American Reacts to Things No One Knows About Norway (Part 1)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ค. 2023
- Americans tend to not know much about other countries at all, even countries that are looked up to like Norway. Today I am very excited to learn about obscure facts that most people do not know about Norway. 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 weird to hear that in some city's in America you CANT drink tap water
I completely agree, not just that, as a (Dutch) European, it is weird to hear that a person thinks of its country as being a '1st world country' while it is unable to provide for basic needs like drinkable water. That is just sad. The United States really does need a reality check... Also, just saying, glacier water is melted ice from a glacier, it has been exposed to all the pollution of the last 100+ years or so, it is NOT clean by default.
One of many frankly dystopian facts about the US.
Right ??? / swede
Same as a Swede... It's insane that people accept such destruction of nature in their country that tap water isn't drinkable. :(
The shock over him being shocked over clean tap water is real for this Dane too! Our tap water is even cleaner than much of the bottled water you can buy.
The part with the «that’s why most of the population lives in Oslo or the surrounding areas, where they can be close by civilization» is the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard.
It maybe, for some , more to do with job and study oppurtists. BUT as a woman from Oslo, I cannot even IMAGINE living anywhere else. Tried it several times (11 years all together,) and really detested it. No close neighbors, No close bus, trams, trains, subways. No shop nearby. NO shop open 24/7, No way to live without a car, NO way to pop by your friends by walking, or a taking a bus, tram etc. No chance to impulsively go to a cinema, theater, restaurant, caffes, windowshopping, shopping+++ on a moments notice... NOTHING to do!!!!! I LOVE just sitting watching people in Oslo. People fascinate me very much..... Where I lived I never saw people...No, countrylife is NOT for me !!!!!
@@reidun918 TOTALLY agree with you !!!
@@reidun918 I second that!!! LOVE Oslo ❤❤❤!!!!!!!!!
@@reidun918so you haven't tried living in any other cities in Norway?
@@oyevintj my thought exactly.
Did she say that each Norwegian has $192 if you take the Fund and divide it among the people? She is as wrong about that as she is about the summer temperatures in the north. The actual value per person right now is $252 390.
I believe she said 192 000 USD?
And it *was* right a while back, even if it's far from right now.
It's incredible how much it has grown really.
I believe that the number was slightly dated when the video was made too.
But it wasn't wrong as such, just dated.
@@Luredreier that's what I thought too, but no. I checked it out, she said $192.
@@RonnyWilhelmsen1001 I guess it was a mistake then, almost certainly was meant to say 192 000$
14:22 Yeah, Viking Runes were created a heck of a long time before the Nazis got their hands on them, the same goes for the Swastika, too, the swastika is an ancient religious and cultural symbol in a few cultures, then came the Nazis and decided to take and corrupt that symbol for whatever reason, and now most people automatically think of the Nazis whenever they see a swastika.
People just can't let things go, or read up on symbols to learn about their true meanings, so instead, they enjoy ruining things for others that actually know what they are talking about.
100% agree. I can understand reactions from people that are just not in the know, but as soon as the situation is made clear, they need to let it go. The symbols belong to their respective cultures, not the thieving scum that we know as Nazis.
Most people who see a swastika that look similar to the Nazi version automatically think “nazism”. But have closer look: most, if not all original swastika designs have the end of the arms pointing left, like the sun symbol on one of the two rings used by a certain comics character…
People unable to look at symbols in the original context, are the ones that should get an "F" in history. Our heritage should not be invalidated by others hijacking it, for nefarious purposes. For that's on them, not us! That designer did nothing wrong!
@@LarsV62 Was almost chocked to see all the nazi sites to be found in japanese maps.
@@wyrd77 its the same with He-Mans cross on his chest , its more 1400-1500s (like ancient knights had) and not a german iron cross
Small correction.. It doesn't snow anywhere all year round in Norway.. Nor are there subzero temperatures all year round in some places in Norway:)
Exactly what I was thinking too
Its a rather huge corection. Places like Stavanger is pretty warm compare to say... Rovaniemi, specially so in winter. Its barley even get below 0 in Stavanger during winters, its really not much colder than denmark
@@matsv201 Yes I know.. trying to be a bit polite.. Even in Rovanjemi it doesn't snow all year round and it's not below zero degrees either all year round, even though they say Santa Claus lives there:)
@@TheJHA67 true.. I supose. I been to stavanger. But not rovanjemi. To be fair. Its not really a place i like to go.
.even if its warmer in summer. Its still not quite warm. Stavanger is really nice in summer. Like reallt really nice. Possibly a bit wet.
@@matsv201 Rovanjemi Can be hot in summer.. 30+ celsius is not unusual.. 20 - 25 is quite common.. but they have mosquitos, with the inconveniences that entails.
Northern Norway can have high temperatures in the summer just like southern Norway. It doesn’t snow all year… where did she get that from lmao
Yeah, that was just completely wrong, not even on Svalbard does it "snow all year round" lol
Stereotypes...
They literally made zero research while making the video😂
We can have 35 degrees Celsius.
well you know what they say. Norway got 3 months of bad ski condistion.
