Why Iceland Imports Ice
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Because if they didn't import ice, they'd just become Land.
Really?
That’s the most horrible pun I have seen all day ruined me whole fucking day mate
But they're Iceland without importing land.
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I still dont get it, why would everyone stay on Iced land in Iceland if this place has a soil land
“Imports things like oil, wood, wheat and other food”. Can confirm, I’m from Iceland and love eating wood dipped in oil
what about the wheat ?
The way god intended
There is a bread made out of bark
The way you wrote it (without an oxford comma) is actually correct regarding the intended meaning :) A comma after "wheat" however would inevitable lead to oil and wood being food. Sorry for destroying your joke.
It was "Imports things like oil, wood; wheat and other food."
But does Greenland import Green?
🤔
no.
Too icy.
They'd better to import some land 🤓
Conspiracy!
Yes and Netherland import Nether
Just learnt 4 new things:
- Iceland imports Ice
- Iceland is as icy as the Earth is flat
- Ice ones was a big business
- Skillshare teaches you how to sell a new type of ice
"new" ? I thought he said "another"kind of ice (meth)
Once*
Squarespace helps you sell a different type of ice*
-Iceland Looks Like a sheep Flying
*me an intellectual*: uses ice tray and sells it to Iceland for big stacks
Stonks
dammit you beat me to it
Racks on racks on racks
Already beat you to it. I have a monopoly over it. Selling stocks for $1 per kg of some Zentiqal Inc. Ice!
I would help you if it weren't for one problem
Iceland imports ice because it's free for it to import Ice from the European economic zone
Intro should have mentioned how Greenland, having no native leafy vegetation fit for human consumption, imports its greens
540 likes and 0 replies after 5 years????????
So I guess Greenland can export some ice and import some green. 😏
@LagiNaLangAko23 Sounds right! 😂 Drug dealer reference. Lol.
You are horrible people. That was reference to countrys names.
@@Volodimar Don't you get a joke man?
@@Volodimar woosh
how naughty
If Iceland imports ice from Scotland, where does Scotland import Scots from?
*_Top 10 questions science can't answer_*
coasteringkid technical the Scots were immigrants from Ireland same with the English but from the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark
Scott’s Tots
Highland Park, TX
thats a paradox
So if Iceland imports ice, does TH-cam import you?!?!? 0-0
Lucky Star it does import you to watch ads and exports money
Yes
No! It’s not youland...
Yes through ads which causes us to watch their videos.
Then greenland imports green
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Me: fast forwards 10 sec
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Me: Am I a joke to you
Hotel:trivago
*_Tivago imports hotels_*
@@umapessoanaosuspeita8608 underated comment
Uma Pessoa não suspeita Because obviously if they didnt rent hotels they wouldn’t exist.
Or should I say, If they didn’t import hotels, they would only be Trivago.
Use the meme right dude what is wrong with you
Icy what they did there.
noice.
Don't
You snow that your puns are bad.
This thread gave me a brain freze
Off with his head! Bad puns!!!!
We here in Iceland also export disappointment
They export....not import
No, you export atheism :P
Það er rétt
They export sadness and misery
@@mattilogi162 nei
Several years/possibly decades ago, an abandoned, mostly collapsed ice house in Iowa was excavated. Under the sawdust, there was still extant ice in it.
Interesting. How old was the house?
@@concept5631 It was abandoned in the 20s or 30s. It was in Iowa, adjacent to a lake or pond. Also in Iowa, there is the Ice House Museum in Cedar Falls.
@@vilstef6988 Very cool
sounds very suspect like urban legend
If so, does squarespace sell squares?
No.
Alan G
They already do
No, they import squares.
No, they import squares... XD
Yes, in space.
This is a whole new meaning to the phrase “they could sell ice to eskimos”
Guess we should all stick to carrying coal to Newcastle.
We are not esmimos!!! >:(
please don't say esk*mos, it's a racial slur. You're supposed to call them inuit.
We aren't Eskimos, the guys that import green are
@@theevildrummingsithlord1492 I think someone was once fooled into just that but out of luck, there was a strike at the time and he could actually sell it
3:00 How would you like to be the Iceman? I don't know, ask Kimi.
