American Reacts to FUNNY Norwegian Memes (Part 5)
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- Norwegian memes have the amazing ability to be funny, entertaining, but also educational. That is why today I am very excited to react and enjoy these funny Norwegian memes. Also I will hopefully gain deeper insight into the Norwegian culture. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Yes, the King did make that joke
Yes, I remember..cuz I did see the program! 😂
The queen was not impressed😂
@@vikinnorway6725 åpenbart ikke😂
@@sainttr00msoo heheh nei. Liker humoren til Harald !
King Harald of Norway. A good one..
It's more common to say "born behind a barn door" never heard of that brown cheese thing before😄
It's not a thing, really, someone just thought it fun to replace barn door with brunost. Back in the late 90s a friend and I did the same thing in a mIRC metal channel; some Italian teens had started a black metal band and wanted a Norwegian name for satan, so we said brunost. And thus they became Brunost the black metal band. Until they found out.
I was looking for this comment. I am Norwegian and have never heard about å være født bak en brunost before.
As a kid living in Norway, school was 2km away. The route to school could be through the woods or along the local road. In winter we could choose between walking, skiing or us a "spark" (kicksled). If there was new fallen snow we skied through the woods. If the snow had lain for a while we would use the spark along the road or walk if there was too much gravel. It was uphill to school so coming home on skis or sled was much faster because it was downhill.
oh you live right nexst to the scool nice for you i need to go to 3 busses and 1 boat to get to the scool he flexing he lives right nexst to scool??
Dude i live There too😂
Snow at road is a mountain pass. same every winter and spring they plough it early and open the road
I'm from the Northern part of Norway, and in the winter when i was a kid some times the wind was so strong that i actually had to crawl some of the way to school.
I also come from Northern Norway, and I experienced the same thing many times as a child, when there were storms. Literally had to crawl to get home. I also got lost in a blizzard, and luckily my mother found me and brought me home...🇳🇴😊
I'm from up North, and can confirm.
I can affirm to that.
Could get pretty hefty, Tromsø my city has some natural shielding from much of the worst wind, but we've had plenty of must-crawl winds. Stand up and you fly back! Was particularly scary to crawl over the main bridge to the city, it was before they had extended the railings. 😬
I’m from the middle of Norway and can confirm
@@MisjonenKomi Aaah...yes. I live in Tromsø too. Blizzard of 97. I hope i will never experience anything like that ever again. Not being able to see the house across the road except for a faint glow of lights from the windows.
Only seeing the emergency lights of the car ahead of you and otherwise you can only see your carhood.
Shoveling snow out of the air intake on the car. Nearly being thrown off the Tromsøbrua by the wind...twice, because i was dumb and desperate enough to WALK across.
He might just be a bit above average when it comes to knowledge about Norway by now
I have never heard that brunost expression in my life. :)
No, that is not common, never heard it too.
Me neighter 🤷♀️🤷♀️
Not me either. Maybe because we are the smart ones then 😋
Agree...I have never heard it. But "born under a rock" is one we use.
Its wrong. It should be: Født bak en låve. (Born behind a barn)
The "Social Guidebook to Norway" could just as well have said FInland on it, same illustrations and everything 🤣
The king had a BIG laugh when he called the Queen , Troll 😂😇🙃🙏🙈 ive traveled in Summertime over Hardangervidda then IT was that much snow! ( Well a little bit less...but abt 3-4 meter) the northern lights Are really powerfull, the dances in the sky, i also have seen red colour , its normaly more and stronger farther north you travel.
King Harald has a great sense of humor, he is our national grandfather and there's none better.
He did make that joke and Queen Sonja laughed, it was awesome. They're great.
PS: Nordic countries are great, Finland and Iceland are great friends to Norway, Sweden is not ( WWII. Fuck sweden), and then there's Denmark.
... our dear friends that we like to make jokes about, as they with us (often the same jokes but turned around)! 😂
You should probably learn some history, without Sweden we would have been far worse of during WWII. They saved a lot of Norwegian Jews, and they let us train up resistance etc and provide shelter for a lot of people
@@martine5923He probably refer to when Sweden refused the Norwegian royals protection in Sweden.
W.W. 2 ended in 1945.
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More importent problems for the Nordic contrys now, and Sweeden in NATO now...
Sweden is NOT in NATO yet@@andersrefstad8235
I live in the North of Norway where there can be snow for 5 or 6 months of the year so I see kids skiing to school. They have 'ski days; here.
same in hole norway i think
@@ConradTBO87 No.
