Strange things about Norway

I have been 'living'/working in Norway since December 2005 and I wanted to share with the world some strange observations about Norway, I will keep this updated.

1. People

2. Winter & Summer
- Winter is dark and cold but dark even in the day
- Summer is bright and warm but really bright all the time

3. Food
- Norwegian people do not like flavours it seems, they eat bread, bread, bread, bread, cheese, cheese and cheese and strange bits of meat with salad. Some of their traditional dishes include burying a fish in a hole in the ground with salt and digging it up 6 months later rotten and eating it. They say "it doesn't smell nice but it tastes good". Yeah right!

Another one is boiled sheeps head. Now I have been told that you only get to eat this if you are invited to someones place, they would only eat it once a year and not everyone does it. Thank God for that! But apparently they eat everything... that would include tongue, face, chin, ears, eyeballs and brain! Sounds delicious.

4. SAD - Seasonal Adjustment Disorder:
I was once told by a Swedish girl that she hated Norwegians cos they so happy all the time, they appeared retarded. Well they do seem a bit too happy, although in Winter they either disappear or go sort of quiet or walk around the streets completely hammered drunk at times like 10 a.m. in the morning. I can see how Winter here would drive people to drink.

However in Summer they are the happiest people in the world, its a bit like the Truman Show.

5. Anywhere outside Oslo:
Weird!

6. People who live in the far north of Norway. There is nothing there, no people, its cold and dark, why would anyone want to live there?

7. Clothes
Some people I have seen wearing the following combinations:
- wellies, shorts, yellow belt, cravat, shirt
- traditional Norwegian clothes, nice.

8. Cross country skiing
People will actually get orgasmic telling you how much they love cross country skiing. In summer they put wheels on skiis and do cross country skiing on wheels. They absolutely love it! Can't see the appeal myself, uphill skiing seems like too much hard work and not enough reward. Give me the slopes anyday.

9. Last night:
Last night we went to a work function with 450 people, everyone got hammered drunk and they can't really handle their drink here. A band came on and the guy who was a sh1te singer, even worse than me, asked if we were ready for rock and roll and then sung the theme to Ghostbusters. He mentioned on quite a few occasions "I ain't afraid of no ghost".