Gross' post on lithuania was great. after 3 years in vilnius, was pretty accurate. thought harry and pyrat might appreciate a few more local ones...
You’ve been in trondheim too long when...
Working later than 4 oclock is unfair, past 5 is a breach of human rights
You say ikke sant after every sentence
You start calling a kettle a water cooker
A hill is not a hill unless if is physically impossible to cycle up or down
You think anyone is pathetic if they don’t attempt to go down said hills on bikes with frozen brakes, no crash helment and spiked tyres
Brown cheese starts to become apetising
Its not really snowing unless at least a metre has fallen in the last hour
You become irrationally obsessed with ski-shooting
Minus 5 is a pleasant day, anything close to zero is a heat wave
You think being charged 4 pounds for a cup of coffee is good value
You cross the roads without looking knowing cars will stop
You take a matpakke wrapped in baking paper everywhere – sandwiches are replaced by single slices of bread with pålegg and mellomleggspapier in between them to prevent them sticking
You plan a week in advance if you are going to buy alcohol partly to save up enough money, partly to get there before the alcohol section closes
You time your approaches perfectly to roundabouts so that you don’t actually stop but cruise straight through the gaps in traffic
You give up translating words like pålegg, utgangspunkt, frisk, even langrenn, and so use them in English conversations or writing
Salmon is for tramps, chicken is for kings
... Not sure I can think of as many as gross, but theres a start ...
TRONDHEIM
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Re: TRONDHEIM
hehehe
I'm watching ski-shooting right now! It's in Whistler & I'm trying to recognise Lost Lake..
Lene's bloke has just won another World Cup sprint
Anyway here goes...
You feel wrong if you aren't wearing at least two items of gortex outerwear
You have a Bergans soft shell jacket
You've figured out that Norwegian girls dye their hair and visit tanning salons (you previously thought it was a healthy glow).
Driving over 60 mph feels dangerously fast
You check the ski foremelding to find out what the weather's doing
You have at least 5 different types of kick wax
You wear wool socks. Every day.
Every time you leave the country you have a list of stuff to smuggle back in.
(yes that one definitely includes going to Sweden).
You no longer think the orienteering season starts with Spring Cup.
It starts after Tio Mila.
You think rehydrating something made by Toro counts as cooking
You know which 3 types of fruit & veg in the supermarket might not be already rotten
You understand the law that nothing is allowed to be open on a sunday except petrol stations and bunnpris
The only restuarant you go to is in IKEA
I'm watching ski-shooting right now! It's in Whistler & I'm trying to recognise Lost Lake..
Lene's bloke has just won another World Cup sprint
Anyway here goes...
You feel wrong if you aren't wearing at least two items of gortex outerwear
You have a Bergans soft shell jacket
You've figured out that Norwegian girls dye their hair and visit tanning salons (you previously thought it was a healthy glow).
Driving over 60 mph feels dangerously fast
You check the ski foremelding to find out what the weather's doing
You have at least 5 different types of kick wax
You wear wool socks. Every day.
Every time you leave the country you have a list of stuff to smuggle back in.
(yes that one definitely includes going to Sweden).
You no longer think the orienteering season starts with Spring Cup.
It starts after Tio Mila.
You think rehydrating something made by Toro counts as cooking
You know which 3 types of fruit & veg in the supermarket might not be already rotten
You understand the law that nothing is allowed to be open on a sunday except petrol stations and bunnpris
The only restuarant you go to is in IKEA
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Re: TRONDHEIM
haha brilliant. certainly amusing ourselves here!
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Tessa - red
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Re: TRONDHEIM
..not just Trondheim I fear..the same all Norway over I think
Your life depends on what the outdoor thermometer says
You take for granted the only snack on offer will be a pølser or a waffle – and you start to think pølser tastes good
You stock up with jule øl at Christmas to last you the year because it’s the only beer worth drinking and that’s the only time you can buy it (if you can afford it)
You start finishing your sentences with or…? in english
You wear your o-kit to go to the shops or don’t bother taking your cross-country ski boots off
You know it will take you 2 hours to drive out through the outskirts of Oslo on a Friday afternoon and repeat it in the opposite direction on a Sunday
You don’t expect other runners/skiers/bikers to say hi or make eye contact when you’re meet them out in the marka
A successful day is when a Norwegian smiles at you in the street
You take your deckchair to all O events
Unless you ski race your competitive nature closes down completely between end October and the 1st April and the JK becomes your first event of the year.
Going along to support the O club at TioMila means making soup for 70 people
Tucking trousers into your socks is ok
15 under age 4 barnehage kids in the woods in temperatures of -5 is not some form of child abuse
You accept that a speeding fine will cost you £350
Those with weak or aged ankles start pineing for the runnable forests of Scotland
Everything you’ve every been told as a child about not walking/skiing on ice becomes redundant
...but it was quite fantastic and we miss it all (well, almost all)……..especially the cross-country skiing right now…(and btw you continue to be obsessed with skiskyting but have to make do with nrk or aftenposten reporting when you return to the UK)
Your life depends on what the outdoor thermometer says
You take for granted the only snack on offer will be a pølser or a waffle – and you start to think pølser tastes good
You stock up with jule øl at Christmas to last you the year because it’s the only beer worth drinking and that’s the only time you can buy it (if you can afford it)
You start finishing your sentences with or…? in english
You wear your o-kit to go to the shops or don’t bother taking your cross-country ski boots off
You know it will take you 2 hours to drive out through the outskirts of Oslo on a Friday afternoon and repeat it in the opposite direction on a Sunday
You don’t expect other runners/skiers/bikers to say hi or make eye contact when you’re meet them out in the marka
A successful day is when a Norwegian smiles at you in the street
You take your deckchair to all O events
Unless you ski race your competitive nature closes down completely between end October and the 1st April and the JK becomes your first event of the year.
