Hello everyone. Nerdy, animal-loving viking here :D

[Baruch]

King Alfred of Wessex circa 850 CE ... who fought the roving Great "Danish" Army to a standstill in S England ... leaving N England to never-the-less called the Danelaw ... where Danish law was the norm, not Anglo-Saxon law.  Niels Bohr was considerably more friendly, particularly to physics grad students visiting Copenhagen.

Here in the US, y'all are known for ham, Hamlet and Xmas cookies.

[SGOS]

Hi everybody.
I heard about this forum on the Thinking Atheist Forum and thought I'd come check it out :-)

Welcome.

[Youssuf Ramadan]

Welcome to the forum! :-)

I'm English too - from Cornwall right down in the South West... where men are men and sheep are nervous! 

[LadyDay]

King Alfred of Wessex circa 850 CE ... who fought the roving Great "Danish" Army to a standstill in S England ... leaving N England to never-the-less called the Danelaw ... where Danish law was the norm, not Anglo-Saxon law.  Niels Bohr was considerably more friendly, particularly to physics grad students visiting Copenhagen.

Here in the US, y'all are known for ham, Hamlet and Xmas cookies.

Well, pillaging the english is kind of our national sport. It's all fun and games I'm sure... And certainly the english genepool benefited from the injection of danish genes. 
Okay, so maybe we've been a little unable to intimidate them lately..... These days we mostly enjoy Englands superior beer-/cider-production, the brilliant sense of humour of the english people, the greasy english pub food and the fact the english are among the friendliest people on the planet!
Do you have english heritage?

We're known for xmas cookies? I didn't even know that. I knew you lot had named Danish Pastries after us. Funny enough those are called "Viennese Bread" (literally), after the Austrian capital, in Denmark. Seems nobody wants responsibility for those things.

[LadyDay]

Welcome to the forum! :-)

I'm English too - from Cornwall right down in the South West... where men are men and sheep are nervous!

Haha. The rumour of the close relationship between the british and their sheep HAS travelled over here. But then again, there might be rumours that danes have similar relationship to their pigs...... So who are we to judge?!

[Green Bottle]

Afternoon LadyDay, an welcome to the madhoose,       

PS, im not english.....

[Mike Cl]

King Alfred of Wessex circa 850 CE ... who fought the roving Great "Danish" Army to a standstill in S England ... leaving N England to never-the-less called the Danelaw ... where Danish law was the norm, not Anglo-Saxon law.  Niels Bohr was considerably more friendly, particularly to physics grad students visiting Copenhagen.

Here in the US, y'all are known for ham, Hamlet and Xmas cookies.

And don't forget the morning Danish and coffee!

[LadyDay]

Afternoon LadyDay, an welcome to the madhoose,       

PS, im not english.....

Afternoon Mr. Green. And thankyou.
Always good to see the scottish around. Shared hobby of pillaging the english and all that ;)

[LadyDay]

And don't forget the morning Danish and coffee!

Not sure we can take credit for coffee.... 

[stromboli]

I'm Swedish on one side and Welsh on the other, so I can claim coal miner roots and Viking roots (I know, its a long stretch) but guess which one I'd claim in conversation? Back in my drinking days I went Berserker a couple of times, so its in there.......

By the way, Viking influence on the English language comes in at #10, which by number of actual Vikings is pretty incredible. They were a very persuasive bunch.

[LadyDay]

I'm Swedish on one side and Welsh on the other, so I can claim coal miner roots and Viking roots (I know, its a long stretch) but guess which one I'd claim in conversation? Back in my drinking days I went Berserker a couple of times, so its in there.......

By the way, Viking influence on the English language comes in at #10, which by number of actual Vikings is pretty incredible. They were a very persuasive bunch.

You've got some solid celtic and scandinavian genes in there then! You'd probably excell with a great sword! ;)

[PopeyesPappy]

Welcome to .com, LadyDay!

I'd be really interested in your take on this meme that's been making its rounds on social media lately.

[Mike Cl]

Not sure we can take credit for coffee.... 

You're right.  The Swedes should take credit for the coffee. :)

[LadyDay]

Welcome to .com, LadyDay!

I'd be really interested in your take on this meme that's been making its rounds on social media lately.

There is some differences between Danish and American (U.S.) society. U.S. is more capitalistic and Denmark is more socialistic. What the meme does brush over is that we do not exactly live in some sort of Paradise where education and healthcare and everything is just handed to us for free. We literally pay half of our income in taxes!
But I am very happy to live in a society where everyone has access to the best healthcare, everyone can get top education, nobody goes hungry and so on. I must admit I am shocked and saddned by how often I hear of American friends and aquaintances who do not have access to neccesary healthcare! For example I have a dear friend who has a serious drug problem. If he was in Denmark I'd know how to help. We have a whole, big system of doctors, shelters and socialworkers geared towards helping addicts, free of charge, it's all paid via taxes. I could take his hand and bring him right to the help! But because this friend is in USA, there's no social system in place to help! He's left completely alone with the issue! There is no therapeuts ready to help him deal with the absolute horror of his childhood, there's no medicine and doctors to help him through withdrawal, there's no socialworkers to help him integrate back into normal society. Nothing! If you were born fortunate, the USA is a great country I'm sure, but if you were born with a pedophile mother and extremely violent father and just never got a shot at life... Then you're screwed if you're in the great USA.
But nowhere is perfect though. Our current government is absolutely horrid and chopping away at our social system! Fortunately they are not likely to stay past next election!

[PopeyesPappy]

Just wondering how a Dane felt about US right wing propaganda spin on your country. Yes some of the things are true. Others are outright lies. All are spun to make your country's political system sound like a complete failure.