We have a similar North-South rivalry going on in England. I'm from up north but live on the south coast. Every day I have to put up with their appaling accents. We have jokes like:

"The only good thing to come out of the south is the M1 motorway going north"

Tore, the Swedes CAN BE a bit anal, though, can't they - what with their liquor quotas and sqeaky-clean, holier than thou image.


>Tore that looks just like Portuguese and Spanish.
>You know what you should do if you see a Spanish drawing?
>Throw him his family. :-)
>He also have a saying that goes more or less like this.
>From Spain neither good wind, neither good marriage.
>meaning that from Spain nothing good comes. :-)
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>>No matter how stupid people are, it's amazing what thay can accomplish. (duck) We have the never-ending jokes between Norwegians and Swedes, you know. The Swedes only have one thing which is better in Sweden than in Norway, namely neighbours. :-)
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>>Around 1970 Sweden shifted from driving on the left side of the road, to the right side. A very big operation, and the joke of course was that they should do the change gradually. and start with the buses and trucks a few days before the private cars .....
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>>NB! Do you know what they say about driving in England? "Right is wrong, and left is correct." :-))