the fund as a whole, but 3 percent of the annual return. It's a while different ballpark of numbers, and not a huge part of the annual budget. Remember that Norway can't spend very much domestically because it would destrøy our economy in the long run. To avoid "dutch disease" we can only invest it in other countries.
All Troll cars still exists, but I think just the one in Lunde is drivable. A grandchild of one of the makers of Troll made an electric convertible version of Troll as a part of his education. All existing cars were shown together at Wings and Wheels in Lunde in 2016 at the anniversery. As a crashtest they say that it was driven through a telephonepole. At the time it was one of two cars made of fibreglass; the other one was Corvette.
Altso, just to add to that, lets not forget the Th!nk City that made it to production. A tiny electric car that got bought by Ford in ‘99..
10:11 The same goes for most Norwegians that I have spoken to, friends, family, acquaintances, and strangers alike, most of them have either refused to talk about how much they make at work, or been reluctant to talk about it, needing to be prodded some before they opened up about that sort of information. I suspect the reason for this is that those who make a lot of money don't want to let people know about it so they can avoid potentially constantly being asked for money, while those that don't make a lot of money don't want to let people know about it out of pride or shame, as if earning less is a bad thing to be ashamed of, or whatever. But I never asked why they didn't want to talk about that sort of stuff, so I can't know for sure why, exactly, they don't want to talk about it.
I would refere you to the Law of Jante. «Dont think you are better/smarter/as good than/as others»
As for the less fortunate part, i do belive it is a bit harder to say you are poor in an otherwise fortunate country.
Plus the fact that talking about income is is seen as bragging or even vulgar to some extent…. Which brings me back to the Law of Jante.
@@Nitro-Finn all that, and, oh, you know, making it much easier to figure out whether you are being cheated by your boss without your knowledge, cause if everyone were more open about what they earn, then it would force employers to give people what they are supposed to be given, not less.
@@John_1920 That is another perk of it being public. It is kinda funny how we dont talk about income, and treat it as something intimate, when its just an easy search online. It got a bit misused when it first got online though.. Now the person you look up will get a notification in their digital mailbox (like e-mail but secure enough for sensitive information from gov., bank, health, etc.).
@@Nitro-Finn i know it's public, but I don't think it goes into detail on the amount of hours or the hourly pay, overtime pay, or stuff like that. And even though it is public, most people I think wouldn't bother looking it up even if they were interested in how much they earned in a year, either out of laziness or respect for the person's privacy/wish to not talk about their finances, etc.
@@John_1920 all true. And no, i belive its just total fortune, income, and taxes payed. So a higher income could be from just more hours, or even a 2nd income.
Those TV-programs are mostly watched by older people, the "slow TV"
Hawaii or Hawaii-fotball (soccer of course) are also slang we use in football when the play gets chaotic and there are a lot efforts among the players but very little plan in the play. I think Hawaii can be used in other situations too. 😊
Hawaii-fotball is when the game moves quickly back and forth. Like the waves of Hawaii. No side has the ball for wery long before loosing it.
You should Kara and Nate in Svalbard.
Norwegian apartments are still usually better then the prison, pluss you got the freedom to go wherever you want.
A gilded cage is still a cage, something I don't think Americans quite understands.
@@DivineFalcon Yup, but then again their lives are kinda like prisons with their work culture and ease of losing everything from being sick a few weeks after years of no vacation.
Hey, just search for "Taxi Stoltenberg" and you can see a video with english subs of it.
Texas meins more like crazy as in wild crazy.
any car, not just combustion engine cars. Even electrical cars have environmental impact. The mining of the resrouces, and also the production of cars are never without any impact.
11:27 Personally, I have hard about the stereotype of Norwegians loving Taco for years and years, but I have never figured out how that stereotype came to be, because while I know more than a few that do like taco, I know of none that have ever had Taco religiously every Friday. Usually it's more like they have it once, then it goes so much time since then that they forget when the last time they had Taco was before they have Taco again. So, I also had no idea it was apparently actually a huge thing in Norway, since I've never heard or seen any indication of it being a huge thing.
Stripping being exempt from VAT doesn't mean it's exempt from income tax.
So you don't have to add 25% onto the price of the tease, but the women have to tax on the income.
"Chicago" is slang for violence 😂
The problem with the books is that we dont use them in schools in the place Bærum. I am a student and hate dont having books in school
The 3% of the oil-fund is incorrect!
The "Handlingsregelen" allows the government to use/spend 3% of the annual return on the fund.
I.e. if you invested $1000 last year in the stock market and this year the total value have grown to $1100 - you would be able to use 3% of $100 - so...$3.
If it was so that one could actually spend 3% of the total of the fund it could potentially be quickly drained over a few decades.
Also you may recognize "Jens Stoltenberg" from current news. 2013 - Taxi Driver, 2023 - Head of NATO
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That is wrong. If you had $1000 and it grew to $1100, then you would use 3% of 1100, which would be $33. But that is not actually how we do it either. We look at the expected global growth and that sets the limit even though the fund makes more money every year.
