I was like, I'm done with all my opened windows on the screen, I've clicked the restart button and went to bed to look up things on the phone,
Suddenly WENT TO SLEEP FOR 4 HOURS
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01:50
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i thought that sentence meant "swedes of foreign ancestry", or "naturalized swedes who were once in my position as an immigrant"
well, growing up i had a swede friend from mälmo. perhaps it was too young for me to judge. i slept over at his house couple times. his parents brought us bowling once, and they did feed us - their hospitality was very hearty, not in the "i have to save my face" asian way but they served pyttipanna and spaghetti for the kids, enough to keep us happy
breakfast the morning after was self service and cleanup, it was a good experience, all in all
over the past three years i've had a boomer colleague, a norge from bergen. old, stuck in his ways. the type of person who chews snus because it "covers up the taste of the food here"
accidentally called him in the middle of the night once, and he texted me back "i'm available for a chat", i figured why not so i just called him, ended up having a 4 hour long chat, and he was surprisingly very talkative, started ranting about "bad soil quality" lol, said he actually hated the englishman who was in marketing because he "didn't do anything besides speak english, which we can too perfectly well"
"within expected range of human behavior" is how i would describe these two people
03:21
>it is almost impossible to form close friendships
well, i already have that problem regardless of whether i'm in sweden or not, so that is not a deal breaker
03:24
Swedish people are very complacent. They think Sweden is paradise on Earth. Very proud of what they achieved and are very happy to talk about it. They talk about it as if it were themselves who did it.
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