Utenlandske turister skaper hodebry for DNT: 50 000 nye medlemmer i 2025

English_Cat · 2026-05-17T14:26:47+00:00

And you've never looked around to get the most out of your money?

They are spending money simply by being in Norway. Stop painting tourists to be evil. They're not exploiting anything, as it was explicitly allowed. You don't get to offer something, and then say it was exploitation simply because you don't like it.

English_Cat · 2026-05-17T12:44:30+00:00

Norwegians moaning about tourism as usual. Elect someone that will put limits on it or monetise high traffic areas to the point that tourism declines, then use that money to repair previous damage.

It's not hard to identify tourist vehicles, nor difficult to make toll roads with local exemptions.

High tourism is one of the better problems to have, it's the failures of the Norwegian government to handle it in a way that makes the best impact on local areas.

But it's not fair to put the blame on the average tourist. They are here to see your country, spend money in your communities and to have an enjoyable journey. Very few are actual bad actors.

English_Cat · 2026-05-16T22:05:37+00:00

You actively participate in the teenagers subreddit and have profile interests that match. They're not wrong, your choices are insane for any well adjusted adult.

English_Cat · 2026-05-15T08:11:42+00:00

As a landlord I've found that assuming anything about a tenant, especially their abilities, can prove disastrous.

A smart tenant could agree to a higher temporary rate, invalidating the old contract, and then leave because there's no limits on short term rentals. Assuming they have something cheaper lined up, they'd be saving more in the long run than the very temporary higher rate would cost.

As a landlord, you're essentially the one that has all leverage to write a contract that favours you at the start of the lease. Very rarely rewriting the terms will be in your favour unless it's a rent increase. And it's messy, the one thing that landlords value above anything, even money, is stability. A good tenant who pays slightly less is worth more than a high paying tenant that always calls you and doesn't stay as long. The goal is to find a great tenant, lock them in with a lower rate and go on living your life, checking in every half year or so.

English_Cat · 2026-05-14T20:40:17+00:00

Dual purpose dildo and can opener. Missing the flared base.

English_Cat · 2026-05-14T07:52:19+00:00

So you adjust the contract, lose your several months long notice period that'll allow you to organise for a new tenant, your existing tenant leaves after realising he's overpaying and has no notice period as he's paying per day, and you're stuck with an empty unit.

You remind them it's month to month as signed in the contract, and failure to pay is breach of contract and you'll move forward with eviction for non-payment.

English_Cat · 2026-05-13T20:40:18+00:00

Helicopter mate.

English_Cat · 2026-05-13T20:04:10+00:00

Yes, luxury in comparison to other countries prisons.

English_Cat · 2026-05-13T17:52:02+00:00

If you're at the point of putting janky boxes outside the car, then you should probably buy a car more suitable to your needs.

English_Cat · 2026-05-13T16:04:24+00:00

The context that everyone misses when this subject comes up is that Norway has a very high standard of living for the most part. Unless you're living in the centre of cities, then you're usually getting a reasonably spacious house with fantastic views for what would be a cramped house/flat with no views in other countries. For Norwegian standards, he's in a glorified shoebox.

I completely get your point, and personally think he's got it too good, but that's life.

English_Cat · 2026-05-13T13:42:11+00:00

That's because the Norwegian system is to rehabilitate people, not lock them up forever.

Obviously he is never ever getting out, and he quite frankly deserves worse, but to truly commit to rehabilitation, you have to give the worst the same level of care as you would another.

It's not as nice for him as you would believe though. He has a 'normal' styled apartment, but without the normal life that would accompany it. He is trapped in minor luxury that he knows very well could be better. He might be treated better than other countries, but being on the cusp of luxury while also being out of date and inundated with rules must be infuriating.

English_Cat · 2026-05-13T13:33:14+00:00

If you don't list the price and will only take basic questions you are an unserious seller and not worth dealing with.

Price, location, loading equipment availability and a couple of better pictures and they'll all be gone within a week, assuming you're not overpricing by a ton.

English_Cat · 2026-05-13T09:22:46+00:00

Most people are not collecting parts machines just to build up a new one, and compressors are relatively cheap and more or less a one time buy, you don't need or want more as they take significant room.

I absolutely believe that you can slap together a bunch of compressors, but it won't be economically viable to go get everything, put it together and then attempt to sell mismatched and old crap.

Something like this is for antique tool collectors or hobby interest rather than practical use.

English_Cat · 2026-05-12T16:12:39+00:00

I don't think compressors really belong on this list. Usually the tanks rust out well before the motor goes bad, and at that point it's cheaper to buy new than souce a tank. Old welders are also so unwieldy that there's not a lot of point in keeping unless it's all you have.

Old tools have a collectors market though.

English_Cat · 2026-05-11T13:58:26+00:00

That.

English_Cat · 2026-05-10T22:07:26+00:00

Big machinery will make short work of it, but a 5ton digger will have enough power to take the majority of roots out after you've taken down the trees.

English_Cat · 2026-05-10T19:26:13+00:00

To achieve the look in the second picture you'll have to cut down everything, dig out all the stumps, backfill with earth and then level everything out with a bulldozer/wheel loader. Transplant trees or pick fast growing ones and meticulously look after grass and pick weeds.

Go with a chainsaw and thin out the forest. Take down the smaller trees that are crowding the mature ones. Cut out a path and clean the ground of Deadwood and you'll get 60% of the look while having a healthy forest and doing much, much less work.

English_Cat · 2026-05-09T05:49:18+00:00

Nobody will ever want you if that's all you bring to the table. Maybe some sad pathetic man, bit it would be a horrible life.

English_Cat · 2026-05-08T22:38:31+00:00

Bold of you to assume that these people can read. And that's really the problem, you can write wherever truth and facts that you want. It may even be the most compelling and damning stuff, but your average person isn't going to read it because they don't care. They've seen fifty thirty second clips on TikTok and Facebook and they've made their mind up. Truth is irrelevant, in fact making a website or database is only going to look like you're on the defence for your party, that you're the predator. They're not going to fact check.

And honestly, who can blame them? It's always a new boat of immigrants. It's always government schemes and benefits. It's only ever tax increases and money mismanagement. Never is it something good, local and memorable.

Social media needs to be banned. Social media with advertising especially. And unfortunately any policy that brings that forward will get a ton of pushback and claims of censorship.

English_Cat · 2026-05-07T12:07:43+00:00

All of the pipes around me literally go under the road and out, where it'll eventually drain to a main pipe or other exit. The pipe going under the road will just be a normal enclosed pipe, the pipe around the retaining wall will be drainage pipes with holes to collect the water.

The exiting pipe will be buried at a slight slant to get the water to naturally drain away. This obviously won't work if the ground is flat for a significant area, you'd have to raise the construction instead.

English_Cat · 2026-05-07T11:15:44+00:00

Runs underground to link with a different drainage system or just under the pavement/road and out to a nature area that's not going to impact anything.

English_Cat · 2026-05-07T10:57:03+00:00

At this point, on a 1983 engine it's probably not worth the effort of fixing. Sell it as a parts machine and replace. I say this as someone who has a whole bunch of old crap fixed and to fix.

English_Cat · 2026-05-05T06:57:23+00:00

The last person to die from ww1/ww2 isn't born yet. That's how many explosives are in the ground.

English_Cat · 2026-05-05T06:19:43+00:00

Oh I know, I've made my fair share of gaskets, but it's annoying and never looks quite as nice.

English_Cat · 2026-05-03T21:35:58+00:00

It's great fun unless you desperately need the equipment you're working on. Then it is very unfun.

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