paecmaker
10-01-2011, 02:57 PM
I have to say, many of these(not all) are true, we are a crazy bunch of people so laugh at my cost :p
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LIS1gwDTOLI/TkJD0Qv0fJI/AAAAAAAAATQ/1etwI_NLINI/s1600/Kr%25C3%25A4ftor1.jpg yummy, isnt it.
You thought Astrid Lindgren was immortal and was shocked and cried your heart out when she actually did die.
You really want to attend the Nobel Prize Dinner.
You get pissed off when Norwegians state that the peace prize is much more famous than the other Nobel prices.
You go seriously sentimental when entering an IKEA store, outside the borders of Sweden.
You love complaining about Sweden when you are there and state "it's much better in Sweden" when you are abroad.
You secretly love the Eurovision Song Contest to pieces.
You know at least 10 Abba songs by heart.
You claim that you are not a royalist but actually do care what "she" will wear on the Nobel Prize dinner.
You are prone to stand in line without complaining.
Whenever discussing international problems you always, without exception state that "why don't you do it like we do it in Sweden?"
You know the names of a multitude of IKEA items.
You know how to pronounce these names and sigh when non-Swedes don't.
You grew up in a house looking exactly like as if iit would have been in the IKEA-catalogue.
You have a tendency to not divide words when you write in English, since "särskrivning" is a sin.
You don't really care about winning as long as the Swedish beat the Norwegains and the Finish, no matter what the game/contest is.
You know that Sweden never actually will win the World Cup in Football, but keep partying anyway.
When you don't really consider silence a problem in social situations.
When you find people from other cultures generally being rather loud. With the exception of the Finish.
You wouldn't even consider buying electrical items unless they are "S"-marked.
You consider the question "how are you?" as a question that when posed, needs to be answered with a honest and thorough explanation of your mental health.
You have serious difficulties crossing the street when there is a red light. Even when there are no cars.
You get guilty conciense from throwing things in the dustbin that could have been recycled.
You take your shoes off when entering a house, and don't get why non-Swedes find that funny.
You know what the term "dansband" refers to, but know that it is a losing battle explaining to non-Swedes what it is.
You don't consider a congregation of trees being a "real" forrest unless it takes at least 20 minutes to drive through it.
You use metric system and really don't get why there are people out there who don't.
You consider "schlager" being a proper music genre.
You consider a fast and audioable intake of breath as a synonym to the word "yes".
You consider Denmark and the Danish "pretty continental".
You know that the most common cars in Sweden are not Volvo's or Saab's, but Ahlgrens Bilar. ( some sort of candy with the shapes of cars)
http://media.jnytt.se/resources/news/2008-03-12-bilar1.jpg
You can debate for hours the difference between the taste of the pink, the green and the white car in a pack of Ahlgrens bilar.
You actually have a favourite colour of Ahlgrens bilar, and is pretty militant in your opinion on this point.
You like things in general to be "lagom".
It annoys the hell out of you that there is no good translation for the word "lagom" in any language.
You consider Sweden being on the verge of annoyingly "lagom". Like a tetra pack of mellanmjolk(uhm middlemilk), sort of.
You think that Sweden winning a gold in any type of World Championships require celebrating by getting really drunk and splash around in a large and famous fountain.
You have a tendency to make Swedish verbs out of English nouns, and do not consider it slang or gramatically incorrect.
Generally, you prefer writing in pencil.
You've never seen a starbucks. ( I think I have seen one)
You have a summer house in the countryside. It has no running water or flushing toilet, but you can't understand why no one wants to visit.
Making fun of Norway is a national institution. And vise versa. (hell yeah)
You love Kalles Caviar. Everyone else outside scandanavia hates it.
You are obsessed with health issues. Everything is bad unless it comes from sweden, in which case its ok.
You could survive on just fish and prawns, and still manage to have a different dish for every meal for a month. Oh, and you even put it in cake.
You find it normal to have to go to a special store that is owned by the government, that's only open during daytime to buy a bottle of wine, or other alcoholic beverages. (Its true :p)
You constantly try to avoid meeting your neoghbours in the stairwell.
You split the check by the exact penny after eating at a restaurant.
You find the idea of wall to wall carpets in bathrooms and toilets simply appalling.
You think you understand Danish.
The Danish think you understand Danish.
Ultimatley, when spoken, you don't really understand Danish.
