"Fuck it, maybe we'd rather be Norway than deal with this shit."
On the street in Orkney people come up and say to me when are we going to pay back the dowry, when are we going back to Norway
Folks, more and more people are saying it, when are we gonna pay back the dowry, when are we going back to norway
I'd laugh so hard if future history books regard Orkney as triggering the dissolution of the United Kingdom.
The Scots will never live it down if that happened.
Pretty sure Faroe gets a raw deal, but I guess many things are better than being an abandoned part of the decaying UK.
Those are Danish, not Norwegian. Norway only has a couple of islands, with Svalbard being the main one I think. Denmark has 2 actual colonies in the atlantic that we do horrific shit to.
Thank you for correcting me, sorry I mixed up distinct peoples.
I don’t know much about the differences between Norway and Denmark. Is there hope that this would actually be a good move and Norway would be chill? For my frame of reference: I’ve seen Lillehammer. That’s all I know.
I think this is mostly political grandstanding and people in abandonned communities trying to get the central government to notice them. However there is a decent chance that if the Orkneys somehow get absorbed into Norway proper, that they will be treated decently, since Norway doesn't really have the same colonial past that Denmark does, and was themselves pretty much considered a ressource colony up until their independence.
I’m like 80% sure they fought a war over that distinction at some point.
when are we going to pay back the dowry, when are we going back to Norway
WHAT FUCKING DOWRY WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE. WHO would you pay this to? the danish royal family, since it was Denmark-Norway at the time? or the Norwegians? or do the Norwegians need to pay the English Crown, now possessed by a completely different family?
fucking monarchist brain rot, completely terminal
Pretty sure they're just looking for any excuse they can to not get Brexit-ed.
even if it were so innocent as looking for a loophole the UK's soverignty & the possessions of its royal family are separate things these days so it's a feeble suggestion
finally a community about europe that isn't an echo chamber like the one on feddit.de. people are full of themselves out there
i see. at least things can be observed from another angle this way. i thought americans thought they are the sole inhabitants of Earth, but this changes my mind too.
If you want diversity of voices, the news mega has quite a few prolific posters that are from other parts of the globe.
