Another Nordic round up
First up, the results are in for the most popular names for newborns in Sweden in 2006. The equivalent of Jack and Chloe are Lukas and Emma, and Sven has fallen out of the top 100. I suppose we will have to find a new emblematic name for the stereotypical Swedish male, and further research shows that Bruce does not feature in the top 20 in Oz.
Elsewhere, Sweden's next prime minister is quite likely to be the first woman to hold the office, as a sufficiency of Social Democrat party districts have already backed her ahead of the March congress.
Hopping over the Gulf of Bothnia, the Finns have an election in March, and political websites yonder sound rather more fun than those in these parts, as a Social Democratic pol reckons "One should enjoy one's visit even to an election website" and "a playful test on the Christian Democrats' website reveals whether one is a sobersided moralist type or not". Crikey.
Elsewhere, Sweden's next prime minister is quite likely to be the first woman to hold the office, as a sufficiency of Social Democrat party districts have already backed her ahead of the March congress.
Hopping over the Gulf of Bothnia, the Finns have an election in March, and political websites yonder sound rather more fun than those in these parts, as a Social Democratic pol reckons "One should enjoy one's visit even to an election website" and "a playful test on the Christian Democrats' website reveals whether one is a sobersided moralist type or not". Crikey.
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No doubt you all know that the laps enjoy nothing more than drinking reindeer piss after said creatures have eaten a certain fungus, what i want to know is how did they find out that it gets you high, some kind of beastial watersports session?
Im so hungover my eyeballs have dried out )+:
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I thought so.
Said fungus is a fly agaric toadstool, and I have read it suggested that the red & white of Father Christmas owes something to this.
you do have wonde why somebody thought , i know ill just have a foaming tankard of reindeer piss and see what its like, probably a rugby club bet .
I have heard worse , a para i Knew once drank a pint of somebody elses vomit for a bet, even worse the microwaved it first to cook it
PH - Indeed. I have occasionally wondered how creatures further down the foodchain communicate that something is poisonous / inedible to others of its kind.
Similarly, how many attempts did it take to discover that prepared in a certain way the staggeringly poisonous puffer fish is edible?
have occasionally wondered how creatures further down the foodchain communicate that something is poisonous / inedible to others of its kind.
They generally do not what you see is adaptive behaviour . You do not imagine that a spider sits and plans how to spin its web and yet look at the complexity of the behaviour . Same with the Beavers Dam. These genetic affects at distance are sometimes called phenotypic .
the inherited instructions are usually simple or an aggoleratio nof simple instructions . For this reaosn it may be a response to a colour and can be subverted by copying .
Cheerio
Your 2 Swedish links both link to the Fru Sahlin story.
Sweden had a femme PM in about 78-79 but she wasn't very impressive. Finland had 1 for 2 months but she had to resign after misuse of the office credit card. Naughty girl.
This mr mania is a bit of a closet intellectual, come the glorious day he wil be one of the first against the wall.
I am indebted to N and SSB for their respective insights.
However, are you sure Suttonian? Having looked at a list of Swedish prime ministers, they all look to be chaps, although I will concede that Ola is not a very butch sounding christian name.
Ha! I was just abt to correct that. Yes, I don't know where I got that idea from, if not Mr Ola Ullsten. So much for Swedish feminannyism.
Another korrektion! Anneli J. was indeed Centre Party PM for 2 months in 03, but resigned after -leaking a document abt the Irag war. She was subsequently acquitted.
first against the wall eh PHITCH. Sorry but my heart belongs to David Cameron and any wall games will be strictly Etonian.
Having been obliged to link to IT`s blog I`ve just read it . Its excellent. I would remind you young PHITCH that I am no the only Cameron supporter here. IT is with me and so is C actually ..I think? No ?
YOu are in a minority and are far more likely to be executed than I .
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Its mesmeric isn`t it and a lot better than the scurrilous options you have mentioned.
Ah, but that would have made a party leader, not a PM. Mona Sahlin, as a Social Democrat, is likely to taste the fruits of office at some point, alas.
I am a strong waverer on DC.
That Aussie research is duff. I have only ever met Aussies called Shiela and Bruce - they all respond to that name if you shout loudly enough.
At my daughter's swearing in at Brownies I was astonished to see that she was required to place her right hand on a large papier mache fly agaric (two foot tall) as she pledged to do her best..
Lilith - that is deeply, deeply bizarre.
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