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Talking bins

Monday, 2. June 2008, 11:26:15

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Copenhagen residents will maybe soon be rewarded with fine words of praise when they put rubbish in the new garbage bins in parts of the city.

In the wake of recent polls showing that the city is among Europe's dirtiest, local councillors are making concerted efforts to turn the tide and aim to be the cleanest capital of the continent by 2015.

In Nyhavn, one of the trial areas, the bins will thank passers-by for remembering to put rubbish in them. And in Gothersgade street, leading off the King's Square, the containers will dazzle pedestrians with their eloquence: 'Together we can keep the city clean.'

Personally I don't think it makes a difference for the amount of garbage in Copenhagen whether the bins talk or not. I haven't seen the bins myself yet, but I will definitely look out for them.

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Chlamydia

Tuesday, 27. May 2008, 04:10:16

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I just read that cases of young people infected with the sexually transmitted disease Chlamydia has doubled in the past ten years.

Statistics from Statens Serum Institut, an organisation under the Ministry of Health working with prevention and control of infectious diseases, showed that 25,795 Danes between 15 and 29 years old were diagnosed with the infectious disease in 2007, compared with 12,831 ten years ago.

Concerned experts say one reason could be that many don't experience the classic symptoms, which include rashes or pain during urination, and therefore don't realise they are carrying the disease.

I'd say that another reason can be the lack of information regarding safe sex. And the problem with having chlamydia and not receiving treatment is that you may having problems getting pregnant later in life.

How to avoid chlamydia?

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Official Language of the European Union

Sunday, 25. May 2008, 05:02:40

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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

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Learning Danish

Thursday, 22. May 2008, 04:12:47

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Foreigners aren't the only ones who have a hard time learning the Danish language. A new study shows that Danish children are slower than toddlers in other countries at picking up their native language's nuances.

The study, conducted by the University of Southern Denmark's Centre for Child Language, showed that Danish children on average have a vocabulary of only 80 words at the age of 15 months. Conversely, Swedish children at the same age can handle 130 words, while Croatian toddlers have mastered up to 200.

The research shows that by the age of two, Danish children are nearly up to speed.

According to the study, the primary reason Danish children lag behind in language comprehension is because single words are difficult to extract from Danish's slurring together of words in sentences. Danish is also one of the languages with the most vowel sounds, which leads to a 'mushier' pronunciation of words in everyday conversation.

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Big Delay on Operations

Friday, 16. May 2008, 04:19:04

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The healthcare workers' strike has begun to cause serious treatment delays which doctors say will take up to a year to get back to normal

After four weeks of the nurses' strike, hospitals are now backlogged up to a year by the cancellation of around 217,000 operations.

Patients in queue for non-acute operations such as knee and hip replacements will be pushed back the farthest, although hospitals have not yet worked out a specific order in which individual patients will be treated.


The strike has now lasted full four weeks, and is still going strong. It has now been reported that a man died because of lack of treatment. He was a heart patient and a haemophiliac and should have been operated on April 15th - the day the strikes began. His operation was cancelled, and on May 9th he got chest pain and an ambulance picked him up. Unfortunately they didn't know his background so they drove him to a wrong hospital, where he passed away in the casualty department.

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Will Economic Crisis hit Denmark?

Tuesday, 13. May 2008, 04:07:40

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Experts are predicting the recession that has hit the US will be felt in Denmark starting as soon as next year.

It is apparently still true that when the US sneezes Europe catches a cold, as both the Danish Bank Nordea Bank and the International Monetary Fund believe a weakening British pound and an waning US dollar will hamper the world's economy, and Denmark will not be spared.

A new analysis indicates that several other factors have also contributed to a bleaker economic outlook for the next two years: the bottom of the Danish housing market having fallen out, American consumers are shutting their pocketbooks, an ailing stock market and rising food and fuel prices.

Nordea still predicts a growth of 1.5 percent of GNP in 2008 - and that is only half that of 2007. By 2009, the bank says growth will have slowed to 0.9 percent. Predictions from IMF are even more grim, as they forecast only a 0.6 percent growth by 2009.

