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Stupid quiz from Dagbladet

Anything but the other

There has been a major issue in the newspapers that the government car which drove our industry minister, Trond Giske, broke the speed limit. As a follow-up of this, Dagbladet presents a quiz where people can say whether they think

  1. This is bad
  2. This is ok
  3. Does not care at all

I pressed the last option, but when the results came out, the questions where totally different. I care about both speed limits and ministers, but I do not care about this incident. Why not? Because according to our road traffic law clause 11, it is ok, see for yourself at Lovdata. I find it stupid, presenting the options as “yes”, “no”, “don’t care” when you ask people to vote, but when you present the result you add a whole lot of text to the options.

Funny reading, check out all the comments to the article

Saturday and Sunday at home

Leisure

Saturday morning started with very nice weather in Mosjøen so I took a short run up the nearest mountain. Later that day me and Ingrid drove to both Korgen and Båsmoen where Jonas and I tok the dog called Rag out to play. Sunday was quite cold, and what I first thought was reflections from a sunscreen in the window was a frost drawing created by Ingrid. And later that day, before heading back to Mosjøen, we saw Hemnes Skolekorps in concert.

Travelling up north

Anything but the other

On my way home on Friday. Flew from Gardermoen to Værnes and changed plane. Had to take a picture of the information screen at the airport there, not much flight info, but more about the operating system and such.

The flight from Trondheim to Mosjøen had a stop at Sandnessjøen. Just before the landing the captain said: “This is the captain speaking, today we have pretty bad conditions, we will try to land at Sandnessjøen so please tighten your seat belts extra good…” The picture from when we waited for the new passengers to enter speaks for itself.

Hit me baby one more time

Anything but the other

On our way to the kindergarten today Anders and I spotted two guys in a van. They parked along the road, opened the trunk and started lifting various things out of it. Anders got kinda curios off course so we stopped. Then one of them got behind the wheel, and all of a sudden backed the car and drove over the equipment. And to make things even worse he put the car in 1’st, and drove over it once again. Then he got out of the car cursing (but off course!!)

Then they picked up the equipment and drove off…

I had to take a picture, a bit discrete.

Shoe tossing

Anything but the other

Plenty of shoes seen hanging on wires around in Oslo. Heard about the crack theory first time when watching a tv show about Nina Persson living in New York. Just now read an article about this phenomenon here in Norway http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/more_og_romsdal/1.6849767 Some funny comments, and I must admit that I agree with the ones saying “This is nothing else but pure fun…”

Wikipedia has more about it, and the movie “Wag The Dog” also has a reference to it (Skip to 2:10 in the clip and watch 🙂 ).

For some AC/DC is worth killing for

Anything but the other

“A Winnipeg man has been sentenced to four years in prison for a violent assault sparked by his fondness for the Aussie rockers.

I’m really impressed by the victim who according to the local police force “…wasn’t overly interested in assisting the prosecution,…He said he felt empowered by this — if this didn’t kill him nothing would.”

Read the whole story at http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/winnipeg/2009/11/01/11594341-sun.html

Thanks to the Pyro newsletter for giving me such information 🙂