You don't even realise that you speak/write Swenglish whenever you speak/write to Swedish people.
You die a little inside if you don't get your weekly ransion of "Köttbullar"(meatballs) lol.
You think that everyone is allowed to walk in any field or forrest. And when people abroad tell you it's private land, you don't understand and say "But, what about Allemansratten?"
You expect people to be drinking atleast a bottle each of vodka, and think that's normal.
After having realized that someone is standing on your foot in the subway, you think that the best idea is to not say anything at all or maybe cough or nod a little in order to attract the attention of the person standing on your foot.
You find non-scandinavians so loud and noisy but find it perfectly normal to get completely wasted, scream and piss in public, when you're abroad and partying with non-scandinavians.
You secretly consider Sweden the best place on earth and that Swedes are the most intelligent and beautiful people in the world. lol
You take a sip of Strongbow, frown, and state that there's nooo way that the yellow sludge they call cider really is cider..
You refuse to belive that snuff or "snus" is harmful.
Since snuff "isn't harmful", you can't understand why no one except the swedes use it...
You think that all things Astrid Lindgren ever wrote, sums up all the good things about being Swedish.
Seeing a young woman with lit candles stuck to her head no longer disturbs you. (weirdly no)
You wake up with BIG hang-overs on the days after April 30th (Valborg) and December 13th (Lucia). (not me but MANY others)
You have, with some measure of success, spoken rövarspråket. (robber language)
You are stuck in front of your TV watching curling during every Olympic Games.
You actually understand the rules of curling.
You have been accused of being from Switzerland. Repeatedly. (accaully no)
You just love singing "snapsvisor" while drinking any kind of alcohol. (small embarassing songs)
You would rather stand up on the bus for an hour than bother the person who's handbag is currently occupying the last available seat.
You would never use public transportation without a valid ticket, even though it's ridiculously overpriced.
You happily engage in a conversation about the weather.
You cannot see why the first floor you walk in to should be called anything but the first floor, and the next one up the second, and so on, and you get confused by this in every multi-storey building you enter.
You generally consider the pre-party better than the night out in a club that follows.
You look forward all year for August when you get to gather your friends, put on stupid paper hats, drink Vodka, sing and eat crayfish. (crazy but mostly true)
You don't mind women using the men's bathroom in clubs if the queue to the "Ladies" is long.
You go abroad on vacation and first things first try to localize a Swedish bar and restaurant.
You actually miss Knäckebröd abroad but never eat it in Sweden because it's so dry! (some sort of hard and dry bread)
http://www.continentalbakeries.com/files/producten/popup_knackebrod.jpg
You always go "That's not REAL snow" whenever it snows in countries that usually don't get snow.
You find it adorable when people from other countries get excited about a few milimetres of snow that only stays on the ground for a few hours.
You insist on that Swedish chocolate is the best chocolate in the world, despite of what the Belgians and the Swiss might say.
It's raining and you hear yourself say your grandmothers wise words, "There is no bad weather, just bad clothes"
You insist on convincing people the vikings were the first to discover america.
When you refer to girls of other nationalities as beeing inferior to swedish girls.
You understand the man talking embarassingly loud to his son in the elevator.
You can't refrain from bragging about winning both the olympics and the world championships 2006 in hockey back to back whenever you have the opportunity to...talking to a Canadian...
You realise that toast and marmalade can never, ever replace dark bread with "prästost". (priest cheese)
You constantly have to point out that not EVERYONE in sweden is blond, in fact you add that most people are not.
You only consider hair on the verge of being "white", blond. Everything else is just very bright brown hair.
You have tried, and failed, to convince non-swedes that jam with your food is really good.
IKEA is home away from home.
You don't understand why non-swedes find salty licorice inedible. (its good I assure it)
You realise the potential and imagination behind a number of Swedish words (like: förfest, träningsvärk, groggvirke, sola, KLOCKRENT)
You get frustrated because there is no way you can say these words in any other language and sound correct. (That is just KLOCKRENT) lol
You don't think a farmhouse is actually a farmhouse unless it is red or yellow with white trim.
You compare all other spiced wine to glogg and with a frown state the obvious superiority of the Swedish Xmas drink.
You seriously look for Baklava made from whole grain, because "in Sweden, we don't eat white flour anymore, Socialstyrelsen says it's not good for you"
You consider taking a cruise ship to Tallin a valid excuse to get completely off your face and act like an utter ass as soon as the ship leaves port.
