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    Dirty Swedes Welcome Pedophiles

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    Image of AndIAmTellingYou AndIAmTellingYou
    03/17/09

    In reply to Dirty Swedes Welcome Pedophiles
    I don't get it. Is "coming guy" supposed to mean toddler... as in, "about to be a boy"? Like some kind of literal Swedish translation..?
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    Image of thundermonkey thundermonkey
    03/17/09

    In reply to Dirty Swedes Welcome Pedophiles
    In case anyone is wondering, it makes most sense that "Coming" is used in the same sense as in "coming attractions". I think the Swedish term would be something like "kommande snubbe". My Swedish isn't that great, mind you, but note that "snubbe" is a very colloquial term for "guy". Young mr. Nordfors is a "kid who's going to be a guy", "guy in training", something like that.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    03/17/09

    @thundermonkey: agree and concur.
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    Image of Dr. Nick Dr. Nick
    03/17/09

    In reply to Dirty Swedes Welcome Pedophiles
    I know a guy from Sweden whose last name is Orje. His license plate says "BIG ORJE" His English is much better than he lets most people believe.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/17/09

    @Dr. Nick: I know a fabric wholesaler whose license plate on his red corvette convertible (mid-life crisis) reads Stiff Tulle
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    Image of BookishLatkeish BookishLatkeish
    03/17/09

    In reply to Dirty Swedes Welcome Pedophiles
    I guess "coming guy" should really be "happening guy," and yes, as far as cute li'l Caucasian babies are concerned, he really is where it's at.
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    Image of Kari's Favorite Mark Kari's Favorite Mark
    03/17/09

    @BookishLookish: Well, that's enough embarrassment for one day...
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    Image of BookishLatkeish BookishLatkeish
    03/17/09

    @formerly it takes a lot to laugh: Oh, the twins are CUTE!!!
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    03/17/09

    In reply to Dirty Swedes Welcome Pedophiles
    Um, aren't they known for chocolate and clocks? I'm guessing those things are just too boring, and grass covered babies really pack in the crowds?
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    Image of BookishLatkeish BookishLatkeish
    03/17/09

    @Spirit Fingers: That's Switzerland!
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/17/09

    @BookishLookish: Sweden, Switzerland, Swaziland, South Dakota, EVERYONE knows all of the "S" places are close together.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    03/17/09

    @Spirit Fingers: Don't forget yodeling.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    03/17/09

    @BookishLookish: Ha! Yah, you're right! Still. I'm confused by the grass covered babies. Will I get a free pair of these if I go there, though?


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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/17/09

    @Spirit Fingers: A free pair of white balls?
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    Image of Inescapable Picnic Inescapable Picnic
    03/17/09

    @Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): They all start with S because they're all socialist. That's the mnemonic I use.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/17/09

    @Inescapeable Picnic: Now THAT makes sense! The US would be.. Unitarian then?
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    03/17/09

    In reply to Dirty Swedes Welcome Pedophiles
    I'm sure the writer's English is better than my Swedish, of which I only know two words: "massage," and "meatballs."
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/17/09

    @BadUncle: Are you offering to massage my meatballs?
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    03/17/09

    @Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): In the sauna, with a lutefisk.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/17/09

    @BadUncle: It's a tidpunkt. I'll bring the gefilte.
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    Image of Grandma Death Grandma Death
    03/17/09

    In reply to Dirty Swedes Welcome Pedophiles
    That ad is one of many that is featured on the walls of the "arrivals" area of Stockholm's Arlanda airport.


    I will say though, Swedes have excellent English skills - more so than most other Europeans who speak English as a second language.


    -American living in Stockholm for the past year and a half.

