American Reacts to Norwegian Memes | #11
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Norwegian memes have the amazing ability to be funny, entertaining, and educational. That is why today I am very excited to enjoy some funny Norwegian memes. Also I will hopefully gain insight into the Norwegian culture. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Im currently dying at 30c here in northern Norway. I am dreaming about winter. Give me -20c instead of +30c. At least when its cold I can just put more clothes on.
The Danish national flag is the oldest in the world, from the twelve hundreds.
I was 8 months pregnant last time I went skiing, with my son in a 'pulk'. Got more clothes though.... 😂
The first one is hyperbole. We've had sun 24 hours a day and over 20°C for like six weeks now. I am melting over here!
4:10 It makes sense once you realize that the sea is a natural highway. To get to the northernmost part of the pensinsular the Swedes would have to traverse a wild mountainous terrain with no roads whilst the Norwegians could just cruise along the coast.
It's super warm in the North right now !!
We have 25% sales tax on almost everything. That meme is only focusing on electric cars.
Except food
@@kristinehansen. Jepp...er det 8% på noe mat? Frukt og slikt?
@@TomKirkemo-l5c 12,5%
We Norwegans pay road tax trough the cars insurance, and in the cities there are no free parking.
@@Vader_1974 Jupp...
Now it is 30 celsius in northern norway ❤
KNM Deathstar wasn't supposed to be unveiled until King Haralds 90th birthday
😂
Those darn rebels leaked it!🤬
Denmark has the oldest national flag in the world. I guess the rest of us nordics just assumed that is what a national flag looks like.
We can not make a norwegian flag when Denmark occopy our country, and then the sweeds😂
No norway was a part of denmark in the 1800s, then when we were released we were under the sweedish union. When we were finally free we added another blue cross in thr middle of the danish flag
@@nugo344 You should reread Norwegian history, cause almost all of your statements are not true.
1. Norway was in union with Denmark until early 1814, when Norway (minus the counties of Jarlsberg and Laurvig) were taken from Denmark and given to Sweden, we were not released. This was because Denmark had supported Napoleon in the wars. Jarlsberg and Laurvig "rejoined" Norway in 1817.
2. The union with Sweden was a personal union, meaning we had the same monarch, but our own boundaries, laws, and interests.
3. The Norwegian flag was approved for civilian use by royal order in council on 13 July 1821, almost 100 years before our "freedom" in 1905. The national and merchant flag for Norway from 1844 to 1899 was the flag we have now, but with a mix of that flag and the Swedish one in top left quadrant, that mix is also known as "sildesalaten". In 1899 the Norwegian parliament abolished the sildesalat from the Norwegian flag. The Swedes kept it in their flags until 1905.
@@monicabredenbekkskaar1612 That's exactly what we did though. The Norwegian flag of today was approved for civilian use by royal decree in 1821 and from 1844 was the national and merchant flag with the union mark called sildesalaten in top corner. Norwegian parliament abolished the union mark from the flag in 1899.
@@Aremeriel why would i read Norwegian histroy at all? I don't give a shit what year the royal family did what in jarlsberg blah blah. All i did was simplify why we have a cross. If you wanna nerd Norwegian histroy, fine by me, but don't go around ordering people to do something because rhey lack some details
The cross in the flag is called "The Nordic Cross". When Norway got its flag in 1821, they decided that it should have the colours of liberty; the red, the white and the blue. The flag is a deep red, with a white nordic cross as a memory to the danish union, while the blue was a humble gesture to our new union with Sweden.
The nordic cross is carried in the flags of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Åland and The Farao Islands.
Daneborg, the Danish national flag, is the worlds oldest national flag. Then Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland followed. Norway had the first nordic cross flag with three colours.
The dimentions of the Norwegian National Flag are actually quite simple; 6-1-2-1-12 by 6-1-2-1-6. This means 6 red, 1 white, 2 blue, 1 white, 12 red x 6 red, 1 white, 2 blue, 1 white, 6 red.
Rigth now, according to the Norwegian weather service...at 11:37 local time, it's 82F in Alta, Finnmark Norway. That is faaar north, I guess there isn't much snow up there. ;)
Can confirm. Not much snow up here. ;)
@@karinaeriksen403 Hehe...antok det.
It's warmer up in the north rigth npw than down here, 1 1/2 hour north east of Oslo. :)
I'm here now (Alta) visiting inlaws and can confirm. 28°C now and back home in Oslo it's raining and
I live here. No snow yet.
