American Reacts to Popular Norwegian TikToks (Part 7)
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- As an American I love watching new and popular Norwegian TikToks. The internet has a way of showing the most funny, random, and insightful things about the culture in Norway, which is why I am very excited today to once again react to Norway's most popular TikToks. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
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As a Norwegian it’s funny watching this cuz he is so surprised over things I think is normal
Fr tho I'm Norwegian too, it's so funny
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I'm a norwegian too^^ and yeah Dialect thing is real and some place is Like another country Lol
same
"cuz" is slang for cousin.
You mean because.
Stop typing like an American hood rapper, you're better than that.
Everyone has heated floors. At least in the bathroom. It is a very cost effective way to heat a room, and it is also very pleasant.
I live in a 36m2 apartment, and even I have heated floor in the bathroom 👍
In Germany and Austria it's more or less standard for new or newly renovated houses. They also work much better with heatpumps which are a big thing here because they need lower medium temperature than radiators.
Not everyone. But now I'm living in an old appartment from the late 60's🤣 But I also know several others who don't have it.
Friendly psa from someone who works at a big electrical company in Norway (Lyse). Turn the heated floor in the bathroom off for most of the time. You'll cut the electrical bill in half. You should turn it on again after showers, though. So mold doesn't get in there (vaporise the water faster). But yeah, this will make a big impact on the electrical bill.
@@thanossnap4170 we usually have it set to a timer / minimum setting during the winter. Minimum if we go on on a vacation or wherever so the floor doesn't freeze and crack. We never use it during the summer as we just open the window. (unless it's like reeaally cold/moist) Also this is exclusively in the bathroom and Sauna.
You know what's interesting I’ve noticed in my hometown Bergen? Whenever American tourists are around, they tend to speak really loudly. It's kind of funny because us Norwegians usually chat in a regular voice with our families. But when an American family sits down at a café table next to us, suddenly their volume goes way up. It's like everyone in the café turns to see what's happening, thinking someone got hurt. But it's just John Doe taking his first bite of a Bergen cinnamon bun. What's even more amusing is that not everyone realizes we Norwegians are pretty good at English. 😂
Even louder than the Bergians, haha Bergen er mad loud lizzom, hehe folka
Bergensere are louder than the rest of the Norwegian population x)
@@idunnhatling5481 And then just imagine how loudly the Americans talked
So wrong at so many of the videos in this looking at norway. Last one jumped into the sea at Aker brygge. The snow walkin man is not that common. It's not that deep snow in general, but going to work, even in bad weather is common. Snow cleaning is done every day in the winter in cities. We do talk deeper, but only with people we learned to know. The kids do walk more alone. I think some of us learn 3 languages.. also we learn both norwegian bokmål and new norwegian(nynorsk). Northern part of norway, sweeden and finland has sami language as well used by the sami people. most norwegians start to learn english in first class at the age of 6. We could select a few years with German or french at the end of the primary school. And we do have more brands and more choices in the politic parties. But in general the food choices are quite bad. Sweeden has a lot better selections. And yes, heated floors are great. We have colder climate, but not all houses have them. Electricity used to be cheap. A lot of rain wather collection is used for both drinking and electricity. We just had Hans huricane dropping a lot of water. Sweedish people are good people.
Its true that we Norwegians are very good at english, but most Norwegians sound weird when they speak english.
Well, most people i know here in Norway are not afraid to speak their mind. They just do it in a respectful way.
Many people are too nice these days, afraid to speak their true thoughts.
People aren't able to criticize openly without the fear of being brought to the news papers and openly mocked or harassed, this is not specific for Norway but a virus that is in most western countries.
I say most, there are several that are still more open, but we have become a victim of the "nice mentality", meaning everyone has to "respect everyone, include everyone and oh my we need diversity", speak against this and you're out.
