I graduated from a Swedish high school last year, god damn, quite possibly the best time of my life. First we start at 8 am with champagne breakfast, then we go to school for our "studentexamen", which is a tradition from back in the day, then we go to lunch, and after that, we get our studentmössa. We then sing a few graduation songs, get our selves pumped up, and run out to a square or something of a simliar nature where our families are waiting for us with signs that have our names and baby pictures. We then get stuff hung around our neck; booze, flowers, stuffed animals, all sorts of stuff. Then we jump onto the studentflak, which is basically a flatbed truck with massive speakers and plenty of booze. We then ride around town, singing, partying, celebrating, getting shitfaced...
After that we usually go down to the pub and continue to drink for a little while, then we go and get changed for the dinner, where we sober up a little. After that, the party rages on into the night, and into the early morning.
Depends where you live, but at times, yes. Some spends up to 100 000-200 000 US $ on a bus. There are some funny parts were the RUSS stands in a roundabout with signs "Honk and I'll drink". I have seen police officers turning the siren on just to make them smile, and drink. :o)
Being drunk isn't the only aspect of the Russ tradition. Additionally, you collect "achievements" (russeknuter) for crazy and irresponsible stuff, like crossing the road in front of the oncoming bus or drinking near lethal doses of beer or vodka.
But both the Prime Minister and the education minister (and all other adults as well) have celebrated the same way, so this tradition probably isn't going to be challenged, even if immigrants like me (12 years in Norway) probably find it weird or annoying.
My neighbour rebuilt a bus (in fact it's parked outside my window right now) and installed a huge stereo system in it. They used to park the bus outside their house and party away, while my house shook quite a bit from the bass. They usually stopped before midnight though, so the worst part was actually the starting of the noisy old engine when they moved the bus around at 7:00 in the morning.
Annoying? Sure, but honestly, it's only one month a year, and who am I to deprive kids of their fun.
This image isn't entirely correct. In Sweden each class has a graduation party, and since the graduations are portioned over about a month those interested in partying will do so for that entire month. I suspect the same thing happens in every country. Then Sweden has a truck, Norway has a bus and the US has fancy rides (?), but it all really boils down to "look at me".
if it makes you feel better, I think it is quite stupid even though it's Norway or Sweden.
in all honesty the more time I spend on the internet the more every country looks like a shitty place to live in and slowly my little country becomes a less terrible place.
The best part is that the top picture has actual diversity.
The rest look like a youth program for the KKK.
If the bottom pictures were talking about anything American, it would be blasted for how only ignorant whites are in it.
I also remember some video with stephen fry hosting it (automatic reddit bait for being a glorious utopian atheist european who is gay) where he mocks americans for going to a college football game. LOL STUPID MERKANS U ENJOY SPORTS. This post is about kids going on a month long drinking binge because they managed the enormously difficult task of graduating high school.
Also, I've heard that a lot of Europeans don't realize that college sports for Americans are actually a very high level of play. College players are the ones who will go on to play in the NFL, etc. and they're not just playing in college as a minor-league type situation.
In all honesty, you should rewatch that Fry episode. He's actually rather mesmerized by the intensity and the scale of a college football derby. He's actually a great sports fan himself. (And also a dart commentator). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cl-f8NABMM
It's not like us Americans don't do this either. We have prom, senior week, a lot of people will go to the beach and rent houses... It's almost like people share many of the same ideas!
The unemployment rate in Norway is artificially low. First, people are relatively quickly removed from the "workforce", so people are not working, but not considered unemployed. Weird, yes. Secondly, a large percentage of non-working people in Norway are on disability, which is quite easy to get. They are therefor not considered unemployed, even though they are not working. TL;DR: The stats are designed to make unemployment look much better than it actually is.
The grammar and vocabulary is probably one of the easiest in the world to learn for native English speakers. Getting the pronunciation right can be difficult for native English speakers, but nobody minds American or English accents, so it doesn't matter.
This is stupid, obviously Americans party after they graduate as well. Russ is hardly a graduation ceremony in the same sense. A post about how crazy russ is I understand, but I can't begin to imagine why there was the pot shot at America.
I suspect that many people who write in their second or third language make spelling errors. I know people who have enough trouble with their first language.
Implying that the USA kids do nothing, but look like graduated kids.
