@clacke a former boss of mine is very quick to shoot down stuff like that. maybe a little too quick.

i knew him before i worked there and talked to him after, sometimes. one time, he said about my various ideas that i was just trying to avoid work.

reminds me of a candid remark one of his employees made. i was asking her what she does there, and she said "all the stuff that he thinks is boring".

him accusing me of avoiding work:

@clacke he wouldn't have any of my shit

@clacke the funny thing is i think it helped me to quit after just ONE person got mad at me for drinking. my new doctor, a person i had never met before, basically stripped me naked in 20 minutes. unlike every other person i'd met, which includes several doctors, he just flat out intervened.

i'm knowledgeable (good) but mainly motivated by attention (bad). i don't get much done if nobody's looking.

this is why being a full-time programmer worked so badly for me. nobody wants to see that.

and this is probably why i came up with the idea of setting up an entire company inspired by the concept of pair programming.

if you're a bit like me, and you don't get shit done unless somebody else cares, but do get a great deal done when they do, an entire company of people who pay attention to each other should be very productive.

@clacke @CumskinFoidPuncher69420 the actor that's doing Balle Clorin is most famous for his role as "Dynamitt-Harry" in the Norwegian Olsenbanden films.

@clacke @CumskinFoidPuncher69420 yeah, he did a *lot* of comedy in the 60s/70s apart from that. some of it much funnier than the show if you ask me.

@clacke @CumskinFoidPuncher69420 for the enjoyment of Scandinavian speakers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMlJz7mGabk

the skit was so popular that it coined a new word, "supperåd", soup council, for any kind of pointless council where people are apparently paid for doing nothing useful

@clacke @CumskinFoidPuncher69420 ah, yes

if it's Swedish, you absolutely *must* accent the last name somewhere.

there's this old Norwegian comedy skit where a guy, supposedly from the Norwegian Council on Soups, is named Balle Klorin, and it sounds like a parody of a Swedish name XD

@CumskinFoidPuncher69420 @clacke in Norway, "Kalle" is the name we use for Frosty, the snowman, so it's a fantasy name. in Sweden, guys are actually named that.

@CumskinFoidPuncher69420 @clacke i would struggle to take anyone named Kalle very seriously because it's like being named like a pet or animal lol but the Swedes use it like a real name

@CumskinFoidPuncher69420 @clacke there is a town named Halden in Norway. "Hallden" sounds like it might be a similarly named town in Sweden, but don't quote me on that.

@CumskinFoidPuncher69420 @clacke i think "kalle" is from "kall" meaning "guy" essentially, so i think for Swedes, it's a very "everyman" sort of name.

"Donald Duck" is named "Kalle Anka" (where "anka" means duck) in Swedish, for example.

@CumskinFoidPuncher69420 the Swedes are more often blond, and their culture is a bit more mercantile and cosmopolitan

@CumskinFoidPuncher69420 the person you said was Swedish, yeah, he did look a bit "dandy"

@CumskinFoidPuncher69420 Pewdiepie could never be Norwegian

@CumskinFoidPuncher69420 a lot of them have "Irish" noses and round faces. here's Swedish pop producer Max Martin

@CumskinFoidPuncher69420 he looks extremely Swedish, specifically

@CumskinFoidPuncher69420 these are harder, i'm not sure where in Scandinavia they're from. guess they're from Norway, since people from your country look generic to you...

sometimes you see a caricature of a racial stereotype but it's actually a photo so you don't know what to do because the person who gave birth to them was clearly a racist

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