Today it' s Sweden' s national day! (6/6)

Let' s all celebrate by posting all the stuff you know about Sweden, like companies, culture, famous people, music ,cars and such.

Sweden kicks ass!

You can listen to our national anthem
HERE
and
HERE (short)

QUEZ!!!

I suppose he' s in the " famous people" cathegory, but I must stress the fact that he is not representative of what the swedish people is like

My grandma is sweedish.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

I know a finish person, thats as close to sweden as I get.

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

I' ve been to Ikea, that' s Swedish.

I watched the SNL spoof of a Swedish TV investigation on hidden commercials with Chris Farley.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

ABBA!

I used to work for a company that was part Swedish, we used to celebrate Lucia Day with mulled wine at work!

And I' ve been to Stockholm, a fantastic city.

I live in Stockholm! What if we saw each other on the street without knowing?
OMG!
Chances are small though, but still

ABBA and Ikea, yes those are good swedish things even though I don' t listen to ABBA or buy stuff at IKEA myself

My cousin is from Sweden so CHEERS SWEDEN

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

I' m eating some Pagen Swedish Krisprolls. Tasty.

I' ve been to Ikea, that' s Swedish.

lol, I never figured IKEA would have hit the UK, although I guess it does make sense.

I translated my google page into the Swedish Chef' s BorkBorkBork just for you guys. Happy National Day Sweden!

Oh yeah, and you really need a catchier name for that holiday. Shameful.[:' (]

Hmmm my brothers live in Sweden.

You guys are responsible for almost all the " hits" which I prefer to call crap on the radio.

You had Abba.

You always or as good as always end Abba rip-offs to the Eurovision.

I can understand a big part of your language if I try cause it resembles my flemish rather well.

Sweden has had a lot of good metal bands...that' s about it I think.

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Ace of Base was another Swedish import. Although I think they only had one hit.

It' s funny how no one mentions the Nobel price or the celebration of Carl Von Linné.
Or videogame related things like Starbreeze, SimBin and Digital illusions (DICE)
Other companies most people remember are Volvo, Saab, Ericsson,

In music we have The Hives, The Cardigans and a couple of other shit bands I never listen to. Ultima Thule.....

Zlatan Ibrahimović is some damn immigrant who' s a big soccer star, and we have some NHL stars like Mats Sundin, Peter Forsberg and so on.

What surprices me most is that no one has said that we have polar bears on our streets. We don' t but most people seem to believe that

But you do have penguins don' t you?

How do you guys celebrate? Do you have a special food, fireworks, day off?

You mean how we celebrate the national day? I have never thought of that, better ask Quez...
People do it different but I think most people don' t celebrate at all.
The ones who do celebrate usually put up flags and stuff and the royal family does some ceremonial things that many likes to watch on TV. Other than that it' s kinda random like going on a picnic and stuff.
And then there' s the political side of things. Apart from the normal parties there' s also the stupid pure blooded white nazi' s that like to demonstrate and of course some idiot communists wants to demonstrate against them and fight and so on. But the police usually manages to keep things relatively calm by spearating the groups.
Just until recently the day was a regular day but we just made it a " red" day in the calendar meaning that everyone gets a day off from work

We don' t do anything big like in the U.S because it' s not like anything special happened recently this date. Most countries celebrate the day they became free from Hitler and stuff and you americans celebrate your independency which is kinda cool. Those things mean much today and people have strong feelings about those dates.
Our national day is based on the day Gustav Vasa was chosen as king... BACK IN 1523!!! I mean, who cares about 1523!??! It' s like 500 years ago!!
Also, we decided how the government was going to work, the same date but in 1809.
Kinda boring stuff really. The norwegians celebrate their national day much more than us swedes because they got invaded by Hitler. We swedes didn' t because we sucked up to him... tehehehe.... Majik is jewish.... lol.

I don' t celebrate,I think everyone should come up with something on their own.
Anyway its a great day and I think every family shoulkd try and come up with something of their own in tradition.

Like being on a boat and relax or go to the beach,or beat down some sonyfanboy etc.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Like being on a boat and relax or go to the beach,or beat down some sonyfanboy etc.

National beat down random sony fanboy day? What about kick nintendo fanboys in the nuts? Or even Hit MS fanboys in the face day?

I find it odd that they even let Nazi' s parade. I know there' s freedom of speech & all that, but considering your proximity & country' s past relationship to Germany (nothing against you now), I' m suprised they even allow demonstrations on a small scale, no less a political movement type of thing.

Ofc they should let the nazi do that.

As long as we have dickheads to lefties destroying stories and saying retarded stuff like " kill all the rich" why not let them be out to,they can kill each other,I dont give a shit.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

There' s been lots of debates whether they should be allowed to demonstrate or not.
It seems that the general opinion is that the best way to fight nazi ideology is to confront it straight on with arguments, instead of trying to hide it from the public. It' s when it' s hidden from the public that people get an interest since they don' t really know what it stands for.
If we would forbid the nazis from demonstrating then they could use it to their advantage.
However, most major political parties refuse to officially debate with the extremely right-winged nationalists since it would give them more attention in the media.
So it' s a delicate balance of what they' re allowed to do and not.

There' s been lots of debates whether they should be allowed to demonstrate or not.
It seems that the general opinion is that the best way to fight nazi ideology is to confront it straight on with arguments, instead of trying to hide it from the public. It' s when it' s hidden from the public that people get an interest since they don' t really know what it stands for.
If we would forbid the nazis from demonstrating then they could use it to their advantage.
However, most major political parties refuse to officially debate with the extremely right-winged nationalists since it would give them more attention in the media.
So it' s a delicate balance of what they' re allowed to do and not.

Yeah, I can see that for sure. I' m not saying that they shouldn' t be allowed to demonstrate, Quez. I' m just saying that Germany is incredibly strict on what you can say, do, wear or play regarding most of went on politically in the 30s & 40s, & I' m pleasantly suprised that your country hasn' t followed suit. At least folks don' t have to live with the " sweep it under the carpet" policy that Germany has appeared to have established.