Bwoah
Even if you asked him, he wouldn’t answer
I see Kimi fans everywhere 👍
Kimi for president
@@mike_oxlong886 make sure he has his gloves and steering wheel first
@HAI
@ChainbearF1
make this a thing
cooperate pls
If Iceland imports ice to become Iceland, then does it mean that Greenland exports ice so it can be Greenland?
yes. yes it does.
No. It imports green.
It's like putting meat in a fruit salad.
@@justarandomsovietofficerwi2023 How?
What about Sealand? It imports sea!
“Why does Iceland import ice?”
“Why does Saudi Arabia import sand?”
I’m detecting a theme...
Next video is "why does america import guns"
Next video: "why does india import food?"
Next video: “Why China imports people”
Next video: "Why does Russia imports land?"
why does greenland import green
"Awakened his inner drug dealer"
laughed so hard
I've learned more geography, history, and politics (and I've become more cultured in general) from watching this channel than from what I've learned in school. And the sarcasm and dark humour of this guy definitely helps, and keeps me wanting more.
"If you want to sell another type of ice" best way to loose your sponsor lmao
Icecream silly
Everybody here talking about Greenland importing greens, or Finland importing fins
Somaliland imports Somalis , Deutscheland imports Deutsch, Thailand imports Thais, Poland imports Pos...
ireland and the uk import ire
switzerland imports switzers :O
I was Hungary, so Iran, slipped on Greece and broke the China.
Clever.
No, why, I love china..... Why....... Why did you broke it..... Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.... 😐, lol, XD.
@@kingsofserbiangameplay1623 english translation????
Were you running to get some Turkey?
Ha
4:43 "If you want to sell a different kind of ice..."
Now THAT'S a segue!
Correction: The first name for Iceland was NOT in fact Iceland, it had a few other names first, so the first Icelandic settler was not the one who actually names it Iceland. The first name was actually Snæland, which means “Snowland.” In between those two names it then got a few others, but eventually settled for the name Ísland (Iceland). While not a huge mistake, since the difference is just Ice vs snow, I just felt like I should point that out.
Are you
icelandic
Sturla Jónsson Já herra
so the age old question then
what do you do with all that ice, herra?
surely, harnessing the power of ice and snow, i see
@@noigunason8137 blessaður. Stormur á mrg.
xXxSkyViperxXx
Iceland probably has secret government laboratories they use to test the power of ice and snow, to see how powerful it can be
Can I use squarespace on dark web to sell "ice" ?
That's what the man recommended.
Paco yes
White, powdered, “ice...”
Thats easy. just dont buy a domanin
Wrong. When you're country ends on "land", you are - by law - required to import whatever it is that precedes your country name, because otherwise they'd turn into only "land".
That's why Poland imports Po,
New Zealand imports new Zea,
Greenland imports Green,
the Netherlands import Nether,
and Finland imports Fins.
Get your facts straight.
Life have many question.
Switzerland imports switzer 😂
How much raw Nether does it take to power that country? It's gotta be at least 10.
What about england
England imports Eng
Scotland imports Scots
How many days did it take Tudor to ship ice to those destinations? That's what's important, not the distance.
What I really want to know is much ice was shipped from the US and how much was left when the ships arrived in places like Australia & India. Especially considering you would have to sail through large portions of hot, humid climates to get to them, which in theory should accelerate the rate at which the ice melts.
@@mattnorris7124 Pfff I'm sure they packed it in plenty of ice so it wouldn't... wait.. how would that work...
0:17 facts. This is why I consider you as a very educational youtube channel
Well, I get it Sam... So..
England imports Engs?
Scotland imports Scots
Finland imports Fins
Ireland imports Ires?
Poland imports Pols
Greenland imports Greens
Thailand imports Thais
New Zealand imports New Zeals
So Guys, add more please.
Holand imports hoes.
Switzerland- switz
Swaziland- swazi
Auckland-Auck
Newfoundland- New founds :P
Nagaland (Indian state)- Nagas :)
America imports emirs
Newfoundland imports newfounds
@@cloud-dv1wb did you even see my comment above???
Why does Iceland import ice?
*TOP 10 QUESTIONS SCIENCE CAN’T ANSWER*
But Economy can
You can't explain that!
sam just did
Send nukes to find out
But economics can!