The so-called Nazi symbols are old Viking runes (futhark) which are from the old Viking written language. The Nazis also used the solar cross as their symbol during World War II. Many of the Nazi symbols are taken from the Vikings
Yeah, I for one will never subscribe to the notion that evil scum can just steal from other cultures like the Nazis did and then have it framed as that culture now has to abandon their history or water it down. I found the use of the runes entirely approriate and fitting for the Norwegian team :) Just like they would be for the Swedes and the Danish too. I can understand reactions from people who just did not know about it. As soon as it is explained they should obviously (IMO) support our use of the runes.
Same with the infamous ''Swastika'' symbole of the Nazis, it's originally an old spiritual Japanese symbol meaning ''Peace'', the Manji as it's originally called. What can I say... Nazis are known for stealing things.
Even the Swastika was stolen from other cultures. It originally had nothing to do with Nazism.
They are not viking exklusive. The older furthark and many other symbols were also used by germanic tribes in middle europe. They are still not nazi symbols they were literally just abused by such aswell as the swastika. Norse mythologie is also not viking exklusive because viking was just a job and even old good farmers and normal citizen belived in odin or wodan and many other.. gods back in those days ;) Some of these believes and symbols date back untill bronze age
Heh. My wife tells about her first day home alone in a Nordic country (she is from Thailand). She became very thirsty, and there was zero water in the fridge.
After work, her BF came home and she asked, “where is the water??””
He looked at her quizzically and opened a faucet.
Her mind was blown.
Hehe 😆
😂
No it does not snow all year around in northern Norway. Absolutely not! BS-alert. And only approx 1/4 of the population in Oslo and the surrounding area (Big-Oslo or Stor-Oslo in Norwegian).
Ja, jeg reagerte på det selv. Blir veldig provosert over slike videoer hvor de tror de vet alt, men så bare dikter de opp😂
Yes and almost all norwegians don’t live in and sround Oslo. 1,5 million people live on the west coast alone. And in the two largest hubs there (Bergen and Stavanger), it hardly ever snows.
He did say almost all the time not 24/7 for the snow part and temerature
At least in Tromsø, the winter can last for around 7-8months depending on when it starts/stops.
This winter was around 7 months (middle/end of october till last week when it snowed in the current month, May)
The Greater Oslo I think is a common translation :) Correct me if I'm wrong. Meaning the surrounding inhabited areas outside the city of Oslo but still belonging to the Greater Oslo area (for anyone not familiar reading this)
It feels weird that you couldn't drink tap water. In all the Nordic countries you can drink it straight from the tap. Also here in Finland.
As a Swede i think it’s weird that you can’t drink tap water in so many countries
Same here learned something new today. Genuinely thought it was standard in most countries
Other countries can drink their own tap water but as swedish its not recommended seeing you will probably get sick, ive been to russia, italy, greece, spain, canary island and cap verde, ive never drunk the water there
yeah I though you could in every country
You can. Its actually very pure. Look it up, this guy is just an idiot.
@@-Suie- i think you worded it abit wrong, the swedish tap water is safe and very good to drink, but the other countires are not, the way you wrote it seems like you said swedish tap water was not safe to drink, we been drinking our tap water sense as far back as i can rember.
Not only can you drink the water from your kitchen faucet, the water is so clean that you could actually drink the water used to flush your toilet as well (obviously not the water IN the bowl, but directly from the pipe before it goes into the toilet 😅)
At least here in Sweden, but I'm sure it's the same in Norway too 🙂
Its the same water, the water in the tap and that you flush with. Same pipe.
AFAIK, tap water is drinkable in all of Western Europe.
Norwegian water is just amazing.
@@jarls5890 Well, at least 1 exception. I wouldn't drink tap water in France. At least part of the country doesn't have drinkable tap water.
I’ve always been told that you refill the water yourself by pouring a bucket of water in the toilet
A funny fact about alcohol in Norway is, that if you really want very good older wines, they are often cheaper in Norway than elsewhere.
Yep. Vinmonopolet is a huge actor in the business so they get dibs on rare batches and good prices. And aren't allowed to make too much of a profit on the rarer stuff like private businesses would. Personally I like Vinmonopolet.
@@Kraakesolv Well those kind of vintage expensive wine that is sometimes cheaper get sold out in about ten minutes every time the Vinmonopol release them so unless you want to sleep outside for two weeks you get nothing. everything else in the Vinmonopol is horrendously expensive. Electricity used to be cheap in Norway, as the only thing that was cheaper than other countries. Now, because of stupid politicians electricity is among the most expensive in the world too. So basically everything except for health services is very very expensive.
@@truxton1000 Not so. Most every wine above 150-200 nok is cheaper here. Also, yes a lot is more expensive here but that is because income is higher. You always have to compare that when speaking of electricity, gas etc. Sure, gasoline is more expensive here than in Poland but not by much. And they earn far less than up here, so they use more of their salary than we do on that particular item. And so on. Just an example.
Edit: Yes they screwed up with electricity but it was STILL a lot cheaper than other countries.
@@Kraakesolv Electricity for companies and for people with cabins are very expensive, a lot of companies are going bankrupt. Insane in one of the coldest countries in Europe. And since the krone is continuing to weaken imported inflation is going to be felt, it does not look good. Norwegians are the most debted people on the planet, good luck.
