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[14:55.45] <+Falcon> damn long phone call =P
[14:55.49] <+Falcon> Hi john_cons
[14:56.57] lol i got distracted
[14:57.16] <+Falcon> In a clean way I hope!!
[15:00.01] o0h yes kid came round and i ended up spending money lol
[15:00.52] <+Falcon> haha
[15:00.58] <+Falcon> I have that same issue with spending money
[15:01.08] <+Falcon> thankfully no kids that I know of!
[15:01.18] lol
[15:01.34] money melts these days
[15:05.15] <+Falcon> It sure does
[15:05.24] <+Falcon> I have had to start cancelling things no
[15:05.26] <+Falcon> w
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[15:07.02] yeah ive pulled the belt tighter
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[15:08.25] hi there
[15:08.28] what up
[15:10.07] <+Falcon> Good plan cuddz!
[15:10.18] <+Falcon> just chilling john_cons
[15:10.25] <+Falcon> waiting for the weekend to arrive
[15:10.49] ok, i’ve been on a ferry-cruise to denmark (from here in norway)
[15:11.12] these ferries have very inexpensive liquer compared to norway
[15:11.18] (tax-free)
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[15:11.31] one liter famous grouse whiskey is about 100 DKK
[15:11.40] thats about 160 NOK
[15:11.48] and 12 quid, i guess
[15:13.23] in norway we have vinmonopolet (gouvernment liquer-store)
[15:13.52] and there this bottle cost 564 NOK
[15:15.38] so it was 400 NOK less expensive on the ferry (earlier DFDS, now Go Nordic/Gotlandsbolaget, who are swedish)
[15:19.11] i’m a quarter danish (my mothers mother was born in denmark)
[15:19.43] <+Falcon> Cool
[15:19.56] <+Falcon> So you speak all 3 languages?
[15:20.35] and i’ve done some geneaolgy, and it turns out my great-great-great-grandfater l. c. nyholm rented to ulyses s. grants’ brother in law (embassador cramer) etc
[15:20.48] well danish and norwegian are quite similar languages
[15:21.31] norway were under danish rule for 400 years, and the danes made our language quite similar to theres (written ‘bokmål’ aka. riksmål)
[15:22.09] but it’s almost imposible to understand talken danish sometimes (they try to speak the french or something)
[15:22.17] like
[15:23.25] my ancestor owned a property near the royal castle-area (amaliegade 22) in copenhagen
[15:23.37] and i was there yesterday and had a look
[15:25.00] and across the street (from amaliegade 22) it was a very big italian flag on ‘halv stang’ like we say, only halvway to the top of the flag-pole
[15:25.38] so i guess it must have the italian empassy (in greef because of the dead pope)
[15:26.00] been
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[15:29.01] or e.g. the vatican consulate
[15:31.37] (on the corner of amaliegade and fredericiagade)
[15:32.36] could be the italian embassadors residence
[15:33.03] they use to flag with an american flag there (on the same building) when the danish king died
[15:33.49] and my great-great-grandfather anders gjedde nyholm was ‘københavns kommandant’ (commander of copenhagen) and led the ‘grief-parade’
[16:04.16] it’s a saying in norway, that the danes talk with half a potato down their throath
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[16:08.46] i found something about this: ‘Sørlendingar bur nesten ved sida av Danmark, så dei har sokalla ‘blaude konsonande’ og snakkar med ein halv potet i halsen, mens danskane snakkar med ein heil potet i halsen.»
[16:09.55] translates to: south-norwegians live almost next to denmark, and have so-called ‘soft consonantes’ og speak with half a potato down their throat, while the danes talk with a whole potato down their throat
[16:10.23] +https://www.trafo.no/v52793-Nynorsk-blant-elevane-Nynorsk-blant-elevane?filter=authored&ordering=latest,
[16:12.34] i guess this was something norwegians would say more often in the 1970’s 80’s etc., but due to the eu/eea etc., then people perhaps try to calm the differences down a bit
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[16:41.17] +https://flic.kr/p/2qZQ13B,
[16:41.48] the pink buidling (amaliegade 22) was owned by my great-great-great-grandfather l. c. nyholm
[16:42.07] it’s possibly pink because a danish princess (thyra) later lived there
[16:42.28] and accross the street a big italian flag (in denmark/copenhagen) hm
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[17:14.06] translates to: south-norwegians live almost next to denmark, and have so-called ‘soft consonantes’ and speak with half a potato down their throat, while the danes talk with a whole potato down their throat
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[22:01.56] john_cons with who you talking ?