@@OriginalPuroIn other words, how do we know Norwegians are free to speak their minds...when doubts and objections are being shoved down constantly? There's a definite problem with "polite" across the world--but it's very apparent in America, where we're used to speaking our minds freely.
The young moose was simply blinded by the headlights and could not see the car. This had absolutely nothing to do with an attack. Something similar also happens very often in Germany with deer.
In the north of Norway, Sweden, and Finland, these snowdrifts around a building are completely normal. You can't get out of the house in the morning without a shovel.
"Deer in the headlights" is a rather famous phrase for a reason, yup. *We* might associate a pair of bright oncoming lights with a car, and immediate danger, but an animal wouldn't neccessarily understand what the heck is going on.
Norwegians are just as different from each other as Americans are. Some are talkative and direct some are more private and quiet.
No one would judge you for speaking your mind.
But you'd have to be prepared to handle a debate 😊 We're kind and polite.
Your reaction to the heated floors shook me. It's so normal here
You can get norwegian tapwater basically all around the world! It's called VOSS water xD
Yup. People pay a lot of dollars for Norwegian tap water 😂
It’s funny because in Voss there is a tap in the town that gives free Voss water
We don’t only have two ketchups, cheeses, cola sodas and so on to choose from, we have plenty, but it’s the most popular ones.
There is only one ketchup, one cheese and one real soda, you know it, I know it.
Idun, Norvegia and Sprite.
@@OriginalPuro
Agree with all except sprite😉 I’m not that fond of sodas, but I like the original Coca Cola the most👍
The first two steps of a childs independence in Norway is to walk to school and when you get a bicycle and can cycle to school.
Everyone has this period, it's important, like how we have a lunch packet (matpakke) so the child can learn to prepare their own lunch, it's independence.
The second day in school I saw someone being driven to school and so I asked my mom on the third day if she could drive me, she said "you have feet and you know where the school is, you walk". I was 6. Mom is awesome.
As an Norwegian, i can agree we love ice cream. On Norways birthday, its known to eat like 4+ ice creams.
Almost all of the houses in Norway has heated floor exept if the house is very old
Norway has really high quality milk, so it makes sense our icecream is good. Never really thought about the icecream, but our chocolate is amazing compared to most places because of the milk used.
Not entirely sure why we focus so much on milk production though.
My guess is because of the cold climate it's easier to grow grass to feed the cows than to grow arable crops to feed people.
Also lot of steep terrain where you can't drive a combine harvester.
@@DonGorgen well that mostly explain our sheep. I don't think milking cows graze in the wilderness (at best just a field)
@@cryptc a lot of farmers let their cows graze in the mountains. Ofc they can't let them roam too far cause they need to be milked.
@@DonGorgen ok, will take your word for it, I just have a hard time imagining fat milk cows in the same sort of area sheep are let loose, and I never hear about farmers losing cows to grazing the way happens with sheep.
But I am a city person, so I certainly won't claim any expertise :)
Softice in Scandinavia is really good and much more common than further south.
In the military i had problems understanding what some people were saying due to their dialects so they had to talk differently on purpose. It is easier for me to understand swedish than some dialects here in Norway.
true
Norwegian dialects are very different from each other, more than American accents. I would say the Norwegian dialects are more similar to the variety of accents you find in the UK, with different regions having unique ways of speaking due to history and geography.
Its almost like differens languages...
so true specially Valle Dialect @@monicabredenbekkskaar1612
"You either like Norvegia or you don't have tastebuds" 😂
I love your personality, so kind and positive!! Love watching you react to things from our country!
The man with all the snow works at the Tourist Association. You can see he has their brand on his hat and clothes. This means that he works far into the mountains at one of the tourist huts, perhaps even in a place with no road connection.
My father often took the boat out to sea to fish for dinner. He fished with a line, and not with his hands. My daughter, on the other hand, can catch fish with her hands.
As a Norwegian person, I will confirm that all in this video is true. Plus, I love seeing Norway getting so much love from other countries.
