soc-op

semi-qualified opinions on society, media and politics. Mostly from Norway, as that's where I live.

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Thursday, February 09, 2006

Let it snow...

Southern Norway is a strange place. We get heavy snowfalls just about every winter, so you'd think we were prepared. But every winter the papers are full of stories about buses driving off the road, trains stopping due to snowy and icy tracks, People in Oslo walk around in the snow wearing high-heeled shoes and don't understand why they keep falling on their ar**es. And so on. And we never, ever learn. About time we acknowledge the fact that we live in a place where people aren't meant to be?

But worst of all: Every snowfall in the south gives the people in the north something to laugh about...