You know that there is no way the nesquick powder can ever replace real O'boy
You find it OBVIOUS that a mile is 10 kilometres.
A nights sleep only counts if it consists of 8 consecutive hours. 10 hours would be considered too much.
You hate to 'lose face' in public, and will act like everyone else to prevent this from happening
You insist on buying ridiculously tight pants (guys) you innocently say ****** at completely inappropriate times when talking english.
You consider it tradition to get wasted and dance around a giant penis symbol stuck in the ground every summer. (sadly this is called the biggest holiday in sweden, except for christmas, but we call the symbol something else)
You think it's perfectly normal to pay over 50 % of your income in taxes. (not that much, its about 35%, plus the tax of the things you buy)
When it is considered a sin to not watch Kalle Anka (Donald Duck) on the TV at Christmas.
You talk about politics at house parties.
People ask you if you have polarbears on the streets and you try to spread the myth further by stating it's true.
You go to the downtown during a sunday and don't expect to meet a single soul during a 30 minute walk (maybe not 30 minutes but atleast 10, in some cities)
You have a craving for at least litre of Arla(a company) milk a day.
You can name at least 7 different kinds of jam, and produce 4 of them in your own kitchen.
You think you're better at english than you really are. (hell yeah)
You LOVE to use english quotes and slang. (hell yeah)
You're not really offended anymore by getting confused with switzerland and nobody can locate sweden on a map.
You think its a BIG THING to have a drivers licensce before you're like 20
You know that the only parts swedish people get to play in movies is when there is supposed to be a stupid blonde in the scene.
You know what a "midsommarstang" is, and you know every song and dance that comes with it (this is the thing with the "symbol" told earlier)
It's perfectly fine to party and get wasted on random week days (especially wednesdays) just for the heck of it. Even if you have work/school the day after..
You find it weird that people go to church every sunday instead of being the people that find it weird that you DON'T go to church every sunday
You call it "mobile phone" and not "cell phone"
You always try to defend sweden for not being a part of "nasty" Europe where girls are sluts and there is no drinking age.
You don't mind walking instead of taking the car
You know almost every other country in the world as well as most capital cities, or has atleast studied this for a Geography test. ( sorry, I suck at geography)
You have at some point in your life had a volvo or a saab as the family car
You think it's normal to be drunk every friday and/or saturday all year round. (whats the matter with all these drunk things)
You see a woman with a baby carriage trying to get on the bus you're in so you pretend to be sleeping so you don't have to help her with it.
Smörgåstårta. (smörgåscake) Nuff said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYBkDxao3wg
You actually know how to pronounce smörgåsbord.
If you´re from Stockhom you don´t even look twice when you spot 18 year old guys with shirts tucked in to their jeans (which despite being increadibly tight is worn with a Gucci/Diesel/Armani etc. belt) smart jackets, backslick hair & SILK SCARFS shopping for lobster in saluhallen....
You find teenage mums shocking and very strange; because you don't know anyone who had a child before 25...and you thought that was young
You thought 'Aftonbladet' and 'Expressen' were full of silly news...then you went abroad and found that many papers include nothing but naked women and sex (the two biggest newsmagazines )
You think it's ridiculous to sell milk and yogurt in anything other than Tetrapak...and you wonder why "Fil" isn't sold abroad
You’re always stuck trying to explain what "fil" is...unsuccessfully. (something like sour and sluggish milk)
Even if you normally hate ABBA, Ace of Base, Roxette etc. you still LOVE it when you're in a club abroad and they play something Swedish.
You have to explain the wonder that is "snus" while everyone around you are about to vomit.
Lösgodis (pick n’mix) becomes more desirable than cigarettes.
You ONLY eat candy on Saturdays.
You have to tell people to take of their bloody shoes when they come into your house.
You in pure disgust try to tell your fellow peers that it’s basic human behavior to shower after PE and they look at you like you come from a different planet.
You can’t believe that you have to pay for your disgusting school lunch.
People say your name in fifty different ways, but no one can get it right. (I dont have that problem really)
When people ask what your parents are called and you are tempted to say Inga and Sven...because you know there is no way they will understand or be able to pronounce names like åsa, åke eller Örjan
Your middle name is also the name of an IKEA shelf (Ivar). (no my middle name is Karl, probably another shelf)
All English you ever learnt in Sweden came from American sitcoms.