Mate.. you need to set up a POBox so we can send you some norwegian stuff you can try out on the channel. Would love to send you some candy! :D
You can buy Norwegian tap water in the US. It's called VOSS =) It's sold in fancy glass bottles :P
Heated floors is pretty common in new-builds and ranging back about 20 ish years. When you live in frost for months at a time, heated floors are great =)
Our ice-cream is AMAZING. Creamy and not too sweet.
Black clothing is good for when it's cold, cause the sun helps heat you ;) It's also slimming :P
If you go to the west coast, or really far north you're going to find dialects that you have to ask people to at the very least slow down.
Some of us speak our minds. I figure truth is better than trying to remember lies, so I don't give a hoot. I obviously don't say things that will hurt people on purpose.
And yes, if you're in any group of people and you say something, everyone goes quiet. You know you've said something weird, or off. That would apply to many groups of people though.
Regarding the moose. Ever heard the "deer in headlights" saying? The moose didn't see the car. It was blinded.
We do have less options on some products, but in return the quality is much higher and safer. It's due to an import tax on products that "already exist" in Norway. So that Norwegian producers get an advantage because production in Norway is also more costly.
English education starts in kindergarten, but even before then your parents will likely have shown you English cartoons and so on.
We are not cashless. We can pay with cash everywhere there's a register, but it's just more convenient. Most people keep a little cash on hand in case of tech problems in the bank :P
Also, people jumping off random bridges in to water really is pretty common in Norway ;) Just not in a suit hunting a dead salmon ;) lol
Great video =)
But just a few harbours down towards Akershus festning you can get a lot of good fish^^,)
Heated floors are common in almost all new houses since for a few decades now.
I have a house of about 300m2 and about 250m2 is heated.
Most hoses are heated with water pipes under the floor, not electrical.
The water is heated by a heat pump drawing energy from air, soil, rock or water. My system can produce 12kW but rarely draws more than 3.5kW. Usually during the winter I see 1.5 to 2.5kW usage. This includes heated tap water as well, heating my entire house during winter. For those who do not know, a typical electric oven is 2kW.
Same here in our old house, this is commen
As long as you don`t interfere with traffic, you can walk in the middle of the street, if you want. So we don`t really have jaywalking. This can have negative consequences for us when we travel to other countries.😅
I think kids in Norway have English lessions from age 6, might eaven some words in kindergarden.
The first time my son was in an English speaking country he was 10, and have no trouble holding a full conversation, in Scotland 😅
When I went to school we started english lessons in 4th grade at 10 yrs old. But that was 30 yrs ago, so it might have changed.
Another reason we learn english so well is because a lot of stuff like games, movies, music etc is in english and we learn it that way.
Tho I do think that future generations won't be as good in english since a lot more stuff is beeing translated into norwegian.
@Tyler if you vant tapp water, just drink Voss water, and you can get that in the US.
About the Small talk thing, that's with strangers :P People are talkative but there's a place and time for everything. But from what i see from that lady's channel she only puts up interviews that "lights" Norway as a "bad" Country to be in. Not asking the typical Norwegians.
All stationary shops must accept cash payment according to norwegian law.
There are still small enterprises where you need cash. I needed some at a small museum (nothing else accepted than NOK). For tourists it is sometimes necessary for parking or a pizza if only VIPPS is available for electronic pay.
02:22 The tap water in Norway is more pure than the tap water in the USA, this has to do with how in the USA they put a lot of stuff in the tap water, and partially also due to deteriorating pipes in some cases. If you use one of those purity testers on US tap water, and compare those results to that of the results from Norwegian tap water, you'll see that there is a significant difference in purity between the two.
Denmark here. One reason for kids being good at english in scandinavian countries is that most TV shows and movies on TV are in english with subtitles, so we are used to hear english basically from birth. Kids pick up stuff crazy fast. My 1.5 yo daughter calls our dog "good boy", which she picked up from some Minnie Mouse cartoon with Pluto.