Instead of saying: «thats crazy»
We can say: «det er helt texas».
i've never heared of Texas meaning crazy, but i've heared Florida man multiple times meaning crazy american.
The slow tv thing, i didnt know we invented streaming while traveling xD
😀He was in my shop to return emty bottles to recycle :-))
I was at a party this weekend. It was complete Texas!
Here in the "oilcapital" we use texas as lawless and hassard situation. Like in the pioneer times we had help from us to manage our oilriggs, no health or safty rules, it was totaly "texas".😂
Svalbard is kind of a country yes it's Norwegian and it's in Norway but it's not common to be there
Saying things are Texas propably meant something entirely different back in the day.
Boomers loved them some cowboys.
In Sweden we have the slang word jänkare what you say Yankee. But with jänkare we mean all Americans.
I'm Norwegian can't say we do like slow movies no.
But I can't speak for everyone
No, Texas is not slang for "crazy", that's slightly inaccurately translated. It's slang for "wild".
😂😂😂😂 yes, we say: It’s completely Texas over there!
Meaning other places then the actual Texas or US.
It could be at your in laws, or relatives, or in a Norwegian city, or in a business or at a holiday place. 😂😂😂
And quite often a child’s birthday party. 😵💫
I know there is some russian settelments in Svalbard. Those settlements are maily manned by russians and ucrainians. The situation in these settelnents are suuper akward right now....
It's slow-tv on tv right now
About car manufacturing in Norway, there was think:
ua-cam.com/video/kn1gMnvFJIY/v-deo.html
Their marketing strategy failed in comparison to Tesla. Tesla successfully freed to the wealthy and posh whereas Think tried to reach the lower end market primarily.
And we had Buddy.
6:37 yeah, the prisons is better than the old people homes. 18:04 this is not true for everyone
The whole thing has turned completely Texas.. Or: its completely Texas over there.. :)
Very few strippers in Norway are from Norway.
Jens Stoltenberg as Taxi driver video: ua-cam.com/video/uqsoWbQewIo/v-deo.html
Hei from Norway
"its totaly texas"
as a norwegian u should travel to norway
Stoltenberg driving taxi with subtitles:
ua-cam.com/video/Xq7LTnwS7Bs/v-deo.html
Svalbard is perfect for Americans. Because of the have to carry weapon policy 😎
Norwegians LOVE their holidays.
So much so, that come Easter, we all agree its worth a whole WEEK OFF !
Also Norwegians have a rather peculiar attitude towards religious faith.
Why waste time going to church, when you can sit on a mountain top, looking out on a breathtaking landscape...🏔🏞🗻
Privately praising God's natural wonders. 🤗
Or just sit outide.
Snugly wrapped in a blanket.
Shades on.
Sunscreen at hand.
Plus a murder mystery novel...
Munching Easter chocolate bars and oranges.
🌞🏠🏔🏨😎🧤🍫🍊📚
He is in to nato now
More than the video comment section is reacting 😂
Not to mention that bad neighbourhoods are usually called Chicago 😂
Never heard that.
Bruh eg er fra Norge
Som 99% av oss andre her?
Hello
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Why do you assume that only women are strippers?
Norway is saving the planet, one exported barrel of oil at a time.
True, true, he shouldn't exclude you from the conversation when talking about strippers
People talk about saving the planet but the truth is the planet couldn't give less of a f*** whether we perish or not.
The planet will do just fine.
@@markussmedhus9717: That's not true. Without humans, the planet will one day be completely destroyed. If humans survive, it could remain alive and well "forever". (We'll ignore cosmic heat death)
@@jeschinstad
What warrants this optimism?
@@markussmedhus9717: It's not optimism. We are the only force on this planet who can save it. Last year we moved our first asteroid. Who else is going to do that?
Slow TV and all the rest NRK produce is crap
Judging from previous reaction videos, you have heard of most of these before.
Lmao, SilvanaDil not having the balls to post under his name anymore and started using anon accounts😂 SAD
@@Emperor_Nagrom Jepp, this might be one of his accounts where he used to instantly log into just to like his own comment from Silv mainaccount.. funny how he always had 2 or 3 likes within 3 min. Also sad that he was the first commenter on all of Tylers videos, tells you something about his life:/
@Emperor_Nagrom Is this some lore I don’t know about?
@@MissCaraMint SilvanaDil is a troll that has been harassing Tyler on almost every video, and has always been one of the first to comment each video. People got fed up with his nonsense and started calling him out, so he's now started commenting using his alt accounts.
@@Emperor_Nagrom Ah. I see. Some loser with too much time on their hands. Got it.
Troll was not the only Norwegian car. As a matter of fact, the electric car revolution more or less started in Norway with the car brand Th!nk. My father-in-law was one of the two founders of the company. Even Elon Musk has stated that this tiny Norwegian car strongly influenced and inspired him! And then he made Tesla...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Global
ua-cam.com/video/uqsoWbQewIo/v-deo.html
Yes, here is the taxi-video of the Prime Minister as a taxi-driver 👌