You get REALLY annoyed when people outside of Sweden do not know that Pippi Longstocking is Swedish.
You just love to 'fika', and know that it is an activity that is meant to last for hours and is not the equivalent of going for a coffee.
You don’t get why no other language has a verb for drinking coffee/tea since it is such a very, very important pastime!
You don’t consider Starbucks a proper café, since a real cafe is a atmospheric, groovy, cosy place not at all as brightly lit and multi national as Starbucks.
You know that a "macka" consist of one slice of bread!
People refuse to believe you're actually from Sweden because you're not platinum blonde with a Sven-Goran Ericsson accent
You brag about the free healthcare and the free schoolsystem to every non-swede that you have a political conversation with.
You consider yourself as Scandinavian, not European.
You are just as happy to point out that you do not need a passport when travelling to Norway.
You have absolutely no idea what is meant by" Swedish massage" that keeps being advertised as a hot item in spas all over the world.
You have never ever heard of either “Annas gingerbread” or “Mrs Elswood's cod roe spread - product of Sweden” or “Swedish glace” (it’s free from cholesterol, gluten, all animal ingredients and genetic modification).
If you have heard of “Swedich glace”, you know that it is not anywhere close to being as lovely as proper Swedish ice cream.
As like IKEA, H&M feels like home away from home.
You are an expert on commenting whats typical swedish...
You eat pancakes with jam, not lemon and sugar like the English. (hell yeah)
You always try to find was of being self-righteous of other's people debauchery but secretely LOVE poppin' bottles, travelling private jets and making tons of money.
You find it perfectly normal to dress up like a witch at Easter and find the Easter bunny completely illogical.
You celebrate Easter and Christmas a day before most other countries
You know that real Easter eggs are not made of chocolate; they're made of paper and filled with pick'n'mix (lösgodis)
Easter means decorating some twigs in a vase with coloured feathers, eating herring and painted eggs, and of course, dressing up as a witch/over made-up older lady and knocking on random neighbours' doors in hope of getting some candy.
You couldn’t care less about the sixth of June and consider celebrating “Midsummer” as being as close to a proper national day as it will ever get.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LIS1gwDTOLI/TkJD0Qv0fJI/AAAAAAAAATQ/1etwI_NLINI/s1600/Kr%25C3%25A4ftor1.jpg yummy, isnt it.
You thought Astrid Lindgren was immortal and was shocked and cried your heart out when she actually did die.
You really want to attend the Nobel Prize Dinner.
You get pissed off when Norwegians state that the peace prize is much more famous than the other Nobel prices.
You go seriously sentimental when entering an IKEA store, outside the borders of Sweden.
You love complaining about Sweden when you are there and state "it's much better in Sweden" when you are abroad.
You secretly love the Eurovision Song Contest to pieces.
You know at least 10 Abba songs by heart.
You claim that you are not a royalist but actually do care what "she" will wear on the Nobel Prize dinner.
You are prone to stand in line without complaining.
Whenever discussing international problems you always, without exception state that "why don't you do it like we do it in Sweden?"
You know the names of a multitude of IKEA items.
You know how to pronounce these names and sigh when non-Swedes don't.
You grew up in a house looking exactly like as if iit would have been in the IKEA-catalogue.
You have a tendency to not divide words when you write in English, since "särskrivning" is a sin.
You don't really care about winning as long as the Swedish beat the Norwegains and the Finish, no matter what the game/contest is.
You know that Sweden never actually will win the World Cup in Football, but keep partying anyway.
When you don't really consider silence a problem in social situations.
When you find people from other cultures generally being rather loud. With the exception of the Finish.
You wouldn't even consider buying electrical items unless they are "S"-marked.
You consider the question "how are you?" as a question that when posed, needs to be answered with a honest and thorough explanation of your mental health.
You have serious difficulties crossing the street when there is a red light. Even when there are no cars.
You get guilty conciense from throwing things in the dustbin that could have been recycled.
You take your shoes off when entering a house, and don't get why non-Swedes find that funny.
You know what the term "dansband" refers to, but know that it is a losing battle explaining to non-Swedes what it is.
You don't consider a congregation of trees being a "real" forrest unless it takes at least 20 minutes to drive through it.