During covid, I lived in Bodø, at winter with lots of snow everywhere (and snowing!), I was heading home from nightshift (7 AM), 3 moose just popped up in front of my car, had to hit the breaks hard to stop, and waited to see what they would do. Thankfully they did not attack, but slowly started walking the same way I had to drive. Did try to take pictures, but due to the heavy snowing, just got brown blobs in the snow... but, geez, they where big!
I would guess about 90% of bathrooms buildt after 1970 have heated bathroom floors. Even the rental basement apartment from 1973 I live in.
I think this is standard for most, if not all of scandinavia +finland :)
You can buy some norwegian tap water, pretty sure Voss is sold in america.
Him: a lot of Norwegians like ice cream?
Me: eating ice cream while watching this as an norwegian 👁️👄👁️
As a Canadian, I know that unlike deer, that freeze if you shine a light in their eyes at night, moose will attack a light you shine in their eyes at night. Makes night time driving entertaining in some areas.
Another funfact about Norway is that we recycle about 95% of all bottles and cans. When you buy them in the store you pay up to 3 kroner extra. And you take them back to the store when they are empty and recycle them in a machine that give you a receipt for that money back. (The machine also have the option for you to donate the money to Red Cross and by doing that you enter a lottery where you can win different amounts up to 1 million kroner, about 100 000 dollars)
I'm not sure, but I guess the moose got blinded by the cars headlights and panicked and run straight into it?
Most likely. That's often the case in moose & car accidents .
Pretty much every home has heated floors, especially in bathrooms.
The "fancer" folks also have heated drive ways, to not have to shovell snow during the winter..
Heated floors are quite common, especially in bathrooms and entry halls. It both helps us keep warm, and it protects water pipes feom freezing during extreme winter colds.
Heated sidewalks is also a thing so they don't get so slippery from the ice❤🇧🇻
Heated floors are so common, they're basically expected for bathrooms and other rooms with tiles on the floor. Try stepping on cold tiles after a shower when it's -20°C/-4°F outside. They'll be super cold even if you use other methods of heating. Ouf, I dread the long, dark, cold winter already!
You should react to the recent floods going on in Norway. It’s happening at this moment, and it’s basically the biggest floods anyone alive in Norway today has witnessed. I’m sure you can find articles, videos and pictures by searching on the internet. If not, I can email you them.
Many of my friends had to evacuate their homes and numerous roads have been swallowed into the ground causing huge difficulties.
Are you safe from the floodwaters and areas prone to landslide?
@@Peg__ Yes, I am personally ‘safe’ because I don’t live directly near any rivers/waters. But I have to be isolated to a spesific area or take hugely inconvenient detours just to get a few hundred yards outside of this area. They are still expecting the floods to get worse, especially regarding the landslides.
Of course we love our ice cream, it doesn't get better than an big lovely ice cream from Hennig Olsen ❤
Nope, it has to be Diplomis
Italian ice cream is the best in the world
@@lillm6874🤣
Hennig-Olsen, Diplom Is, both good, but lately I have found Isbjørn Is, and that one blew my mind 🥰
@@lillm6874 Not disputing that :)
The guy going out in the snow is usual some places in the mountains. I don't live there so I haven't seen it myself, but I did drive across the mountain a winter when you couldn't see where the road was. It was windy and the snow was the same height everywhere. Usually the snow is higher beside the road because the trucks has been clearing the road.
Some dialects not only pronounce words differently, they also have specific words that other parts of the country dont use. For example if you say spider web in norwegian, is for me "spindelvev", but a friend if mine who lives 2 hours away calls it "sjinglor"
heated floors in newer builidings are almost the norm. And what is really expensive to begin with is the concrete in the floor, which you most likely are going for anyway due to how that and laminat floors are the cheapest option anyway. basically it's a "while you're there, pay this miniscule extra amount to get this awesome thing in addition." kind of deal.
