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Weird Danish Laws

Thursday, 24. July 2008, 04:51:09

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A while ago I made a post about some weird laws. Unfortunately two from my friends list decided to post almost the same before I got to post mine, so I deleted it again. Now I got something similar, but this post is only about weird Danish laws. I don't think anyone will beat me on this one. :D

So here is the first one:

• Before starting your car you are required to check lights, brakes, steering and horn.

That sounds reasonable to me, after all it's about traffic security. But problem is that is goes really bad with this rule:

• You are not allowed to honk your horn unless it is to warn other road users of a danger ahead.

How can I check the horn before starting when I am not allowed to honk unless there is danger ahead? :confused:

• Restaurants may not charge for water unless it is accompanied by another item such as ice or a lemon slice.

I remember when this rule was made. It was when some restaurants bagan to charge like 7 Euros for a jug of water from the tap.

• Attempt to escape from prison is not illegal; however, if one he is caught he is required to serve out the remainder of his term.

That's weird. It's not against the law to flee from prison. You can try as many times as you want without consequenses at all. :D

• No one may start a car while someone is underneath the vehicle.

What can I say? Some of our laws really makes sense! :lol:


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Terrorist Network in Denmark?

Saturday, 19. July 2008, 20:23:21

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Plans to kill the bomb-in-the-turban cartoonist Kurt Westergaard were just one of several acts planned by a terror cell, according to intelligence reports.

According to reports the group had plans to commit acts of terrorism in addition to their alleged plans to strangle the cartoonist in retaliation for drawing a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb-shaped turban.

It was unclear whether others from the group were involved in the suspected plans to murder Westergaard, but PET, the Danish domestic intelligence agency, reportedly informed network members that they were aware of their affiliation with the group.

The existence of the network was revealed as part of information presented by PET to the Supreme Court last month. The information was to be used by the court in the appeal of two of the suspects, both from Tunisia, who have been detained and who are to be deported.

Danish law permits foreign suspects of a crime in Denmark to be deported without a trial. A judge, however, must order that the suspects be held behind bars.

The court ruled that prosecutors had presented insufficient evidence during the two men's arraignment hearing and has required that a retrial be held.

The charges against a third man, a Moroccan-Dane, were dropped earlier last week.

It is expected that PET will present additional material during the retrial of the two Tunisians in Copenhagen Municipal Court, including information about the terror network and about the role of the Moroccan-Dane in the suspected plans to kill Westergaard.


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If you are happy...

Wednesday, 16. July 2008, 14:59:09

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:sing: If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands! *clap clap*
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands! *clap clap* :sing:


If that is the case then there should be applause ringing out from Denmark these days, as it is crowned the happiest country in the world.

The Danes often come out on top in happiness surveys, but the long-term data from this one proves that they are the most content nation without a doubt.

The data from the World Values Survey at the University of Michigan covers 97 countries and was collected over the last 17 years. Fifty-two countries on the list have happiness results from as far back as 1981, Denmark included.

The survey is an accumulation of surveys over the period, in which a total of 350,000 people were questioned. The survey will appear in the July 2008 issue of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science. Researchers asked the same two questions over the years: "Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy, rather happy, not very happy, or not at all happy?" And, "All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?

The old saying, 'Money can't buy happiness' is certainly true in this case. Researchers found that economic growth in a country did not automatically improve the mood of the people.

'If economic growth is not accompanied by social security and a healthy social environment where the citizen feel that they can trust the authorities, then the growth can be a stress factor,' Jan Dehley, a sociology professor with the project, told Politiken newspaper.

He said that Denmark was at the top of the table because it has combined social security with economic growth for a long time.

The study found that the level of happiness has increased in general around the world. A happiness index created from the survey results found that 40 out of the 52 countries have seen an increase in happiness. Researchers think that this could be due to more peaceful, stabile societies over the years.

:sing: If you're happy and you know it,
Then your face will surely show it
If you're happy and you know it,
Clap your hands. *clap clap* :sing:

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Teacher fired

Wednesday, 25. June 2008, 06:07:21

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I read on the news that the headmaster at an Århus area school believed a teacher's placement of a song about having sex that included 'dirty words' on his homepage crossed the line of acceptable behaviour for a teacher and fired him.

The teacher had only been employed as a substitute teacher for 11 and 12-year-olds at Tilst School since March. But the uploading of his song 'Adam and Eva' to his personal homepage made his employment short-termed.

I searched the web for the song that caused such a dramatic step, and honestly, that's the worst song text I've ever read. It's in Danish, so I can't just copy the lyrics in here, but the first verse goes like this:
it's only
it's only
it's only cunt I want
it's only cunt I want
I am a horny pig
I am a horny pig
I am a horny pig
I am a horny pig
I am a horny pig
I am a horny pig
I am a horny pig
fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck
fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck
fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck

And so on, and so on....

I think you deserve getting fired when you write such crappy texts! :rolleyes:


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Midsummer ~ Sankt Hans

Tuesday, 24. June 2008, 04:15:18

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In Denmark, the solstitial celebration is called Sankt Hans aften ("St. John's Eve"). It was an official holiday until 1770, and in accordance with the Danish tradition of celebrating a holiday on the evening before the actual day, it takes place on the evening of June 23rd.