@@truxton1000 The Norwegian krone is going up again and as for dented people, no we aren't. Took me 2 minutes to debunk that.
Honestly, it's kind of annoying how much power we today give bad people of the past. Hitler took already existing symbols and turned them evil. If we today had just let those disappear with time, they would have no power, and their true meaning and origin could have claimed them back. Instead, we grip tight and allow these bad things that one man created to hover over us like a suffocating shadow.
Of course, history is important to learn about, but we are very good at giving power to things that really shouldn't have any power today. Things that bad men purposely took, ruined, and gave it suffocating control.
In a way we allow bad people to still have an effect on today.
Yes, I commented almoest the same on the oridginal video.
The narrator of that video gets an F in history from me.
The nazis stole and abused many historical symbols from many cultures, but north mytholgy was kind of theyr favorite to hijack for propaganda purposes.
Himler had his own SS program dedicated to it.
People love being victims and getting benefits from it
Exactly! Many Nazis had a strong desire to add the Nordic populations to the Reich, seeing as we have such high numbers of people with Aryan features (blonde hair, and blue eyes). If we were to distance ourselves from everything that the Nazis appropriated for propaganda purposes, we would likely have to cancel every Nordic country in general, and our viking heritage in particular. The runes are part of the Futhark alphabet that has been used by Germanic civilizations for close to 2000 years. Throwing all that on the scrapheap of history is a bizarre response to the misuse of these symbols by an empire that lasted approximately 25 years.
..as faar i know ... the symbols Hitler took and mirrored are widely used i n middle east and asia, happiness, family, luck, nine, king, love and so on... those symbols are less common in the west...but hardly associated with nazi... except maby the letter Ƶ now
@@Patrik6920 and i think the swastika itself was a sun-symbole from India, and so on..
But the "broken" S`s in ss was a north rune , and so were the runes on theyr propaganda recrutment-posters. (With theyr arian posterboys and all..)
Calling this "nazi symbols" is the same as supporting the nazis right to defile other cultures historic heritage.
ALUX is not a realiable source of information. I thik you reacted to another of their Norway videos that was eriddled with errors, inaccuracies and misleading imagery.
The water does NOT come "mostly from glaciers". Not even close - lakes, rivers, ground water are the main sources for drinking water; which is then treated before being let into the water pipes.
When they say "filemed" in Norway, they mean short sequences. Like Tom cruise climbing Prekestolen - while pretending to be in India. Most medieval buildings were made of wood, and have burnt down since then. Norway was so poor (remember the Black Pleague) that building stone buyildinges was rare.
"It snows all year round, and the teperatures are below zero almost all the time". That's not even true on Svalbard.
"Living in Oslom close to civilization" - som Norway outsoide Oslo is uncivilized?
At that's just at the 7:31 mark.
ALUX is a channel for the wilfully uninformed and stupid rich people who think they can do Europe in a week.
Yes
As a norwegian, I get confused whenever I am on vacation in other contries because of the tap water. My mom ALWAYS has to say to the entire family NOT to drink from the tap.
My family in Spokane travels to Oregon to purchase tobacco and alcohol... It's like 40 minutes or so... In Spokane, you can also drink tap water! By the way. It does not snow all year around in Nothern Norway! In the summer, it can get to around 30 degrees Celsius. Some misinformation there... The fund is now much higher too, and growing fast!
Im from Norway and have relatives in Spokane 😊
Northern Norway do not have snow or zero degrees all year. ;) Behn who got abused by Spacey was a friend of my brother before getting married to the princess and moved from Moss to Oslo. He would not make this up. Yes, the nazi symbols was adopted to mean something else. It is found in different culturs meaning something else - like symbol for the sun.
Eh, this is one of those videos you gotta take with a large grain of salt. Seen a lot of people react to it, and I remember there were some pretty poorly researched "facts" in it.
Yeah it seems pretty terrible..
Its nordic runes, Hitler kinda stole them, they are runes. They have been around for thousands of years prior to him using them.
in the He-Man movie Sorceress' throne has sort of runes on it , HMs mother is from Earth so hes half earthling :P
And I enjoy you learn about Norway 🇳🇴 because I learn a lot about America 🇺🇸 through your opinions on how Americans behaviour are compared to Norway and Norwegians. So thank you so much for that. 👍
True, but take it with a grain of salt.
I believe that he's putting on a little bit of an act for us, his audience.
Stroking our ego just a little bit.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure that he finds a lot of stuff about us impressive etc.
But he's dialing it up intentionally.
Because he's getting good reactions to that, engagement on his channel, views etc.
It's working.
And it's playing to our own prejudices anyway, so yeah, honestly we deserve to be fooled by that...
3:51
"Norwegians" in English,"Nordmenn" in Norwegian.
"Norsemen" means something different, from a different age and includes Swedes and Danes and indeed Faeroese and Icelandic people too.
It's a historic ethnicity from before the current Kingdoms existed.
12:37
Made a comment about this, it's separate so if you don't see it it's probably eaten by the spam filter, please check it.
Norway is the only country with nor in the name. so we're the only Norsemen.
@@eskil5306 No, these terms predates Norway and dates back to the difference between northern Germanic, Western Germanic and Eastern Germanic.
