Small Differences

Episode 21: Remedial Troll


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In an episode that deals — more or less — with folklore, Knut and Chris tackle traditional Norwegian fairytales and Scottish mythical creatures. Chris resolves only to communicate using emoji; Knut is oppressed.

Links:

  • Three Billy Goats Gruff - Wikipedia
  • Amazing Footage: Goats Climbing on a Near-Vertical Dam | National Geographic - YouTube
  • Troll - Wikipedia
  • Norwegian goat - Wikipedia
  • What is "Inverse Square Law"? — Useful when setting up a microphone or speaker, the inverse square law states that, in a free field the intensity of sound drops by 6 dB for each doubling of distance from the source.
  • First Attempts to Save Goat Bro! (save Goat Bro Made By a Awesome Youtuber i do not know#1 - YouTube
  • CrossFit - Wikipedia
  • Grimms' Fairy Tales - Wikipedia
  • The Three Little Pigs - Wikipedia
  • Three Blind Mice - Wikipedia
  • Cookie Monster Learns a Lesson from Tom Hiddleston - YouTube — (delayed gratification)
  • Chicken Crossing Puzzle - Solution
  • Prisoner's dilemma - Wikipedia
  • Martyn Bennett "Grit": The Documentary - YouTube
  • Obituary: Martyn Bennett | Global | The Guardian
  • LES MILLS GRIT Strength – HIIT Workouts – Les Mills US
  • goat puns - Google Search
  • Radiolab — This is one of the best podcasts there is. Punktum.
  • Castro 2 — Play and Share Podcasts
  • Overcast (podcast app)
  • Kiwi supermarket — (translated into English by Google Translate, so, well …)
  • How to get your 5-a-day in one go – Features | Jamie Oliver
  • Truthiness - Wikipedia
  • Sugar doesn’t make kids hyper, and other parenting myths | Science News
  • Who should submit a (UK) tax return? - Which? — TL;DR: relatively few people in the UK need to fill in a tax return. If you're only employed by someone else, it's their and the government's problem. Boom.
  • Skatteetaten - Norwegian Tax Return
  • Oslo Kommuneplan — (Google Translate version … apologies in advance)
  • Confessions from a man without dialect — (blah blah, Google Translate) — this is Knut's “Brother from another mother” :)
  • Norwegian parliamentary election, 2017 - Wikipedia
  • United Kingdom general election, 2017 - Wikipedia
  • Proposed second Scottish independence referendum - Wikipedia
  • Boring: see Civil Engineers
  • Mhairi Black MSP - Wikipedia
  • Hansel and Gretel - Wikipedia
  • Rumpelstiltskin - Wikipedia
  • Golden Goose - Wikipedia
  • Reddit/r/unitedkingdom: Why do British people talk about Europe(/Europeans) as if they're not a part of it?
  • Ivo Caprino - Askeladden og de gode hjelperne [Norsk Tale] - YouTube — (Boots, in English. Animation of Norwegian fairytale)
  • Ivar Aasen - Wikipedia
  • Norwegian Folktales/Asbjørnsen and Moe - Wikipedia
  • Askeladden - Wikipedia
  • Grimm brothers’ fairytales have blood and horror restored in new translation | Books | The Guardian
  • Three Days of the Condor (1975) - IMDb
  • Bowdlerised - Google Search
  • Kelpie - Wikipedia
  • The Kelpies - Wikipedia
  • Guinness 'Surfer' ad - YouTube
  • Lord of the Rings FOTR River Scene - YouTube
  • Selkie - Wikipedia
  • Retroactive continuity (“retcon”) - Wikipedia
  • Norwegian romantic nationalism - Wikipedia
  • Tam Lin - Wikipedia
  • Fairy - Wikipedia
  • Loch Ness Monster - Wikipedia
  • Dude, Man Up: An Exploration of Gendered Language | Thought Catalog
  • Donald Duck in comics - Wikipedia
  • The Family-Ness - Wikipedia
  • Selma (lake monster) - Wikipedia
  • Seljord - Google Maps
  • Vodyanoy (Vodník) - Wikipedia
  • Rusalka - Wikipedia
  • Baba Yaga - Wikipedia
  • Brownie (folklore) - Wikipedia
  • Magical creatures in Harry Potter (House Elf) - Wikipedia
  • Norse Mythology: Neil Gaiman: 9780393609097: Amazon.com: Books
  • Tog Oslo - Bergen | Bergensbanen - nsb.no
  • Hoth - Wikipedia
  • Hardangerjøkulen - Wikipedia
  • visitnorway.no
  • Stanford marshmallow experiment
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Small DifferencesBy Knut Melvær & Chris Atherton