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Read Girl with Dragon Tattoo - interesting observations
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:04 PM Author: motley haunting death wish Having nothing to do with the plot or story.
I thought the translation was a little awkward but I liked the way that it did not try to explain how life is different in Sweden like a travel book for Americans. I noticed:
1) Average professional adults lives in a 600 sq foot dream apartment that he can barely afford ITE. Lol. His vacation home is 250 square feet. Lol.
2) A fine of 150,000 Kroner, or $20,000 is enough to bankrupt a professional and drive a newspaper into the ground. lol.
3) Apparently a top of the line macbook pro costs $5000, which is half the yearly salary of a young person.
4) lol at monogamy.
5) Lol at nanny state where a fairly normally functioning adult has a guardian.
6) Lol at prison time for libel. |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:08 PM Author: Mauve Nofapping Newt Yeah the whole part about not second guessing the propriety of prison time for libel (except insofar as it befell the main character) struck me as odd in a book that had a subtle sanctimonious tone about Sweden's progressivism. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475514) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:28 PM Author: motley haunting death wish *takes 8 weeks off for holiday in the middle of a crisis, with my wife and mistress* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475612) |
Date: April 16th, 2012 2:07 PM Author: Free-loading apoplectic native I only saw the movie. #6 was my primary LOL in reaction to the movie.
Despite the flaws you list, Sweden is still a highly credited place to live. Everyone is blond, attractive, happy, educated, and friendly (in an unassuming way, not the pushy, boisterous friendliness of Americans). Their currency is strong and they enjoy a high standard of living without having to work themselves to death. |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:24 PM Author: motley haunting death wish Oh that was the other thing I forgot to mention.
7) Hey I know we are in the middle of a crisis, but I am going to take 4 weeks off for holiday every summer and winter!
I think the standard of living is fair if you ignore the relative lack of material goods. I bet they dont all have plasma TV's whereas even poors in the US have them. |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:25 PM Author: arousing institution to be fair, the poor in the US are all indentured servants basically. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475597) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:27 PM Author: motley haunting death wish that's true. But I feel it is impossible in Sweden for a youngish person to have the life I lead - without coming from old money.
Youngs are all poors and need to save up for 6 months to buy a new laptop.
Also the SHOCKING LIFESAVING payment from the billionaire for a years' work = $300,000. |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:28 PM Author: arousing institution That's why ppl come to amerika tbf. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475614) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 3:05 PM Author: adventurous domesticated national I just looked it up on apple.com and the 27" iMac is only 23% more in Sweden than in the US. the cheapest 13" macbook pro is like $1699 there so i'm not sure wtf youre talking about.
their average salary AFTER tax looks to be about the same as ours PRE-TAX
so i'm not sure it's such a big deal, especially considering the free healthcare, no student loans, and other benefits they get. |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 3:16 PM Author: motley haunting death wish well the book said the computer is $38,000 Kronor which is $5000 so that's what I based it off of. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20476008) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:25 PM Author: Boyish Startling Office that was a credited movie. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475596) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:27 PM Author: motley haunting death wish yeah I wanted to read the book first, I'll watch it now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475609) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:33 PM Author: crystalline appetizing prole it was a lame murder mystery with very little suspense with intensely annoying protagonists. the intricacies of the plot can't be dramatised well and i find it hard to empathise with some weirdo broken whore goth.
then they stuck on a giant turd sub plot at the end of the film with almost no relation to the previous material. i was close to walking out for about 30 mins |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:50 PM Author: Boyish Startling Office name some movies you like. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475803) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:50 PM Author: crystalline appetizing prole con air
were you not bored shitless in the last half hour? |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 3:07 PM Author: jet meetinghouse spot on, brotato (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475954) |
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Date: March 28th, 2015 7:38 PM Author: Pale 180 Jap Coldplay Fan exactly. and they had taht rape shit in there just to be provocative. fucking garbage movie, and im sure so is the novel. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#27572418) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:30 PM Author: Zippy Rebellious Casino Friendly Grandma where does it take place? Stockholm is probably nice enough to live in even with only 600 sqft. Really, most cities in Sweden are beautiful. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475633) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:32 PM Author: Free-loading apoplectic native Stockholm is 180. So clean you could probably eat off the ground. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475650) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:33 PM Author: motley haunting death wish stockholm and some surrounding boonies.
what I enjoyed was the normalcy of the thigns I outlined. That's just how things are - people are broke ass, but happy and cant afford anything.
