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“Elite”By lex, on September 30th, 2009
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Dang! Hate when that happens!
That was amusing.
But so was the story about the flammable bras for female soldiers. And then there were the teenage boys who set a school on fire using hand sanitizer and a nurse whose hand started on fire after she used hand sanitizer. All in Sweden, of course. Followed by the story about the Swedish government hoping to boost its force in Afghanistan.
There are so many comments I could make, none of which would be very nice. What is that big long word that’s wont to be used around here, when you take pleasure in someone else’s misfortune? Not me.
Ah, Michelle, that word would be “demoncrat”.
forlat, ursakta mig
Michelle, that would be Schadenfreude. How delicious.
Yup, that’s the one, hornetgunner.
Now, now, G-man. Play nice.
Michelle, I had to go to the bottom of the page, but it was hilarious! A “conscripts rights group” demanding “flame-proof underwear.” As if the other 95% of the Swedish military aren’t enjoying the conscripts having to remove all their gear on the training field to fix their bras.
Alas…These Gomers are indeed a long way from the valiant…” Ten thousand Swedes who went through the weeds to capture Copenhagen”… in the Great Northern War ( 1700 – 1721)…as some here might say…”tis to weep”. Best
Oops! At least they didn’t kill anyone as our valiant troops from the BATFE, DEA, or the local wannabes from the SWAT squad.
Being a Badger of Norwegian ancestry, I can’t say that any of this surprises me.
y’know, this ‘wrong house’ thing is not confined to other countries. When I was living in D.C. back in 1971, a drug SWAT team went to the wrong address on Capitol Hill, and entered a townhouse which was the wrong address, found the husband in the bathtub and the wife nearby, and shot the husband, paralyzing him, under the impression that he was the drug dealer they were after. I don’t know the outcome of the whole thing, even though I read the Washington Post closely for quite awhile afterward. But paralyzing someone is pretty permanent. No easy way to make up for that. OOpsie is not a sufficient apology.
Marianne