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Title: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: olemars on December 08, 2013, 04:21:57 pm
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Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: lordcooper on December 08, 2013, 04:46:41 pm
Is this letter just to get their home address?  If so, wouldn't it be easier to just ask them yourself?

Either way, I'm in the UK and willing to do it if you donate the reward money to Amnesty International, Oxfam or Doctors Without Borders and forward me the receipt.

E: Aren't you in the EU yourself though?
Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: olemars on December 08, 2013, 08:05:11 pm
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Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: lordcooper on December 08, 2013, 08:39:47 pm
Norway is despite appearances not a EU member, merely EEC

Huh, TIL.

Anyways, if you put it in two envelopes (with their address on the inner one) then could I just stick a few stamps on and drop it off in a postbox, right?
Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: LordSlowpoke on December 09, 2013, 03:59:25 am
i've got some po boxes around, pm me if you wish
Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: scriver on December 14, 2013, 09:22:57 pm
I'd be willing to help as well, if it isn't too late or lordcooper already made things happen. The world cannot be denied the glory of the lusekofta.

Oh, and I'm Swedish as well, in case you don't remember.
Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: olemars on December 15, 2013, 05:27:27 pm
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Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: scriver on December 15, 2013, 06:10:22 pm
Oh, that's pretty great. I'm glad that you thought of me, and I hope it gets there okay. Despite not being a lusekofta :P
Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: SealyStar on December 16, 2013, 11:14:15 pm
Why is Norway not in the EU in the first place? I never got that.
Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: scriver on December 17, 2013, 02:00:41 am
Because 1, the EU sucks for socialist countries; and b, they're the richest country in Europe because of all their oil and do fine on their own. Joining the EU would be like attaching a leech to their money reserves.
Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: 10ebbor10 on December 17, 2013, 03:12:56 am
Well no, not actually.

The main flaw in that reasoning is that under the current system, Norway already pays for most European institutions, is bound by most European laws, and also have access to some of the benefits. The only thing they don't get is the right to decide what happens with those laws, though we're generally so nice as to ask of them what they like of it before implementing.

Real reason why they're not part is popular referenda. Government would like to join, the people rejected.

((On a side note, it's but a question of how stable an economy is when 20% of it's GDP is from oil exports.))
Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: lordcooper on December 17, 2013, 04:03:31 am
they're the richest country in Europe

By what metric?  Basing it from GDP would have Russia or Germany coming out top.
Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: scriver on December 17, 2013, 04:24:51 am
That post was written like five minutes after I got out of bed, before I've even had my morning coffee. It's literally just a stream-of-thought mindburp.
Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: Exerosp on December 17, 2013, 04:54:28 am
they're the richest country in Europe

By what metric?  Basing it from GDP would have Russia or Germany coming out top.
Pretty sure they're loan-free.
Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: lordcooper on December 17, 2013, 05:36:08 am
Nope. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_debt)
Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: 10ebbor10 on December 17, 2013, 09:40:54 am
They're the richest country in Europe based on GDP per capita, if you ignore Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and Monaco. ((And the richest country on earth if you discount several other mini states ))
Title: Re: Norway calls for aid: I need a favour from a fellow European/Scandinavian
Post by: Funk on December 17, 2013, 02:43:00 pm
Monaco and Luxembourg is not a real country's there rich mens play grounds and tax havens.