I’ve never skid to school, that’s so funny!
I always take a taxi, so idk what that says…
If you liked the Norwegian soldier you should look up Magnus Midtbø (a famous Norwegian rock climber). He has some awesome YT videos with the Norwegian army where he gets to do try outs and training missions with the army. His content is rock solid =)
Magnus for fan !
The brown cheese saying was new one to me. It doesn't make much more sense in Norwegian, except if you actually know the expression.
Norwegian here too, never heard it, but I expect the people saying that means brunost is stupid. Some people think that.
It's really født bak en låvedør/born behind a barn door, then someone recently probably thought it was "crazy" to change it with brown cheese. Hilarious. /s
Norwegian here too, never heard of that.
@@Kraakesolv yes, people frequently get the sayings wrong even without intention.
@@TullaRaskThey do and it's funny! Brunost doesn't have any sayings to it afaik, so pretty sure this one was done on purpose because... brunost is Norwegian and it is somehow funny to replace words with brunost. I don't see it, others might however. Humour isn't objective!
and yes some of us in norway use skis to go to school in winter
but i dont use skis to school in the winter i just ride my bike in all that snow
tbf is kinda fun to ride my bike to school in the winter
(for the one that dont know why it can be fun to ride your bike to school its cuz you can trip and fall and not get hurt and if your lucky you might find a ramp to jump on and land in the snow)
warning dont jump on a ramp in the winter in snow if you dont know how to get out of the snow!
cuz if you dont know how to get out of the snow and the snow is taller then you
then you will have to scream for help until somebody comes and helps you out
but if nobody comes thene you just have to spend a long time digging your way out (i hope your boss or teacher is kind cuz if there are not then you will get in troble for coming late)
but if you dont know how to get out and land upside down then in the snow
then your pretty much ded its gg
your only hope left is to
pray that somebody comes and helps you
if you get stuck upside down in the snow
then dont scream for help
breat slow and stay kalm
if you scream and panik then you run out of air
what you wanna do is move your legs like crazy
too signal that you need help
that way you will run out of air slower
so that more people can come in time and help you
you been warned
so anything that happes to you if you do this is your problem
The more common expression describing a stupid person translates to "he/she is not the sharpest knife in the drawer."
Sharpest tool in the box.....
I will test the born behind a brown cheese at work tomorrow morning - I am 49 years old and I have NEVER heard that one before and did not know what it means....You can say elskling in Norwegian as well. Kjæreste (boyfriend/girlfriend) means most precious - it can be used about things as well - "hans kjæreste eiendel" = his most precious belonging....
I'm 60, and I've never heard that either. It's a joking meme combining "being born behind a bush/shed" and the most Norwegian thing a lot of people can think of. (The polite ones will say it tastes "interesting".) The closest thing to the Norwegian saying that isn't used that much anymore is the Southern states saying about someone "falling off a turnip truck".
50+ years old Norwegian here, and also never ever heard about being "born behind a brown cheese" before. Could be a very local saying, maybe.
@@enulun That is absolutely possible! We have have a lot of VERY local sayings that are unfamiliar to everyone outside the region. 👍
The wall of snow is real and from one of many mountain roads. The kind that is closed in the wintertime.
This picture of the road with snow was taken in Japan. Look at the center line on the road!
@@steinarhaugen7617 Yes, they were maybe higher than normal, but 10-meter snow walls happen on the mountain roads in Norway as well.
@@oh515 I have experienced 7-8 meter high snow walls on Sognefjell in early May.
I knew a girl who once had to climb out her bedroom windows on 1st floor to head off ot school in the morning, because the front door was blocked by snow due to the heavy snowfall during the night.
That brown cheese saying is not from a Norwegian. Sounds more like something a foreigner living in Norway would say.
About that personal space meme...
Those people are waiting for the bus, and the busses in Oslo are very long with multiple entry doors.
That's why they are spread out like that, because it goes faster getting everyone on the bus if they enter through different doors.
And of course, spreading out throughout the bus also helps the personal space :)
Charcoal ash was used to speed up snow-smelting to clear certain mountain-crossings that used to have semi-permanent snow-cover, even through most of Summer too ;) (The road to Geiranger is one example of this)
I like your channel a lot, and the way you present things. Greetings from a Scandinavian. 🙂
12:54 that road is a Norwegian-swedish connection road through the mountains, it's just as true for Sweden.