The sluggish growth will be felt on the job market, as a serious increase in unemployment. :frown:

As of March 1st 2008 - Statistic Denmark's most up-to-date figures - unemployment was at an all-time low of 55,400, or just 2 percent.




*Saves a little extra for a rainy day*

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Some strikers are maybe ready to call off the strike!

Monday, 5. May 2008, 15:33:39

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Striking daycare teachers and nursing home attendants can be back on the job by Wednesday if a new contract struck after marathon negotiations on Sunday is approved by the workers' union.

Representatives from union FOA and KL, the national association of local councils, announced early today that they had come to an agreement that added an extra 35 million kroner to the value of the three-year contract the union's members rejected in April. The total value of the contract is now 5.7 billion kroner.

The agreement must be approved by union representatives before work can resume. Union members have until 29 May to vote on the agreement. If they reject it, the strike will resume on 3 June.

The National Nurses Organisation has refused to relax its demands and is continuing to strike.

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Coca-Cola and Kellogg's

Monday, 5. May 2008, 04:04:22

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Coca-Cola and Kellogg's have been reported to the Danish authorities for misrepresenting their products' contents on their labels. The Danish Consumer Council has informed the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration of food label violations committed by the two international companies.

Kellogg's cereals and Coca-Cola soft drinks list the fat and sugar content of their products as being by 'portion'. However, the consumer council says that measurement varies from product to product and is often too small to be a realistic indicator of what a person's intake would be. For example, Coco Pops cereal lists its portion measurement as 30 grams - far less than a bowl of cereal would typically be.

In addition, the products contents are calculated as being for 'an adult woman of normal weight'. But how tall, fat or thin is a "standard" woman?

The labels reflect changes in the declaration rules initiated by the new 'Guidelines Daily Amounts' (GDA) regulations, instituted by the European food industry. Those guidelines are not as strict as Danish labelling laws.

I hope they get a heavy fine for making things opaque. The strict rules Denmark have are to help the costumers.

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Louis Vuitton

Friday, 2. May 2008, 05:37:41

A Danish art student named Nadia Plesner recently put together a project to try to raise money for the victims of genocide in Darfur. As part of the campaign, she created a t-shirt with a drawn image of a Darfur victim "pimped" out like Paris Hilton is: Carrying a designer handbag and a small dressed up dog. The idea was, that if Paris Hilton can get so much publicity by doing so little, it was worth a try for the Darfur victims also. The entire profits from the t-shirts are going to help the victims.

Louis Vuitton responded to Nadia's campaign by sending her a letter, telling her firmly to end the campaign immediately, as they believe one of their products is being portrayed in the art piece. Nadia refused and told the company that she would not take down the t-shirt or the image. In response, the Louis Vuitton company went from friendly to nasty. It sued, demanding $7,500 for each day she keeps selling the product, $7,500 for each day she displays its original cease-and-desist letter and $7,500 for each day she mentions the name "Louis Vuitton" on her website.

This is an entirely non-commercial venture. All of the profits are given to charity. The design has some differences from the Louis Vuitton bag, and hardly seems likely to specifically damage the Louis Vuitton brand. The t-shirts are clearly not competing with Louis Vuitton but are only made to help some people who are suffering.

Come on big guys. Get a grip!

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Wankers Unite!

Monday, 28. April 2008, 04:50:13

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"Cum for a good cause!"
Masturbators with exhibitionistic tendencies can now participate in Denmark's first masturbation marathon. The event takes place in Copenhagen on May 31st, and have the sex-environmental fighters "Fuck For Forest" as guests of honour.

Masturbate-a-thon is an event where people get sponsored in order to participate and masturbate. The idea is from the USA and goes back to 1999; where a group of people named Good Vibrations arranged the first masturbate-a-thon in San Francisco. The first European masturbate-a-thon meeting was set in London in 2006, and now the time has come to put up a race in Copenhagen.

As a participant in the event you are given the choice to jerk off for as long as you want to - or you can compete in one out of three disciplines:

1) Long term masturbation
2) Number of orgasms
3) Length of spurts

The organizers report that there are 50-60 entries for the time being...




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