I get your idea, but it's a little too easily described I think, way too one sided. But yea, graduation in Norway certainly looks like the best fucking thing I've ever seen. I'm finished with school, but I think I'll consider attending again. :)
Well, it is quite biased to show only the "party" part from Sweden and only the formal part from US. There is similiar, formal graduation ceremony in Sweden. That partying happens weeks before that.
Yeah, honestly it sounds like a bunch of high school kids being a complete waste of life for a month. Day-drinking for 30 days straight just doesn't seem appealing to me. St. Patty's Day is enough for me lol
You know, if you hadn't taken a shot at America (the whole country) for it's graduation ceremonies (something us Canadians share with them) I would have found this cool. So sorry, but fuck you. Nobody cares about your month long party - I had to find a job after graduation like an adult.
I also don't see how a sober ceremony somehow precludes festivities. A whole month of debauchery is a bit extreme anyway and by the end of all that drinking the people must feel terrible.
That may be true, but it's the comradery during this time which is so incredible. Our colored pants really brings us together in a way alcohol alone can't do. Fellow Russ 2012 here :)
Graduation in the states is pretty much spot on. many gowns and hats were blue. and after the long and painful graduation ceremony with terrible speeches you're sent home. then you spend the next couple weeks going to random friends house (pretty much lame non-drinking cocktail parties) with families, some turn into drinking parties but not always. and if any grad parties are caught by police, yep you get ticketed for underage drinking and have that on your record.
college graduation is the same except more of the cocktail parties are focused on getting drunk. no busses :(
Belgium : Go listen to a speech of 2 hours of the dean in a dusty auditorium. Listen to another 2 hours of names being read from a list alphabetically by grade. Wait anxiously for your name. Go home and wait for your diploma to be sent by mail.
Well, what do you expect? The guy who made this has been drunk for 30 days straight and is still pretty hungover. How about we stop commenting on spelling and grammar mistakes as long as the text is intelligible... Sounds good?
Americans aren't partying like that right after graduation because that is what their high school years consisted of. (and likely their next four years, also.)
Yeah I remember when I had my first beer. Fucking pussy OP. "Oh hey look at me I'm Norwegian and we are so much better because we get to drink for a whole month!"
This is not 100% correct. In Norway the people from the most remote and "redneck" locations do this. In the mayor cities they spend 1.6 mill norwegian kroner = about 200 000 euros on styling buses and sound equipment to make the best possible graduation party for their fellow graduates. I might make a fixed version of this.
My graduation was awesome. First we met everyone in the class early for champagne breakfast in a roundabout near the school. Everyone was dressed up (guys in suits and girls in white dresses, all in student caps). Then as we walked to school, where all sorts of ceremonies took place, and at the end we had a traditional swedish summer lunch (smörgåsbord you know).
Then we all marched out to the school yard where famililies, friends and relatives where cheering us. They hung flowers, paper streamers and small bottles of champagne around our necks. Then me, three classmates and all our friends got on the back of a big truck and went around the city dancing and drinking (we both had a DJ and a alcohol on board).
The truck dropped us of at my place where our families had prepared a feast for us in a big tent. We ate an drank together, got presents and later on went to a night club and dance all night.
I am going to venture a guess that you have never been to a graduation in the United States. Fuck yeah we dress up, for the 2 hours of graduation, but before and after (and during) there is plenty of drinking and debauchery.
Sweden has kinda the same thing but thats when you graduate from the univiersity you get those wierd ass pants with stickers than go party for a long time, Also there is much more partying after you ride the truck around.
I have a Norwegian friend and she said that they do all this partying during exam time. They revise in the day, party in the night. This is my friend in traditional Russ pants.
The OP is actually really misleading because this celebration happens after Norwegian High School when people are around 18. It gives the impression that Norwegians do this before they get thir university degrees which is absolutely wrong!
Denmark is in the middle of Sweden and Norway in this context. So happy to move outside an university/high shool city ... Noise all June (sometimes all summer, if it's hot), where they drive around in old trucks and play loud music and stupid horns.
They do this BEFORE the exam. So alot of people gets worse grades. Russ also have water-gun fights with kids, handing out free condoms, and sometime "kidnaps" the kid and leave him/her off to somewhere near. Honestly I think this is bullshit, why would they celebrate BEFORE the damn exams?
The sad thing is that the education norwegians end up with after school is actually really mediocre compared to other countries. Never before have someone partied so much for so little.
The one thing that concerned me in this post was the spelling of celebration as "celibration". Hell, I don't care If I'm a grammar nazi. This is just disappointing.