Yes he made this joke. 🤣 and yes it’s the Queen 🤣
In scandinavia Sweden is the big brother, Denmark is the little brother (even if this is the oldest country) and Norway is the baby brother that got dropped on the head when born while Finland is the wierd adoptive brother.
Yes, i took skis to school as a kid. There was a farm-field between my suburb and the school. The regular road went around it. About 2km.
Crossing the field during the snowy winters, i cut almost a full kilometer of my school route. It was much faster than walking during the summer, arguably faster than taking the bike.
it is quite common to have a lot of snow on some mountains in Norway, and the road has to be shoveled very often, so that the road is not closed
We don't walk around going about our day, smiling from ear to ear and talking jovially to strangers for no reason. I have never been anywhere in Europe where people do that. I would have been wondering what they were smoking...
Well in that case I'd want some! 😂
@@nalleberg Many smoke fish, you know....
i am 55 and never heard about the brown cheese anthology.. Well..i might just be stupid
Skiing to school - yes, that's not that unormal. A couple of years ago after a really heavy snowfall in Oslo, there where even kids who skied to school in the inner city of Oslo because all the streets weren't plowed in the morning - but that was mostly because it was possible and fun I guess 🙂
Yes, that is indeed our Queen, Sonja, sitting right next to King Harald.
The personal space part might go back to the viking age. In a famous trial where one guy had chopped the head off another guy - he famously answered his accusers with "han sto så lagelig til for hogg". In english this would mean something like "he stood in a way that made it so tempting/easy to chop his head off". So, he killed him for no other reason than that it was so easy to do because he stood in such a vulnerable position.
I could ski to school for the first three years of my life and my dad used to ski to work all winter.
The boyfriend/girlfriend thing isn't 100% accurate.
The Swedish "älskling" is also used the same in Norwegian where it is written as "elskling" and is mostly used by older, more established couples like married people, not as boyfriends/girlfriends.
The English equivalent would be darling.
In Swedish you would say "pojkvän" for boyfriend and "flickvän" for girlfriend, which is literally the same as the English boyfriend and girlfriend.
In Norway we only use "kjæreste" which is indeed gender neutral and translates to "dearest".
That is an old, old 2 wheeler tractor. You pretty much don't see them around anymore
Despite being a Norwegian, I also had my DNA sequenced. I hope 23andme do not own my DNA now and they will soon be renting it out to me against a monthly fee.
Turns out I am 96,7% Scandinavian. I wasn't really surprised by that. I was surprised when they told me that "You have more Neanderthal DNA than 90% of other customers."
As a soldier in the Norwegian Army, Engineers Corps, I can tell you that a beard like that would be a death sentence if attacked with chemical weapons such as a gas. All gas masks, at least when I served, are incompatible with beards. Pretty sure they still are.
When I was a kid. I had 4km pure downhill too school. In winter i would either ski or use a snowracer sled thing. Amazing fun on the way there, not so much on the way home again. Another place I lived were also about 4km through farmland and forest, mostly flat tho, then I used to ski to and from👌 his was when I was between 8-12 years old..
I had 2,5 kilometres to school one way, through a forest, and I/we either was skiing or using a spark (kick slade) in wintertime. If there’s no snow we used our bicycles👍
Many of us kids also did ski jumping at school (during break time), the best ones jumped as far as 19 metres. This was in Primary School, and we had a ski jumping facility built of wood😊
I’ve never heard the “born behind a brown cheese” before🤔😂
Where I live now we can have snow blizzards.
One time it was so bad that I couldn’t go check the mailbox, I didn’t see a foot in front of me. My neighbour was going from the barn to the house, approximately 30 metres, and she had to call her husband to come and get her😅
That expression is completely wrong btw. The expression is "Å være tapt bak en vogn".
When i was four years old my family moved back to Norway from Italy. My father had bought a new appartment in a new suburb of Oslo. A local school was not built yet so my older siblings had go to school in the closest suburb. They actually had to go skiing to get there. With a flashlight trough the woods. It was back in 1972.
I actually have a picture somewhere of my grandfather and his horse in a road about...80 years ago. And it is like 7 feet of snow, And this was not in the mountains. We get a LOT of snow!! :(
My mom did the DNA test, we are practically from the EU and Canadian. We have a lot of fun with it.
Ps. She is born in Norway.
You can see the northern lights in the far south at times too, but not as often as in the north :)
yeah the king did make that joke on tv
As a norwegian the first one is so releteble
The «born behind a brown cheese» is not a common phrase all over Norway. A much more common phrase would be «Born behind an outhouse»
I have never heard this before and I am Norwegian!