Video starts and ends at 4:13 - 4:28
Dave Pawson Like for using the metric system.
@Dave Pawson its micrometers
Mvp right here
starts at 5:25
Dave Pawson
Whats a kilometer?
I’m from Iceland and I didn’t know half of the things you were talking about.
But I learned a different story about the first person to step foot on Iceland and a much longer story about the name. (Iceland)
"That fact is about as wrong as pineapple on pizza"
I knew Iceland was called that to stop Vikings coming over! I knew it!
loved the pizza bit. I, too, hate pineapple on pizza, and even though I'm not saying it publicly because I'm too nice of a guy, deep inside I consider those who like pizza with pineapple pretty retarded, and not worthy of my presence.
@@blabla-rg7ky Why don't you like pineapple on pizza? Have you actually tried it? It's delicious and I don't understand the hate.
@@blabla-rg7ky “you like different foods then me, therefore you are not worthy of me!” Just let people like whatever they want
@@donaloflynn it's simple: pizza = food, pineapple = fruit. You never mix these 2 unless you are degenerate. It can have the taste most divine, but you simply don't mix them. And it's not hate, it's common sense
@@TimePads3DCalendars oh, I'm not stopping anyone to like whatever they want... as long as they don't want to like pineapples on pizza :)
But when electricity costs are low enough to produce aluminium, why not put water into the freezer so it becomes ice? Am I the only one who thought that?
Ahmed Er maybe the labour costs of creating the infrastructure for it?
You are a genius
@@allamasadi7970 there is no labour cost in putting water inside your own freezer.
It cheaper to pay other people to make ice, transport it and unload than to move own ass.
@@CzornyLisek if this is true we really need to increase the salary of the Scots
You can make a video about why the UAE imports sand also
Because they love watching horse racing and the best sand for that is found in the Netherlands. Every couple of years they ship over several containers full of them.
sirBrouwer the Main reason is that desert sand cannot be used for construction because it is round. Artificial islands and buildings will just fall apart. They import masses of sand from beaches or rivers for construction purposes and land building. Whole beaches are stolen because of the sand mafia.
Yep, construction sand is really gritty, the kind that is not that pleasant on a beach, desert sand is like talcum powder in comparison.
mneonew87 it’s pretty simple, they use it for reclamation, sea sand is different from desert sand.
Wow. So many helpful people! They must think the op wanted an answer in a couple sentences and not HAIs hilarious commentary on the subject.
2:47 wow...that was a mouthful...you should start rapping
“Why Iceland imports ice”
Mhm, *The floor here is made of floor*
I prefer my floors made of wall
As a New England resident, I’m both proud and weirded out that the place I live used to supply ice for a lot of the world
Most very old and very big houses in the UK (I mean very big country estates, National Trust type places) have special outbuildings designed for storing ice before the times of fridges and freezers, mainly for food preservation. They are called ice houses and are effectively man-made caves. A know of a place where there's a mushroom house too.
Until recently, Iceland's greatest commodity was Stefán Karl Stefánsson.
F
What about Magnús Ver Magnússon? :P
F
But does the Netherlands import Nets?
Nethers.
Netherrack
Netherrack in Minecraft
Yes, and Poland imports Poles.
No, Poland import Po
I really appresciate the fact that you not only convert the prices to euro but to convert the whole realtionship to euro per kg, from dollars per lb! Amazing level of detail!
I really appreciated the $/lb to €/kg conversation, that saved me some time👍
Conversion.
Convetsation is when you change religion.
@@meferswift conversation is when you are talking to someone and changing religion IS conversion.
@@gorelovelive5022 exactly
0:15 "Well that fact is about as wrong as pineapple on pizza."
So it's completely true. After all, pineapple does belong on pizza.
If you disagree, you get the broccoli pizza.
First Cynic Call me a demon ascended from hell, but I kinda like broccoli on pizza
@@vehicleboi5598 Brocolli does not belong on pizza just as quality NY style thin crust should never be dipped in ranch dressing.
@Joe Cowan Not that many places offer 'chovies, but I like them also with black olives, onions and garlic.
Actually I find these videos double as interesting...
Hi! Bright Side copied your "Why Heathrow had emply flights..." video! Even the title! You should stike him!