If you go back to the bronze age Germanic peoples in what's today Germany would have referred to their lands as the south road, the whole of Scandinavia would have been the north road (we just kept it while Denmark and Sweden ended up being named after individual tribes, like regions in Norway was).
There probably was a eastern road too, although with their languages all dead I honestly don't know of any evidence of that...
My guess is that these roads where all about trade...
Also, we're just talking about the Germanic areas, northern and central Norway wasn't Norway back then.
Does that make sense?
@@Luredreier I'm fully aware of how the history is. But Denmark and Sweden is named as such, Iceland is named as such Nor-Way is the closest thing to the term norseman hence we can use it and will use it. And fuck Germany
@@eskil5306 My point is that Norsemen isn't exclusive to Norway as the term predates Sweden, Denmark and Norway, existing back when all three of the current countries where petty kingdoms.
Særiøst, "Norsemen" og "nordmenn" er to vidt forskjellige termer, og "Norsemen" betyr Nordisk, *ikke* Norsk.
Og jeg skjemmes av at du prøver å stjele den terminologien for oss her i Norge når du burde vite bedre.
No, that's not at all true. Not etymology wise anyways. "Nordmanni" was already used by the Romans to specifically denote people of the area of Norway (Sweden had Sueci and Gaets and Denmark had Jutes, Danes and Saxons). "Northman" is directly related to "Northmanni"
"Norse" was "invented" (or popularized) by the Dutch (edit: in the late Medieval ages, mind you) and "Norwegians" is just a plural form of "Norwegian" denoting someone from "Norway" which is more or less a direct translation of the modern contemporary Norwegian word for the nation which is "Norge" or "Noreg" which stems from "the way North".
Something that is very cheap for other countries in Norway is diapers. The Swedes come here to buy diapers we go to Sweden for alcohol, tobacco and bacon 😊
We know, and love you for it 🙂
Wall paint too.
@@BaldersVasallAfter the pandemic it has actually been Swedes coming to Norway to shop.
Our inflation while high is lower then in the EU in general and Sweden in particular.
And our currency is currently rather weak.
So groceries are actually cheaper here then in Sweden now for a change.
Enough that people living in Sweden close to the border can save a little bit even including fuel by driving over the border.
I don't expect that situation to last.
Eventually the NOK will grow in value again and you guys will get your inflation under control and get lower prices then us again.
@Luredreier Yes, I know :-) But I think a few of those who lives close to Strömstad still comes over. 😀
Not only it is very pure, tap water in Norway tastes really good. Every time I go on vacation I fill up the water bottle at the airport from the tap and make it last.
And first thing I do is to refill my bottle when I get home. Everyone has a reusable bottle because you can just fill it up everywhere.
Vet ikke helt hva du mener med at man kan fylle opp flaska hvor enn du går, hvis det var det du mente? Hjemme kan man så klart, men egt. ikke andre steder.
The tap water is rarely from glaziers, but you can commonly drink it.
On the rear occasion you can't, the incident usually reach national news.
I live in Sweden on the west coast, not far from Norway. You should see our shopping centre just before May 17th, midsummer and new year’s. 😅 Norwegians everywhere! Especially at Systembolaget. 😂 As swedes we adjust our alcohol shopping so it doesn’t clash to much with our western neighbours shopping visit. 😁
Haven't seen your vid yet but some fun waterfacts about Norway.
1. The tapwater is better than most bottlewaters around the world.
2. Norway has enough water to theoretically supply the world thirst.
3. 1/3 of all the fresh water in Norway disappears in bad plumbing.
4. You can drink the water from you shower and toilet tank (theoretically, since the tapwater and toilet water comes from the same spring
04:42 I'm guessing the minimum wage has been taken from a website that lists what the minimum wages are for various sectors of work in Norway is, it is important, however, to note that not all work sectors have a set minimum wage, and it is entirely up to the work place's owners to decide what the minimum wage should be, or the potential new employee to be good at negotiation a higher wage. One such work sector is grocery stores, here it isn't uncommon to earn around $15 to $23, and it also depends on what type of education you have and what type of previous experience you have. Someone with a lot of previous experience in working at a grocery store will usually automatically be offered a higher wage than someone who, say, is just starting out with no previous experience in their belt.
13:28..
That is NOT National Sosialist symbols, but NORWEGIAN LETTERS.
We now use latin letters, but our alphabet is over 1000 years old.
ALL phones have the letters ᚼ and ᛒ in a blue circle...
The Bluetooth symbol also NOT National Sosialist symbol.
Americans need to grow up, and not call other peoples national history names...
Finland has one of the purest waters in the world, too. Just as in Norway, in Finland tap water is 100% drinkable. Our tap water does not come from glaciers but from some of the 188,000 lakes in Finland. For instance, the tap water in the Helsinki area arrives via a long aquaduct (tunnel) from one of the bigger lakes, lake Päijänne.
Including Sweden 😀
Fun fact, even though FInland is called the land of the many lakes Sweden have more lakes than Finland.
same here in Norway, just false info saying they all come from glaziers. Maybe some but far from all.. So much false info from that female narrator
@@orisfanboy2729The water has probebly been in a glazier once.