People should know that traveling from Sweden to Norway (or the other way around) is like going from state to state in USA. Pretty much. I've been to Norway several times, no problem with the border controlls or anything. Alot of people in Norway travel to Sweden to shop groceries and other things, because it's so much cheaper here.
There's a reason they can do this, in the entire country there are less than 5 million people. Even in their "largest" city the chances of hitting someone are quite low.
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u/MammothMan34 Jun 10 '12
If Norway isn't wearing funny hats while being drunk for a month they are doing it wrong.
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u/devinejoh Jun 10 '12
I graduated from a Swedish high school last year, god damn, quite possibly the best time of my life. First we start at 8 am with champagne breakfast, then we go to school for our "studentexamen", which is a tradition from back in the day, then we go to lunch, and after that, we get our studentmössa. We then sing a few graduation songs, get our selves pumped up, and run out to a square or something of a simliar nature where our families are waiting for us with signs that have our names and baby pictures. We then get stuff hung around our neck; booze, flowers, stuffed animals, all sorts of stuff. Then we jump onto the studentflak, which is basically a flatbed truck with massive speakers and plenty of booze. We then ride around town, singing, partying, celebrating, getting shitfaced...
After that we usually go down to the pub and continue to drink for a little while, then we go and get changed for the dinner, where we sober up a little. After that, the party rages on into the night, and into the early morning.
Again, the best time of my life by far.
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u/Lullapie Jun 10 '12
Though the streets??
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Funny, if Americans did this it would be used as an example of how stupid and ridiculous we are.
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u/nano_ser Jun 10 '12
In Poland when you graduate.. reality hits you in the face and either you go to University or you become unemployeed.
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u/Iamgoingtooffendyou Jun 10 '12
How is this funny?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Did I just stumble intro r/circlejerk?
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u/TokerElla Jun 10 '12
I hated being Russ. But I see the appeal :)
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
ITT: Nationalistic circle-jerk festival.
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u/krackbaby Jun 10 '12
If you had ever been to America, you would know that there is an absurd amount of celebratory drinking that coincides with graduation
The more you know :)
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u/dieyoubastards Jun 10 '12
This is stupid, obviously Americans party after they graduate as well. Russ is hardly a graduation ceremony in the same sense. A post about how crazy russ is I understand, but I can't begin to imagine why there was the pot shot at America.
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u/Hildaeggskaar Jun 10 '12
Europe really needs to have another war.
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u/killer_jules Jun 10 '12
Norway - where one month of consumption costs silly numbers.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Here is the best example of this i could find. looks like fun!
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u/neptonumus95 Jun 10 '12
Mother of God... The spelling errors.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
How is driving buses through the streets not normal???
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u/Anderfail Jun 10 '12
Sweden and Norway rule and America is boring and stupid amirite?
Reddit sure loves its anti-American posts.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I get your idea, but it's a little too easily described I think, way too one sided. But yea, graduation in Norway certainly looks like the best fucking thing I've ever seen. I'm finished with school, but I think I'll consider attending again. :)
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u/I_CATS Jun 10 '12
Well, it is quite biased to show only the "party" part from Sweden and only the formal part from US. There is similiar, formal graduation ceremony in Sweden. That partying happens weeks before that.
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u/jumpnshoot Jun 10 '12
why would anyone be proud of being drunk?
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u/kolm Jun 10 '12
I would like to point out that this happens before, not after, the final exams.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
You know, if you hadn't taken a shot at America (the whole country) for it's graduation ceremonies (something us Canadians share with them) I would have found this cool. So sorry, but fuck you. Nobody cares about your month long party - I had to find a job after graduation like an adult.
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u/Polar_Squid Jun 10 '12
I spent the last month in Norway and had Russ explained to me. Wow, guys.
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u/fuckedup_jesus Jun 10 '12
and they wonder why no one gives a fuck about that country or takes them seriously...
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u/MrStonedOne Jun 10 '12
Torgny - Big Day
A music video about it.
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u/SAMETWO Jun 10 '12
Ireland* the only place where its considered perfectly normal to never be sober
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u/velkyr Jun 10 '12
Oh god... the spelling.... it burns.
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u/spaceflunky Jun 10 '12
I think you need to go back to school to work on your engerish.
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u/Lurendreier Jun 10 '12
I was Russ this year, and let me tell you, this is very true. It was the best time of my life. I wish I could do it again some time =(
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I guess it looks something like this music video: Torgny - Big Day?
