# Greenland **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 27, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenland/337364 "2005-12-27T22:24:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenland/337364/21 "2005-12-29T11:40:38Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > The whole situation is embarassing and ridiculous. The island in question is a frozen knob of rock of no real importance. Let’s give it to Zimbabwe. Maybe they’ll exile Robert Mugabe to it. That’s the thing. Canadians and Danes mostly think the whole incident a bit embarrassing and ridiculous. But in Greenland they react to it on a much deeper emotional level. They’re outraged. They feel Canada is chipping away on their historic lands. Greenlanders are attached to the land, while Canada just wants it for the potential resources or the rights to the shipping lane, or whatever. Which is why Canada really just should stay away. > [@UselessGit](#): > > Greenland, as opposed to the Faeroes, desperately needs Denmark to survive. Greenland could not, in any way, threaten another country today; it’s a sad, desperate place, for the most part. Greenland doesn’t have the best of any world, unless you’re a fan of alcoholism, sexual devience and suicide. > > And Rune, you have to admit that the (whole) article you linked to sounds considerably more sensible in danish, silly as that particular language and the story in question may be. Anyway, I’ll take these news over “drunken father rapes daughter before committing suicide” any day. > > Sorry if this all sounds a little depressing but thinking of Greenland always depresses me a little. You should visit, though; words can not describe the island’s awesome beauty. I didn’t mean they had the best in general, but only in relation to the EU. Also I don’t think it’s as bad as all that – though it would be a whole fucking lot better if they hadn’t been burdened with the goddamn idiotic Greenpeace (fuck Greenpeace with a big rod of iron!). Many Greenlanders are doing good, it’s just that those that aren’t, aren’t in such a spectacular way. I have several Eskimo Greenlanders in my immediate family, both living in Copenhagen and in Greenland (btw. girls of a Scandinavian/Eskimo mix are often ridiculous cute) – the young ones are doing pretty good, getting an education etc. ummm… I know an American girl living in Copenhagen. Her mother on a visit was very puzzled by all the drunken Japanese she saw in the street. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenland/337364/22 "2005-12-29T15:32:30Z")
I think some [lyrics](http://www.andrewbird.org/) from the Andrew Bird song “Dear Old Greenland” might be appropriate here: > [@](#): > > Friends, Greenland is a place where souls go to dry out. > It is a vast and terrifying place of ice fields and tundra. > Bereft of fire and in the horror of its imposing irrelevance, > There is a peace: > The peace of pain, > The peace of nothing. There. That should settle all of this. ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenland/337364/23 "2005-12-29T18:09:59Z")
> [@Rune](#): > > …it would be a whole fucking lot better if they hadn’t been burdened with the goddamn idiotic Greenpeace (fuck Greenpeace with a big rod of iron!) I’ll drink to that. And I wholeheartedly aggree re: Greenlandic chicks; I saw one in Copenhagen during the Vestnorden travel market and I swear I still have dreams about her. The word “Dayum” is thrown around a lot these days but …dayum! Oh, and Polycarp: sucess lies in the eye of the conquistador. Our conquest will prove successfull eventually through selective breeding in …well, Gimli; we’re doing the same in Utah but at an even slower rate. Guess where “Canadian” astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason is from? Heck, we might even complete our conquest before y’all finish up back east! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenland/337364/24 "2005-12-29T18:27:37Z")
> [@UselessGit](#): > > I’ll drink to that. And I wholeheartedly aggree re: Greenlandic chicks; I saw one in Copenhagen during the Vestnorden travel market and I swear I still have dreams about her. The word “Dayum” is thrown around a lot these days but …dayum! > > Oh, and Polycarp: sucess lies in the eye of the conquistador. Our conquest will prove successfull eventually through selective breeding in …well, Gimli; we’re doing the same in Utah but at an even slower rate. Guess where “Canadian” astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason is from? Heck, we might even complete our conquest before y’all finish up back east! So that’s why Uncle Eric came over. He married my father’s sister and set out to increase the numbers of Ingrids and Lindas and Erikas in Canada. I’d mention the family name, but it’s so ridiculously uncommon that if I search the national phonebook listings, I get maybe half a dozen entries. _And I know them all._ The family name, though, is extremely Scandinavian and extremely cool. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenland/337364/25 "2005-12-29T18:34:05Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > So that’s why Uncle Eric came over. I fear I may have said too much… just make sure you procreate with your fellow Scandinavians (a lot) and have lots of beautiful, strong, blonde babies. We’ll get there in the next few centuries, just you wait and see! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenland/337364/26 "2005-12-29T18:58:55Z")
> [@UselessGit](#): > > I fear I may have said too much… just make sure you procreate with your fellow Scandinavians (a lot) and have lots of beautiful, strong, blonde babies. We’ll get there in the next few centuries, just you wait and see! Alas, I am genetically English. The connection is by marriage. Howver, my last girlfriend was part-Finnish, if that helps. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greenland/337364.md?page=1)