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1. You rummage through your plastic bag collection to see which ones you can keep to take to the shop and which ones can be sacrificed for rubbish.
2. You no longer snigger when you see grown women walking around with their hair in plaits.
3. The first thing you do upon entering a bank/post office/chemist etc. is to look for the queue number machine.
4. You accept that you will have to queue to take a queue number.
5. When a stranger on the street smiles at you, you assume:
a: he is drunk
b: he is insane
c: he's an American
6. You don't think twice about putting the wet dishes away in the cupboard to dry.
7. A friend asks about your holiday plans and you answer "Oh, I'm going to Europe!" meaning any other Western European country outside of Sweden.
8. You no longer crunch up or fold your paper money. You always put your money in your wallet.
9. You see a student taking a front row seat on the bus and wonder "Who does he think he is?"
10. Silence is fun.
11. The reason you take the ferry to Finland is:
a: duty free vodka
b: duty free beer
c: to party hearty...no need to get off the boat in Helsinki, just turn around and do it again on the way back to Sweden.
12. Your coffee consumption exceeds 6 cups a day and coffee is too weak if there is less than 10 scoops per pot.
13. You pass a supermarket and think "Wow, it is open, I had better go in an buy something!"
14. A sharp intake of breath has become part of your vocabulary, as has the sound "Jah hahh"
15. Your native language has seriously deteriorated, now you begin to "eat medicine", "open the television", "close the lights off", "take a beer", "look upon everything" and tell someone to "follow with me" or "you needn't to!" You start to say "for 2 years ago" and expressions like "Don't panic" creep into your everyday language.
16. You associate pea soup with Thursday.
17. Your idea of unforgivable behaviour now includes walking across the street when the light is red and there is no WALK symbol, even though there are no cars in sight.
18. Your notion of street life is reduced to the few teenagers hanging out in front of the railway station on Friday nights.
19. Your bad mood becomes your good mood.
20. Sundays no longer seem dull with all the shops closed, and begin to feel restful instead.
21. "No comment" becomes a conversation strategy.
22. You have only two facial expressions – smiling or blank. Also your arms are just hanging down when you chat with other people.
23. The fact that all of the "v's" and the "w's" are together in the phone directory seems right.
24. Your old habit of being "fashionably late" is no longer acceptable. You are always on time.
25. Hugging is reserved for sexual foreplay
26. You begin to understand Johan Tornberg's broadcast of the hockey game.
27. You refuse to wear a hat, even in minus 20 degree weather.
28. You hear loud-talking passengers on the train. You immediately assume:
a: they are drunk
b: they are Finnish
c: they are American
d: all of the above
29. You give up on trying to find fat-free food and pile on the butter, cream and sugar.
30. You know how to fix herring in 105 different ways.
31. You eat herring in 105 ways.
32. You no longer look at sports pants as casual wear, but recognise them as semi-formal wear.
33. Your front step is beginning to resemble a shoe shop.
34. You are no longer scared of Volvos and Volvo drivers
35. You have undergone a transformation:
a: you accept blodkorv as food
b: you accept surströmming as food
c: you accept alcohol as food
d: you accept
36. You can actually drink the coffee.
37. You no longer have to search for the flushing mechanism.
38. You no longer see any problem wearing white socks with sandals.
39. Indoors you wear sandals with socks, regardless of the season.
40. You no longer correct people who say MAC Donald's.
41. You just love Jaffa.
42. You've come to expect Sunday morning sidewalk vomit dodging.
43. You know that "religious holiday" means "let's get pissed."
44. You enjoy the taste of surströmming and lutfisk.
45. You know that "men's public bathroom" is another phrase for footpath.
46. You know that more than three channels means cable.
47. You get all the Finnish and Norwegians jokes.
48. When you're hungry you can peel a boiled potato like lightning.
49. You eat jam with savoury dishes
50. You've become lactose intolerant.
51. You accept that 80 degrees C in a sauna is chilly, but 20 degrees C outside is freaking hot.
52. An outside temperature of 5 degrees C is mild.
53. It no longer seems excessive to spend 1,000kr on alcohol in a single night
54. When someone asks for "three cheers" you say "hoorah, hoorah, hoorah, hoorah!"
55. You think that riding a bicycle in the snow is a perfectly sensible thing to do.
56. You have conversations with people outside when it is –10C.
57. Having to book seat numbers at a cinema makes perfect sense. And you sit in your booked seat even if there are only 2 other people there and your seat is in the front row, on the side.