@@spotter113 In Alta? Here in the central east we are under 0C at nigth. But no snow here either. :)
Norway has found phosfate 4.5 km deep. With today’s technology we can only extract 1,5 km. We haven’t started extractions yet. The whole deposit is worth more than the oil extract for the last 55 years. We’re now in shape to have a wealth fund worth over 5 trillion dollars by 2050😊
During Christmas we only get the 24th, 25th, 26th, 31st, and 1st of january off iirc. But the rest is still considered Christmas, and most people take that time off (they use the rest vacation time for that year).
Well, - today it’s like 82F/28C in Tromsø, - so NO!! It’s not like that 😊😊😊
Norway have at least 2 companies, that produce military equipment for 'half' the world.
"Raufoss ammunition" which make a lot of different ammunition.
And then we have "Kongsberg" That make a lot of high tech equipment.
Some of which are used in US fighters, and other military vehicles.
08:59 Norway before the oil money had the tenth highest gdp in the world
And we just put the oil money in a giant multi trillion dollar piggy bank
Yes, we have noticed the similarities with the Danish flag...
Norway was owned by Denmark for 300 years, which ended in 1814 (may 17th) when Sweden then owned us until 1905, though we were more free when the swedes owned us.
the perfect song if ur from Norway and is on vacation in Sweden : VI KAN KJØPE HELE SVERIGE! 3:04 oh and if Russia tries too go too war with Norway Ha nice Shot we got weapons near them and We have languages That have our back 4:12 on Saturday it’s free parking and All the other days it isn’t 4:56 and yes Christmas break is from 4-11 Of December too January 2nd 6:53 I’m A Sami and I’m Finnish and Norwegian ask me anything I’ll maybe answer 7:44 denmark came up with the cross flag first!
Ok, so in northern norway at summer time there is no snow. And a lot of times we are hotter than southern norway- We have had like 25-30 degrees celsius for like 2 months now. Even tho our summer is shorter, it is mostly just as intense as in the south
as a northern norwegian i can say with absolute certainty that the snow in the north melts around early to mid may
10:57 I'm not sure myself, either. But I think it might (big emphasis on might) reference the Norwegian Snipers during WW2 that - if I remember correctly from what I heard a long time ago - managed to fend off the Germans that heavily outnumbered the Norwegian snipers. I honestly am not sure, though, but that's the first thing that I can think of based on the fact that the Death Star is sniping a world from a far distance.
I live in Northern Norway and we have had 25 degrees Celsius this week. There is snow in the mountains though, and a typical summer up here is around 15 Celsius give or take.
In Norway prison is still looked down upon as a downgrade since even though you live comfortably, you loose your freedom, and maybe some respect from some people.
The reason we can have a prison system that prisoners can live comfortably in is that we focus on rehabilitation, and you can also live comfortably outside of prison.
Not snow now, only on the higest tops.
06:56 Yes, pretty much, although for adults it depends largely on several factors, like the workplace you work at, your amount of days off still available to you, how much you wish you work, and more.
Fun fact, the part of Norway that touches Russia used to be owned by Finland, but Russia took it, and then later gave it to Norway.
Wow I didn’t know that and I’m from Norway ✨
This summer we had a fantastic weather. 25-30 + the whole time ❤
In the North ❤
04:57 Ok, I had to look up the free parking because this is the first I'd heard about it. Turns out that, according to this article from TU (back in 2018) that I'm reading, some cities do offer free parking for electric cars, however, these are generally only municipal parking sones, while private operators parking sones (I assume this means parking spots owned by businesses, etc.) may charge electric cars for parking if they wish.
I found another article from Norsk Elbilforening back in 2022, still out of date, but much more recent compared to the one from TU, on this article it shows where you have free parking for electric cars, where they charge up to 50% of the regular parking prices, and where they charge 100% of the regular parking prices. Based on this article, - where there's only listed 4 places with free parking, 13 places that's within 50% (not free, but also not over 50%), and with a whopping 42 places that charge full price, - it would seem that what I've been hearing over the years since they first started selling electric cars in Norway has been true. That being that they started out with insane benefits for electric car owners but, then over time, slowly took away one benefit after the other as electric cars got more and more popular and plentiful on the roads. I think this is largely due to the fact that they likely realized it wouldn't be feasible to continue providing the same insane amount of benefits when there were so many more hundreds of thousands of electric car owners now, compared to back when they first announced the many benefits.
The rest of the world do really look up to Norway, at least if you considder North to be up.
We have the most northern most settlement with a permanent population. Longyearbyen, Svalbard.
Even if you considder South to be up, then we are also being looked up at, since we have Queen Maud Land, Peter I Island, and Bouvet Island.