@Loki Laufeyson i know
You can't copyright an idea for a video idiot.
Stefan Trandafir they do that a lot, cause their company makes tons of money out of it.
Bright Side is stupid.
Flag brifht shit
Hey HaI I work at the harbour that ships a lot of the aluminum from Iceland and it's worth mentioning that most of it does not use the same ships that normal cargo comes on, a substantial portion does but all the raw material and most of the products enter and exit from their own harbours and carry very limited if any extra cargo. Also 99% of ice in Iceland is made in Iceland and is used for icing fish.
3:37
"This is mostly SHIPPED by PLANE"
and?
Sam: NYC and DC get sweltering hot In the summer
Australians: Hold my beer
Romeo Atwal that’s right mate
1:04
What kind of "ICE" 💎❄ are we talking about here
Wait what??? We don't import much ice. I the past few years I have seen some imported bags of ice in the supermarket but generally we scoff at the idea and find it ridiculous. Usually the supermarkets have ice machines. Like the video says then electricity is not really expensive here so making ice is cheap as hell. So the video is mostly correct apart for the part where we rely on imported ice.
Yup. It will be Jónsson. It's always the first name. Although we could also choose it to be Eyrúnarson as my wife is named Eyrún. The rest of the nordic countries have stopped doing this and use family names now.
The russians also do this although the fathername comes in the middle and they also have a family name. For example Putin's full name is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Which means something like 'Vladimir, son of Vladimir, of the Putin family". This is also where the middle eastern 'bin' comes from.
Jú við gerum það, en við flytjum megnið af því aftur út. Því að nálægt allur ís sem er notaður til að ísa fisk í landinu er innfluttur en fer aftur út með fiskinum. Svo fiskur á skipum, fiskverkunum, höfnum og flugvélum er allur þakinn í erlendum ís.
some nieche trivia: In Ethiopia and Eretria, people's last names are their father's first name. For example: my Grandpa's name is Araya Gebrejohannes. My father's name therefore is Samuel Araya. I "should" be named "Johannes Samuel"
Óðinn úkí. Vissi það ekki. Hef aðallega skoðað minni hafnir eins og á Arnarstapa sem framleiða eiginn ís.
@@JonGretarB Ertu á Stapa?
Man, you are definitely my most favorite content creator. The videos are just the ideal length and are always very interesting plus the humor always gets me. Keep it up!
I’m really glad I found this channel. Very informative and entertaining at the same time.
0:35
*Flat earthers want to know your location*
2:32
i literally thought you said 1$ per £ i got so confused lmao
4:45 "If you want to sell a different kind of ice, you definitely need a Squarespace website."
Whoa, you talkin' 'bout drugs?
Yes, he is...
0:58 *A surprisingly rational explanation* that's should be the name of the chanel.
An green island called Iceland
An icey island called Greenland
But does England import Engs?
Yes. Australia and Canada are full of Engs
No
Yes
Does Newfoundland emport Newfound
0:18 I love you, greetings from Italy
Sì ma questi nei commenti continuano a dire di mettere l'ananas sulla pizza...
"That fact is about as wrong as pineapple on pizza"
Lol
This is why this channels great. Literally no one needed to know this but now we all do
Thanks for putting captions on man (I'm in class rn)👍
0:18 thank god somebody had to say it 😂
Is there a Icecity?
Why Poland only watches Kung Fu Panda movies
lol? we do not
Because it imports Po!
Wow I live in Iceland but had no idea we imported so much ice! Like yeah I know we need to import a lot of stuff so everything is so expensive but no idea we even needed to do that. I'm still not sure for what we need it for.
One of my favorite stories to tell people about the time I went to Iceland with my dad is about ice.
We rented a car and were driving around the entirety of the island over the course of 9 days. We had a cooler to keep our cold food in as we drove around the island, be we had no way of actually keeping the food cold. Nowhere sold ice and only one of the places we stayed had a freezer. Our ice from that freezer ran out after about 2 days.
We had been looking for Ice for about a day or two when we got to the Diamond Beach. It was covered in chunks of ice as seen in pictures. Before leaving, we got the idea to find a nice sized chunk and put it in our cooler. It lasted nearly until the end of the trip.