@@williamlindroos2250Hi, William! Yes, that is true! Finland is called the land of a thousand lakes, a slight understatement, (real number: around 188,000 lakes). But Sweden is also a bigger country...
Drinking tap water is the most common thing in the world in Northern West Europe tho, like the rest of Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK in most places.
Cool to see you doing this👏👏 Indeed many things people around the world do not know about Norway 🇧🇻
Another fun fact about Norwegian water (not everywhere, but in many places) is that you only pay for it, not for how much it is used.
So in the place I come from, we have food-grade water in the tap for all 2-3k people using one water supply, and most of the farmers in the area are using that same food-grade tap water to water out the manure on their farms, and no one bats an eye at it!
Water in Noway is very clean. If you find any source of running water in the wild you can drink it as well. You can drink water from all focets, the shower, everything.
Love your channel man! :D Keep it up!
That the tap water is good is true for all Nordic countries. I am Swedish and it has always been completely natural to drink tap water. We Nordic countries are quite similar. We are all brothers and sisters. Although we tease each other as siblings too.
Yep, I'm actually going to Sweden next week with a choir to meet up with a lot of other choirs from the Nordic countries. And when we meet up we speak "Blandinavian"
@@ellenstergaardgravesen1011 Blandinavian...LOVE it !!!!!!
@@karin-vo2us and I just realized I anglicized that - it's "Blandinavisk" of cause. And just to clarify for those who are not Scandinavian. "Blandet" means mixed...
To understand distance and time. I live in Sweden. I could buy a ferry ticket to Helsinki Finland for $500-600 (there are cheaper options) covers car also, depending on options food also. I drive 1½-2h to Stockholm by car. Hop on the 16h ferry to Helsinki. Drive a few hours east and be visiting cousins.
And its usually american media who cares about the "n@zi" symbols, we used it for desgin for many hundreds of years. Heck look at the bluetooth logo!
Always drank water straight from the tap. Sometimes I forget how lucky we are in Norway. And the water is good.
You just earned a new subscriber. As a Norwegian this is so fun to watch. Keep up the good videoes mate!😊🇳🇴
Me to from norway
Fun facts about Voss water:
It's from the same lake as the Municipality get it's water. Only difference is that Voss get it from a couple of meters deeper
It's the Municipality's back up water supply
When doing maintenance people got Voss water in their toilets.
Okay, but people should also know that no matter where in the world you live. You can drink average tap water in Norway without risk of getting sick. That is not what most nations can say, nor most people in the world can do.
even funner fact, Voss vann doesnt have anything to do with Voss at all, its tapped down in Iveland in Agder
The video you are watching should get an F for their info. Thanks for thinking yourself about the runes! ❤
This comment says it the best!
''How is it possible to get so many facts wrong?
1. People from Norway are called Norwegians, not Norsemen.
2. Most of the water in Norway does not come from springs or glaciers. Especially not in the south, seeing as glaciers are sparse/non-existent.
3. Norway does not sport sub-zero temperatures almost all year round. Yes, temperatures can drop to below 30 degrees celcius, but temperatures can go all the way up to +35 degrees in the summer. Winter does not last all year round. We have four very distinguishable seasons.
4. We, Norwegian citizens, do not get money directly from the state. The money is budgeted each year/term, and spent on welfare, infrastructure and such.
5. Norway had two referendums to decide wether Norway should or shouldn't join the EU, one in 1972 and one in 1994. They were both close calls, but Norway is now a part of the EEA, or EØS as it is called in Norwegian. The EEA is basically an agreement that grants all the benefits of the EU without the country needing to be in the EU.
6. Norway is expensive, yes, but a bottle of water costs below 2 USD.
7. I don't know if the narrator is suggesting at 9:04 that Norway uses Euros, but we don't. We use Norwegian Kroner, or NOK.
8. Tree cutting isn't illegal. You just need to own the land on which you choose to cut trees.
There are probably more things that were wrong, but i couldn't be bothered to mention everything. This must be one of the worst videos I've seen, due to the blatant lack of research and fact-checking.
EDIT 2 YEARS LATER: No one gives a fuck if you're Norwegian. Stop replying to my comment saying that you are, I'm Norwegian too.''
Hello Tyler! Im so happy you like our country so much. I was hoping now that we are getting closer to the 17th of may maybe you would consider checking the kings guard out they are pretty dope.
I was 2018 in Norway so the prices can be different now. I remember that I payed over € 13 (converted) for a pack of cigarettes and over € 20 for a bottle of Martini Bianco. These are more than twice as expensive as in Austria (where I live). Pack of cigarettes was about € 5.50 and a bottle of Martini bianco around € 8 in 2018 (now it costs € 9). We made a road trip with our electric car (elbil as they say), it lasted 3 weeks, so I ran out of my cigarettes that I brought with me. I have seriously thought about quitting smoking, but nah 😊
Edit: it was an awesome journey, you should go to Norway 👍
I never knew the T rune had any Nazi connections. I've never come across that in school or in life in general, and in Scandinavia you see runes from the entire Futhark (the rune alphabet) everywhere, they are just part of our history and heritage.