First obviously Norge. The most beautiful of them all. Island is Norwegian vikings finding new land.
i live middle of norway, the thin part, Nordland, mo i rana, polar circle, and the snow is gone, but u can still see some at the top of nearby mountains, it'll prolly disappear real soon, and then end of september early october it'll start snowing again, something around there. Probably some more snow top of Norway, but not many ppl live there, above Tromsø, it's mostly big plains and reindeers, and drunk ppl watching the reindeers n shit like that
The Danish flag was the first one with a cross. The Dannebrog was first seen in the 13th century. Sweden got it's blue and yellow flag in the 16th century. Norway was in a union with Denmark and had the same flag and we wanted to show our independence from Denmark by changing the flag. The winning suggestion was the one drawing a smaller blue cross within the white cross. That brought continuity while we showed we weren't part of Denmark anymore.
Sadly short after Norway got independence from Denmark in 1814 Norway was given to Sweden as part of the negotiations after the Napoleonic wars. Sweden lost Finland to Russia during the Napoleonic wars after Russia invaded Sweden. Sweden didn't accept Norwegian independence and invaded Norway in 1814. Then we got into a forced union with them which lasted until 1905. During that time Norway had it's regular new flag, but with half of the the Swedish flag in the upper right corner. Sweden had it's regular blue and yellow flag with half of the the Norwegian flag in the upper right corner.
So we can say that Denmark and Sweden brought the flags with crosses in the Nordic countries. Finland got it's flag in 1918 when they got independence from Russia. Iceland got it's flag in 1913.
Other countries European with crosses in their flag are Scotland, Northern Ireland, England (combined United Kingdom), Switzerland, Greece, Georgia, Faroe island, Åland islands, Some countries have smaller crosses in the central shield part of their flag like Slovakia and Serbia.
Usually northern Norway is quite cold, and you can get snow st sny part of the year, even during summer.
That much snow however...
Also it *can* get relatively hot too, especially due to climate change...
And it is right now.
5:38 Only for electric cars....for now.
We of course have sales tax and road tax in Norway.
But electric cars used to be excepted.
And still have really, really, really good terms.
The no taxes, free parking etc. only applied to electrical cars. This was done to promote people buying those cars. Now 90% of new cars sold are electric so the benefits are or will be removed.
Norway like to use both a carrot and a stick to change people's behavior. Offering less taxes to promote certain sales has always been a very useful carrot. We low less taxes.
Prisoners in Norway are in prison, and every prison is not so nice, but the focus is on rehabilitation.
It could be that the Star Wars link to the Norwegian army is that we have a fantasy army, i. e. almost non-existent. Our army is so small these days. Norway have about 25.000 active personell. It can be increased to about 83.000 through mobilization.
Our navy has 5 frigates, 6 missile torpedo boats and 6 submarines. We have 25 F-35 fighter jets which will increase to 52 as we're giving our F-16 fighters to the Ukraine. Norway just ordered 52 Leopard 2A7 battle tanks to replace our old Leopard 2 battle tanks.
Norway's goal in case of invasion is to be able to hold the Russians for just 3 days until reinforcements arrive from our NATO Allies. Since our terrain is to hard to fight in and Norway is so narrow it's expected the Russians can only capture most of Finnmark before they're stopped with NATO reinforcements.
Having said that Norway are producing one of the most advanced battle systems in the world for anti-aircraft (NASAMS), artillery ammo etc. So Norway could have used our weath to become a formidable opponent to any country. So far it's only fantasy like Reagan's Starwars SDI defense system was against nuclear missiles in the 1980's.
Looking at the map of Norway cutting off Denmark and Finland. "Always is a very long time"
We have free buses from Norway to Sweden for those who want to go shopping 👍
I do belive the bus from Trondheim to Storlien is not free anymore!
@@karstenstormiversen4837 it is if you shop for more than 200 NOK at konsum i think you get the bus free.
Have we noticed? In school we have to learn all the flags, names and capitals of all European nations and every important nations outside Europe...
No sales tax, no road tax and free parking applies to EV's in this context... Or, well, it was so when this meme was made...
Norway doesent have a big or super advanced Army. But we have due to harsh climate better special forces than the navy seals.belive it or not the u.s has started sending their special forces to Norway for training in these conditions. England and other countries aswell. My former teatcher was in the norweagon special forces and told me that the navy seals where not that well prepped and trained for different situations and climates.
11:00 and i have heard that a f*cking penguin is in the Norwegian army
1:27 it’s Not Snow in Norway now
Yes, has always been norwegian and saami coastline
86 degrees F here in the North right now. Don't think we have to worry about snow 😂
Edit: Global warming is awesome. For us.
