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We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr And no, Cuba is not a brutal and corrupt dictatorship, and it's definitely less so than Sweden. - dann |
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^ This. Good adverts that stick in the mind are those that are provocative: they have an irritating jingle, noise or are amusing (like the giant poodle in the Flash advert backing to the Queen tune of the same name). The fact SAS marketing got an African-looking guy (who might well be Scandinavian) to say he had Viking ancestors.
So it worked, as everyone is talking about it Reminds me of the Benetton adverts or Dove. |
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Whoever started this thread must have been pretty upset by this ad
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I always thought the word 'land' came from the Swedish and also trial by your fellow citizens (twelve is usually the number). People in a community would meet in a clearing and decide matters between them this way. When Danelaw came to the UK it was adopted there. So I'd dispute the Swedes 'copied the Greeks'.
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Ah another thread that boils down to "how dare you call all white supremacists Nazis! You must recognize the diversity of hate with in these communities".
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Scandinavia gave us enormous Scandinavian women.
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Super edgy.
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I'm heartbroken
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Well, the Swedish Chef sounds Norwegian to the Swedish, and he may have been based on an American chef....
https://slate.com/culture/2012/08/sw...norwegian.html Furthermore, in the German dubbed version of The Muppets, he's a Dane! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedis...#International |
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It gets complicated.
Finland is geographically part of Scandanavia, but the Finns, ethnically, are totally different from the other Scandinavian nations. Language..except for a few borrowed words,is totally different from Norweigian, Swedish, Danish, etc. And they have the world's prettiest Prime Minister..... |
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The ad is clever but from a advertising point of view it might be too clever; it does not connect all that well with the product it's supposed to be selling.
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The company that made the ad recieved a bomb thread earlier today.
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"The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and the evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before." "Evolution and Ethics" T.H. Huxley (1893) |
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No, Finland is not a part of Scandinavia. Finland is a Nordic country, which is a broader notion.
Scandinavia is limited to Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The Nordic countries are those, plus the countries that have been heavily influenced and controlled by the Scandinavian ones. Finland was an integral part of Sweden for centuries, so it qualifies as a Nordic country. |
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"The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and the evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before." "Evolution and Ethics" T.H. Huxley (1893) |
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This might help.
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Yes, the ignorance of history sometimes displayed on this forum does frustrate me, but even worse, when those who are ignorant of history come on here and pontificate on it, and then have the cheek to argue against established historical fact when it is clear that they have no clue whatsoever, well that really pisses me off!
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Geographically, the Scandinavian peninsula consists of Norway, Sweden and a small part of Finland. Denmark is not a geographical part of Scandinavia. Culturally, you could say that the Nordic Baltic Eight (Wikipedia) are a kind of sister nations. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were Danish for a couple of centuries in the Middle Ages, before they became Swedish and then Russian. Iceland (Wikipedia) was liberated from the Danish hegemony in WW2. ![]() |
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Why Don’t Racists Want You to See This Airline’s Ad? (Fodor’s, Feb. 12, 2020)
Bomb Alert in Copenhagen over Controversial SAS Ad Campaign (Bloomberg, Feb.13, 2020) ’What is truly Scandinavia? Nothing’ – Airline clarifies ad after far-right criticism (The Guardian, Feb. 13, 2020) |
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/dann "Stupidity renders itself invisible by assuming very large proportions. Completely unreasonable claims are irrefutable. Ni-en-leh pointed out that a philosopher might get into trouble by claiming that two times two makes five, but he does not risk much by claiming that two times two makes shoe polish." B. Brecht "The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions." K. Marx |
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Welcome back to theprestige and his usual equivocation. Now that it's become obvious to everybody that Nazis were behind the campaign against the SAS ad, he feels the need to come up with a new strawman in defense of his initial denial. I wish he would tell us where I claimed that only Nazis didn't like the ad unlike other racists and anti-immigration idiots who were fine with it. At least he makes it pretty obvious whose ideas are full of it. |
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/dann "Stupidity renders itself invisible by assuming very large proportions. Completely unreasonable claims are irrefutable. Ni-en-leh pointed out that a philosopher might get into trouble by claiming that two times two makes five, but he does not risk much by claiming that two times two makes shoe polish." B. Brecht "The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions." K. Marx |
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Lets see what wikipedia says:
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Meanwhile, in
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I guess it's logical to become concerned with global warming when an airline runs an ad that upsets the Nazis. I guess that's why Nazis didn't like the ad in the first place: They worry so much about global warming that they'll be attacking all airline ads from now on. |
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/dann "Stupidity renders itself invisible by assuming very large proportions. Completely unreasonable claims are irrefutable. Ni-en-leh pointed out that a philosopher might get into trouble by claiming that two times two makes five, but he does not risk much by claiming that two times two makes shoe polish." B. Brecht "The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions." K. Marx |
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