That is how we couldn't find ice in Iceland, and how we ended up using an iceberg to keep our ice cool.
I have a real problem. 4:35 I thought that sign was going to be dirty, but it ended up saying "bonus"
3:18 like other ICE-olated northern countries
*Does Greenland Import Green?*
Ice kill mice
Iceland is green, but Greenland is made of ice....
This is honestly the most surprising thing you have ever covered. I still don't understand how it can possibly be economical.
Pineapple is amazing on pizza, what is it with people?:)
I know right? It's delicious! The people who are against it never seem to bother explaining why.
@@donaloflynn Because WE, THE ITALIANS, invented pizza, and we NEVER put pineapple on it
@@mattiabosio3983 Only Hawaiians do, and then again, Hawaiian Pizza was made on Canada, so Canadians did it
Pineapple mixes very well with ham, corn and brings great flavours out of them. I remember everyone loving the Hawaiian pizza here but here comes the internet and everyone started to hate on it for no reason other than to just not be different and judged. There are many cases where fruits are used with meat and it always tastes so fucking better than without the fruit or jam do why is it fucking wrong to like pineapple on pizza. Just let me enjoy what I like man.
The F*ck, What is your problem, It is H O R R I B L E
*because Iceland is the green one. Not the icy one.*
Ice
+
Land
=
Iceland
Iceland: AM I A JOKE TO YOU!?
If electricity is so cheap and abundant in Iceland it's still surprising to not just plug in an ice maker and hook up a hose. But I guess that imported ice is really really cheap
I agree - I don't get it. Why don't you use a freezer?
Get out... Pineapple is fine on Pizza
I assume the next video is “Why Greenland imports green”
Scotland must have the world's most amazing sales pitches to sell both ice to Iceland and sand to Saudi Arabia.
Wait, do they really sell sand to the Saudi's?
@@elguapo1690 yup, saudi arabia needs maritime sand for use in construction. Desert sand just isn't much good for building
@@reganator5000 Thanks!
@@reganator5000 desert sand is to smooth and round. construction needs jagged sand
@@ronblack7870The saudis like 'em course, rough and irritating. But unfortunately, maritime sand isn't everywhere.
Saudi Arabia should import sand
Don't joke about that :P
No really, if you want concrete to build all those ludicrous structures, you need that stuff you find at the bottom of river beds.
*cough* middle east is importer sand a lot for construction. Desert sand is not too good for building a house🐱🐱
Pineapple on pizza is great #Pineappleonpizza
No its not
The Romans already stored ice in winter in the mountains and transported it to Rome and their villas in places like Tivoli to be used in the summer.
Probably other places did it as well.
For those interested on the story of ice and selling ice, I deeply recommend the PBS Documentary "How we got to now"
HAI, how is everyone?
good and you?
Great!
You?
Abage
Touché.
I mean... the earth is flat
Just joking calm down
Yeah ikr the earth is obviously a pyramid (joke)
Squarespace vs Brilliant 1v1
Even the king Louis XIV of France had a special house in Versailles to stock ice during winter so they can use it in summer. This technique is pretty old actually.
Do a video on the Irish, British, and Scottish people. Topics likes similarities/differences, history of why they’re not all just one country, and etc
With ultra cheap electricity, why not just freeze their own ice from rivers?
That is actually what nearly all of us do. I've only ever seen tourists buy water or ice. The concept of buying water is literally foreign to us.
41 views, 111 likes, 44 comments. Normal HAI video
I take it that you are new to TH-cam, welcome.
Watch my infos then
Each person that watched it went through asexual mitosis and they commented and liked.
*Cause it's called **_Ice_** Land! Duh!* 🤦♀️
Sometimes I like listen to the first few seconds of the smooth transition into an ad and guess what service it is
So thats why i always see these big bags of ice when i go shoping!
“That fact is about as wrong as pineapple on pizza”. So its completely correct?
You Americans have to come to Italy to learn how to eat properly... PINEAPPLE MUST NEVER BE PUT ON THE FUCKING PIZZA
"Wrong as pineapple on pizza."
So, its a true statement then ?
Dr Mantis Tobogan *N O*
3:23 I understood weed 😂
i really read the title "Why Ice Imports Ice"
The question on the title just answered itself.