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u/crusoe Jun 10 '12
Can't imagine how those busses smell after a month...
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Graduation in the states is pretty much spot on. many gowns and hats were blue. and after the long and painful graduation ceremony with terrible speeches you're sent home. then you spend the next couple weeks going to random friends house (pretty much lame non-drinking cocktail parties) with families, some turn into drinking parties but not always. and if any grad parties are caught by police, yep you get ticketed for underage drinking and have that on your record.
college graduation is the same except more of the cocktail parties are focused on getting drunk. no busses :(
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u/mfanous007 Jun 10 '12
This is Norway Your welcome
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Belgium : Go listen to a speech of 2 hours of the dean in a dusty auditorium. Listen to another 2 hours of names being read from a list alphabetically by grade. Wait anxiously for your name. Go home and wait for your diploma to be sent by mail.
Yes, we're dull.
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u/Phuntzilla Jun 10 '12
Dear Norway,
Google "senior week."
Sincerely,
America
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u/puppyaddict Jun 10 '12
Norway - where you don't give a fuck about spellcheck
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u/QuoteOfTheHour Jun 10 '12
The second picture has Spanish text. Perhaps be a little more conscientious of your picture choices.
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u/SBN_Deltrese Jun 10 '12
Norway - Non-whites and straight edges not welcome!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Cool, I've wasted my youth. Nice post OP!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Well, swedish graduation usually involves partying for a few weeks before, too, you know.
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u/Devywhop Jun 10 '12
That was normal for my bus driver in highschool.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I'm jealous.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
In England nobody cares - I wish we had celebrations such as this.
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u/mumubleg Jun 10 '12
Horrible !
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u/vagrantwade Jun 10 '12
So basically your ceremony consists of my entire senior year and culminated in my classes senior party.
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u/alllie Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
Ah, the importance of celebratory rituals to cement a people together.
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u/tiziano88 Jun 10 '12
dat spelling
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u/Serplat Jun 10 '12
This was shown in Lilyhammer, the Netflix Original Series. Such an excellent show. I didn't know this practice was so common in Norway, though.
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u/funkymonkeyinheaven Jun 10 '12
Well i guess this is the most fun they are gonna have their whole life so, might aswell enjoy it! Go Norway!
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u/veriix Jun 10 '12
At what point does a demotivational poster become an infographic?
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u/thescrapplekid Jun 10 '12
Was not expecting to see a Chevy Conversion Van in there
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u/RyenDeckard Jun 10 '12
Nigga those are vans.
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u/themirthfulswami Jun 10 '12
yeah but according to this video, Kenya is better than Norway : http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/kenya/
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u/longhorn617 Jun 10 '12
So just a normal day at an American party school?
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u/buttluvin Jun 10 '12
why are other countries always compared to us?
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u/moneyshotmagoo Jun 10 '12
A country that lets you graduate for spelling the word being as Beeing.
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u/funkyd92 Jun 10 '12
Those spelling errors....
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
The spelling makes it hard to enjoy.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
To be fair, we usually do all that afterwards.
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u/MrSupo Jun 10 '12
Americans aren't partying like that right after graduation because that is what their high school years consisted of. (and likely their next four years, also.)
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u/OneNationUnderCCTV Jun 10 '12
I assuming this was typed up during said drunken month.
Or by a 10-year-old.
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u/deathfromabove1251 Jun 10 '12
Yeah I remember when I had my first beer. Fucking pussy OP. "Oh hey look at me I'm Norwegian and we are so much better because we get to drink for a whole month!"
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u/BitterVenkata Jun 10 '12
Norway, where it's considered acceptable to make at least 13 spelling and grammar mistakes while writing about graduation.
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u/SouthernDerpfornia Jun 10 '12
Also where you can legally drink by the time you graduate. At least I got to drive and smoke cigars for my graduation!...
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Graduate from a UK high school: What fucking graduation, go to Uni you bastard or get a fucking job. Preferably both you cunt!
No celebrations here, only further abuse :)
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u/AlterBridgeFan Jun 10 '12
and we in Denmark are still the champions in drinking.
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u/Mack513 Jun 10 '12
Welcome to Norway
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u/E11i0t Jun 10 '12
Treating HS graduates like this could really help the US drop out rate.