It was the day where the medieval wise men and women (the doctors of that time) would gather special herbs that they needed for the rest of the year to cure people.

Midsummer has been celebrated since the times of the Vikings, by visiting healing water wells and making a large bonfire to ward away evil spirits. Today the water well tradition is gone. Bonfires, speeches, picnics and songs are traditional now.

In the 1920s a tradition of putting a witch made of straw and cloth on the bonfire emerged as a remembrance of the church's witch burnings from 1540 to 1693. (Unofficially a witch was lynched as late as 1897.) This burning sends the "witch" away from us, to Bloksbjerg, the mountain 'Brocken' in the Harz region of Germany where the great witch gathering was thought to be held on this day.

Since it rained yesterday, I didn't go out to take photos of the bonfire. It was so nice and comfy inside, and besides, I wasn't really in the mood.

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Weird Names

Thursday, 19. June 2008, 10:25:39

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Denmark's once-traditional official register of approved given names is becoming more untraditional each year, particularly since a 2006 law change allowed for the acceptance of ethnic selections.

According to Danish law, parents naming their child must choose a name from the register or send in a special application if the name they want to use is not on the list. But with the influx of immigrants to Denmark bringing names from other cultures, the register had to be updated.

If a name is one that is generally accepted in another country, then it is usually approved. Also, if 25 people currently living in Denmark have the name, it is added to the register.

But some parents still go to extremes in their attempts to give their children a unique first name. And a name still has to bear the mark of being a name, so people can't expect to be able to call their child 'Truck' or 'Chamber Pot.' But I took a look at the list of approved names, and there are some very special names there. On the boys list are for instance: No, Taotao, Jerk, Stygge (in English: Bad) and Eg (in English: Oak). On the girls list are Su, Dytter (in English: Honky), Rosine (in English: Raisine) and Nissine ("Nisse" is an elf).

One couple thoroughly tested the limits of the approved name process, wanting to call their baby 'Rhododendron Bush'. Another couple wanted to name their son 'Anus Jensen'. Both applications were rejected.

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Danish Prices

Sunday, 15. June 2008, 14:03:34

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Consumer prices are currently at their highest level in 18 years, according to figures from Statistics Denmark. From May 2006 to May 2007, prices on consumer goods rose 3.4 percent. Prices on non-alcoholic drinks and food products have risen the most during that period, up 8.1 percent. Bread and milk have particularly increased sharply, while beef prices have nearly doubled since just February. In contrast, clothing prices fell 2.7 percent during those 12 months.

Allright, according to the agreements just made, my wages will go up with 7.8 percent from 2008 to 2009. That sounds like a good raise, but it's not good enough when it doesn't go up as much as the food prices. That's ridiculous. That means my money is worth less than they have been.

I think I'll check the prices on shoes again.

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Update on the strike in Denmark

Wednesday, 11. June 2008, 09:20:50

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Half a million children will be left without daycare starting on Tuesday unless an 11th hour solution can be found to the month-long teachers strike.

KL, the national association of local councils, has announced that it will begin a lockout of daycare teachers in all 98 of the country's municipalities after teachers union BUPL refused to resume negotiations on Tuesday.

Daycare teachers in 15 municipalities went on strike on May 19th after its members voted against a contract that would have increased their pay by 12.8 percent over the next three years.

Mads Lebech, lead negotiator for KL, said a lockout was the start of a war of attrition aimed at breaking the unions. Teachers receive partial pay from their union during the strike, and Lebech said KL was willing to wait until union coffers had run dry.

Labour relations experts suggest that, unlike in the case of the nurses strike, the government may step in to end the teachers strike. The government has refused to that so far, since the strike is legal. Our government will go on summer holiday on Friday, so it will be interesting if they do something before they leave.

Nurses, midwives and lab technicians are currently in their eighth week of a walkout. They have refused to budge from their demand of a 15 percent raise over the next three years. I haven't heard the latest number of cancelled operations, but it's a ridiculously large number.

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Dagmar of Denmark

Friday, 6. June 2008, 04:58:44

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I had a talk the other day with a friend of mine, and one of the topics we discussed was Russia; I remembered that there was a Danish princess who got to be the tsarina of Russia long time ago. That conversation inspired me to this post:

Maria Feodorovna Romanova, born Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1847–1928) was the second daughter of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse.

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Woman-Viagra

Thursday, 5. June 2008, 11:58:44

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I just heard on the news that thousands of illegal pink pills aimed at increasing women's sexual desire have been confiscated by customs authorities in the past several months. The pills, called Womenra, are routinely sent from India and are ordered over the internet by Danish women. They allegedly increase blood flow to the sexual organs. The Danish Medicines Agency will begin a campaign this fall against Womenra and other illegal generic medicines.

I nearly choked when I heard it. Woman-Viagra... They sound of it just isn't right, is it? For me, Viagra is for men that can't get it up, but ok, on the other hand, if they work for her, she might end up getting it up after all...

Sorry for the bad pun. :D

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