Dissapointed III
So, it's official, we suck at winter olympics, that too..... The men's biathlon competition is over, and we ended up with no Gold Medal this time either, ok so we did get the Silver AND the Bronze, but as I've said earlier today, we've got plenty of those, it's the Gold ones that count! They said this was going to be the best Winter Olympics ever, and now I don't think that's possible anymore.
I don't really know why this seems so important to me, it must be that, well, Norway hasn't really got that much going for it. Oh, yeah, if your a foreigner you might point to the fact that because of all the oil, we're one of the richtest countries in the world - much good THAT is doing us. We can't spend any of the money because that would cause an inflation that could possibly ruin the economy of the country. So, while we in theory are the richtest country in the world, in reality: hundreds of people die in line waiting for critical treatment in hospitals, old people in nursing homes don't get the care they need and live in awful conditions (they don't get single rooms, some have to live in the hallways, they get to shower once every 2 weeks, and get their dinner served at 2 in the afternoon and are put to bed at 5 in the afternoon because there isn't enough staff to take care of them) we've got the most expensive cars in the world because of all the tax we're paying on them (they're actually about twice as expensive as they are in Sweeden), we've got the most expensive beer in the world (in Oslo you now have to pay about 9 Euros or 6 pounds for half a litre of beer), come to think of it we've actually won "the competition" of being the most expensive country in the world several times, we used to be the peace loving country that would do anything to try to negotiate between other fighting countries in the world - after the Muhammed cartoons no one would want us to do that anymore and we live in a cold mountany country (and the last 4 - 5 days we've had around - 20°C every day) where we've mostly got both bad winters and bad summers.
We suck at football, we used to be good at women's handball but now we suck at that too, we suck at most summer sports (except for a couple of persons who know how to row a boat pretty fast and throw a spear quite far!) - so really, all we've got are the winter sports - that's what makes us proud - that's something we know how to do. Well, used to, anyway - now, obviously, we suck at that too.....
I don't really know why this seems so important to me, it must be that, well, Norway hasn't really got that much going for it. Oh, yeah, if your a foreigner you might point to the fact that because of all the oil, we're one of the richtest countries in the world - much good THAT is doing us. We can't spend any of the money because that would cause an inflation that could possibly ruin the economy of the country. So, while we in theory are the richtest country in the world, in reality: hundreds of people die in line waiting for critical treatment in hospitals, old people in nursing homes don't get the care they need and live in awful conditions (they don't get single rooms, some have to live in the hallways, they get to shower once every 2 weeks, and get their dinner served at 2 in the afternoon and are put to bed at 5 in the afternoon because there isn't enough staff to take care of them) we've got the most expensive cars in the world because of all the tax we're paying on them (they're actually about twice as expensive as they are in Sweeden), we've got the most expensive beer in the world (in Oslo you now have to pay about 9 Euros or 6 pounds for half a litre of beer), come to think of it we've actually won "the competition" of being the most expensive country in the world several times, we used to be the peace loving country that would do anything to try to negotiate between other fighting countries in the world - after the Muhammed cartoons no one would want us to do that anymore and we live in a cold mountany country (and the last 4 - 5 days we've had around - 20°C every day) where we've mostly got both bad winters and bad summers.
We suck at football, we used to be good at women's handball but now we suck at that too, we suck at most summer sports (except for a couple of persons who know how to row a boat pretty fast and throw a spear quite far!) - so really, all we've got are the winter sports - that's what makes us proud - that's something we know how to do. Well, used to, anyway - now, obviously, we suck at that too.....
posted by Lena M Bakke @ 2:47 PM
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