58. You regard it as sensible to eat ice cream when it is –15C.
59. You regard it as sensible that the ice cream van comes around playing that annoying song when it is -15C.
60. Someone calls you a "good moron" first thing in the morning and you smile acknowledgement.
61. It's acceptable to eat lunch at 11.00.
62. Julmust starts to taste good.
63. You associate Friday afternoon with a trip to systembolaget.
64. You think nothing of paying $50 for a bottle of 'cheap' spirits at systembolaget
65. You know all of the "telephone times" by heart.
66. It seems sensible that the age limit at Stockholm night clubs is 25.
67. You actually care who wins 'Expedition: Robinson'
68. You have your own innebandy club.
69. You find yourself debating the politics of the social democrats.
70. You use 'mmmm' as a conversation filler.
71. You have only two facial expressions, smiling or blank.
72. You think it's more fun to stay at home and drink then go out.
73. You wear warm clothing when it's 25 degrees plus in April - because it's April.
74. You wear shorts and t-shirt when it's barely 10 degrees in July - because it's July.
75. You get extremely annoyed when the bus is two minutes late.
76. You think women are more than equal than men and deserve to have better positions in the work place.
77. Your wife watches TV while you look after the kids.
78. You become a punctuality freak and dump your friends for being late more than once.
79. You spend the week's entertainment budget on a pack of cigarettes and a drink in Gamla Stan.
80. When a stranger asks you a question in the streets, you think it's normal to just keep walking, saying nothing.
81. You've been engaged for four years and don't have any plans to get married.
82. Americans start to look entertaining, witty and fun, and you just want to go to the U.S.A., travelling across country on a greyhound, because it's "romantic."
83. You and your friends know exactly the same information, and have the same attitudes and beliefs in the value of Social Democracy.
84. You lose any artistic talent whatsoever.
85. You think that if you smoke a joint you will wind up in an insane asylum. [or become a habitual criminal]
86. You jot down 'fisk fingrar' on your shopping list.
87. You no longer look for Vegemite on supermarket shelves, even if it's your first time in that particular shop.
90. You think black rimmed glasses are cool. Your wardrobe now consists of 20 different shades of black and grey.
89. You stop explaining to people what Christmas Crackers are and accept that they aren't - at least in Sweden
88. You have an uncontrollable urge to mail this list and point out the numbering is incorrect!
91. It doesn't feel like lunch unless it's a hot, full course meal drenched in gravy.
92. You eat unlimited amounts of sausage products without worrying about your nitrate intake.
93. You think that an unripe wedge of tomato on a limp leaf of iceberg lettuce can be called a salad.
94. You don't question the concept of 'telephone time'. It seems reasonable that no business can be conducted on Friday afternoons. [or the entire month of July]
95. You assume that anyone who apologises after bumping into you is a tourist.
96. You feel discomfort if you can't find the nummerlap machine.
97. You reach for your pocket 20 times a day as mobile phones ring all around you.
98. You actually care if your mobile phone meets the fashion standard - and so do your new Swedish friends.
99. It seems reasonable that even those begging for money at T-centralen reach for their pocket as the melodic music of the Swedish mobile phone resounds.
100. You get into a Mercedes taxi cab and think nothing of it.
2. You no longer snigger when you see grown women walking around with their hair in plaits.
3. The first thing you do upon entering a bank/post office/chemist etc. is to look for the queue number machine.
4. You accept that you will have to queue to take a queue number.
5. When a stranger on the street smiles at you, you assume:
a: he is drunk
b: he is insane
c: he's an American
6. You don't think twice about putting the wet dishes away in the cupboard to dry.
7. A friend asks about your holiday plans and you answer "Oh, I'm going to Europe!" meaning any other Western European country outside of Sweden.
8. You no longer crunch up or fold your paper money. You always put your money in your wallet.
9. You see a student taking a front row seat on the bus and wonder "Who does he think he is?"
10. Silence is fun.
11. The reason you take the ferry to Finland is:
a: duty free vodka
b: duty free beer
c: to party hearty...no need to get off the boat in Helsinki, just turn around and do it again on the way back to Sweden.
12. Your coffee consumption exceeds 6 cups a day and coffee is too weak if there is less than 10 scoops per pot.
13. You pass a supermarket and think "Wow, it is open, I had better go in an buy something!"
14. A sharp intake of breath has become part of your vocabulary, as has the sound "Jah hahh"
15. Your native language has seriously deteriorated, now you begin to "eat medicine", "open the television", "close the lights off", "take a beer", "look upon everything" and tell someone to "follow with me" or "you needn't to!" You start to say "for 2 years ago" and expressions like "Don't panic" creep into your everyday language.
16. You associate pea soup with Thursday.
17. Your idea of unforgivable behaviour now includes walking across the street when the light is red and there is no WALK symbol, even though there are no cars in sight.
18. Your notion of street life is reduced to the few teenagers hanging out in front of the railway station on Friday nights.
19. Your bad mood becomes your good mood.
20. Sundays no longer seem dull with all the shops closed, and begin to feel restful instead.
21. "No comment" becomes a conversation strategy.
22. You have only two facial expressions – smiling or blank. Also your arms are just hanging down when you chat with other people.
