@clacke Further, it is my royal duty to annoy a Swedish person.

@clacke Can't a man have a hobby?

@clacke Nothing awakens the Norwegian more than a Swede who opens his mouth

@clacke That's the way to do it.

@clacke That's what I tell myself too, but then nothing happens.

@clacke Ever been super determined? One thing goes wrong and you just handle it and throw it aside to pursue your goal? And you just keep handling all the things that go wrong until you've done it?

@clacke A mugshot is a mugshot.

This would never in a million years happen in Oslo.

@sonitus @Divorytaur "straight answer" implies the existence of a "gay answer"

@Divorytaur "absentminded professor" was what I was picturing and trying to describe, but without being so specific, because it can probably apply more broadly

@Divorytaur I'm not sure we are picturing the same presentation

@Divorytaur

When you talk to people who are intelligent but also disorganised, there can be some guesswork to do. They forget to elaborate and are always talking in implications and unfinished thoughts, expecting the listener to figure out the rest.

How do you get hold of someone who works in the restaurant business to ask them a few questions?

@rredball Not quite the right kind of restaurant...

@rredball If they have it in Berlin or Paris, they have it here too. Oslo is a perfectly normal European city.

@rredball People think all of Norway looks like this 🙄

Slut.

Who said they didn't?

Something I wrote to a friend:

"As I understand your wife, based on what you've told me, she's the one who's best suited to be a workhorse.

Pragmatic type, wants order, and is the one who created structure around you.

Women can be an enormous resource. My mother kind of created our family. She already built a house when dad met her. She acted like a diplomat. Took a lot of initiative. Everything collapsed when she died. Me, dad and my sister barely talk now. She was the glue."