Oh my God, SAME! I had no idea that the nazis used T and E as their symbols! And we LearningPlanet about them in school here, see them everywhere and our national «helleristninger» is out in the open, so 🥴
@@aase89 Hvor er det dere to kommer fra, for jeg har aldri sett runer/helleristninger, ute i livet mitt! 😅
The first "What?" and the corresponding facial expressions at 10:43 are so priceless and genuine!
In Norway the legal age to buy alcohol is 18, when you buy alchohol that's under 22 %. And in Sweden you have to be 20+ y/o to buy any alcohol. In Sweden they are very stricked with selling alcohol. When I was with my mom at the store, she bought wine, for her self. But they also asked for my ID, but I didn't have any on me, but I told them I wasn't going to have any of it. They wouldn't sell my mom the wine, because they espected that it was for me... That's when I found out to stay outside of the store. Alot of the alcohol is about half the price in comparison to here in Norway. I'm over 20 y/o now, and I like to take a road trip to Sweden once-in-a-while to go grocery shopping and going to "systembolaget" :)
I live about 2 hours from the swedish border, and I buy alcohol, ground beef, tobacco, candy, soda etc once a month almost. Most people use the Color Line boats, which have even cheaper tobacco etc compared to stores in sweden because they have tax free. For example one carton (10 packs of 20 Marlboro cigs) cost 45usd, but if you gonna buy that in Norway, its close to 200usd for the same amount.
The really weird thing is that in spite of the tap water being perfectly drinkable here in Sweden too a lot of people go and buy bottled water! Pretty stupid!
Gotta flex those money i guess🤣
Snow all the year . . haha . . 5-10 weeks per year where I live, and 60-84 degrees F in the summer is normal, and 64 to 70 degrees F in the water is quite usual in the sea.
Here in Spain you cannot drink water from random streams in the mountains (which you can do in many parts of Norway 😍) but you can also drink tap water almost everywhere ... and actually in most countries I've visited. It actually blows my mind that it's not the case in the US.
As a swedish person, the concept of anyone comming to Sweden to by "cheap" alcohol is baffling.
Nazi-symbols ????+ It is not,by far, true . . . They are RUNES, not Nazi-symbols. The nazis used (abused) the Norse heritage letters and tryed to adopt them, The runes are not, in any way, related to nazi. The nazies used both ancient symbols like svesticas (that are thousends of years old, and old norse letters (Runes) as symbol for their idiology.The video you are reacting to, is hillarious (and disturbing) from a Norwegian point of view. .
Half of the year it is sunny and warm, like 20/25 celsius, but below the city of Trondheim
Number 2 it’s true that Norway is expensive. One time I went to a grocery store and there was a CHOCOLATE BAR( a tiny one) that was 100kr ( about 9$-10$ )
I love tap water, drink it all the time in the UK. We need to get rid of all the plastic bottles!
It's not 192 dollars. It's 192.000 dollars per person ;) But that doesn't mean they will ever hand out that amount per person, obviously. It's more of an insurance, and was claimed to be for later generations when I was a kid. That's still what they say when they claim they don't want to use from the fund to help in certain situations. Like when the disability pension needs a raise they claim that they can't, but if there's some corporate bail out need they are all in :P Norway isn't JUST kind to all its citizens.
I have a private water supply that comes from a spring straight out of the mountain. My water from the tap is as cold as water with ice cubes in it, even during summer😊
The tap water is SO good! Best quality.
03:00 I have seen Voss water sold at Walmarts when I was visiting the USA, so I do know tha they are sold in the US.
Also, water in the faucet is very pure, indeed, while in the USA - at least in the states I have been to - the faucet water is very impure and probably filled with things you shouldn't be drinking, but is accepted by the FDA or whoever has to do with that because they assume people don't drink too much water.
funny thing that water isnt even bottled in Voss , marketing again......seen Undertaker drink it too
@@postersandstuffyeah, I really dislike that. Don't use other place's names when things has nothing to with it!
They sold it in Spar groceries in walvis bay, Namibia for 2-3$
It´s the same in Sweden. No matter where in Sweden you are the tapwater is drinkable. There are places with better or worse taste but it´s completely ok even in the bigger cities. And about Kevin Spacey... We have a saying in Sweden: "No smoke withou a fire" Not very hard to understand, wouldn´t you say?
You can also drink from the tap in Denmark.. it is very rare that a city has issue with the water.
Here in Switzerland we don`t only drink water out of the taps, we also drink water out of public fountains-they taste good especially in summer when its hot as the water is real cold.
Tap water in most of europe is fine. In some of the more eastern states or on some islands you might have to watch out. Some countries have great tab water. In some it is absolutely safe, but they chlorinate it which makes it taste awful...but large parts of the US do that, too, so you are probably accustomed to the taste. It always pissed me off in the US as they would fill my glass with ice cubes from chlorinated water to the brim and after minute or two the whole drink tasted of chlorine...same problem with tea from chlorinated tab water...brrr.
Tap water in Europe is not always fine....
@@oerjanmoen which is why I said mostly?
I’m from western Alberta, Canada our water is the same very clean and wonderful eastern Alberta not so much definitely buy bottled in eastern Alberta trust me I only made that mistake once!!
with the tapwater its varies from place to place... for example at our summer house the water taste more pure and clean but at our house in the city center it have more of a Iron taste and its only 10 min apart from eachother x). Nr2 it also varies from part of Norway, we down south goes often to Denmark to buy cheap alcohol rather then Sweden wich is further away for us.