Somebody should sponsor a trip to Norway to you :)
16:53 You're right, it's not normal everywhere in Norway, but there are places in Norway where that much snow could literally fall overnight alone.
Schools teach kids to pick up litter by going out to clean up trash in nature and along roads a few times during the school-year. It was not normal before, but became a thing in the 90s and that does make it so that they notice the litter when adult and most chooses to pick it up and dispose of it properly. Has made a HUGE difference in how much garbage is in nature.
Heated floors is so common I know a few people who think it is illegal to not have it on the bathroom floor. It is not legal requirement, but it is quite comfy and will save you a lot of problem during the Norwegian winter. Your water pipes will freeze and break if you don't have heating in your rooms with water pipes. It also doubles as a good space to dry shoes and other clothing that will inevitably get wet from the snow
You don`t seem like the typical American to me. Pretty down to earth. Love your vids dude.
It's about time you experience all this Norwegian rarities hands on Tyler, you are more then welcome to visit our beautiful country. I hope you have the chance to visit some day... BTW: I can send you a bottle of tap water if you want :)
our water comes from lakes up in the mountains,where it is always chilled all year around.
In most countries the tap water comes from the ground, but in 95% of Norway it comes from a mountain thaw. My home town won "best tap water in Europe" award in Switzerland 3 times between 2010-2020 (Narvik)
"Voss Still Water" on bottle IS Norwegian tapwater on a fancy bottle. The difference is that the tap water is fresh (and free) as it hasn't been bottled for months.. :) Heated floors are quite common, especially in newer houses. We have electrically heated floors, or "water-borne heat" (Pipes with hot water in the floor) (Imagine the cost of this in a big American suburban house!? )
I really love watching your videos, even I as a norweigan learn a thing or two sometimes.
In the army I shared room with 3 other guys from Norway and I didn’t understand a single word when they spoke with each other, in fact the first day I thought they were foreign soldiers. But then they switched over to “bokmål» and I now understood it was their crazy dialect that I couldn’t recognize 😅
I HATE when eastern dialects refer to their dialects as bokmål. No one in norway speak bokmål. Actually the closest thing to spoken bokmål in norway is the fana socialect of the bergen dialect.
The reason so many have heated floors in Norway, is that our power used to be really cheap, like half a cent per kWh in the summer, maybe 1 or 1,5 cent in the winter. So most heated floors used to be electrical, but a lot also have heated water lines instead, heating the water with electrical, firewood, geothermal, air to water heat pumps or whatever. Thing is - heated floors are so much nicer in the winter because your feet will never get cold.
About the dialects - yeah, they´re really different - so much so, that we actually have two varieties of our language in school. Still, none of them covers all extreme dialects, so it can be a challenge - but it´s also part of the fun and charm of travelling the home country ;)
Let´s put it like this: your dialects vary only slightly by intonation mostly. Between USA, UK and Australia, ie., you might have a few different words for really basic things, nothing major. Everyone that speaks English understand eachother. It´s more like going into some kind of ghetto, where there are slang words for everything, and sometimes the whole sentence is rebuilt in a way you´re not used to.
I live just under the Jostedal glacier and my tapwater is from under the glacier. So basically melted glacierwater, full of minerales :)
Almost EVERYONE have heated floors. Its nice and also needed so that the piping in the house dont freeze and cracks during winter..
It’s a big difference from south to north in Norway. In the north we speak more directly and very honest. But we are opposed about the weather, but thats because we live by the weather.
I am from norway and its true that some times we cant understand eachother
07:43 I had a phase when I was younger where I only wore black clothing, not Emo or Goth type of clothing, just black cargo pants/shorts, sweaters, sweat pants, t-shirts, etc. These days I've graduated to gray sweat pants, dark blue and black jeans on occasion, with a variety of t-shirts of more muted colors with logos or witty text on them.