23. The fact that all of the "v's" and the "w's" are together in the phone directory seems right.
24. Your old habit of being "fashionably late" is no longer acceptable. You are always on time.
25. Hugging is reserved for sexual foreplay
26. You begin to understand Johan Tornberg's broadcast of the hockey game.
27. You refuse to wear a hat, even in minus 20 degree weather.
28. You hear loud-talking passengers on the train. You immediately assume:
a: they are drunk
b: they are Finnish
c: they are American
d: all of the above
29. You give up on trying to find fat-free food and pile on the butter, cream and sugar.
30. You know how to fix herring in 105 different ways.
31. You eat herring in 105 ways.
32. You no longer look at sports pants as casual wear, but recognise them as semi-formal wear.
33. Your front step is beginning to resemble a shoe shop.
34. You are no longer scared of Volvos and Volvo drivers
35. You have undergone a transformation:
a: you accept blodkorv as food
b: you accept surströmming as food
c: you accept alcohol as food
d: you accept
36. You can actually drink the coffee.
37. You no longer have to search for the flushing mechanism.
38. You no longer see any problem wearing white socks with sandals.
39. Indoors you wear sandals with socks, regardless of the season.
40. You no longer correct people who say MAC Donald's.
41. You just love Jaffa.
42. You've come to expect Sunday morning sidewalk vomit dodging.
43. You know that "religious holiday" means "let's get pissed."
44. You enjoy the taste of surströmming and lutfisk.
45. You know that "men's public bathroom" is another phrase for footpath.
46. You know that more than three channels means cable.
47. You get all the Finnish and Norwegians jokes.
48. When you're hungry you can peel a boiled potato like lightning.
49. You eat jam with savoury dishes
50. You've become lactose intolerant.
51. You accept that 80 degrees C in a sauna is chilly, but 20 degrees C outside is freaking hot.
52. An outside temperature of 5 degrees C is mild.
53. It no longer seems excessive to spend 1,000kr on alcohol in a single night
54. When someone asks for "three cheers" you say "hoorah, hoorah, hoorah, hoorah!"
55. You think that riding a bicycle in the snow is a perfectly sensible thing to do.
56. You have conversations with people outside when it is –10C.
57. Having to book seat numbers at a cinema makes perfect sense. And you sit in your booked seat even if there are only 2 other people there and your seat is in the front row, on the side.
58. You regard it as sensible to eat ice cream when it is –15C.
59. You regard it as sensible that the ice cream van comes around playing that annoying song when it is -15C.
60. Someone calls you a "good moron" first thing in the morning and you smile acknowledgement.
61. It's acceptable to eat lunch at 11.00.
62. Julmust starts to taste good.
63. You associate Friday afternoon with a trip to systembolaget.
64. You think nothing of paying $50 for a bottle of 'cheap' spirits at systembolaget
65. You know all of the "telephone times" by heart.
66. It seems sensible that the age limit at Stockholm night clubs is 25.
67. You actually care who wins 'Expedition: Robinson'
68. You have your own innebandy club.
69. You find yourself debating the politics of the social democrats.
70. You use 'mmmm' as a conversation filler.
71. You have only two facial expressions, smiling or blank.
72. You think it's more fun to stay at home and drink then go out.
73. You wear warm clothing when it's 25 degrees plus in April - because it's April.
74. You wear shorts and t-shirt when it's barely 10 degrees in July - because it's July.
75. You get extremely annoyed when the bus is two minutes late.
76. You think women are more than equal than men and deserve to have better positions in the work place.
77. Your wife watches TV while you look after the kids.
78. You become a punctuality freak and dump your friends for being late more than once.
79. You spend the week's entertainment budget on a pack of cigarettes and a drink in Gamla Stan.
80. When a stranger asks you a question in the streets, you think it's normal to just keep walking, saying nothing.
81. You've been engaged for four years and don't have any plans to get married.
82. Americans start to look entertaining, witty and fun, and you just want to go to the U.S.A., travelling across country on a greyhound, because it's "romantic."
83. You and your friends know exactly the same information, and have the same attitudes and beliefs in the value of Social Democracy.
84. You lose any artistic talent whatsoever.
85. You think that if you smoke a joint you will wind up in an insane asylum. [or become a habitual criminal]
86. You jot down 'fisk fingrar' on your shopping list.
87. You no longer look for Vegemite on supermarket shelves, even if it's your first time in that particular shop.
90. You think black rimmed glasses are cool. Your wardrobe now consists of 20 different shades of black and grey.
89. You stop explaining to people what Christmas Crackers are and accept that they aren't - at least in Sweden
88. You have an uncontrollable urge to mail this list and point out the numbering is incorrect!
91. It doesn't feel like lunch unless it's a hot, full course meal drenched in gravy.
92. You eat unlimited amounts of sausage products without worrying about your nitrate intake.
93. You think that an unripe wedge of tomato on a limp leaf of iceberg lettuce can be called a salad.
94. You don't question the concept of 'telephone time'. It seems reasonable that no business can be conducted on Friday afternoons. [or the entire month of July]
95. You assume that anyone who apologises after bumping into you is a tourist.
96. You feel discomfort if you can't find the nummerlap machine.
97. You reach for your pocket 20 times a day as mobile phones ring all around you.
98. You actually care if your mobile phone meets the fashion standard - and so do your new Swedish friends.
99. It seems reasonable that even those begging for money at T-centralen reach for their pocket as the melodic music of the Swedish mobile phone resounds.
100. You get into a Mercedes taxi cab and think nothing of it.