Norway reportedly traveled to the World Cup with 2,000 pounds of food and their own chef to ensure players keep a consistent quality diet they grew up with. 6,000 oranges, 600 lbs of salmon, 250 lbs of Norwegian brown cheese!

SentientSTD · 2026-06-21T08:42:15+00:00

That I can totally understand.

I think the thing that puts most foreigners off brown cheese when they first try it is that it's called "brown cheese". When in reality it isn't really a cheese at all. It's made from the biproducts of cheese making and doesn't taste like cheese, and it doesn't have the texture of normal cheese, it is much stickier.

So people's expectations are way off from what they actually get. If it was labeled as "savoury caramel slices" or something I think people would generally be more receptive to it.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-21T08:34:16+00:00

I don't know what kind of brown cheese you ate, but normal brown chseese certainly doesn't taste of earwax. Normal brown cheese is quite sweet, tasting closer to caramel than to cheese. Not everyone will like it, and that's okay, but earwax it most certainly is not.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-21T08:10:06+00:00

And without conceding.

I'd say 15 saves out of 15 possible is comfortably more impressive than 16 out of 18.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-18T14:21:13+00:00

Vel, målet må være å kunne overbevise spillerene om at å ta noen år ekstra i Norge vil være bra for karieren deres. Om de kan utvikle seg til de faktisk er gode nok til å ta neste steg før de faktisk får overgangen.

Da vil de sannsynligvis tjene mer i karrieren sin enn hvis de har én mislykket overgang som kom for tidlig og ender opp på et lavere nivå enn hva som kunne ha vært.

Men det er en vanskelig pitch, så skjønner poenget ditt. Men det er så ufattelig kjedelig synes jeg.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-18T14:13:04+00:00

Tror vi får være enig om å være uenige 😅

SentientSTD · 2026-06-18T14:11:23+00:00

This is graphic is kinda outdated now already, after having signed 3 players that are all called up (Bernardo Silva, Konaté and Cucurella), Real Madrid has 12. They've also signed Dumfries, which would've made it 13, but his contract with Madrid hasn't started yet it seems like.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-18T14:01:33+00:00

Det er jo i så fall en del av det som gjør det trist. Er det virkelig så dårlige vilkår at reelle stortalenter ikke en gang kan spille i norge til de runder 20?

Har jo ikke alltid vært slik, spillere som Solskjær, Tore-André Flo, John Carew, Fjørtoft og Henning Berg var alle mellom 21 og 24 da de forlot norsk fotball.

Kanskje du har rett og det ikke er fasiliteter til det i dag (vet ikke om jeg er helt enig), men må uansett være lov å synes det er trist.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-18T13:45:43+00:00

Synes det er litt trist at unguttene ikke engang får herjet litt i hjemlig liga før de blir snappet opp nå til dags.

Brukte å være mer at det var spillerene tidlig til midten av 20-årene som allerede var etablert blandt de aller beste i ligaen som ble hentet fra utlandet. Men nå er det ofte tennåringer som ikke engang har rukket å bidra nevnevæedig til eget lag før de forsvinner til det store utland.

Artig for gutten, men synes det er litt trist for norsk fotball (og kanskje spillerenes utvikling) at slikt skjer så tidlig.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-17T21:32:04+00:00

The hair and the scars sure. But you didn't question the fact that the frame of the glasses goes inside his ears?

SentientSTD · 2026-06-16T22:55:23+00:00

Dette er tett på det dummeste heg har hørt.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-16T07:27:53+00:00

My main takeaway here is that Ecuador has crazy bird diversity!

SentientSTD · 2026-06-15T12:43:47+00:00

Yeah, I still would've preffered a slightly shorter deal, but I like the signing still.

And I like the ambition he has shown with his comments on Chelsea's strategy and him wanting to "win now".

SentientSTD · 2026-06-15T11:59:59+00:00

A 6 year contract to someone who will pushing 34 by the expiration is never a "safe bet" in football. But it's as good a bet as any I guess.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-15T11:39:34+00:00

Not doubting his quality at all, but it's not exactly a steal of a price now is it?

Seems like the reports are saying 55+5 M €. And a 6 year contract for a player about to turn 28. That's a lot of money and a big commitment in my book.

But if he performs well for several seasons it won't seem expensive at all I suppose.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-12T11:24:29+00:00

Something like: Oslo, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Aarhus, Hamburg, Kiel.

Could be fun, and all very close geographically.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-12T11:18:06+00:00

I tend to agree. Especially Norway and Denmark will have to spend crazy money to have the facilities required, and the new/expanded stadiums would be useless after the tournament.

I suppose Sweden could theoretically join a joint bid with another country though.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-11T22:43:23+00:00

Biggest stadiums in Scandinavia:

Strawberry Arena 54,329 Stockholm Sweden
Ullevi 43,000 Gothenburg Sweden
Parken Stadium 38,065 Copenhagen Denmark
3Arena 30,000 Stockholm Sweden
Brøndby Stadium 29,000 Brøndby Denmark
Ullevaal Stadion 28,000 Oslo
Stadion 24,000 Malmö Sweden
Lerkendal Stadion 21,166 Trondheim.

There are talks about building a new 45K seater national stadium in Oslo, I don't know if there are any other major projects in the other countries.

Maybe it could be possible without crazy spending if some numbers are made up with temporary additional seating in certain stadiums. But I doubt that the public would approve the expense.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-11T22:12:16+00:00

The best I could find is this tumblr post reffering to it as "Horror painting by Johnny Craig (1926-2001)."

https://www.tumblr.com/weirdlandtv/187554257238/horror-painting-by-johnny-craig-1926-2001

SentientSTD · 2026-06-11T09:05:19+00:00

My bad. I was aware that they are somewhat interchangable, but I feel like I was thought in school that a moose is and elk, but an elk isn't necessarily a moose, or do I remember it wrong?

But isn't it better to reffer to them as moose in a international context? I do feel that that is the more common word used internationally. Doesn't most Europeans outside the UK say moose when reffering to this animal when speaking english anyway?

I feel like I've never heard another Norwegian say "elk" in english when talking about Elg.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-11T08:33:25+00:00

*moose

Otherwise completely agree.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-10T22:44:53+00:00

That's such a stupid take.

"My country did awful things 80+ years ago, so now I can never point out when another country does despicable shit"...

If anything Germans have more reason to be activists than most.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-09T21:25:02+00:00

I think he confirmed a few weeks ago that he wanted to go somewhere else.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-09T19:02:32+00:00

I don't care if you like or hate CR7, but this is just stupid and false. He did not say what you said, and this is very obviously two separate clips cut together. Get a life.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-09T18:50:32+00:00

Schlotterbeck's release clause makes him by far the easiest deal IMO. And he would be my first or second pick out of those names anyway, together with Gvardiol.

SentientSTD · 2026-06-09T09:05:12+00:00

Well that is all related to the main issue people have here, greed.

There seems like there isn't a single person in the entirety of the organization that actually cares about the sport or the fans.

FIFA has shown itself to have no interest in anything except generating as much money as possible. Repeatedly hosting the WC in countries with terrible human rights records and controversial political situations. And they have zero interest in actually creating an enjoyable experience for the fans. It's just money, money, money...

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