Going along to support the O club at TioMila means making soup for 70 people
Tucking trousers into your socks is ok
15 under age 4 barnehage kids in the woods in temperatures of -5 is not some form of child abuse
You accept that a speeding fine will cost you £350
Those with weak or aged ankles start pineing for the runnable forests of Scotland
Everything you’ve every been told as a child about not walking/skiing on ice becomes redundant
...but it was quite fantastic and we miss it all (well, almost all)……..especially the cross-country skiing right now…(and btw you continue to be obsessed with skiskyting but have to make do with nrk or aftenposten reporting when you return to the UK)
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Re: TRONDHEIM
Tessa - brown cheese has always been appetising. I love it (especially on eggy bread ).
Make the most of life - you're a long time dead.
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Stodgetta - brown
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Re: TRONDHEIM
When you view the Swedes like the Scotts view the English!
When your kids start to call you Pappa
When raw fish roe for breakfast is appealing
When you cut a pit in the snow to cook Polser/barbeque
When 4 different cheeses seems like a good selection
When you purchase a holiday hut <20 kilometers from where you live
WHen you feel everyone should speak in turn at a meeting whether they actually have anything constructive to say.....
When not making a decision at a meeting is an acceptable outcome
When you feel it is great to have the top 20% of peoples tax returns published i the local paper
When your kids start to call you Pappa
When raw fish roe for breakfast is appealing
When you cut a pit in the snow to cook Polser/barbeque
When 4 different cheeses seems like a good selection
When you purchase a holiday hut <20 kilometers from where you live
WHen you feel everyone should speak in turn at a meeting whether they actually have anything constructive to say.....
When not making a decision at a meeting is an acceptable outcome
When you feel it is great to have the top 20% of peoples tax returns published i the local paper
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut" Abraham Lincoln
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Re: TRONDHEIM
You rarely bother attempting to make any kind of small talk.
You still wave at car drivers when they let you out but never expect anything back
You don't feel guilty for leaving work at 3pm, especially on a Friday
You take at least a week off at Easter and it involves oranges, kvikk lunsj and turmat.
You've considered roller skiing. But decided against it.
Sweden is "Eastern Europe"
You still wave at car drivers when they let you out but never expect anything back
You don't feel guilty for leaving work at 3pm, especially on a Friday
You take at least a week off at Easter and it involves oranges, kvikk lunsj and turmat.
You've considered roller skiing. But decided against it.
Sweden is "Eastern Europe"
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harry - addict
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Re: TRONDHEIM
You know when the public holidays are.
Not exactly an overly religious bunch but feel the need to celebrate every obscure religious event, tomorrow everyone gets a day off because of jesus going back up to heaven or something. Think I came in on Kristihimmelfarts day last year and noone was here. The only way to tell is that there is a selection race for Nordics tomorrow and it's a Thursday, that should have been a good clue.
Why do all oranges here taste of dry sponge?
The Nordics selection race is apprently a duel between Hausken, Andersen and Simone Niggli. http://orientering.no/t2.asp?p=63680&x=1&a=250078
Doesn't a duel involve 2 people? AND what about Mari Fasting, Elise Egseth, Guro Flatekval, Marte Renaas, Line Hagman...
Not exactly an overly religious bunch but feel the need to celebrate every obscure religious event, tomorrow everyone gets a day off because of jesus going back up to heaven or something. Think I came in on Kristihimmelfarts day last year and noone was here. The only way to tell is that there is a selection race for Nordics tomorrow and it's a Thursday, that should have been a good clue.
Why do all oranges here taste of dry sponge?
The Nordics selection race is apprently a duel between Hausken, Andersen and Simone Niggli. http://orientering.no/t2.asp?p=63680&x=1&a=250078
Doesn't a duel involve 2 people? AND what about Mari Fasting, Elise Egseth, Guro Flatekval, Marte Renaas, Line Hagman...
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Re: TRONDHEIM
British Orienteering Director | Opinions expressed on here are entirely my own, and do not represent the views of British Orienteering.
"If only you were younger and better..."
"If only you were younger and better..."
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Scott - god
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Re: TRONDHEIM
Well Norwegian does have less words.
But maybe we should let NOF know
a) it's actually a truel
b) a few girls from Trondheim might have something to say about it being simply a truel! That's bigging up my friends not myself, not going (didn't know I had the day off work for a start) need to stay home and train /rest /train as opposed to travel/race/travel
But maybe we should let NOF know
a) it's actually a truel
b) a few girls from Trondheim might have something to say about it being simply a truel! That's bigging up my friends not myself, not going (didn't know I had the day off work for a start) need to stay home and train /rest /train as opposed to travel/race/travel
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