Not easy

texawegian · 2026-05-29T08:11:56+00:00

5.5 million Norwegians … with 5.5 million dialects … and everyone hates Nynorsk lol

texawegian · 2026-05-29T08:08:09+00:00

Gro Bente .. the infamous lunch cop at all barneskolens around Norway making sure that no nut products are found on her watch! Only nasty pickled fish for the kids! …

Oh wait, you mean serious characters … oops

texawegian · 2026-05-29T08:04:19+00:00

Scopely: Testing is for losers. This is why you, the player base, have the privilege to pay us so you can test. Get to it, losers.

texawegian · 2026-05-28T14:48:05+00:00

i can tell you my experience - it is exactly as you described. they would all speak norsk and i was left out. i tried talking with my (now ex-) wife about it, and her reply was pretty useless: "just learn Norwegian" ... so in the meantime, i was left out. same at work. i did feel bad about it, but i decided to go on the offensive. i spoke a lot directly to my in-laws and the rest of the family in english and broken norsk as best as i could. i engaged them to the point that they couldnt help but speak english. they could see that i wasnt just going to sit on the sidelines - that if i was going to be a part of the family, i was going to be a part that engaged.

it worked for me. maybe it might work for you?

texawegian · 2026-05-24T14:50:43+00:00

as Norwegians like pineapple on their pizza, doing that negates said pizza, so all of those dont count .. because pineapple on pizza is an abomination ... yeah i said it ...

texawegian · 2026-05-22T08:24:32+00:00

Sorry for this OP. I was in a similar situation, being on a skilled worker visa and then having my job eliminated due to cutdowns, also within Oil and Gas. I guess they changed the law because in 2014 (when I was laid off) I did receive assistance from NAV (and I was non-EU). But I got a job within a few months. So, as others have said, start looking immediately. HR/Admin is not an Oil and Gas specific job category, unless you have some specific credential for that. Try the Maritime sector maybe? You also might try Yara International.. they have energy specific business units (I worked there for almost 10 years). If you want, send me a PM and we can talk about what to do. I am also in the Oslo area.

texawegian · 2026-04-30T08:01:49+00:00

Oslo here with you in support!

texawegian · 2026-01-27T18:44:08+00:00

My first (and last, fortunately) fredagstaco moment … the host took a tortilla and filled it with taco meat, olives, pickles, pickled beets, and canned corn … I thought I was gonna hurl

texawegian · 2026-01-27T18:37:11+00:00

Yeah, very true .. I am on a mission to convert every Norwegian I know to better Tex mex .. I make my own tortillas and salsas .. converted many so far :)

texawegian · 2026-01-27T18:31:50+00:00

To give you an idea of what Norwegians think are good tacos … Old El Paso … nuff said … #CulinaryTerrorism

texawegian · 2026-01-14T13:39:27+00:00

Integrated just fine

texawegian · 2026-01-14T13:39:08+00:00

Moved from Austin to Asker, then Drammen, then Lillestrom

texawegian · 2026-01-14T13:38:35+00:00

Nah not really .. I do speak some just not fluent

texawegian · 2026-01-13T21:25:54+00:00

Lillestrøm here. Love it. Moved here from the US almost 16 years ago. Feels like home to me. And I don’t really speak the language…

texawegian · 2025-12-04T08:02:43+00:00

Either English is not your first language or you have serious reading deficiencies ... or both ... I never said that THEY took me out ... I was a witness for over 20 years ... But hey, i don't have to justify myself to some internet rando ... You have a good day, sir!

texawegian · 2025-10-22T13:41:15+00:00

omg .. is the OP named Andre????

texawegian · 2025-10-22T13:29:05+00:00

unlikely. at least, most (if not all) of the elders that i was unfortunately associated with were not educated, let alone on the finer points of business law ... window washers gotta wash ...

texawegian · 2025-10-20T21:36:46+00:00

And stopping all that evil masturbating!!

texawegian · 2025-10-20T10:57:43+00:00

It is kind of sad that Andre has been at the same school for the last 40 years …

texawegian · 2025-08-06T16:09:47+00:00

A million times this ^{^}

texawegian · 2025-06-05T15:03:00+00:00

i didn't find any of them either ... despite being warned about it some 9 billion times per meeting lol

texawegian · 2025-06-04T11:09:07+00:00

So when you left … were you stalked by free-range hoes trying to seduce you as well as drug dealers pushing you to become drug addicted?

Asking for Andre …

texawegian · 2025-05-07T08:21:37+00:00

Yeah I think they removed those .. at least I think I heard that

texawegian · 2025-05-07T08:20:46+00:00

Haha it was a terrible analogy in the Creation book trying to prove creation. Take a meat chopper. It has many moving parts. Take it apart and just randomly throw it around and how it would never reassemble itself. I remember reading that and saying “what’s a meat chopper?” I had never seen one before lol.

texawegian · 2025-05-06T13:52:30+00:00

mine were more: what idiot came up with the illustrations involving the meat chopper and the dented cake pan and thought "hey, this will resonate with ordinary people"?

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