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[+] 79 points 3 months ago (4 children)
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    FÅGELKONTROLLVÄSKA

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    Who removed the dead bodies of the poor souls tasked with putting the bags on the murder birds?

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  • Now you've just made them angry.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    It never stops being weird that people think the IKEA names are just basically swedish chef speak (which doesn't sound like swedish at all).

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    HONKHALT MYFUCKINSIDES XD

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Don’t try this at home; a swan could easily break a grown man’s arm. Or at least his glasses.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    When I was seven, I broke my arm. For reasons I still don't understand, it looked like a normal arm with a lower case "u" in the middle of it. My doctor referred to it as a "swan neck" break. (He also called me a cry baby, which I don't think was fair.)

    No actual swan was involved, but your sentiment often makes me think of that.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Anyone know why they're being restrained? Maybe relocated?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    A lot of animal/wildlife rescuers will use the swan straightjackets to keep both themselves and the swans (but mostly themselves) safe during rescue efforts. I remember the Wildlife Aid channel on YouTube had some videos with swan rescues where they explained that adolescent male swans leaving to find their own territories often ended up landing in suburban areas by accident (saw someone's pool, or a reflective surface that looked like water) and had to be captured and relocated because they got too confused and disoriented to leave, etc. Since swans have breeding seasons, you can end up with a busy season where a bunch of swans need rescued in the space of a month or so. I expect something like that probably is the backstory here.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    What’s the deal with swans? I’ve heard of angry geese, I’ve even known a few people who received injuries from one, but not swans.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    why make angrier version of gooses more angry.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    Fågelbehållare i guess? Idk my swedish isnt very good and i just use behållare usually cause its a very general word. Also people outside the nordics love å so its a win to use it in an ikea meme. Väska could also work for more variety? Fågelväska

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    As somewhat of a polyglot, it just occurred to me that swedish is a language I've never once considered as a language I know absolutely nothing about nor have ever considered studying.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Ehh its not that interesting grammar wise. Just check the phonology, you will be slightly horrified but other than that its a very generic isolating northern germanic language. Huge amounts of vocab from proto-germanic(duh), english and french. The grammar is basically a remix of english. I still think its good to learn if you live in sweden which is kinda hard nowadays actually cause even swedish youth thinks theyre better off with english which is kinda sad.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I'm Norwegian, so basically the same both language and cultural wise. I know several foreigners that has had a hard time learning our language since we will jump over to fluent English after the smallest sign of struggle. When I was a kid I loved speaking to foreigners just so I could practice my English. Never occurred to me that maybe they needed to practice Norwegian more.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Honkhalt sounds like merch you could buy at Honkbal Hoofdklasse.

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    IF you need a name for your metal band, Ikea is full of them

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