If it were an american book about thing occuring in sweden it would spend half the time obnoxiously framing the differences in a way we could understand like a tourist guide. |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:36 PM Author: crystalline appetizing prole it was a homo libtard fantasy. evil monied nazis dismembering helpless immigrants, first jews and now pakis. loooooool (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475681) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:36 PM Author: motley haunting death wish right but that's not the point of this thread. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475686) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:57 PM Author: crystalline appetizing prole well, it's an example of scandinavia's extreme shitlib culture (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475854) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:36 PM Author: aphrodisiac fortuitous meteor hall $4,099.00 $4,099.00 17-inch MacBook Pro Remove Save Ship: Available to ship in 1-3 business days Pick up: Select an Apple Store Part number: Z0NG Configuration 2.5GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM — 2x4GB 512GB Solid State Drive SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) MacBook Pro 17-inch Hi-Res Antiglare Widescreen Display Backlit Keyboard (English) & User's Guide Accessory Kit
With VAT and an unfavorable exchange rate, it easily tops $5K. |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:40 PM Author: dead dopamine By the time you get to the last book, coffee is mentioned at least once on every page. They must be in a state of heightened caffeination at all times in Sweden. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475725) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:41 PM Author: mint frisky rehab when I visited stockholm i literally did not stop having a hard-on for the entire trip there were so many hot young blondes just casually roaming about (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475738) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:54 PM Author: clear goal in life go on... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475829) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:55 PM Author: Free-loading apoplectic native I was 25 when I visited Stockholm and I felt old as fuck compared to all the young blondes roaming around. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475845) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 3:06 PM Author: clear goal in life do they wear slutty americanized clothing or normal clothes? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475943) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 3:14 PM Author: Free-loading apoplectic native Their style of dress is more American than you see in continental Europe. They dress more casually and possibly more slutty.
The girls in Stockholm were uniformly beautiful. They also all looked alike, as if they were cut from a mold. They all looked like this (NOT FLAME): http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&sa=X&biw=1920&bih=876&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=VB_SUr13pTufAM:&imgrefurl=http://www.nairaland.com/874183/swedish-girls-prettiest-girls-white/1&docid=HWxmKW5sW5JPuM&imgurl=http://www.nairaland.com/download/641545&w=344&h=483&ei=jW6MT8mRJcfv0gHYxei3CQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=159&vpy=130&dur=3359&hovh=266&hovw=189&tx=94&ty=153&sig=116058491178734463424&page=1&tbnh=100&tbnw=71&start=0&ndsp=62&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:110 |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 4:40 PM Author: electric locale people who are hurt hmmmmmmmmhhmmmmm
though Minnesota's probably pretty similar i bet |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 4:41 PM Author: clear goal in life cot DAMN (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20476530) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 5:26 PM Author: olive hot keepsake machete locus 10 right there (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20476843) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 2:54 PM Author: Mustard Shivering Space Those things don't contribute meaningfully to happiness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20475831) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 5:18 PM Author: trip shrine actually credited (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20476795) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 5:23 PM Author: olive hot keepsake machete locus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20476831) |
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Date: April 16th, 2012 5:23 PM Author: olive hot keepsake machete locus Different country, but that netflix produced show Lillyhammer makes me want to live there, though women are surprising unattractive for norwegian tv (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#20476830) |
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Date: April 17th, 2012 12:38 AM Author: Bat Shit Crazy Razzle-dazzle Incel Stock Car #6 http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/03/22/repeal-of-colorado-criminal-libel-advances-in-house/ |
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Date: March 28th, 2015 7:05 PM Author: shaky greedy dilemma karate i like that this is what earl got out of that movie/book (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#27572241) |
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Date: March 28th, 2015 7:09 PM Author: Dark Nursing Home Rigor As a Russian the prison time for libel and the guardianship thing made perfect sense to me as did the security service angle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#27572262) |
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Date: March 28th, 2015 7:41 PM Author: Pale 180 Jap Coldplay Fan russians are lower than dirt, though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1925388&forum_id=2#27572444) |