Please, Mr Trump, be gentle with Sweden....

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    The President of The United States recently pointed out that Sweden is a country with a lot of problems. It started with a speech in Florida on Saturday, where he referred to some very unspecific events that supposedly occurred the night before.

    He later explained that he had seen a news segment on Fox News that reported the horrors going on in Sweden.

    On Monday the president tweeted about our country, accusing the media of covering up the situation here.

    But you know what Mr. Trump? You are actually one hundred percent right. We do have real problems. Like really big ones – one might even call them HUGE.

    Here are a few examples.

    1. People cutting lines

    We Swedes love to stand in line. We stand in line for EVERYTHING. But we have real problems with people trying to cut them to get ahead, that really pisses us Swedes off. Could you solve this, Mr. Trump?

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    2. People who decide to take the seat next to you on the bus

    Us Swedes need our personal space. Preferably we would like to sit all by ourselves, even better would be to have the whole bus to ourselves. You know our astronaut, Christer Fuglesang, he went to space to get more PERSONAL space! How could we solve this, Mr. Trump? Maybe the U.S could give a few buses with only single seats? That would really fix our situation.

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    3. We ’’fika’’ too much

    We Swedes "fika" away our lives. We ’’fika’’ everywhere, anywhere, all the time. When someone starts a new job, when someone quits their job, when it’s someone's birthday, when someone is going through a break up, when someone just got married and we even ’’fika’’ when someone dies. It's horrible!

    [​IMG]Even our prime minister "fika". It's shameful!

    4. We have this thing called föräldraförsäkring

    It means that parents can stay home from work to take care of their children. You want to hear the sick part? People actually get paid to stay at home.

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    Even dads care for their own children! Terrible.

    5. We don’t like to drink alcohol

    Unless it’s the weekend, because then we go totally bananas. On Friday and Saturday we go crazy and drink EVERYTHING! But you can’t take a glass of wine on a Tuesday because then you’re an alcoholic.

    [​IMG]Wohooo!! (but not on weekdays!)

    6. We have huge problems with Denmark

    Huge! They are so huge that we even built a bridge to Denmark. Makes no sense, right? That’s how crazy Sweden is!

    [​IMG]The Danish flag!

    7. We eat too many “semlor”

    It’s a terrible thing. We eat it on a day called “fettisdagen”. This day lasts for two months. Science can’t explain it!

    [​IMG]This is just horrible!

    8. Nobody takes the last piece of cake

    No matter how big your craving for sugar is, you simply do not take the last piece when there’s cake. You cannot do this, it’s basically illegal.

    [​IMG]Here's a Swedish pancake cake. Yep, pancake cake is actually a thing here.

    9. But hey, we don’t really like to fight

    Please don’t be mad at us. We know that the US has a long tradition of killing people all over the world, but we haven’t been to war for over 200 years. So please, be gentle. Okay?
     
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      This means .... fika time :coffee:
       
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        Of course, and with something sweet as well!
         
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          Brilliant :lunapic 130165696578242 5::lunapic 130165696578242 5::lunapic 130165696578242 5:
           
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            I reckon you're trying to confuse us. :nonofinger:

            We all know that all the media are producing fake news apart from Fox News. Mr Trump said so (I saw the Press conference :dbgrtmb: - it was the one where he asked who was asking the question and the reporter said "BBC" and Trump said "Fake!" and turned away). So what he quoted from Fox has got to be true.

            All the terrorist attacks and the hourly murders fade into insignificance when compared to the enormous prevalence of Fika. I think Fox have got a team of reporters undercover in Sweden investigating the unmitigated horrors of Fika.

            They are likely to find out the truth that children are even being indoctrinated in school in the philosophy and use of Fika. :yikes:
             
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              Just as long as they queue up nicely for it ;) :whistle:
               
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                Well my times in sweden was good :dbgrtmb: the only thing it was more expenive than the uk
                but things were well keeped so it's 10 out of 10 from me :)
                 
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                  @Jiffy Did they have good bonfires?
                   
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                    I can answer that! Always! We burn witches on them, and as everyone knows, witches are really flammable!:snork:
                     
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                      Didn't Trump's latest lie turn out to be a prophecy? The BBC is reporting riots in an area that happens to have lots of immigrants.
                       
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                        Trump stated that the Swedish government were hiding negative things related to immigrant problems from the Swedish people. The riots have been widely reported in the various media here.

                        Although the area in which the riots occurred do have a lot of people with non-Swedish origins, many were born here. So, are they immigrants?
                         
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                          I have no idea. That's why I asked the question. It's what was reported in the news.

                          I also read in the news that a far right figure has offered to pay any journalist to visit certain areas to see for themselves. Whatever that means.

                          While I do not agree with Trump, there is some indication that some trouble is being covered up. The Germans for example later admitted that attacks in various high profile German city centres on new years eve were not taken seriously at all, until the number of complaints reached a high enough level that they simply couldn't turn a blind eye.

                          Trump is a lying idiot. But he's only an idiot for not checking his facts before making blatantly erroneous claims. The lefties are also idiots, because by denying that there are any problems at all just further isolates and frustrates those that acknowledge that there are.
                           
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                          I must be honest i don't think i seen any but i did see lots of Trolls or what ever they are called on the side of the main road to Stockhom (The E4)
                           
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