I’m from Norway, but I have natural red hair
That expression (Brown cheese one) is unfamiliar to me. Is this a local saying?
I'm from Kristiansand. It's close to as south you can get in Norway. And I don't believe we use it here.
If the term is real, I would like to know where it's being used.
Only elderly people doing exercise use ski-poles without the skis, btw. As a kid, we some times walked to school (7km) away on skis, so we could use them in the breaks to have fun, making ski-jumps, etc), then ski home after school. Our schoolbus could get stuck in the snow on occation. But I have never had to ski in a blizzard to school :p
no fking way 10 years ago my friend in class made that "no theyre not sisters, or twins, theyre norwegians" and posted it to 9gag lmfaoooo how is it still around thats crazy
Once you've stood under an aurora borealis in the middle of nowhere, you feel how small and insignificant man really is.
12:56 The picture is real, but I‘m pretty sure it shows the Tateyama Snow Corridor in Japan and not a place in Norway.
South parts of Norway do not have the same heavy snow as up north.
I have gone a whole year without snow or had the snow be more slushy, in stavanger. So when it comes to snow it really depends on where you are in Norway, rain is more likely in south norway... alot. And it isnt uncommon for the weather to change multiple times a day.
The snow in Sognefjell is legendary. This is not the normal situation in the south of Norway at all, and the height of snow by the road is higher because of the piled up snow from the road. Here is a video of actual snowclearing from that place: th-cam.com/video/NVd2XcsI-3M/w-d-xo.html
I'm from norway and my moms ancestry came back with 100% Scandinavian.
And her family had children with my dads family a good amount of generations back, (luckily enough for it to not be inbreeding) which means my DNA is also heavily Scandinavian.
I can raid people now. 😎
personal space, is no joke :-) that's how most people wait for a bus in Norway
I'm 58 years old and have lived here in Norway all my life. I have never heard the expression being born behind a brunost, must be a new one😅
8:27 only famely kan be beside you😅
I was 1 during the big snowfall in 1997, I don't remember much obviously. But I have pictures of me being dragged in a sled on the road next to the roof high snowwall along the road, In many walking routes you didn't walk on the ROAD but there was made makeshift steps out of snow where you walked up on a sturdy road of snow on top. Its been pathway since snow started falling so whats underneath is all hard and ice, and the new snow on top and so you walked high up so picture didn't LOOK like a lot of snow until you saw how high up people were. Many houses people had to leave their house on similar snowpaths by exiting a window or door on the 2nd floor. While others had help from the military to dig our little tunnels from the road to their front door.
Its mandatory military service here, and so for the fresh reqruits that year it was a lot of active "keeping civilians safe" but making sure nobody was trapped in their houses, digging out front doors, keeping roads clear, in many places a regular snow truck wasn't enough so they used special attachments on tanks to clear the snow, and regular snow plows just kept up maintenance after the tank clearer had been there, and the maintenance was several times a day. I heard stories from my parents and grandparents. My grandparents owned a sheep farm, and my grandpa had help from the military to maintain access to the barn and the animals, as he had no way of clearing that huge farm by himself of snow.
Oh yeah, the snow-walls are real… that is probably taken at Hardangervidda and in early summer some places still can have huge walls. I have seen them about 7 meters, but I think this is higher
I live in Finnmark Norway and I never get tired of the northern lights, sometimes it looks like they are dancing around the sky
the King did say that to his wife on tv.. :D
9:54 brunost is Brown cheese 😅
Never heard of that brown cheese saying before
There are some videos of snow clearing mountain passes, for example drone footage of Trollstigen mountain pass in spring.
When much dry snow falls in the Norwegian mountains and is blown about by the wind, it is blown away from exposed places and accumulates in especially the most sheltered places. Snow drifts higher than a man or twice as high as a man is not uncommon in some places. In the worst cases at the worst places I have seen examples of snow drifts across roads higher than 4 men, so I guess that on the order of 10m/30ft must be about where the all time record height for the whole country must be for snowdrifts across roads. Also the drifts compacts somewhat when getting wet and also melts in spring and summer, so they will usually be the highest during late winter or early spring, so the meme was a bit exaggerated and misleading, while still illustrating a real Norwegian phenomenon.
On Sennalandet mountain crossing the road is elevated to make sure the snow will blow off. Since it is the main road it has to stay open during winter if possible.
