Any chance of you doing a Ask the American Cop thread ?
I used to be an avid Ed McBain reader, and loved the insights to cops in their everyday environment.
As in the "in " jokes, how they socialised off duty, how to tell if you’ve got a serious situation and little bits of tradecraft etc.
I think a lot of people would be interested.
But a question for this one, do you get a different attitude from Yardies or African immigrants because you’re black, and what about if you 're busting a racist ?
Nor does my Swedish one. I believe it is on the passports though.
As there’s more people in Sweden, the other countries are more likely to be subjected to Swedish, so they get used to it. But when written down it is pretty down Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are very similar, it is the pronunciation that gets in the way. Norwegian is even more sing-songy, Danish sounds like German spoken with your mouth full. I work for a Norwegian company in Sweden and I just can’t understand Norwegians, so if I am ever in a meeting with Norwegians I just put my hands up and say “sorry, it took ages to get Swedish down, I haven’t quite managed Norwegian, can we do this in English” and there’s a look of relief on the faces of half the Swedes there.
But, as has appeared twice on the amusing Swedish Problems blog:
http://swedishproblems.tumblr.com/post/16239040878/kajloli
http://swedishproblems.tumblr.com/post/11148139186/tack-tack-my-key-way
Nordic, not Norse 
Norwegian is covered up there ^^^^. Icelandic isn’t understood, much like Finnish. At least in Icelandic some of it kind of looks like stuff you know, but a lot of it is just too different.
Tak (Danish)
Tack (Swedish)
Takk (Norwegian, Icelandic)
(To give you an idea).
Oh and apparently it is Kiitos in Finnish. It really is a very, very different language.
Thanks Amanset!
Individuals when writing their names in Latin characters use whatever spelling they want to.
Dead baby capsules:
To elaborate on what amanset wrote: Norwegians and Swedes are generally able to understand each other fairly well and nobody understands Danes, not even themselves ;). I have read somewhere that it takes about one day of speaking to each other for a Norwegian and a Swede to be able to understand each other without having to think about what the other is saying and a week to understand Danish. It also takes much longer time for Danish children to grasp the language than Norwegian and Swedish children. It should also be noted that spoken Danish has changed a lot during the last decades, getting gradually more and more incomprehensible to others.
Where do Israelis go on holiday outside Israel?
Is the Fizzy Bubbler drink from You Don’t Mess with the Zohan based on a real Israeli drink?
Can many non-Arab Israelis speak Arabic?
Dumb questions about Ireland and Irish culture are also welcome.
It’s changing that fast? What’s going on in Denmark?
Soccer is undoubtedly huge in Ireland but not everyone (I certainly ain’t) is sports obsessed. In this country and especially in rural areas, GAA games (Gaelic football and Hurling) give soccer a run for its money in terms of popularity and increasingly rugby isn’t far behind. As someone with scant interest in sports it seems Irish sports fans, of which there are many, will take an interest in any game that an Irish team actually starts to get good at.
Not being into football while at school isn’t all that big a deal. Insofar as any of that mattered there were lads in my school into football and others into playing music, with significant overlap. I’m going to guess that 90% of men in Dublin follow football in some sort of way. They typically will support an English team like Liverpool or Man United, Glasgow Celtic, and a local League Of Ireland Team.
Something rotten, apparently.
Also, the average Norwegian will understand the average Swede better than the other way around, but only because the average Norwegian has heard more Swedish than the average Swede has heard Norwegian. Partly because there are almost twice as many Swedes as Norwegians, partly because until fairly recently Norwegian TV and radio mostly stunk and the Swedish stuff was much better.
True, I’m, ashamed to admit that the Norwegian interest for things Swedish is much greater than the other way round.
I doubt it.
I’ve never been to India, but: many have an “Asian” phenotype, not an “Indian” one. Though it is a mistake to assume Indians have one look. They are very Baptist also (highest rate in the world, greater than Mississippi!), not Hindi/Muslim/Sikh etc. Several states in NE India are predominantly Christian. They have lots in common with countries besides India, and the tribes spill over the border. I don’t think there are enough of them (pop. “only” 2 million) and they don’t travel far enough to show up in great numbers in Mumbai.
What does “football” mean in Ireland, e.g. outside of Dublin? Does it depend on county, etc.? How about in the North. I understand that in Australia, it can mean, soccer, Aussie rules, rugby Union, or rugby League, depending on region.
There are actually numerous such groups, known as “tribals” in India. They are, generally speaking, not very well integrated into Indian society. Here’s a list of Scheduled Tribes.
The word “schedule” refers to a schedule attached to the Indian constitution that recognizes the historic disadvantages suffered by tribals and those from certain castes. The terms “scheduled caste” or “scheduled castes and tribes” is commonly heard.
The most popular cheap, short-range vacation sites are Greek islands and increasingly, Eastern Europe (Turkey used to be very popular, but those days are gone). Further out, they seem to like the same places as everyone else: Paris, New York, etc.
Israelis are also big backpackers, especially Israelis in their 20s who have just gotten out of their military service and are struck with wanderlust. Favorite backpacking locations are the Thai beaches, India, and South America. My sister, an adventurous sort, backpacked from Tierra Del Fuego to Guatemala.
Nope. We drink Coke.
We do eat a lot of hummus, though, often with stuff you wouldn’t think to eat hummus with, like schnitzel.
Sure. It’s taught in high schools, although it’s not mandatory like English. Plenty of people speak Arabic to one degree or another.
Why do Israelis drive like maniacs? I had a great time when I went to Israel a few years ago. I didn’t meet any notably rude people, but we did see people driving like maniacs.
I want some hummus and schnitzel.
All I can say is that as far as Mediterranean countries go, we’re still better than the Italians.
In a baguette!
Granted. Especially the drivers in Rome. I wonder if they get their water from old Roman infrastructure, and it gives them lead poisoning, and that’s what makes them drive that way.