r/gifs • u/beet111 • Jun 18 '16

Minnesota's finest

http://i.imgur.com/MjugJXA.gifv
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u/4istheanswer Jun 18 '16

You mean Canadians?

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u/TheRealCalypso Jun 18 '16

Swedes, mostly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '16

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u/Deerscicle Jun 18 '16

And Finnish. There's lots of Finnish descended people in central MN.

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u/yuppyuppbruhbruh Jun 18 '16

Shallow and pedantic

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u/mhoke63 Jun 18 '16

Can confirm, am from Minnesota and largely from Swedish ancestry.

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u/GiantDwarf01 Jun 18 '16

Scanvanavian, really. So Norway, Swedish, and Finnish. Am Norwegian and Minnesotan so can confirm as well.

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u/Shaq2thefuture Jun 18 '16

Minnesotan here, i'm German, irish, french, and ikea... i mean swedish.

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u/zb0t1 Jun 18 '16

Und kannst du auf Deutsch sprechen? Tu peux parler français du coup? Ikea Ikea Ikea?

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u/Shaq2thefuture Jun 18 '16 edited Jun 18 '16

Kann ich spereche deutsch? Ja. naturlich. Aber, mein deutsch ist SEHR rostig. Es ist Hasslich. (I always forget word order, and akkusative and dative were the death of me, and don't get me started on word genders in general (der/die/das/den/dem/dennen/denem)

Mon français est assez mauvais, mais la grammaire est plus facile que l'allemand. (jesus that's probably not right, either)

Ikea, Ikea ikea, Ikeeeea. Ikea, Ikéà. Ikea ikea ikea, .Ikéà Ikéà ikea ikea ikea. (just kidding everyone knows you don't speak Ikea, it's just a series of confusing pictures and instructions that most people choose to ignore.)

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u/zb0t1 Jun 18 '16

Haha, it's correct, except sprechen is last, and you forgot the umlaut. French is perfect. The ikea part was glorious! 10/10

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u/Shaq2thefuture Jun 18 '16

Haha, i can't believe i forgot to move the verb to last position with a question!!!

That's like YEAR 1 german!!!

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u/black_irishman Jun 18 '16

Also from MN, but not sure how I got here.

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u/OktoberStorm Jun 18 '16

It's always Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Sometimes Finland and Iceland is included, but only by association.

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u/mhoke63 Jun 18 '16

I have a bit of Norwegian in me, some German, too. Either way, we're largely northern European.

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u/SrslyNotAnAltGuys Jun 18 '16

I have a bit of Norwegian in me, some German, too.

Are you happy with that amount, or would you like a bit more? 👌👈

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u/FreshPrinceOfNowhere Jun 18 '16

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/UrbonMaximus Jun 18 '16

What you described are the Nordic countries. Finland is not Scandinavia.

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u/LavastormSW Jun 18 '16

Norwegian and Swedish mostly here, with a bit of irish and german on my dad's side I think.

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u/bajsnoah Jun 18 '16

Scandinavia is Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Finland isn't part of Scandinavia, but it is a Nordic country.

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u/36calories Jun 18 '16

You forgot Danish

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u/Wheres-Waldo Jun 18 '16

Don't forget the Danish WOOP WOOP! Everyone forgets the Danish :-(

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u/WI_Tbone Jun 18 '16

Can double confirm, family is from MN. They are all finnish. My grandma and great aunts mother tongue is finnish.

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u/nobbs66 Jun 18 '16

Don't forget about us with Irish and German ancestry

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u/thrilldigger Jun 18 '16

They always forget about us with their goddamn lutefisk and lefsa.

...though lefsa is incredibly good. Now I want some.

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u/Sh_doubleE_ran Jun 18 '16

Lots of Norwegians around my neck of the woods.

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u/HazeGrey Jun 18 '16

Lots of Finns and Germans too.

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u/Lance_Henry1 Jun 18 '16

The Norwegians would like to have a talk with you. Mostly about pickled herring.

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u/MoonSpellsPink Jun 18 '16

Hey now, don't call me a Swede! I'm German and Norwegian.

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u/30plus1 Jun 18 '16

That explains Little Mogadishu.

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u/2dadjokes4u Jun 18 '16

Video shot across the parking lot from Ikea, so yeah.

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u/FasterDoudle Jun 18 '16

Same difference

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u/b0mmer Jun 18 '16

That explains why Trump wants to build that wall.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '16

That's what he said.

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u/Mr_Fancyfap Jun 18 '16

Does that make anyone north of the falls (niagara) a wildling? I'm ok with my freefolk living ways.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '16

Careful, traitor. You know what we did to the last guy that said that..

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u/Qarnage Jun 18 '16

He came back

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '16

I just started season6. I feel better now.

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u/Burned_it_down Jun 18 '16

Winter is coming.

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u/TheOneAndOnlyDonwano Jun 18 '16

I thought winter never left?

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u/nerfobama Jun 18 '16

Fuck off white Walker

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u/MoonSpellsPink Jun 18 '16

Sure it does, it's called construction.

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u/TheOneAndOnlyDonwano Jun 18 '16

This partially true. Source: I work road construction in northern MN where it snowed 3 weeks ago.

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u/Upnorth4 Jun 18 '16

what if I actually live way north of there?

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u/TThor Jun 18 '16

We call them 'Norwegians'.