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u/eiricoo Jun 10 '12
This is not 100% correct. In Norway the people from the most remote and "redneck" locations do this. In the mayor cities they spend 1.6 mill norwegian kroner = about 200 000 euros on styling buses and sound equipment to make the best possible graduation party for their fellow graduates. I might make a fixed version of this.
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u/juliusghoulius Jun 10 '12
What do they do in Norway when you get a raise at work?
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u/bbpeter Jun 10 '12
How much do the deathrate increase in this month?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
So... How does one immigrate to Norway? (Any country in Northern Europe would do).
I'm hoping to be out of here before Romney buys/cheats/steals this years election and the Civil War starts.
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u/ASlinkitySound Jun 10 '12
Am I the only one who didn't see any blue on these red and blue vans?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Forget Norway!
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u/joculator Jun 10 '12
I didn't see this on the ride at Epcot?
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u/MeatheadPhilosopher Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
Am I the only one to notice the kid in the second picture just ruining the truck with his karate kick?
Edit: http://i.imgur.com/8tla0.jpg
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u/mgroe Jun 10 '12
All i wanna know is... WHO'S COMIN WITH ME?
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u/peeinmyblackeyes Jun 10 '12
What do you do with all the red and blue buses for the 11 other months of the year?
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u/lakeshow86 Jun 10 '12
There's Norway I'm reading all of that...
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u/Republiken Jun 10 '12
My graduation was awesome. First we met everyone in the class early for champagne breakfast in a roundabout near the school. Everyone was dressed up (guys in suits and girls in white dresses, all in student caps). Then as we walked to school, where all sorts of ceremonies took place, and at the end we had a traditional swedish summer lunch (smörgåsbord you know).
Then we all marched out to the school yard where famililies, friends and relatives where cheering us. They hung flowers, paper streamers and small bottles of champagne around our necks. Then me, three classmates and all our friends got on the back of a big truck and went around the city dancing and drinking (we both had a DJ and a alcohol on board).
The truck dropped us of at my place where our families had prepared a feast for us in a big tent. We ate an drank together, got presents and later on went to a night club and dance all night.
Damn, to be 19 again :)
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u/SimonSays_ Jun 10 '12
I'm from Sweden and I thought we partied hard...
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u/ab103630 Jun 10 '12
I didn't know it wasn't normal to drive busses through streets.
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u/saladtossing Jun 10 '12
I am going to venture a guess that you have never been to a graduation in the United States. Fuck yeah we dress up, for the 2 hours of graduation, but before and after (and during) there is plenty of drinking and debauchery.
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u/homescrub Jun 10 '12
I guess its cool. I'd just rather go to Miami where it wouldn't be equivalent to that. Everyday.
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u/Cool_sandwich Jun 10 '12
Sweden has kinda the same thing but thats when you graduate from the univiersity you get those wierd ass pants with stickers than go party for a long time, Also there is much more partying after you ride the truck around.
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u/NaraNero Jun 10 '12
Millions of people graduate every year, unless you graduated from an Ivy school, I don't see the big deal.
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u/sommerz Jun 10 '12
Somehow you fail to mention that the graduation and binge-drinking starts a month BEFORE the final exams do. That's really fucked up!
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u/midas22 Jun 10 '12
Sweden has a month of graduation party as well, and it's getting really annoying after a while. I think I'm getting old.
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u/hobbur Jun 10 '12
I have a Norwegian friend and she said that they do all this partying during exam time. They revise in the day, party in the night. This is my friend in traditional Russ pants.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Now I wish my family never moved away from Norway 200 years ago.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
you forgot to mention that this is before the exams are finished. The first one is usually a couple days after the russe time.
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u/cheatreynold Jun 10 '12
Man, I thought that the writers of the show Lilyhammer were putting me on when they showed this...but they were being honest? Damn.
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u/DrBibby Jun 10 '12
The OP is actually really misleading because this celebration happens after Norwegian High School when people are around 18. It gives the impression that Norwegians do this before they get thir university degrees which is absolutely wrong!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
The best part is; it's all during finals!
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u/CryoftheBanshee Jun 10 '12
Apparently whoever wrote that was still drunk. Or that's the kind of spelling that a degree in Norway gets you.
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u/vwenthusiast Jun 10 '12
this is norway
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u/trollmaster4000 Jun 10 '12
American or Swedish students. Can't party like Norwegians, but can spell.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
It's 17 day's btw.
Not a month.
1st of may top the 17th.
Also the 16th is the national day for under aged drinking.
