“Still not over the American woman who was super surprised to see so many men walking around with strollers and generally looking after their children alone during her travels through the Nordic countries.”

Bolognese sauce: https://satwcomic.com/the-implication-of-that

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    All scandinavians has those (fjällkniv, morakniv,…) but the finnish are portrayed, in Scandinavia, as the most isolated/laconic people,the most “manly” ones, hence the knife. Swedes were portrayed as the gayest in the nineties at least (very “woke”), and so on. It’s just cultural stereotypes.

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      Thanks for these insights, TIL.

      …I want a Scandinavian boyfriend now, these knives are really nice!

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      Swedes were portrayed as the gayest in the nineties at least (very “woke”), and so on.

      Also because the way their version of the “Scandinavian language” is very flamboyant