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    Image of Dear Blond Diary Dear Blond Diary
    03/17/09

    @Grandma Death: Yes, and they all speak French too..and Swedish. They win okay, THEY WIN.
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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    03/17/09

    In reply to Dirty Swedes Welcome Pedophiles
    But what is the ad actually trying to sell or convey? Homo-Code for frenzied child molestation?
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    03/17/09

    @Rumpelstilskin: A baby farm breeding babies for baby sleighs?
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    03/17/09

    @Rumpelstilskin:


    Exactly... as in "up and coming"? "Becoming boy"?

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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/17/09

    @Rumpelstilskin: Homo-CODE??
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/17/09

    In reply to Dirty Swedes Welcome Pedophiles
    In related news, France is retaliating in the all important anglo-pedophile-tourism wars with a campaign featuring a sleeping girl. The tag-line reads "My room's on the ground floor and my window's open."
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    Image of BigRiver BigRiver
    03/17/09

    In reply to Dirty Swedes Welcome Pedophiles
    My parents had a foreign exchange student from Germany for a year, and whenever you asked him about his tech gadgets, he would say: "You won't understand. They're too next level." Perhaps this is just too clever for us to understand, and 'coming guy' is going to be the next wave of 'artist happenings.' When it comes to art, the terminalogy is no good if the layman can understand it.


    P.S. The German who thought he was 'too next level' almost failed out of high school from smoking pot and drinking too much and then did poorly on his Abitur in Germany (final test to see how you rank and which determines what you can study) and blamed it all on the American education system.

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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/17/09

    @BigRiver: My French cousins all fought to come over and live here in the US for a while. I suspect the reason was that my mother was a WHOLE LOT my permissive than my Aunt Colette.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/17/09

    @Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): uhmm.. M-O-R-E not M-Y
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    Image of easternsike easternsike
    03/17/09

    @BigRiver: i worked at an intn'l hostel in the us. and let me tell you, young european tourists and transplants are some of the most ignorant yet arrogant mf'ers on earth. they find faults in everything because it's so insanely acceptable, these days, to mock america.
    fuck that noise.
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    Image of everfade everfade
    03/17/09

    @easternsike: @podbaydoor: Foreign relations are fun!
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/17/09

    @everfade: @everfade: SO much FUN! REALLY fun! Let's give both sides th "Bomb" and see what happens next.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    03/17/09

    In reply to Dirty Swedes Welcome Pedophiles
    Should the tag for this not be Image Phile?
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    Image of TheRtHonPM TheRtHonPM
    03/17/09

    In reply to Dirty Swedes Welcome Pedophiles
    Swedish is hilarious. The number 6 = "sex" in Swedish, and speed = "fart". So my understanding is that a six-speed bike would be a "sex fart".
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/17/09

    @TheRtHonPM: Sex farts are an occupational hazard in my business.
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    Image of pureblarney pureblarney
    03/17/09

    @TheRtHonPM: I'm hearting this article just for this comment.
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    Image of TheRtHonPM TheRtHonPM
    03/17/09

    @pureblarney: I have a buddy who lives in Denmark, and apparently "slutspurt" means something like big clearance sale in Danish.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/17/09

    @TheRtHonPM: "Sale" in french means dirty---my cousins always got a laugh when they would see it printed on NYC store windows.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    03/17/09

    @Oy Veh (Informality Reigns):


    When my mother-in-law came out to california for the first time she saw the litte signs that said: "Begin Freeway" and her comment was "Oh it's so nice to see they named a freeway after Menachem Begin."


    I won't tell you about the pepper spray cooking incident...

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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    03/17/09

    @TheRtHonPM: Who has a six-speed bike, anyway?
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    03/17/09

    @Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): Most any of us could claim that.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/17/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: When I was younger I never understood why towns would put up those "Slow Children" signs. So the kids aren't that smart--MUST you post signs calling them slow?
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    03/17/09

    In reply to Dirty Swedes Welcome Pedophiles
    Coming Guy. At the risk of mimicking my avatar, OY VEY.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    03/17/09

    In reply to Dirty Swedes Welcome Pedophiles
    Scandal-navia?
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    03/17/09

    @Aaron Altman: Scandi-navel-ya
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