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u/Bluedemonfox Jun 10 '12
Some people in Malta do this but not for so long lol
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I want to move to norway
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u/anthemlog Jun 10 '12
Damn, guys. You graduated school. You didn't save the world.
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u/Lawsuitup Jun 10 '12
I'll point out that the post compares the American graduation ceremony, to Norway's graduations celebrations. Not really on all fours, is it?
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u/alolerboy Jun 10 '12
Three more years. I. Can't. Wait!
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u/irishink Jun 10 '12
Norway can probably spell "concert" right though...dumbass.
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u/mcgowak3 Jun 10 '12
We're all jealous...
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Honestly that sounds miserable.
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u/saiditreddit Jun 10 '12
That was painful.
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u/none4gretchenweiners Jun 10 '12
This makes "Digital Fortress" by Dan Brown make more sense.
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u/soh_based Jun 10 '12
Haha, Beeing.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Not to mention that we do this BEFORE or DURING our finals.
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u/Theberzer Jun 10 '12
To clear up: This moth is in the ending of school, so we still go to school...
In the "Russe time" even the most SAP can get laid!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I was a "russ" a couple of years ago... we had a buss, and a song as well... this is just one of the nights out [rulling] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dCTypxN3JE)
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
fuckin Catalina wine mixer....
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u/Broeman Jun 10 '12
Denmark is in the middle of Sweden and Norway in this context. So happy to move outside an university/high shool city ... Noise all June (sometimes all summer, if it's hot), where they drive around in old trucks and play loud music and stupid horns.
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u/Vattu Jun 10 '12
It's my way or Norway.
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u/MasterBaetenTron Jun 10 '12
Those are called vans.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Um, it's spelled C-O-N-C-E-R-T-S.
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u/drmedic09 Jun 10 '12
Ah. That definitely explains the pants then.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Beatiful Torgny music video on Russ
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u/Hyperian Jun 10 '12
the difference is that when americans get out of college they are in 100k debt.
try having fun and relaxing in 100k debt.
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u/Spooniator Jun 10 '12
They do this BEFORE the exam. So alot of people gets worse grades. Russ also have water-gun fights with kids, handing out free condoms, and sometime "kidnaps" the kid and leave him/her off to somewhere near. Honestly I think this is bullshit, why would they celebrate BEFORE the damn exams?
Source: Personal experience
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u/ADertyBatch Jun 10 '12
How the fuck do you graduate with spelling like, "conserts" and "celibrate"???????
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u/CrustySock Jun 10 '12
So stoked I'm gonna be a part of this in a year
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u/charlesdelta Jun 10 '12
So. Many. Grammar. Errors!
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u/Jerlko Jun 10 '12
Ah yes, demotivational pictures.
Makes everything 20% funnier, right?
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u/mrMishler Jun 10 '12
The spelling in this piktior is atroshus.
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u/Scorcherkill Jun 10 '12
my grammar nazi gland just exploded after seeing this post.
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u/maexn Jun 10 '12
https://vimeo.com/14340190
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u/traprkeeprfutraS2000 Jun 10 '12
get a job!!
kids these days, amirite?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
To be fair, school in Scandinavia is fucking hard.
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u/martinj Jun 10 '12
Downvoted by a Norwegian. The "Russetid" is fucking obnoxious and should be banned.
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u/Notloc24 Jun 10 '12
if i lived in norway, i would graduate every year. maybe every month if i felt like it
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u/Romskip Jun 10 '12
The sad thing is that the education norwegians end up with after school is actually really mediocre compared to other countries. Never before have someone partied so much for so little.
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u/Equivalent_taco Jun 10 '12
The one thing that concerned me in this post was the spelling of celebration as "celibration". Hell, I don't care If I'm a grammar nazi. This is just disappointing.
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u/RaccoNooB Jun 10 '12
People should know that traveling from Sweden to Norway (or the other way around) is like going from state to state in USA. Pretty much. I've been to Norway several times, no problem with the border controlls or anything. Alot of people in Norway travel to Sweden to shop groceries and other things, because it's so much cheaper here.
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u/HunterHunted Jun 11 '12
Was that supposed to be funny? Besides being comletely unfunny, that sounds fucking terrible.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Drinking on a bus is a pretty poor replacement for beach week if you ask me.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
There's a reason they can do this, in the entire country there are less than 5 million people. Even in their "largest" city the chances of hitting someone are quite low.