Comments on: A Midsummer’s Wishful Slaughter http://www.scandinavianaggression.com/centrum/2009/08/a-midsummers-wishful-slaughter.html Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:53:16 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Thorkel http://www.scandinavianaggression.com/centrum/2009/08/a-midsummers-wishful-slaughter.html/comment-page-1#comment-77 Thorkel Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:19:53 +0000 http://www.scandinavianaggression.com/centrum/?p=571#comment-77 Skål Earslings. It has never ceased to amaze me that when one travels abroad and encounters fellow countrymen, that more often than not they are loud and obnoxious. This you may think strange coming from a new age viking, that one such as myself would be aghast at loud and obnoxious behaviour by my compatriots. It seems to me that this is an interesting social phenomenom. How can my fellow shipmates storm ashore yelling and screaming invocations to norse gods, waving our bloodied axes, swords and spears (not forgetting little Sven in his bear suit foaming at the mouth doing a beserker) and yet be embarrassed, offended and ashamed of these strangers haggling for souvenirs or pulling faces because they don't like the local delicacies? I don't know why it is like this. Certainly these people are not usually the sort of people that one would associate with even in your own country. But it is also true that many compatriots band together while visiting foreign lands because of a sense of shared experiences or national identity. We just know that it is the fates. Possibly a proverb from the land of the rising sun may shed some light on this phenomenom: "While you are away, you have no neighbours". What can we do about this type of behaviour? Short of clenching your axe and cleaving them through the skull or drawing your type XVII Oakshot sword and cutting their heads off, choices are limited. Certainly axes and swords can generally be difficult to get through Customs while travelling abroad. So taking a lead from the "Midsummer Wishfull Slaughter" and the normal viking response of cutting their heads off, I would like to suggest the following: As soon as you land in foreign lands, go to the nearest chinese 'cheapjack' store (These stores are ubiquitous throughout the world and easily located), stock up on plastic horned helmets, axes and swords, and when the need arises, don yon helm and draw your weapons and smite those who would assail our auditory sensibilities. Certainly a few chosen nordic war cries and invocations are helpful to contribute to the terror. They also help to cover your identity for a quick getaway. Unless you're nordic of course. p.s. Don't forget to take the hat off. Skål Earslings. Skål Earslings.
It has never ceased to amaze me that when one travels abroad and encounters fellow countrymen, that more often than not they are loud and obnoxious.

This you may think strange coming from a new age viking, that one such as myself would be aghast at loud and obnoxious behaviour by my compatriots. It seems to me that this is an interesting social phenomenom. How can my fellow shipmates storm ashore yelling and screaming invocations to norse gods, waving our bloodied axes, swords and spears (not forgetting little Sven in his bear suit foaming at the mouth doing a beserker) and yet be embarrassed, offended and ashamed of these strangers haggling for souvenirs or pulling faces because they don’t like the local delicacies?

I don’t know why it is like this. Certainly these people are not usually the sort of people that one would associate with even in your own country. But it is also true that many compatriots band together while visiting foreign lands because of a sense of shared experiences or national identity. We just know that it is the fates. Possibly a proverb from the land of the rising sun may shed some light on this phenomenom: “While you are away, you have no neighbours”.

What can we do about this type of behaviour? Short of clenching your axe and cleaving them through the skull or drawing your type XVII Oakshot sword and cutting their heads off, choices are limited. Certainly axes and swords can generally be difficult to get through Customs while travelling abroad. So taking a lead from the “Midsummer Wishfull Slaughter” and the normal viking response of cutting their heads off, I would like to suggest the following: As soon as you land in foreign lands, go to the nearest chinese ‘cheapjack’ store (These stores are ubiquitous throughout the world and easily located), stock up on plastic horned helmets, axes and swords, and when the need arises, don yon helm and draw your weapons and smite those who would assail our auditory sensibilities. Certainly a few chosen nordic war cries and invocations are helpful to contribute to the terror. They also help to cover your identity for a quick getaway. Unless you’re nordic of course.
p.s. Don’t forget to take the hat off.
Skål Earslings.

]]> By: Allagash http://www.scandinavianaggression.com/centrum/2009/08/a-midsummers-wishful-slaughter.html/comment-page-1#comment-64 Allagash Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:51:18 +0000 http://www.scandinavianaggression.com/centrum/?p=571#comment-64 these are so funny! you should have let them have it! these are so funny! you should have let them have it!

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