Only ever owned one pair of white shoes, though, that was not by choice, as it was a gift from my mom when I was in 5/6th grade, I think it was.
Yes heated floors r very popular in Norway and I can confirm it’s AMAZING
I don't think we've got a single room that doesn't have heated floors where i live, it just feels nicer
Heated floors is standard in most relatively new homes and its cheaper than most other heating sources.
The reason the moose ran directly at the car was probably it was blinded by the headlights. You should turn down your headlights if you meet a moose on the road. That goes for deer as well. They usually only go where they can see. When they are blinded, they won't go outside the area that is lighted up, so unless you turn your lights down, they will just run ahead of you in the beam of the headlights indefinitely.
Important facts for everyone on the road to note, Audun. 👍
I agree 100% with this statement, it was blinded into a tunnel vision, thinking the light is its only way out.
At least that is what I was taught when I was taking the hunting license.
i think the unspoken stuff about public transport in the US is that its seen as a step down in dignity - thats not untrue for the rest of the world either, but probably not to the same extent and certainly not in Norway anymore. It wasnt like that before, but in norway today it seems all of that stigma is gone. Taking public transport when you can is something nearly everyone will commend you for, wether they do it themselves or not. So here it has only good connotations left and is equal on the "healthy life" ideal to working out and eating healthy. Park the car because you can. ^^
08:34 Yes, that is a fact. There are various dialects in Norway that can easily be so far different from your own dialect that it makes it difficult, if not outright impossible, to understand.
The same thing goes for Denmark and, in fact, a Norwegian (I think) comedian made a whole skit about that fact where, if I remember correctly, a Danish person entered a store, went and asked the worker a question about something and the worker responded in a different Danish dialect, they went back and forth trying to figure each other out, only for a third person to enter the fray some time later with a third dialect, and it became even worse.
Uti Vår Hage Danish Language 😂
@@Nitro-Finn heh, yep that's the one I was thinking of! 😛
"things i already miss about norway"
"okey, so this is someone who miss things in norway"
Heated floors are very common
That poor moose is confused and blinded by the strong headlights of the car.
I lived in the Drammen area. One winter I shoveled so much snow from my 5m walkway from house to the road that ran out of room to throw it in my yard.
ooo, we had heated floors in sweden too. One of the things i miss after i moved to the states. heated tile floors in the bathroom, and also the heated towel racks
It seems like in Norway it is best to have a 'work from home' type job. Especially in December. At this point Norway seems like such a great place that the only reason I don't want to move there is because it is too cold for too much of the year.
13:26 Its a light-moose. They`re chasing light just like mosquitos chasing streetlights at night
They had a report on the news, about the floods south in Norway recently.
"HEATED FLOORS?!" Yeah, you're fucked if you don't have heated floors over here.
the tap water is so good tho fr
That guy going to work in december looks like he's in a cabin on the mountain. The wind have been piling the snow up against the wall, as you can see when he get further out it's not that much.
Heated floors is common. My bathrooms (2) has heat in the floor and so the hallway😊
Hi from🇧🇻. Watching for the first time and loving it. You wonder.about shops without cashieres. Yes, its true, many big stores have that. You have to use your receit to exit the store.
True about the dialects I live on the country side with 6.5k population and if I drive like 2 hours away they can go Huh what are you saying, because the word used in the dialect is so different from their word for the same thing, I have an example. in my hometown for waffles we say "Bakels" the bokmål word is "Vafler" in Oppdal another town in Norway they say Raffelkaku which is totally different xD
Heated floors? Yeah...but we also have some streets with heating in them to prevent ice if there is a lot of people on foot there.
The moose calf was probably panicking and blinded by the car lights and just ran in a random direction. Animals have no concept of cars and do weird and dangerous things when startled and blinded out of "nowhere" you can't assume they will just get out of the way.
tiktok 1: i can relate
tiktok 2: reason tap water tastes good in norway is because we have a very clean water i guess
this happened to me last winter, when I open the door, there was 1 meter of snow,
The dialect thing is true. But we also know bokmål, so if we choose to speak bokmål when we don't understand, we will understand each other🤗
Yes. I have actually seen an interview on the news, where i did not understand one word he said. That has never happend before or after it.
