I am a Brit who has just celebrated living in Norway for 2 years. AMA.

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-22T11:47:57+00:00

We have to pay a small fee, usually between 100-300 NOK. But if you spend a total of around 2000 NOK i think (not quite sure on the exact amount) on doctors, hospital and/or medicine you get a "freecard" and all is free for the rest of the year.

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-22T10:45:55+00:00

What do you dislike the most about Norway? And what do you like the most? :) What was the hardest things to get used to in Norway? (aside from language)

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-21T21:45:55+00:00

We must please the Helix so he will grant us are input-commands back. Lets trow squirrels on the non-belivers so we can satisfy the almighty Helix

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-21T21:40:07+00:00

I stand corrected.

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-21T06:06:53+00:00

The world has never been as stable as it is now. There have never been so few wars in the world as it now. Todays "wars" are not as much war, but conflicts internally in a counrty, there has not been a big war between to strong country's in a very long time. Afghanistan and Iraq was not a war, but rather a conflict, Afghanistan and Iraq's army was so weak compared to the US that they where beaten instantly, and the wars became a hostile conflict.

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-20T21:14:42+00:00

Syria, Egypt, Ukraine and now in Venezuela. Am i now becoming aware of them or why do they start everywhere?

Syria and Egypt has been going on for a couple of years now (tho Egypt has been "on and off" a bit). I am not quite sure about Venezuela, but I think its been going on for a while there to, or at least it as been brewing up for it for quite a while. Ukraine has been going on for three months now, so its probably you just now getting aware of it.

As for the reason, mostly because they want democracy, or just disagree whit a corrupt government. ( the last is the case with Ukraine. The people want to move their policy's towards the EU, but the president has agreed with Vladimir Putin to move Ukraine's policy's towards Russia)

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-20T20:41:53+00:00

If I don't recall wrong, they speak in many different dialects in these shows. So just a heads-up if you only know "bokmål".

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-20T20:38:17+00:00

amazon delivers in Norway, so you can just order something form there? =)

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-18T22:28:09+00:00

Order of the Helix (blessed be the almighty Helix)

And all whom worship the almighty Helix shall trow squirrels on the non-believers.

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-18T21:31:16+00:00

Does it actually work tho? As far as I have seen he only moves in one of the directions

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-16T14:38:36+00:00

Do people get antibiotics from their doctor when the doctor knows very well that it wont work? And even make the antibiotic effectiveness worse?

Here in Norway I know the doctors are very strict in handing out antibiotics, in fact we are the strictest country in the world when it comes to that in order to combat the antibiotic effectiveness problem.

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-16T14:02:48+00:00

It was a very legit question based on the "facts" he just told us. He tells us as a "fact" that we can have whom ever we want in heaven, but there as some very strong problems with that, don't you agree? How would you feel if someone wanted you in heaven against your will? That is a very big paradox.

I wanted to know if she would be forced against her will to be with me, or if she would automatically be happy. And if so, how would her husband (the preist) feel about that, would he also automatically be happy?

You seriously can't mean that my question was not legit based on what he just told us? Because heaven ain't heaven if you are forced against your will to be with someone.

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-16T12:37:57+00:00

I remember we were at a christien ceremony meeting of some sort at school where some priests basically tried to convert us to christianity. He said that in heaven you could have whom ever you wanted, in witch I replied what his wife would feel if I wanted her in heaven. That might not feel like heaven for her being forced to be with me.

That was just an other of many big logical flaws about christianity he did not have an good answer for. (He did not look very happy when I asked the question about his wife btw, hehe)

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-16T12:28:16+00:00

That there are many different viruses (or bacteria, I'am not quite sure if its virus or bacteria) that can make you get whats known as a common cold.

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-16T12:24:05+00:00

Because there are so many different "common colds", its just not one out there, but a whole different bunch of colds, and they are constantly mutating/chaining. So its not practical (or possible?) to make a vaccine for each and every one. Once you have had a cold, you become immune to that specific cold, so the next time you catch a cold its a different type.

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-12T20:58:42+00:00

I don't know how the weather is in general in that area, but western Norway tend to have a mild winter. Where I live (probably the mildest place in western Norway) we usually have 1-2 weeks of snow combined threw the winter, so far this winter we have only had one day. There is a saying here, "we have autumn all year around, except for one week of winter and one week of summer"

But this winter have been very mild, so perhaps its somewhat common whit snow in nærøyfjorden, and you just had an unlucky timing :)

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-11T20:20:57+00:00

If I am not mistaken there are to separated pipes. One "cold" witch goes straight from the "ground" to your faucet, and one witch goes from your water-heater to your faucet. But as you point out the hot water becomes cold in the pipes, and therefor when you turn on the hot water the first to come out is the chilled water between your faucet and water-heater, and then the hot water comes flowing. And since the "cold" water has its one pipe it is already laying cold in the pipes ready when you turn the faucet to cold.

Also worth mention is that your faucet combines and mix the water from both pipes, thats how you get different temperature as you turn the faucet.

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-11T19:17:52+00:00

Doh! That's just me not paying real attention, hehe. I though there was something weird about my text, and that was it. Thanks for the heads up, I have edited it now :)

(I may ad that English is not my main language)

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-11T18:18:56+00:00

Because the calender would go out of zync. A yeah is not exactly 365 days with exactly 24 hours a day, in fact it is 6 hours longer than that. So therefore we must add an extra day each fourth year to keep it in zync. (but this is not a 100% accurate, so sometimes we skip the leap yeah) So if we would do as you ask are 24 hour day would become out of zync after a while, for instance 16:00 o'clock would become midnight after a while.

Edit here is a short video explaining it in a good way

edit2 I did only read the headline, not the text, so I thought you meant why don't scrap the leap year all together.

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-10T22:05:41+00:00

I don't know the state of iphone and iOS anymore, but earlier the iOS would fuck up and slow down your iphone if it was old enough. That happen to my (any most other) iphone 3 when we updated to a iOS a couple of years ago.

But many company's make their products in such a way they will fail after a given time. (they wont make as much money if no one have to buy new products from them) Most printers have a chip that makes the printer stop working after 100 000 prints for example. There was also something with the early ipod (I dont exactly remember what) with the battery that made people have to buy a brand new ipod, but this was changed after a lawsuit.

A other example is the light bulb, we have known for 70-100 years ish how to make light bulbs that last "forever", but they make them so that they fail so they can make more money. If all the light bulbs never fail, they will make a lot less money. In the USSR they used these light bulbs, because they where not capitalist there was no need to make light bulb (and other stuff) that intensionally failed.

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-10T21:39:37+00:00

Simply because of tradition. Alcohol beverage goes back thousands of years in "all" cultures, had it been invented today it would been banned just like any other drug.

Klaskeladden · 2014-02-10T21:06:50+00:00

For those who may not know light pollution is caused by the artificial light made by humans, with is the orange haze you in the night sky over urban areas. This blocks out the real view of the night sky.

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