I can’t imagine many Scotts would be happy to pay £7.50 for not even a full pint of heavy though (that’s the price for 0.5L of lager in Norway). I was going to say the grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence but I suspect both countries receive sufficient rain for the colour of local vegetation not to be a major concern.
Well quite a lot if your an alcoholic from Oslo and, if you're not, then please feel feee to enlighten yourself by reading or perhaps re-reading the content of the posts in the pages preceding my post.What’s the price of beer in Norway got to do with anything?
I can’t imagine many Scotts would be happy to pay £7.50 for not even a full pint of heavy though (that’s the price for 0.5L of lager in Norway). I was going to say the grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence but I suspect both countries receive sufficient rain for the colour of local vegetation not to be a major concern.
Indeed. It has a lower suicide rate than Finland which regularly comes top in league tables of the happiest country in the world (Norway came 6th, the UK was 13th, not even in the top 10, which are mostly European). So Finland is happiest, but paradoxically has more suicides per head than Norway. I’d like us to be Norway, or pretty much any of the Nordic countries.^^ Norway certainly does not have anything close to the 'highest suicide rate in the world'. These things take a minute to check.
It is not even in the top 40 but has the same rate as Canada and Netherlands.
Well, based on the fact-light nature of your recent posts, anybody seeking enlightenment might do well to disregard those, mightn’t they?Well quite a lot if your an alcoholic from Oslo and, if you're not, then please feel feee to enlighten yourself by reading or perhaps re-reading the content of the posts in the pages preceding my post.
Indeed. It has a lower suicide rate than Finland which regularly comes top in league tables of the happiest country in the world (Norway came 6th, the UK was 13th, not even in the top 10, which are mostly European). So Finland is happiest, but paradoxically has more suicides per head than Norway. I’d like us to be Norway, or pretty much any of the Nordic countries.
Who rattled your cage?Well, based on the fact-light nature of your recent posts, anybody seeking enlightenment might do well to disregard those, mightn’t they?
In the old days a nice duel at dawn would settle the score...!
Specifics? Have you not read the posts setting you right about Norway? Not demanding rigour, but that post felt like it was straight out of the gammon playbook and sat very awkwardly with me, so I and another fishie set the record straight. No big deal, but not something I felt like ignoring without passing comment, either.Who rattled your cage?
Some specifics would be helpful or, if the content of my posts continue to fall short of the kind of rigour you demand, then by all means put me on ignore.
Life is too short to fact check prior to submitting every post although, now you have piqued my interest, I have just looked at the suicide chart by country and was intrigued to find I hadn’t even heard of six of the countries in the top ten (Eswatini).Specifics? Have you not read the posts setting you right about Norway? Not demanding rigour, but that post felt like it was straight out of the gammon playbook and sat very awkwardly with me, so I and another fishie set the record straight. No big deal, but not something I felt like ignoring without passing comment, either.
Life is too short to fact check prior to submitting every post although, now you have piqued my interest, I have just looked at the suicide chart by country and was intrigued to find I hadn’t even heard of six of the countries in the top ten (Eswatini).
My original post a bit tongue in cheek (citing the Eurovision Song Contest) to wind the Scottttts up and suicide rates are much higher in Norway than the UK so yes maybe not my finest hour but by the same token I have done worse.
Fair enough, but please consider that the ‘gammon playbook’, if it existed, would be full of dubious stats, half truths and plain untruths with which to pepper social media to get attention, or lure the credulous. We’re in a world where the powerful get to manipulate the rest of us via the medium of bare faced lies. Never has fact-checking been more important.Life is too short to fact check prior to submitting every post although, now you have piqued my interest, I have just looked at the suicide chart by country and was intrigued to find I hadn’t even heard of six of the countries in the top ten (Eswatini).
My original post a bit tongue in cheek (citing the Eurovision Song Contest) to wind the Scottttts up and suicide rates are much higher in Norway than the UK so yes maybe not my finest hour but by the same token I have done worse.
Well, that’s him told good and proper. The tots will like that one, for sure.Fair enough, but please consider that the ‘gammon playbook’, if it existed, would be full of dubious stats, half truths and plain untruths with which to pepper social media to get attention, or lure the credulous. We’re in a world where the powerful get to manipulate the rest of us via the medium of bare faced lies. Never has fact-checking been more important.
Indeed. It has a lower suicide rate than Finland which regularly comes top in league tables of the happiest country in the world (Norway came 6th, the UK was 13th, not even in the top 10, which are mostly European). So Finland is happiest, but paradoxically has more suicides per head than Norway. I’d like us to be Norway, or pretty much any of the Nordic countries.