There is even more snow in Alaska.
Firkløver ice cream are the best ❤ (and Idun Ketchup is so much better then Heinz)
HI Tyler. Norwegian here. Some of the things mentioned in this video are correct, while some things are actually opposite of what is said here. For instance. Saying hi to strangers is very normal in Norway. But not in all situations. I guarantee you that if you walk past someone in the forest or in the mountains, or anywhere outside of the major population hubs, your nods/Hi's will be answered with a nod or a hi! back. Norvegia or Jarlsberg cheese, what type of ketchup etc.. yes most people have preferences, and you might end up in a friendly banter or an over the top yelling match just for fun regarding the matter of which is best. But there is no teams or real things here... And another thing. Norwegians are not quiet and silent always. Because of the price of alcohol here, and culture, we do not drink much or anything at all in the week days, but come Friday and Saturday we drink what ever we missed during the week and we multiply that by 3. When we drink we are the most open and loud people on the planet. That is where our inner Viking comes out and want to spank life until it cries. We call this time "weekendbender" (or something similar. Maybe a Norwegian can help me create a better translation). In Norwegian it's called "Helgefylla". Which just means you party through the weekend. This is a culture that sits very deep in the population.
As in any place on earth, people are different even if they live in the same place. We have introverts and extroverts like any other country. One thing to mention about Norwegians is that to the core we are rather modest, and we live more conservative lives than Americans, and we have less of a tendency to be extravagant. We have a system that takes care of all ranks of society through our social system, and we reap the benefit from that by seeing less desperate people doing desperate things. I have an opinion that you do not see much of the dark side in Norway unless you freely seek it out yourself. More so than in other countries I have knowledge about.
If you have any questions about Norway related things, just ask.
PS! Oh and by the way. Norwegian humor is dark. We have a lot in common with the brits in that regard. Sometimes it is very hard to know if a Norwegian is joking, unless you know the lingo.
Have a good one, peace out!
2:44
Heated bathroom floors is almost universal by now, only old houses don't necessarily have them.
Really new houses often have heated floors elsewhere too.
Remember the Jarlsberg commercials Tyler? :p
Heating cables in the floor is very common here 😅
Norway has amazing ice cream. Especially Hennig Olsen Is. Best vanilla ice cream in my opinion.
Norwegian humor, has similarities with the british humor. However, its more of a mix. Smalltalk, especially on the street with strangers, NO ONE likes that.
as a Norwegian, I can say that it is not usual to have a heated floor, it was probebly just because they were tourists
It’s extremely normal, I have never been to a house or an apartment where at least the bathroom didn’t have heated floors. It’s pretty normal to have other rooms with heated floors too, i have them in my bathroom, kitchen and bedroom.
It's very common in newer houses.
As a Norwegian I can confirm it’s normal with heated floors.
I remember once, a long time ago at a company I worked for. We used to have some soda and sparking water available to anyone, usually guests. And I remember a Spanish guest was asking for "stil water." Somewhat perplexed, I showed him to the break room and just turned on the tap. Because that's where non-sparkling water comes from.
(That said, due to marketing - flat water in bottles are sold... but really why pay for that when you can get the same water from the tap?)
In case you didn’t know, the reason little kids can speak english so well is because english class is a mandatory class that are held from 1st grade or something and upwards
No, it's true. I had a hard time understanding some dialects. Bergensk is difficult for me lol
Also, back in the day, we used to get a lot of snow that it blocked you from getting out of the house. Not so much anymore now, well, maybe because I moved to a different part of Norway, but it's not that far away. A 1 1/2 hour drive
Underfloor heating is very common in most of Europe. Nothing fancy about it.