[22:02.19] 16:14]
[22:02.22] ohhh sry
[22:02.25] was afternoon
[22:04.48] with you SoSo 😉
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[22:56.06] [15:19.43] <+Falcon> Cool
[22:56.06] [15:19.56] <+Falcon> So you speak all 3 languages?
[22:56.19] i also speak a bit german and a bit french
[22:56.49] but not from school (i’ve mostly studied IT etc) but from holidays etc
[22:57.33] and norwegian is really two languages (bokmål and nynorsk) so i’ve also learned nynorsk at school
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[22:58.20] and i’ve worked at Arvato Liverpool on behalf of microsoft answering calls from denmark, sweden, norway, iceland, finland and israel(!)
[22:58.46] people wanting to activate windows over the phone (in 2005 and 2006)
PS.
Her er mer om dette:

PS 2.
Noen ganger når jeg drar med danskebåten.
Så har jeg bare råd til å dra til tax free-butikken, men ikke råd til å dra i nattklubben.
Og så har jeg nettopp funnet ut, at min tidligere bekjente Glenn ‘Kazuya’ Hesler vant en konkurranse i et datablad en gang (på begynnelsen av 90-tallet, like etter at han hadde vært i en skummel mopedulykke, som han fikk mange hundre tusen i erstatning etter).
Og han jobber nå som blikkenslager, i sin onkel sitt firma.
(Etter å ha sprøytet mye penger inn.
I min tremenning Øystein ‘Koreagutten’ Andersen sitt spilleautomat-firma.
Action Arcade (noen år seinere på 90-tallet)).
Og så tenkte jeg, at det har jo vært så mye fremskritt i det siste.
Til og med Ruter har biler/busser som kjører av seg selv.
Kineserne har lagd roboter som løper maraton.
Og vi har fått AI/ChatGTP.
Og amerikanske milliardærer planlegger å kolonisere Mars (og Katy Perry har vært i verdensrommet).
Og droner har delvis tatt over, for infanterister/soldater, når det gjelder krigføring.
Så hva med en blikkenslager-robot.
Det må vel bli det neste.
(Tenkte jeg).
Kanskje Glenn og onkelen (om noen år) får seg blikkenslager-roboten Glenda (som er veldig beta).
Og så tenkte jeg på hva som ville skje da.
Og jeg gidder ikke å tegne disse tegneseriene.
Men den første var sånn, at Glenn og onkelen snakka sammen.
Og så sa Glenn sin onkel (som er eieren av firmaet) at: ‘Glenda har bestilt tusen kilo gull, for den hadde lært av ChatGTP at det er et kjempebra materiale’.
Og så sier Glenn sin bekjente Tom Gulbrandsen (en Kiwi-butikkleder, som av en eller annen grunn var innom) mens han kikka i en avis (eller så på en tablet) at: ‘Glenda er et geni, gullprisen har økt med tolv prosent siden forrige uke, vi er millionærer’.
Og så sier Glenn sin onkel at da spanderer han all-inclusive-tur til Vegas på alle de ansatte.
Og så høres det et brak.
Og sier en av de, at Glenda hadde lært av ChatGTP, at pyramiden er den mest robuste strukturen.
Så taket hadde falt ned, på grunn av det ikke tålte vekten av alle gull-pyramidene.
Og så sier onkelen til Glenn, at da blir det ikke noe ferie de neste ti årene.
Og så river de istykker masse ferie/reise-magasiner mens de griner, da.
(For å si det sånn).
Så sånn var det.
Bare noe jeg tenkte på.
Med hilsen
Erik Ribsskog
PS 3.
Den andre tegneserien.
Den var sånn.
At onkelen til Glenn ringer Glenda.
Og så sier han: ‘Du skulle ikke kjøre til Kjeller i Vestland fylke, men til Kjeller på Romerike’.
Du har sløst bort lønningskronene våre på bensin.
(Noe sånt).
Så sånn var det.
Bare noe jeg tenkte på.
Men men.
PS 4.
Den tredje tegneserien, den var sånn.
At Glenda har falt ned fra taket.
Og så ringer Glenn sin onkel (eller mor) til en drone-fabrikk i Ukraina.
Og så spør de om de har tid til å fikse Glenda.
Og så lurer Ukraina-folka på om det er noe viktig, for de driver og kriger mot Putin, osv.
Og så sier Glenn sin mor, at Glenn driver og ‘binger’ alle sine favoritt-serier på Netflix (de neste ukene) og at de må komme med en gang (og fikse Glenda) for onkelen trenger hjelp med å få unna alt arbeidet.
(Noe sånt).
Så sånn var det.
Bare noe jeg tenkte på.
Men men.