You use metric system and really don't get why there are people out there who don't.
You consider "schlager" being a proper music genre.
You consider a fast and audioable intake of breath as a synonym to the word "yes".
You consider Denmark and the Danish "pretty continental".
You know that the most common cars in Sweden are not Volvo's or Saab's, but Ahlgrens Bilar. ( some sort of candy with the shapes of cars)
http://media.jnytt.se/resources/news/2008-03-12-bilar1.jpg
You can debate for hours the difference between the taste of the pink, the green and the white car in a pack of Ahlgrens bilar.
You actually have a favourite colour of Ahlgrens bilar, and is pretty militant in your opinion on this point.
You like things in general to be "lagom".
It annoys the hell out of you that there is no good translation for the word "lagom" in any language.
You consider Sweden being on the verge of annoyingly "lagom". Like a tetra pack of mellanmjolk(uhm middlemilk), sort of.
You think that Sweden winning a gold in any type of World Championships require celebrating by getting really drunk and splash around in a large and famous fountain.
You have a tendency to make Swedish verbs out of English nouns, and do not consider it slang or gramatically incorrect.
Generally, you prefer writing in pencil.
You've never seen a starbucks. ( I think I have seen one)
You have a summer house in the countryside. It has no running water or flushing toilet, but you can't understand why no one wants to visit.
Making fun of Norway is a national institution. And vise versa. (hell yeah)
You love Kalles Caviar. Everyone else outside scandanavia hates it.
You are obsessed with health issues. Everything is bad unless it comes from sweden, in which case its ok.
You could survive on just fish and prawns, and still manage to have a different dish for every meal for a month. Oh, and you even put it in cake.
You find it normal to have to go to a special store that is owned by the government, that's only open during daytime to buy a bottle of wine, or other alcoholic beverages. (Its true :p)
You constantly try to avoid meeting your neoghbours in the stairwell.
You split the check by the exact penny after eating at a restaurant.
You find the idea of wall to wall carpets in bathrooms and toilets simply appalling.
You think you understand Danish.
The Danish think you understand Danish.
Ultimatley, when spoken, you don't really understand Danish.
You don't even realise that you speak/write Swenglish whenever you speak/write to Swedish people.
You die a little inside if you don't get your weekly ransion of "Köttbullar"(meatballs) lol.
You think that everyone is allowed to walk in any field or forrest. And when people abroad tell you it's private land, you don't understand and say "But, what about Allemansratten?"
You expect people to be drinking atleast a bottle each of vodka, and think that's normal.
After having realized that someone is standing on your foot in the subway, you think that the best idea is to not say anything at all or maybe cough or nod a little in order to attract the attention of the person standing on your foot.
You find non-scandinavians so loud and noisy but find it perfectly normal to get completely wasted, scream and piss in public, when you're abroad and partying with non-scandinavians.
You secretly consider Sweden the best place on earth and that Swedes are the most intelligent and beautiful people in the world. lol
You take a sip of Strongbow, frown, and state that there's nooo way that the yellow sludge they call cider really is cider..
You refuse to belive that snuff or "snus" is harmful.
Since snuff "isn't harmful", you can't understand why no one except the swedes use it...
You think that all things Astrid Lindgren ever wrote, sums up all the good things about being Swedish.
Seeing a young woman with lit candles stuck to her head no longer disturbs you. (weirdly no)
You wake up with BIG hang-overs on the days after April 30th (Valborg) and December 13th (Lucia). (not me but MANY others)
You have, with some measure of success, spoken rövarspråket. (robber language)
You are stuck in front of your TV watching curling during every Olympic Games.
You actually understand the rules of curling.
You have been accused of being from Switzerland. Repeatedly. (accaully no)
You just love singing "snapsvisor" while drinking any kind of alcohol. (small embarassing songs)
You would rather stand up on the bus for an hour than bother the person who's handbag is currently occupying the last available seat.
You would never use public transportation without a valid ticket, even though it's ridiculously overpriced.
You happily engage in a conversation about the weather.
You cannot see why the first floor you walk in to should be called anything but the first floor, and the next one up the second, and so on, and you get confused by this in every multi-storey building you enter.
You generally consider the pre-party better than the night out in a club that follows.
You look forward all year for August when you get to gather your friends, put on stupid paper hats, drink Vodka, sing and eat crayfish. (crazy but mostly true)
You don't mind women using the men's bathroom in clubs if the queue to the "Ladies" is long.
