Random questions about the nordics

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I think the G line is at 50% here, so even easier! And yeah, grade system may be different in Uni, I wouldn't know.
Haven't graduated High school (Gymnasiet?) yet.

University grades are all over the place.

There's the G, VG, U version (Godkänt, Väl godkänt, Underkänt)

There's the numbered grades (3-5 for different passing grades).

There's also the ECTS grade scale which has: F, Fx, E, D, C, B, A (in that order, from lowest to highest).

In short, universities decide on their own what grades to use. :P

[Reg]

There's also the ECTS grade scale which has: F, Fx, E, D, C, B, A (in that order, from lowest to highest).

Is that like Failing with style?

[obdigore]

You ever catch yourself wondering if you're allowed to think certain girls are cute? lol

"Look at that hottie at Starbucks"

"Dude, she has braces. She's probably 16."

"...fuck."

Pretty much. The worst is when you run to the grocery store and you see like three girls walking around, one looks in her twenties, one looks in her late teens, and one could be 12... and you aren't sure if they are related or if they are all really young and you shouldn't be looking even at the older looking one or maybe the older one is a good looking mother? IM SO CONFUSED!

[Reg]

Pretty much. The worst is when you run to the grocery store and you see like three girls walking around, one looks in her twenties, one looks in her late teens, and one could be 12... and you aren't sure if they are related or if they are all really young and you shouldn't be looking even at the older looking one or maybe the older one is a good looking mother? IM SO CONFUSED!

The best is when someone catches the look on your face as you are going through all the possibilities. My girlfriend has caught me checking out girls probably more than she should, and she thinks it's hilarious when we go somewhere like the mall with the wide variety of ages of females there. She once asked me if I was diffusing a bomb in my head, so I said figuratively, that's exactly what I am doing.

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Is that like Failing with style?

I believe Fx is for when you're failing but you can still fix it by say, handing in some paper you never handed in or taking a final you missed.

[obdigore]

Fx = Failing EXTREME.
A grade reserved for the true badasses out there.



I graduate in two weeks, so not THAT young.

Anywhere between 15 and 18 from what I understand of your gymnasium system.

Which is still rather young for us elderly walking with a cane types asking these questions.

[obdigore]

16-19 for me, I turned 19 not too long ago.

19 is still a bit young. I could technically have offspring your age, so it would be creepy.

[obdigore]

Well don't turn this on me! It's not me being young, it's you being old. See, this goes both ways.
Now we're both self-conscious.

Yes but the problem is that we used to be young and so still find young people attractive, but then it gets weird.

You, from what I understand of the human condition, were not previously old and attracted to other old people.

[Beavis]

Well don't turn this on me! It's not me being young, it's you being old. See, this goes both ways.
Now we're both self-conscious.

We were here first. Your fault.

[obdigore]

Dear Diary,

Today in the Nordics thread I learned that Swedish Teenage Girls love older men!


No but seriously, a 10 year difference isn't bad once you are both over 25 or so, there is just so much growing up/maturing that happens before that...

[Reg]

I graduate in two weeks, so not THAT young.

Dang whippersnappers...

Even though I am only 7 years older, the points we are in our lives makes me old and you young lol

[Catta]

I don't think that's a Swedish thing exclusively.

Hey babe - im ½ a year older than you

[Reg]

Dear Diary,

Today in the Nordics thread I learned that Swedish Teenage Girls love older men!


No but seriously, a 10 year difference isn't bad once you are both over 25 or so, there is just so much growing up/maturing that happens before that...

Right now I find it really hard dating women younger than me. I think I've just bumped myself up to the next bracket.

[Reg]

Yes, but you're a dane. You know how my father feels about race mixing.

The wrong shade of pale?

[obdigore]

The wrong shade of pale?

Too few freckles, and two few horns to be a proper Swedish man, obviously.

[obdigore]

Our kids would be terrible at football, hockey and skiing.

You don't play real football anyway. Hockey is the best sport in the world though.

[Temp name]

The wrong shade of pale?

lol, nice one.. but to be fair danes and swedes dont really like each other and i can't figure out why.. maybe it's something to do with how many times those damn swedes have beat us in war! or the other way around..

[Catta]

The wrong shade of pale?

part norwegian, part danish and a swede get a child... The childs reflection would make the moon fall out of orbit

[Reg]

part norwegian, part danish and a swede get a child... The childs reflection would make the moon fall out of orbit

Poor Nords ; ; So close, yet so far.. lol

[Jackmoves]

I don't think Heidi is a Swedish name. It doesn't sound very Swedish. German, possibly? I really don't know.
Here's the top 20 most common names by gender. The number within the parenthesis is how many have that name.


Female names ♀

1 Maria (444599)
2 Anna (302591)
3 Margareta (248121)
4 Elisabeth (202428)
5 Eva (191582)
6 Birgitta (174090)
7 Kristina (172777)
8 Karin (161690)
9 Elisabet (147347)
10 Marie (125172)
11 Ingrid (120026)
12 Christina (104093)
13 Linnéa (94185)
14 Marianne (90923)
15 Kerstin (90192)
16 Sofia (88931)
17 Lena (82990)
18 Helena (82618)
19 Inger (75537)
20 Johanna (71405)


Male names ♂

1 Erik (301629)
2 Lars (234598)
3 Karl (208694)
4 Anders (191889)
5 Johan (173062)
6 Per (167921)
7 Nils (138106)
8 Jan (129609)
9 Lennart (128611)
10 Mikael (127234)
11 Carl (126981)
12 Hans (122034)
13 Olof (117505)
14 Gunnar (115321)
15 Peter (112459)
16 Sven (112232)
17 Bengt (98648)
18 Fredrik (95282)
19 Bo (89882)
20 Åke (87692)

Reading that list... we got too many old people in this country seriously. :P

Top 20, for new borns 2011 is a bit different.

Girls
1 Alice 985 0
2 Maja 743 0
3 Julia 723 0
3 Elsa 723 0
5 Linnéa 720 0
6 Ella 712 0
7 Ebba 683 0
8 Molly 675 0
9 Wilma 657 0
10 Emma 641 0
11 Nellie 633 0
12 Alva 618 0
13 Isabelle 597 0
14 Olivia 578 0
15 Agnes 571 0
16 Klara 567 0
17 Elin 514 0
18 Emilia 511 0
19 Freja 506 0
20 Ellen 503 0

Boys
1 William 1035 0
2 Lucas 973 0
3 Oscar 957 0
4 Hugo 863 0
5 Elias 837 0
6 Oliver 758 0
7 Liam 748 0
8 Alexander 740 0
9 Viktor 731 0
10 Emil 700 0
11 Axel 685 0
12 Anton 655 0
13 Erik 649 0
14 Leo 642 0
15 Filip 614 0
16 Vincent 610 0
17 Olle 602 0
18 Arvid 566 0
19 Ludvig 565 0
19 Theo 565 0

I think the G line is at 50% here, so even easier! And yeah, grade system may be different in Uni, I wouldn't know.

Every university can choose which system they use, GU(gothenburg uni) still use IG-MVG, they don't use that system in Stockholm though to my knowledge... for example.

edit: a mludd had already written that. :P

lol, nice one.. but to be fair danes and swedes dont really like each other and i can't figure out why.. maybe it's something to do with how many times those damn swedes have beat us in war! or the other way around..

Stockholm bloodbath and the visby massacre, we will never forget!