"I like to think we don't invade other countries just for their oil"
*Iraq: 👋*
Before 1939 and the Winter war with Soviet, Finland had a coast upp north. To the north was Finland's only ice-free port in the Arctic, Petsamo. The Finns lacked the manpower to defend it fully, as the main front was distant at the Karelian Isthmus. In the battle of Petsamo, the Soviet 104th Division attacked the Finnish 104th Independent Cover Company. The Finns abandoned Petsamo and concentrated on delaying actions. The area was treeless, windy, and relatively low, offering little defensible terrain. The almost constant darkness and extreme temperatures of the Lapland winter benefited the Finns, who executed guerrilla attacks against Soviet supply lines and patrols. As a result, the Soviet movements were halted by the efforts of one-fifth as many Finns.
My grandmother lived in Petsamo and had to flee to the south of Finland.
It was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1944. Greedy Bas*****.
We having five weeks of holiday. Three are forced too take out in the summer by the arbeidsmiljøloven (the Working Environment Act) not too save up the days over years and it's just for the health and productivity. Make alot of sense because it's been 6 months without any seriously holidays without the weekend. May could have some red days that's help you out little bit too boost your energy up till June, july and August.
Then we having two weeks left. If there are some red days (for example thursday) many would take out extra long weekend and then save the rest of it too christmas. We would normally have three holidays (red days) in Norway, but could also take out rest of the 2 weeks that's left or if we had been had overtime we could also take out everything at that moment.
So very often it could lead into many days with holidays because the weekend, red days etc.
I'm feeling little bit bad for American people who having two and three jobs and not getting more holidays.
I wouldn't be survive that specially when we are thinking about the long days you guys having.
Late us be honest about the flags... norwegian is the best!
And for the wealth we had in our earlier days Norwegians have been very humble about it because janteloven.
Even as a norwegian i didn't know that we were so wealthy even before the oil because it's never been really talked about we had always had that in school that we were poor or less the average then with rest of the countries, but that's not true.
But it's one of the good thing i love about Norway. How humble we are about it.
You should not think that you are something! This is rule number one in the janteloven!
Never been talking about that we have been wealthy earlier days, but like the video you did watch we kinda always been wealthy so that's the reason alot of people still belives we were poor in the earlier days. Even today people don't like too be talking about the oilfund etc. because Norwegian government are pretending it does not exist (too cool the economy down) and just taken the money from the fiscal rule we can be spending money with.
And yeah we did not long time ago discovered phosphate that's worth most likely between $1 and 3 trillion in todays value.
Some estimates there should been about $2 trillion in value, and we had alot of smaller discoveries about $10 billions and $100-200 billions.
theres not free parking everywhere, alot of parkings require certain apps
I did give birth to my son 3 june i Harstad, that day it did snow. But it is not normal on that time.
About the flags they forgot the Faroese lag and the one from Ålandsøerne. Ant then there are the one from Greenland, the Sami flag and the island kvens flag. And Denmark has the oldest flag, in the world
Norwegian military is quite high tech
All three countries have their centers of power and largest population in the south. In Sweden and Finland there were large forest areas that bounded the country to the north. In Norway it was easy to travel further north because we are a coastal nation. The area between the countries in the north was largely wasteland, populated only by nomadic Sami. During the Viking Age, Norwegians and Sami agreed on where the border between the lands of the two peoples was. The Danes who controlled Norway for 500 years had no qualms about colonizing the Sami's land, and it was easier to do it from the sea than it was for our neighbours; through the Swedish and Finnish forests. That is why Norway has such a long coastline. It is really the country of two peoples.
Norway and Sweden are separated by a mountain range, which forms a natural border. Sweden and Finland also expanded into Sapmi, and both countries have at one point had contact with the sea in the north. For a short period, Sweden had a small part of today's Norway, but was unable to hold on to it. Finland's contact with the sea is today part of Russia.
Pregnancy is not a sickness
5:14 I wish
Has the sea ice broken yet , has not been home in years.
So you haven`t been home since the last ice age, because that is when the last ice broke along the norwegian coast
No idea what that Bernie Sanders meme is about. We have VAT, which is worse than sales tax, we got plenty of toll roads, and there are lots of parking fees unless you go to some shopping areas outside the cities.
Right now Northern Norway have better weather than the south. The news say they have better weather than some parts of Africa...
We get 10 days of for christmas holiday
Isn't it only the 24th 25th 26th 31st, and 1st of January?
Or are you counting the days off you get in school?