As a norwegian person i cant imagine not being able to drink tap water. Everyime me and my family have a vacation to other countries like spain, we usually always miss being able to just drink straight from the sink
03:42 I don't hear anything about people going to Finland for that kind of trip, but I definitely know a lot of people go to Denmark - and am one of them - or Sweden for that purpose.
For instance, on the Fjordline ferry to Denmark from Norway, I last bought a 6 pack of Corona Extra beer for roughly 93NOK ($8.87), in Norway, however, that same 6 pack would cost me roughly 198NOK ($18.88).
In Troms and Finnmark county, we go to Finnland to buy alcohol, meat and tobacco. Families brought nabours children with, because they could buy more meat. We called them “meat child” since they came along to increase the amount of meat you could import over the border 😂😂😂
I moved from Denmark to Norway nine years ago and here's a tip: Prices on the ferry is almost always higher than in danish grocery stores. A 12 pack would cost about 80NOK in danish stores. That's way cheaper than "taxfree" on the ferry.👍
@@tokeullvarbeyer-clausen664 I checked the price at Bilka, might not be the best store to compare with, though, but that same 6 pack was more expensive there than on the ferry. Though, to be fair, I also think I happened to take the ferry when there was a sale going on for that type of beer, so the actual price may have been more expensive on the ferry than the stores in Denmark.
@@turidboholm2587 that may explain it, I'm in West part of Norway, so for us it makes more sense to go to Sweden or Denmark. But I can definitely see how someone more up Northish would go to Finland, since it is closer to them than hitching a ride on the ferry to Denmark.
At some point you will probably have seen so many Norway videos that the only thing left is to actually move here! Or at least visit. Please do! :)
In Czech Republic where I live, it’s also completely normal to drink tap water. I’m surprised you can’t in the US. But it’s true that when I tried to dring tap water in New York, it did not taste well
Here in Norway, you can drink the water from streams or inland lakes in many places. The reason is that the ground is a filter in itself, and if the water has also passed through a bog, it is very clean and fresh. I have never brought a bottle on a trip, only a cup, as I know of places where I can find freshly brewed water, which is great. And the drinking water often comes from lakes that are close to cities, which are also lightly treated, such as adding fluoride, but this is only done so that the water stays fresh in the pipes until it reaches your home!
Yes I can confirm all that, except the fluoride part, which is not allowed to add to water in Norway! Trace amounts of chlorine is added to tap water to kill any pathogens.
You're absolutely right. It said that NOTHING is added, such as fluoride or salts. The same goes when you read things too quickly!
i think number 4 i more a lie. But when it comes to the statement that the capital is civilization, I disagree more. Northern Norway in particular is the civilization where you get to enjoy the peace in a different way. i live up here in northen part of norway and lived many years in south som i think i know what i am taliking about.
How can you distrust this video? The "wealth fund" gives each Norwegian 192 dollars!
@@magnusalexander2965 192 USD per person i also wrong. its is 218,209 USD per person.
@@TomKristiansen I know, it's all wrong. Someone typed a few misunderstood pieces of information into a voice generator
Actually it’s not nazi symbols, it’s runes(the alfabet that the viking used), adopter by the nazis as Arian symbols!
*"All I need is a glass of highly toxic liquid....L.A. tap water would be fine!"*
- Jim Carrey
The water are so clean in norway,that when you hike in the mountains you can just dip your cup in the river and drink it directly.
Nr.4 is dead wrong.. We do have 4 seasons like everybody else. Last summer, the peak temperature where I live was 36° celsius.
Yeah, that one warm (not even hot) week per year ... ooh!
@@SilvanaDil Well i live in Bergen and we have had maybe one week in total with temperature belove 0 the entire winter!
So make a fackt video and not use any real fackts but just fantasy is plain stupid1
If you are unlucky, you can experience multiple seasons seasons in a single day, such as a minor snowfall in the middle of May. Yes, I’ve experienced it myself… We have an expression saying that you can sometimes experience all four seasons in one day.
Haha.. I live in the Netherlands and I cycle (yes you read that correct I cycle) to Germany to do cheaper grocery shopping xD The nearest German town is just around 15km (45 minutes cycling) away from my city. Of course I don't do this on a weekly base. But let's say I do it once every 2 months. That must be mind blowing for someone from the United States.
WOW, you must be in an AMAXING shape. Good for you, I am impressed !!!!!!!
@Lilje-np9mq I'm actually overweight 🤣🤣 Don't know how. It's definitely not a lack of exercise. But cycling a lot is unfortunately not the magic trick to get in a very good shape 🤣🤣
@@bike-tyson-oak That just impresses me even more. I have never been overweight myself, but when pregnant I gained 34 kg (80 pounds?!? ) and just walking was exhaudsing It took me over 1 years to get back to my normal weight. Excerzise in itself is absolutely addictive. I started at the age of 5 and never stopped. The hormones one produces are just a feeling of bliss. I was a swimmer for 15 years, but now I only do what is FUN, not cpmpetetive. So I dance app. 45 min, 6 days a week, and just LOVE it. I imagine you do too. but you must have lost some weight whilst cycling??
