Well after a long and tough winter in Norway that lasted for more than 6 months, finally spring is showing up [img]smile.gif[/img] The cold and dark winter is finally over and I'll celebrate it by sharing some information about how we survive up here [img]smile.gif[/img]

+15°C / 59°F

This is as warm as it gets in Norway, so we'll start here.
People in Spain wear winter-coats and gloves.
The Norwegians are out in the sun, getting a tan.

+10°C / 50°F

The French are trying in vain to start their central heating.
The Norwegians plant flowers in their gardens.

+5°C / 41°F

Italian cars won't start.
The Norwegians are cruising in cabriolets.

0°C / 32°F

Distilled water freezes.
The water in Oslo Fjord gets a little thicker.

-5°C / 23°F

People in California almost freeze to death.
The Norwegians have their final barbeque before winter.

-10°C / 14°F

The Brits start the heat in their houses.
The Norwegians start using long sleeves.

-20°C / -4°F

The Aussies flee from Mallorca.
The Norwegians end their Midsummer celebrations.
Autumn is here.

-30°C / -22°F

People in Greece die from the cold and disappear from the face of the earth.
The Norwegians start drying their laundry indoors.

-40°C / -40°F

Paris start cracking in the cold.
The Norwegians stand in line at the hotdog stands.

-50°C / -58°F

Polar bears start evacuating the North Pole.
The Norwegian army postpones their winter survival training awaiting real winter weather.

-70°C / -94°F

The false Santa moves south.
The Norwegian army goes out on winter survival training.

-183°C / -297.4°F

Microbes in food don't survive.
The Norwegian cows complain that the farmers' hands are cold.

-273°C / -459.4°F

ALL atom-based movent halts.
The Norwegians start saying "Faen, it's cold outside today."

-300°C / -508°F

Hell freezes over.
Norway wins the Eurovision Song Contest.

Remind me to never go to Norway. Too used to the unbearably hot deep South.

It was snowing over here last friday, but if you say so...

:D :D :D ROFLMAO [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] This goes into my funniest posts of the year folder [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

yay! spring! that means spring break! that means i get to sleep in till 6 pm! :D :D

You lazy bum [img]graemlins/laugh2.gif[/img]

LOL! I've seen variations on that before, but the Norwegians now take the cake.

On a side note, years ago I worked with a lady from Alaska. Honest to goodness, in the month of December in a snow storm in Michigan, she was outside waiting for her husband to pick her up... wearing a sweater. No coat, no gloves, no hat, just a thin sweater. She was waiting for it to get cold, I guess... 'twas plenty cold for me. Fifteen degrees fahrenheit, which makes... about -10 Celcius... and she was comfortable.

'Course, then I married a woman from Oklahoma in the south, and promptly introduced her to what we call cold weather up here... :D

What do you expect Bungleau? We indians are quite resistant to the cold, best weather of the year really :D

Actually, Gangrell, she was not "native Alaskan" or whatever the politically correct way of saying it is. She was a transplant from somewhere else who had lived there for a few years, and was now transplanted back south.

Still impressive, though.

<font color="gold">LMAO! This is the funniest post I've seen in a while, Brenn. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]
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