You go abroad on vacation and first things first try to localize a Swedish bar and restaurant.
You actually miss Knäckebröd abroad but never eat it in Sweden because it's so dry! (some sort of hard and dry bread)
http://www.continentalbakeries.com/files/producten/popup_knackebrod.jpg
You always go "That's not REAL snow" whenever it snows in countries that usually don't get snow.
You find it adorable when people from other countries get excited about a few milimetres of snow that only stays on the ground for a few hours.
You insist on that Swedish chocolate is the best chocolate in the world, despite of what the Belgians and the Swiss might say.
It's raining and you hear yourself say your grandmothers wise words, "There is no bad weather, just bad clothes"
You insist on convincing people the vikings were the first to discover america.
When you refer to girls of other nationalities as beeing inferior to swedish girls.
You understand the man talking embarassingly loud to his son in the elevator.
You can't refrain from bragging about winning both the olympics and the world championships 2006 in hockey back to back whenever you have the opportunity to...talking to a Canadian...
You realise that toast and marmalade can never, ever replace dark bread with "prästost". (priest cheese)
You constantly have to point out that not EVERYONE in sweden is blond, in fact you add that most people are not.
You only consider hair on the verge of being "white", blond. Everything else is just very bright brown hair.
You have tried, and failed, to convince non-swedes that jam with your food is really good.
IKEA is home away from home.
You don't understand why non-swedes find salty licorice inedible. (its good I assure it)
You realise the potential and imagination behind a number of Swedish words (like: förfest, träningsvärk, groggvirke, sola, KLOCKRENT)
You get frustrated because there is no way you can say these words in any other language and sound correct. (That is just KLOCKRENT) lol
You don't think a farmhouse is actually a farmhouse unless it is red or yellow with white trim.
You compare all other spiced wine to glogg and with a frown state the obvious superiority of the Swedish Xmas drink.
You seriously look for Baklava made from whole grain, because "in Sweden, we don't eat white flour anymore, Socialstyrelsen says it's not good for you"
You consider taking a cruise ship to Tallin a valid excuse to get completely off your face and act like an utter ass as soon as the ship leaves port.
You know that there is no way the nesquick powder can ever replace real O'boy
You find it OBVIOUS that a mile is 10 kilometres.
A nights sleep only counts if it consists of 8 consecutive hours. 10 hours would be considered too much.
You hate to 'lose face' in public, and will act like everyone else to prevent this from happening
You insist on buying ridiculously tight pants (guys) you innocently say ****** at completely inappropriate times when talking english.
You consider it tradition to get wasted and dance around a giant penis symbol stuck in the ground every summer. (sadly this is called the biggest holiday in sweden, except for christmas, but we call the symbol something else)
You think it's perfectly normal to pay over 50 % of your income in taxes. (not that much, its about 35%, plus the tax of the things you buy)
When it is considered a sin to not watch Kalle Anka (Donald Duck) on the TV at Christmas.
You talk about politics at house parties.
People ask you if you have polarbears on the streets and you try to spread the myth further by stating it's true.
You go to the downtown during a sunday and don't expect to meet a single soul during a 30 minute walk (maybe not 30 minutes but atleast 10, in some cities)
You have a craving for at least litre of Arla(a company) milk a day.
You can name at least 7 different kinds of jam, and produce 4 of them in your own kitchen.
You think you're better at english than you really are. (hell yeah)
You LOVE to use english quotes and slang. (hell yeah)
You're not really offended anymore by getting confused with switzerland and nobody can locate sweden on a map.
You think its a BIG THING to have a drivers licensce before you're like 20
You know that the only parts swedish people get to play in movies is when there is supposed to be a stupid blonde in the scene.
You know what a "midsommarstang" is, and you know every song and dance that comes with it (this is the thing with the "symbol" told earlier)
It's perfectly fine to party and get wasted on random week days (especially wednesdays) just for the heck of it. Even if you have work/school the day after..
You find it weird that people go to church every sunday instead of being the people that find it weird that you DON'T go to church every sunday
You call it "mobile phone" and not "cell phone"
You always try to defend sweden for not being a part of "nasty" Europe where girls are sluts and there is no drinking age.