How to drink water from tap in Norway to blend in:
Step 1: Turn on the water, let it run until it is very cold
Step 2: Get your glas, rinse it with water a minimum of 3 times, wasting water is couture
Step 3: Drink 60% of the water, flush the rest, if your still thirsty repeat step 1 and 2
Step 4: Rinse your glas after drinking, same as step 2, minimum 2 times
Now you Will blend in.
yes, in Denmark and Norway we export our tap water 😊 we can drink our water directly from the tap as our tap water is fresh 😅 and out in the country there are some of us who have our own wells with tap water (and it tastes really good) a bit like spring water .
Snow all year around and under 0 is not true at all. Temperature normaly shifts from -10 to +30 celsius in oslo.
Yeah, that one warm (not even hot) week per year ... ooh!
@@SilvanaDil hot enough, i prefer 20.
Normal is 1 month a year over 30 celsius day temperature in the south. 30 is alot different than below freezing..
Scandinavian water 🌊🧊 is very good 🥛
Even in Denmark?
@@oerjanmoen yep, the tap water here is fine 👍👍❤️❤️ Sincerly a dane who drink tapwater 😉
Here in Portugal we also drink water directly from the tap. Only in specific cases of health drink bottled water.
In the UK the tap in the kitchen come straight from the water main and is safe to drink other taps in the house come from a tank in the loft.
08:33 I have heard that a key reason for why Norway started heavily investing in the wealth found was precisely for this reason, that they knew that they relies on its oil and that, sooner or later, that oil would run dry and they would no longer have the wealthy income that they have today, so to make sure that the loss of their wealthy oil income wouldn't cripple them, Norway decided to heavily invest into the wealth found with the purpose of planning for the future in mind.
Many Americans go to Canada to buy insulin, at a tenth of the price in the US. This also applies to other medications, which are cheaper in Canada; so you have a "Canada shopping" trip.
I appreciate that that scene of Odin going to Norway and they actually filemd that IN Norway. On the other hand. In Vikings when they depicted Denmark, they used mountainous terrain and there's not a single mountain in Denmark. But I get it looks great on film with the mountains.
I have my comments about the original video but for now I'll just say that I really like your reactions, Tyler. It seems that you actually want to learn and are very open minded!
What Americans know as Voss Water, a colleague of mine has in his tap. He also showers in it!
The water in Northern California and Northern Nevada from Lake Tahoe tastes divine. Many Americans (much more than 5.4 million) have no need to be cognizant of Voss.
Yeeeah, if you're surprised that people in other countries have drinkable water, you don't get to call yourself a first world country. =P
Tyler is an idiot. Tap water is safe in virtually any place in the U.S. (Btw, even Canada has some places where it's not.) Tyler then adds his own claim (not in the orig. video) that Norwegian water "is better." There are plenty of people (more than 5.4 m Americans) drinking water just as good.
Lol
Tyler plans to film a remake of "Lawrence of Arabia" in Norway's hot desert, and another "Mamma Mia" film on Norway's tropical islands.
Exactly.
As a Norwegian I once hiked and I was thirsty and my bottle of water got empty and I remembered I could drink the water from the pond in the mountains bc it’s so clean and I didn’t get sick I’m here now 5 years later still hasn’t noticed anything abt it so I confirm that our waters are clean
In Germany tap water is drinkable everywhere and test often shows better quality than bottled water, especially if it’s plastic bottles.
Norwegian here. When I was in LA they charged 20 dollar for a bottle of Voss. I told them at the restaurant that this was tap water, bottled 1,5 hours from where I live.
you can drink tap water everywhere in germany too, you can even make baby formula food bc the quality controll is very strict.
selling tap water or water from natural sources is done mostly by the company nestle and they take away drinkable water from native people away and also from poor areas who do not have enough water anymore and farmers suffer too but nestle doesnt compensate for that.
Im from Norway and I remember I saw bottles of VOSS water in some episodes of The Hills on MTV 😅
We can also drink from random streams in the mountains.
Also it doesn't snow all year, or is around zero degrees.
Hi :) Even here in Danmark, you can drink tap water. And we have many visitors from Norway who buys meat and alcohol etc, 'cause it's much cheaper here than in their homeland.
John Fredriksen is known for his oil tanker and shipping, and his biggest share of the salmon gigant Mowi. :)
You can drink it yes, but it doesn´t taste very good. I´m half Danish, and I rarely drink tap water in Denmark.
@@mimosa7070 that depends on where you live in Denmark. In some parts of Denmark there's a high calcium content - where I live (mid-west Jutland) it's just fine and tastes nice!
I live in Northern Norway... #2 - yes, we go shopping in Sweden.... which depending on what part of Norway you live in, anywhere from 30 minutes to a couple of hours away. For comparison, when I lived in NY, We'd drive over to New Jersey to go shopping. About the same distance. It's just lines on a map. #4. No, it does not snow all year round, it just feels like it. By late April snow's mostly gone, and we don't see it again until October-ish. We really only have two seasons. Winter, and not Winter.
It does not snow, or go below zero all year round up north. Its just alot less summer season. Vinter is longer, spring and autumn is shorter.
Denmark also drinks water from the tap and we also drive to, Germany to buy cheap beer and soda