In this short, sweet episode, Knut and Chris tie up a bunch of loose ends — including a deep dive into the toilet, or at least English and Norwegian euphemisms for using it. Other topics include the socialist slant to Norwegian work lunches, and ordering reindeer meat on Amazon.
Links:
- Balestrand - Wikipedia
- Twitter thread: "British people! Please to reply with your impressions (informed or otherwise) of Scandinavia generally and Norway specifically? Thanks! :)"
- Norwegian Constitution Day - Wikipedia — Why the English Wikipedia page calls it Constitution Day when the name in Norwegian is Nasjonaldagen ("the national day") is beyond me.
- Saint George's Day (England's equivalent of Nasjonaldagen) - Wikipedia
- St. Andrew's Day (Scotland's equivalent of Nasjonaldagen) - Wikipedia
- Saint David's Day (Wales's equivalent of Nasjonaldagen) - Wikipedia — No bank holiday here either, thanks Tony Blair
- Saint Patrick's Day (which everyone seems to celebrate, not just the Northern Irish part of the UK) - Wikipedia
- Bunad (Norwegian national costume) - Wikipedia
- Tutting | Define Tutting at Dictionary.com
- Tutting | Very British Problems - YouTube
- Hark! - definition of hark in English | Oxford Dictionaries — hark
- Kygo – Wikipedia
- (In Norwegian) Index Norvegica: 25 norske eufemismar for å gå på do — "25 Norwegian euphemisms for going to the loo"
- English toilet slang - Wiktionary — Remarkably extensive
- Self-balancing unicycle - Wikipedia
- Self-balancing scooter - Wikipedia
- What are some common stereotypes of Norwegians? - Quora
- Muttley Laughing - YouTube
- The Art Of Matpakke – The Packed Lunch Of Norway | A New Life In Norway
- Snøhetta Makes the Daily Lunch Break the Central Focus of Its Workplace
- What have the Romans ever done for us - YouTube
- Dirty protest - Wikipedia
- European Convention on Human Rights - Wikipedia
- Norwegian Wood - The Beatles - YouTube
- The Beatles "Help" Live 1965 (Reelin' In The Years Archives) - YouTube
- Rubber Soul - Wikipedia
- Brexit - Wikipedia — Chris isn't bitter and drained by the whole thing, or anything.
- Reindeer meat is as healthy as fish | ScienceNordic
- Norway's Radioactive Reindeer - The Atlantic
- Amazon.com: ALASKAN JERKY WITH REINDEER .8oz
- Alaskan Reindeer Sausage 5lbs: Amazon.com: Grocery & Gourmet Food
- Norwegian/Lesson 1 - Wikibooks, open books for an open world — The letter "d" is pronounced like the English "d", but is in most cases silent at the end of a syllable or at the end of a word.
- Trumf (Joker supermarket membership)
- Urban Dictionary: smh
- The Small Differences Encyclopedia of the Words of all the Weeks
- Small Differences - Contact Us!
- All Killer, No Filler - Wikipedia