"Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh" (andymcbradleigh)
05/17/2014 at 04:30 • Filed to: None
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"Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh" (andymcbradleigh)
05/17/2014 at 04:30 • Filed to: None | 8
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Well, we're celebrating our !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that is.. So today there will be glorious marching in streets and waving of flags, and much eatings of pølse and iskrem and probably drinkings of a beer or four.
And since most of you really won't care about this :P Have a Norwegian car. :)
PS. Sorry about the polandball English, but on a day like this one simply must throw in a Norwegian word or two ;)
anonsagainstanonymous
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/17/2014 at 05:38 |
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Gratulerer med dagen! Hope you are having fun back in the old country!
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Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> anonsagainstanonymous
05/17/2014 at 05:44 |
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Gratulerer ja :) I just got back home after driving a russebil the whole damn night (I'm to old for this shit :P) So I'm having a beer or two before I go to bed.
wacopalypsenow
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/17/2014 at 08:34 |
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You celebrate your constitution? In America we just make vague references to the document while watching our police state trample on it.
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Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> wacopalypsenow
05/17/2014 at 08:39 |
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May the Seventeenth is a pretty fucking big deal here indeed, we're out in the streets having fun, smiling, laughing. Eating good food, shitty food.. hehe... No fireworks tho' but other than that I can't imagine it being that much different from the 4th of July?
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anonsagainstanonymous
> wacopalypsenow
05/17/2014 at 09:11 |
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We celebrate having a constitution, not the actual piece of canvas it is written on or what a group of old geezers decided to write on it 200 years ago. You're unlikely to hear a Norwegian say "It's unconstitutional" or "the constitution says" (unless it's about something obvious like censorship or basic human rights).
Reborn Pyrrhic
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/17/2014 at 16:25 |
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More on the Norwegian car, please.
Jonee
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/17/2014 at 16:52 |
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What a Troll.
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Jonee
> Reborn Pyrrhic
05/17/2014 at 16:52 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(au…
Hoccy
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/17/2014 at 17:15 |
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Hipp Hipp Hurra!
TeamProBono
> wacopalypsenow
05/17/2014 at 17:29 |
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You're always welcome to go live in the country of your choice.
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TeamProBono
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/17/2014 at 17:41 |
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July 4th is celebrated with parking rage at the beach and parks, the purchasing of new mattresses at a steep discount, purchasing cars at slight discount, purchasing everything at a slight discount, the loss of fingers and eyes wherever "personal" fireworks are legal, the gross over-consumption of BBQ'd meats, the over-consumption of alcoholic beverages (primarily weak, bad tasting American super brands), and watching BIG, professional fireworks from the best viewpoint we can find because the fireworks show is at 9 pm and we didn't leave the house until 8:30 pm and now we can't find a f@cking parking space, followed by a big log jam on the road because everybody leaves for home at the exact same time. Did I mention how much fun all of this is?
Vic-in-Norway
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/17/2014 at 18:37 |
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Jalopnik could write a whole article all about Russebils! Maybe they already have...
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wacopalypsenow
> TeamProBono
05/17/2014 at 18:46 |
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That is exactly what I'm doing. I was making a point that we don't have a day to celebrate our constitution, or even hold our government to it anymore.
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Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> Vic-in-Norway
05/17/2014 at 19:43 |
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I don't think they have, I'll try to write one next week.
RrrrrWD
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/17/2014 at 20:05 |
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Gratulerer med dagen! :) Did a little cruise through Bergen in the evening, a lot of enthusiast cars coming out to play.
Fuel_of_Satan
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/17/2014 at 20:15 |
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There's lots of van-interest on Jalopnik so I'm sure seeing this uniquely Norwegian van phenomenon will interest some people. I mean, some of them are pretty hardcore partyvans! If you do make sure you mention every aspect of these cars though, the good, the bad and not least the ugly!
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Fuel_of_Satan
> wacopalypsenow
05/17/2014 at 20:17 |
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Celebrating our freedom from the Swedes! Just imagine the horrors of being a Swede!
BrunOst
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/18/2014 at 13:16 |
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Be sure to mention the 650000kr monstrosity that burnt down on its virgin voyage in Bergen in April. Poor kids on NRK looked like they wanted to die.
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Vic-in-Norway
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/18/2014 at 15:06 |
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Be sure to include plenty of cute blonde Russ gals too!
Svein Apeland
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/18/2014 at 16:14 |
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At a local car event in the South West of Norway May 1st
Supreme Kiwi Zorro
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/18/2014 at 16:47 |
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We taught our son about this. He waved a Norwegian flag while jumping on the trampoline, hah.
thejensen
> TeamProBono
05/18/2014 at 17:47 |
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Not even trying to be a prick, but that statement always annoys me because it's just not true. I myself, along with several close friends have tried to move abroad. It's insanely difficult and complicated.
If you don't happen to be very wealthy, in many European countries it's near impossible to get a work visa as an American.
Note: because techno music.
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Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> Svein Apeland
05/18/2014 at 22:39 |
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Awesome :)
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Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> Vic-in-Norway
05/18/2014 at 22:42 |
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I've been thinking about this for a bit now, and I think I'll have to find some people that were russ this year and do an interview or something, I don't feel it'd be right to just steal pictures of the web for something like this. Russegirls don't really interest me :p but since there's a lot of young guys here I'll see what I can do.
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Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> BrunOst
05/18/2014 at 22:45 |
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I'll try to get in touch with them and ask them if it's okay if I post a few pictures of that bus, I'm also working on getting an interview with some locals where I live that has a bus worth more than 1 mill. If I' going to write an article about this I'd like to do it properly.
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Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> Fuel_of_Satan
05/18/2014 at 22:49 |
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Working on it, it may take some time to finish though. I'll include everything from the knackered old VW's via the old Chevy vans to the stupidly expensive buses.
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BrunOst
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/19/2014 at 06:46 |
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Tell me if you want pics from Stavanger.
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Vic-in-Norway
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
05/19/2014 at 10:25 |
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Don't forget the clapped out old Mercedes Estates and Volvos! I have seen just about every kind of car turned into a Russebil. Even saw a clapped out old mid 40's Ford Fordor running around last year. That one probably belonged to some kid's dad who let the kid use it before he restored it... at least I hope that or something similar was the case.
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Vic-in-Norway
> Svein Apeland
05/19/2014 at 10:27 |
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That is awesome, which show was that? I think Kvadrat seems to have the biggest mai 1 show in the Southwest of Norway, but I have to admit I am getting bored of seeing the same cars there year after year.
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Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> BrunOst
05/19/2014 at 11:05 |
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Will do, I'm having some major bandwith issues with my ISP right now, 0,2/0,2 speed at the moment, so I can't download anything now :/
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Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> BrunOst
05/19/2014 at 11:05 |
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Will do, I'm having some major bandwith issues with my ISP right now, 0,2/0,2 speed at the moment, so I can't download anything now :/