"Still not over the American woman who was super surprised to see so many men walking around with strollers and generally looking after their children alone during her travels through the Nordic countries."

Bolognese sauce: https://satwcomic.com/the-implication-of-that

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[–] 114 points 4 months ago (1 child)

SATW always portrays Finland with a knife, so it’s more of an inside joke and not related to this specific comic strip.

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    All scandinavians has those (fjΓ€llkniv, morakniv,...) but the finnish are portrayed, in Scandinavia, as the most isolated/laconic people,the most "manly" ones, hence the knife. Swedes were portrayed as the gayest in the nineties at least (very "woke"), and so on. It's just cultural stereotypes.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Swedes were portrayed as the gayest in the nineties at least (very "woke"), and so on.

    Also because the way their version of the "Scandinavian language" is very flamboyant

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Thanks for these insights, TIL.

    ...I want a Scandinavian boyfriend now, these knives are really nice!

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    When you go into the outdoors don't you have knives too? I don't know how to do anything without one

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not much of an outdoors person myself however I do own two foldable knives. Indoors I tend to use kitchen knives and the retractable blades sorts which is actually stationery but yes we agree blades are incredibly useful

    However having said that easily half the people I know don't own any blades that cut, not even in their kitchens.

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