February 14, 2012
Published: 28 Dec 09 08:02 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
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Five chilled and hungry Afghan teenagers stumbled into a southern Swedish town on Christmas Eve after being left by smugglers in a deserted stretch of forest days earlier, a priest who had taken them in said Sunday.
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Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.
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In any event, they are no asset to Sweden and maybe somebody can tell us how do the other Millions of Afghanis manage who stay in their own country ??
its thesame everywhere wether its a swede or any other person...so i prefer not to judge them.
Osokin: Thanks for making me laugh for the first time today.
They will be giving refugee status, a place to live and approximately 1200 Euros a month in cash money. A few months down the road an overweight 40 year old hairy Swedish broad working at the absorption centre will fall in love with one of the guys, leave her boring ass husband and retarded looking kids; marry him and open a pizzeria in Dalarna.
No way the second guy in is a teenager. The others might be older teenagers though.
@insect Afghanistan has many different ethnic groups so to say they don't look "afghani" doesn't really make sense. The largest asien-looking ethnic group in Afghanistan are the Hazaras. Google it. :)
You´re a friggin idiot.
LOL.. You hate to hear the truth mon pote... ;-)
Looks like naughty peropaco hit close to home. How dare he tell the truth! Sorry mate. truth hates, but hey don't take it personal. I am sure he does not know you, which means the incisive truth was not directed at you!
Wait until the truth is known before jumping to hare-brained conclusions and condemnations.
Lynch-mobs are the provenance of The Deep South Dixie America.
I agree that 1, 2, and 5 look like they're in their 20s. I guess saying you're really young will help the cause..?
It is well known that a non-retentive anus spouts forth nothing of substance.
You've noticed this to eh?
The posted earlier comment about the "boy band" had me rolling on the floor however.:-)
All of the intolerance and xenophobia expressed here is quite perplexing. Once, it used to be balanced out by more level headed posters, but they seem to have abandoned this web site in increasing numbers. For good reasons it seems, and all we have left is the peropcos and Davey Joes of the cyber world. The Jack Spratts and Holeycutters at least have a sense of humour when they bash Sweden, not so with these bozos.
I wonder specifically about this poster peropoco and his capacity for hatred. It ought to be clear to everyone who´s read more than a few of his posts that his hatred for Sweden appears to stem from something that is more of a mental disorder. Anybody with a need to express hatred to such a degree must suffer from low self esteem and a general dislike for himself. You don't really need a PhD in psychology to realize that.
Let me venture a guess: he probably spent a year or two in Sweden, failed to get a job, failed to get a Swedish girl friend, which of course causes him to lash out against his main competition, that is, Swedish men, and Sweden and everything Swedish in general. So he returns to the home country with a new found hatred, a scapegoat on which he can blame all of his own failings and insecurities in life on. Then all he needs is a computer and access to the Internet.
But really, as I wrote, to be like him and to express the things that he does, can only have it's roots in a deep dislike of oneself and disappointment in how one's own life has turned out.
One thing I've also found out though, during my many years of Internet usage is that posters like him all eventually get banned from their respective web sites, it never fails, because the moderators eventually have had it with them.
We used to have a real lunatic positing here on the local a while back, who wrote in a similar fashion, B.N.W. With him it was one endless tirade of hate mongering. But at least, as Mzungu once pointed out, he was much more imaginative and entertaining than this guy, head case that he was. We haven´t heard from him since he was last banned from the site.
Again, and more generally, the hate mongering and general xenophobia and intolerance of a whole slew of the posters here - all of them young, frustrated males, of course (you don't need to be Sigmund Freud to detect that) - is quite surprising.
*applause*
Interesting claims that you make
(1) "…failed to get a Swedish girl friend"? Really? Is there such a person out there? Is it really possible to fail to get a Swedish girlfriend? Never heard of it. If you get out into the world, you will find that the reputation of Swedish girls as easy is huge. That explains why Russian blonds alweays make it clear they are not Swedish before men have ideas.
(2) "…his main competition, that is, Swedish men". Ha ha ha! Fancy having a Swedish man as competition to get a Swedish girl! You mean the competition that is so strong that it scampers all the way to Thailand to find "love"?
This is exactly the type of ranting that I was talking about in my earlier post.
Thanks.
Truth really hurts. Sorry for the low blow!
LOL,. you are cracking me up girlfriend.. ! Failed to get a Swedish girlfriend? LOL.. Swedish men competition..LOL are you for real? Swedish men are like horses.. they only speak when they are drunk.. Swedish girls are too easy to bang which make it a no brainer...Like shooting fish in a barrel. You may be right in one thing with regards to Swedish men, they are the masters of sodomizing young Thai boys...
Im sorry, don't chop off my head. Now I know. Thank you.
Responses such as this one here speak for themselves and really only corroborate what I wrote in my earlier post. i.e, first they attack Swedish men because they´re the main competition for the attention that they seek from Swedish women. Then when that doesn´t suffice, they attack Swedish women, because as everybody knows you hate what you want but can never get.
And of course the main argument to debunk my claim is apparently the word: "LOL", which gets repeated over and over.
"You hate what you want but can never get". Swedish girls? Which planet are you on, mate? Look here, you do not need a Swedish girlfriend to find out for yourself. Ask around, or better still observe. Swedish man real competition? In getting women? I would have laughing if this wasn't a pathetic of righteous indignation.