@@m4rt_we get every day from 23 December to 2 or 3 January of I think:)
@@m4rt_ wdym?
The difference between Southern, and Northern Norway, are.
Do you like winter to last for 4 months, or 8 months.
The summer in the north only lays 3 weeks after the south.
norway found a bunch of phosphate in stavanger that's basically so big that norway have basically half of the whole worlds supply or something. but it's so deep underground that we don't really have a way to extract it at the moment (if i'm not mistaken). so in theory yes. we have alot of phosphate. however we can't really capitalize on it just yet. because of alot of reasons such as technology advancements. aswell as the fact that the EU is screwing us over.
Norwegian Yule is 21 days. Christmas is one day; it's the One day, for those who believe in it. I don't. Yule is for _everyone_. Yule is for Christians and Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists and anyone who wants to celebrate with us. There is only one rule for Yule; we are all together.
Yule? Huh?
@@venorando3672 Yes, the celebration in December is called Jul in Norwegian, but the English word is Yule. It is an ancient celebration of the end of darkness. It begins with Yule Night, which is the major celebration where we eat a nice meal and share gifts. This begins on December 24th and lasts for three days. What we call Juletiden, and in English is called Yuletide, lasts until January 13th, which we call The Thirteenth Day of Yule.
- The ocean water is pretty cold in the south of Norway, too.
- The US was busy fighting in WWII and providing 6 of every 7 barrels of oil used by the Allies; meanwhile, Norway was busy being occupied by the Germans.
Ah yes, the isolationist that spent 2 whole years twiddling their thumbs while the world burned, before a suprise attack forced them into the war...
And providing? Selling. Britain finished paying in 2006. They paid 7.6 billion for the " help". That's the USA for you. Sitting twiddling thumbs because the country was full of nazi symphatizers, like Henry Ford and cashing in on the war.
And yet not a single US soldier set their feet on Norwegian soil during the war!
They tried once but failed totally!
And like clockwork here you are 5 minutes after a video has dropped to spout your American exceptionalism. Seriously, how much of your life do you spend hate-watching videos? Get help, dude.
We sacrificed almost the entirety of our merchant fleet(4th biggest when WW2 started) to supply the allies, example was in 'Battle of Britain'
08:13 I haven't actually looked this up, so do some research before taking me on my word as I may very well be wrong. I believe the reason there are so many flags of that sort of design (two squares and two rectangles split by a cross) is due to the wide reach Christianity had way back when. Meaning that the flags were influenced by Christianity, likely due to the strong influence the religion had on he many countries' people back then.
Christmas to easter
No sales tax? No road tax? I don't think a Norweigan made that meme. The Sales tax on cars is basically 100%. So if the price of the car is 10 grand another 10 grand is tax and it ends up costing 20 grand. Almost every new road is funded by expsnive road tolls, and parking isn't more free than any other place (in small towns in scandinavia parking is often free and in bigger cities it tends to get ridiculously expensive especially in Norway).
Its not that cold water in the south, it depends, if the weather is great the water is great😊 it is colder in the north but snow? I dont think its snowing there in the summer but definitely colder.
The whole of Scandinavia are Vikings❤️
My mom went skiing while she was pregnant with me.
we all flag fwends
You shouldn’t base your world view on memes.
The summer in northern Norway can be quite hot, but it lasts for about two days.
The electric car benefits are not that good any more. That must be a very old meme.
There is no 20 day Christmas holiday.
Today it is very hot in north of Norway 44celsius
CHRISTMAS: In Norway, many people take a Christmas holiday. These are the days between 24/12 and 31/12. This year, there are probably many who save these days off, since 24/12 is on a Tuesday, so then there are public holidays from Monday 24/12 to 26/12, which is Thursday, possibly someone taking a day off Friday 27/12, and Monday 23/12 because then they get 9 days holiday in practice. If Christmas can be called a holiday then?
WTB more memes.
We got forced into Christianity a couple 100 years ago by the saxxers, the British back then so our flags holds a sideways cross on every flag😊
Maybe you wanna add a zero to that. Also both Harald Hårfagre and Olav the Sacred were Norwegains.
Skulle ønske jeg kunne sende deg bilde. Bor på Svalbard , er ingen snø her også er det pluss 17 grader
have you ever been in norway
Its not 20 days it is 24 im from norway norge øåæ det der er norke or im from norwayyyyyy
It is not tru we work between cristmas and new year 2-3 days
The Norwegian Army meme must mean that it's made up, because it kinda is.
You are supposed to react to memes, NOT explain them.
Ask Iraq if they agree 🤓