You don't mind walking instead of taking the car
You know almost every other country in the world as well as most capital cities, or has atleast studied this for a Geography test. ( sorry, I suck at geography)
You have at some point in your life had a volvo or a saab as the family car
You think it's normal to be drunk every friday and/or saturday all year round. (whats the matter with all these drunk things)
You see a woman with a baby carriage trying to get on the bus you're in so you pretend to be sleeping so you don't have to help her with it.
Smörgåstårta. (smörgåscake) Nuff said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYBkDxao3wg
You actually know how to pronounce smörgåsbord.
If you´re from Stockhom you don´t even look twice when you spot 18 year old guys with shirts tucked in to their jeans (which despite being increadibly tight is worn with a Gucci/Diesel/Armani etc. belt) smart jackets, backslick hair & SILK SCARFS shopping for lobster in saluhallen....
You find teenage mums shocking and very strange; because you don't know anyone who had a child before 25...and you thought that was young
You thought 'Aftonbladet' and 'Expressen' were full of silly news...then you went abroad and found that many papers include nothing but naked women and sex (the two biggest newsmagazines )
You think it's ridiculous to sell milk and yogurt in anything other than Tetrapak...and you wonder why "Fil" isn't sold abroad
You’re always stuck trying to explain what "fil" is...unsuccessfully. (something like sour and sluggish milk)
Even if you normally hate ABBA, Ace of Base, Roxette etc. you still LOVE it when you're in a club abroad and they play something Swedish.
You have to explain the wonder that is "snus" while everyone around you are about to vomit.
Lösgodis (pick n’mix) becomes more desirable than cigarettes.
You ONLY eat candy on Saturdays.
You have to tell people to take of their bloody shoes when they come into your house.
You in pure disgust try to tell your fellow peers that it’s basic human behavior to shower after PE and they look at you like you come from a different planet.
You can’t believe that you have to pay for your disgusting school lunch.
People say your name in fifty different ways, but no one can get it right. (I dont have that problem really)
When people ask what your parents are called and you are tempted to say Inga and Sven...because you know there is no way they will understand or be able to pronounce names like åsa, åke eller Örjan
Your middle name is also the name of an IKEA shelf (Ivar). (no my middle name is Karl, probably another shelf)
All English you ever learnt in Sweden came from American sitcoms.
You get REALLY annoyed when people outside of Sweden do not know that Pippi Longstocking is Swedish.
You just love to 'fika', and know that it is an activity that is meant to last for hours and is not the equivalent of going for a coffee.
You don’t get why no other language has a verb for drinking coffee/tea since it is such a very, very important pastime!
You don’t consider Starbucks a proper café, since a real cafe is a atmospheric, groovy, cosy place not at all as brightly lit and multi national as Starbucks.
You know that a "macka" consist of one slice of bread!
People refuse to believe you're actually from Sweden because you're not platinum blonde with a Sven-Goran Ericsson accent
You brag about the free healthcare and the free schoolsystem to every non-swede that you have a political conversation with.
You consider yourself as Scandinavian, not European.
You are just as happy to point out that you do not need a passport when travelling to Norway.
You have absolutely no idea what is meant by" Swedish massage" that keeps being advertised as a hot item in spas all over the world.
You have never ever heard of either “Annas gingerbread” or “Mrs Elswood's cod roe spread - product of Sweden” or “Swedish glace” (it’s free from cholesterol, gluten, all animal ingredients and genetic modification).
If you have heard of “Swedich glace”, you know that it is not anywhere close to being as lovely as proper Swedish ice cream.
As like IKEA, H&M feels like home away from home.
You are an expert on commenting whats typical swedish...
You eat pancakes with jam, not lemon and sugar like the English. (hell yeah)
You always try to find was of being self-righteous of other's people debauchery but secretely LOVE poppin' bottles, travelling private jets and making tons of money.
You find it perfectly normal to dress up like a witch at Easter and find the Easter bunny completely illogical.
You celebrate Easter and Christmas a day before most other countries
You know that real Easter eggs are not made of chocolate; they're made of paper and filled with pick'n'mix (lösgodis)
Easter means decorating some twigs in a vase with coloured feathers, eating herring and painted eggs, and of course, dressing up as a witch/over made-up older lady and knocking on random neighbours' doors in hope of getting some candy.
You couldn’t care less about the sixth of June and consider celebrating “Midsummer” as being as close to a proper national day as it will ever get.