You keep on whining about "what I wrote in my earlier post". A pathetic attempt at self referencing. What are you really saying in this arid and tedious monologue that you are trying so valiantly to elevate into a masterpiece?
Obviously you have difficulties with reading comprehension. But anyway, since I have to repeat my arguments, here we go:
Sample a:
"All of the intolerance and xenophobia expressed here is quite perplexing. Once, it used to be balanced out by more level headed posters, but they seem to have abandoned this web site in increasing numbers."
What is difficult for you to understand here?
If I have to translate it for you into something that you will actually understand, then what I'm trying to say is that many of the posters here on the local are hate mongering idiots who have nothing more to do with there lives than to sit by the computer and try to slander the entire population base in an entire country .
Sample b.
"But really, as I wrote, to be like him and to express the things that he does, can only have it's roots in a deep dislike of oneself and disappointment in how one's own life has turned out."
Again, what's difficult for you to understand here? well then here we go: there's no question in my mind that many of the posters on here, who get a kick out of bad mouthing the people of an entire nation on very dubious grounds really suffer from a deeply seated inferiority complex and my guess is also that the ones who most complain and make generalisations about Swedish women for instance have never even known one.
Your sentence: "you do not need a Swedish girlfriend to find out for yourself," was quite revealing. And to say that all Swedish women are "easy" as you keep repeating is nothing but pure slander, in the same manner that it is slanderous that Sweden is the country with the most suicides in the world, something that is not in anyway based in actual facts, yet is being claimed to death but the usual assortment of Sweden bashers on here. The Swedish women I know are not in the least bit promiscuous or "easy," but I guess you know better, huh?
sample c.
"Again, and more generally, the hate mongering and general xenophobia and intolerance of a whole slew of the posters here - all of them young, frustrated males, of course."
My point here is that the posters who spread this kind of stuff really are rather interchangeable, all young males with chips on their shoulders with a incessant need to indulge in intolerance, slander and xenophobia. This is really not just something that pertains comments about Sweden, but their posting in general, as concerns refugees for example.
Did you understand this time what I was trying to say or do I have to draw pictures for you?
Where is Viking Warrior ? I need him to point some more benefits of diversity.
This is exactly the type of blasphemous crap that time and again gets posted on this web site by people who have all of the answers about the Swedes and what they are like. And the moderators let them get away with it.
I'm not sure where this fellow comes from, but judging from how he writes and the words he uses I would guess England - which would explain a few things -. I seriously doubt that he's ever spent much time in Sweden, however.
He's probably seen the behaviour of a few Swedish women and then he bases his opinion of an entire female population in an entire country on his own prejudiced view.
You´re a friggin idiot. ""
I must disagree, as well as the comment about starting a Boy Band, this made me laugh and there is a grain of truth in the comment as well.
What you have to be looking at is why did they get to Sweden ??
If they get cash money every month then they will be forced to send a large percentage of this money back to the people who organized their trip to Sweden.
If they get to be made Swedish then of course they will have the right to marry somebody from their village and bring her to Sweden, and her Mother and Father, and their Brothers and Sisters and before you know it there is a whole clan of people all getting cash money every month and all sending a percentage back to the organizers.
A British Newspaper did some research on a so-called Asylum Seeker who got the right to stay in Britain, he got a British Passport as well, so this guy brought his Family over, all 38 of them ! none spoke English, none of them could get a job and the State ended up paying for them and many more like them which is why the Social Security costs in Britain are approaching 200 Billion Pounds every year.
This is more than Defence and the NHS costs combined !!
If you really want a massive Burden for you and your children to bear, then OK, let these guys stay, let their buddies come over and the buddies of their buddies, entire villages in fact ! but be prepared to pay massive Taxes all your working lives and your Children to pay massive Taxes all their working lives !!
Wow! I have discovered my very own pet dingbat: Spews up incomprehensible verbiage, grunts in self admiration, demands that the world admire the verbal sewage, and having failed to get admirers, frustratingly re-ingests the vomit, chews it, spews it up again in a altered, more bizarre concoction, and forces people to try and understand the imbecilic ritual. Really, I would have laughed if this performance wasn't so pathetic.
"Spews up incomprehensible verbiage, grunts in self admiration, demands that the world admire the verbal sewage, and having failed to get admirers, frustratingly re-ingests the vomit, chews it, spews it up again in a altered, more bizarre concoction, and forces people to try and understand the imbecilic ritual."
There you go writing about yourself again!
I suspect that idiots like you who just suddenly appear on The Local arrived here by doing a search for "Swedish Blonds" and are really looking for sex sites.
Sorry to let you down, but you came to the wrong place so why not go away and play with yourself!
Yes we can shoot a few more trolls before the year is out!
have a good one
Rick
Another dingbat in the house! Another pathetic performance. The cycle restarts. Again.
I agree that 1, 2, and 5 look like they're in their 20s. I guess saying you're really young will help the cause..? ""
Once you let one stay, just one is all it takes !! then the people smugglers know they can do business and there will be many more @ $5,000 a go.
I pity the immigrants but I blame the Politicians who haven't the guts to come out and explain just what their policy is regarding Illegals and Immigrants.
We don't like trolls like you who appear and spout a whole pile of crap about things that they know nothing about.
In your case it is obvious that you know nothing about nothing
How wonderful Sweden is!!!