The photo they use to illustrate it with those massive snow walls is also a bit staged, because afaik the road at that point has been carved trough a rocky area, which is under the snow in the photo. I really don't like when they do that.
kæreste [kair-e-ste], an in "care".
It is also used in Denmark btw.
4:57 friends😂
No, born behind a brown cheese is not an expression in Norway. Have no meaning at all if you ask me, and I am Norwegian 😊
to be birn behind a brown cheese - never heard it. Regards a Norwegian.
Everyone in my mothers class used sparkstøtting to get to school in Kirkenes in the early 1950s, remember Kirkenes was a big ruin after the ww2, Kirkenes was the place during ww2 with the next most bombing attacks in the world, only beaten by Malta more than 250 times Kirkenes was bombed, Malta 350 attacks. It was very different times. Every summer relatives of soldiers that was in Norway during the war is visiting and many of them behave like they are with Hitler still. Start pick up your trash, empty your camping toalets were you are supposed to, not in the road side. Italians also. But mostly Germans.
i had to walk 1 hour to get to school at a point, and it was freezing (-25celcius) and a snowstorm
The guy being arrested for 100 times, celebrated. It wouldn't surprice me if they did. It's the complex feelings people have of drinking. It's good and bad. If they celebrate or cry varies. Sometimes in rural areas they have laws to follow, while most people think they are a piece of shit from the religious people in the village "why can't they let us have our beer in peace" kind of attitude.
Personal space capital of the world 😂😭 its so true
Many Norwegians dye their hair blond
Yes, we went to school on ski during winter
norwegians are the ultimate gen x,leave us alone,we like it that way.
used skis for school on "wintersport-activity" day.. but more than that, on first day after x-mas holyday I have vaded in like 60-80 cm of snow in dense snowing, on forest-paths we used as a chortcut, at like 8AM on completly dark januar morning.
(and i dont even live in the hard parts of the conrty)
I took a dna test, hoping for some spicy genes because i got curly hair - only one in my family, buuut im 91% Scandinavian and 9% Finnish 😂 No spice for me!
I've used skiis to go to school for many years growing up lol
100% real picture of a real road. The Snow is 100% real in that picture aswell. And yes, they are at the same place at the same time.
And it might well be at the middle of summer et this place. It's at a quite high altitude and close to a glacier if I'm not much mistaken.
Snow in summer: th-cam.com/video/FPxAvHdrK6U/w-d-xo.html
Yes, some places there are still 10m (30') of snow in summer
When I grew up I usually used sparkstøtting going to school in Winter.
I've never seen a Segway IRL in my life.
Once, I actually had to ski to school. Only once in 14 years tho
15:27 super true🎉
In Sweden you say "Are you behind the float" Same as "Are you stupid".
Swedes should know....
When you said the sibling rivalry between norway,sweden,finland and denmark its more like norway and sweden is the closest wich means we hate eachother the most but finland is a little further away so we dont hate them and denmark is just hated by everyone
Yes it is hard to be the oldest sibling, allways had to look out for the two toddlers. Chears from Denmark
@@poulbjensen8645 Nuvel. Norge har norsk og nynorsk. Danmark har dansk og gammel dansk.....
Okay sure but I will agree with u lmao
@@poulbjensen8645
I did the DNA test, I'm Scandinavian 100%
Just search youtube for Snow Clearing Norway and you will see how those snow walls are formed. How they can get stupidly high by the road? It doesn't snow only once...
12:45 seems AI generated, but it's not far off. Now that I think about it, it _may_ be real. I know "brøytekantene" has happened to get up to 10-12 m.
Edit: In the mountain passes obviously, not everywhere
I've walked on the edges of 6-7 m. ones myself, near Valdresflya.
100 times drunk. Skål 😂
as a fellow 13 yr old norwegian i can confirm it dousnt snow AT ALL since 2 years ago
12:13 lol
When child i often was going to school by skiing in the winter time. We went about 2,5 km one way to school. It was normal then, i do not think so many children of today do this. Segway is not allowed in. Norway.
Yes the king said this to the Queen, they have a great sense of humour.
Never heard that about the brunost, but we can say "født bak en låvedør" it means born behind a barn door, that means you are stupid. These snowalls are real, but only on the mountains. They use giant plow trucks.
Skied to my job a couple of times last winter, because i hava a shitty front wheel drive Audi... Note to selv, always buy a 4 wd i Northern Norway..
Food in norwigen is mat😅
As a brunette Norwegian, all blonds look the same to me-
as somebody who is from norway that how it is going to school
the space thing is only in oslo and Bergen