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Flowers in Norway are expensive… but only for Norwegians!

After seeing TV2 hjelper deg (TV2 helps you, a popular consumer program) doing a comparison on the prices and quality of online flower stores here in Norway, I decided to do a little experiment and compare some prices as well.
I decided to stick to the TV2 test winner, Euroflorist, and compare www.euroflorist.no, www.euroflorist.se & www.euroflorist.nl. [...]

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[beep]ing kids! :-(

Damn those [beep]ing kids in my neighbourhood!
I just found out that one or more times some kids have taken the mail from our mailbox and just tore it up and threw it away…!
We heard about it today because one of their parents found out, and recovered some of the mail, including the class [...]

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Lost in translation…

As a foreigner here in Norway I sometimes get irritated, but more often quite amused by the SNAFU’s they make in the (translated) subtitles.
Some are simple measurement screw-ups, like replacing ‘100 pounds’ with ‘100 kilos’ (correct: ‘45 kilos‘). These are probably just because the guy/gal writing the subtitles isn’t exactly a math-whiz…
Some times however, instead [...]

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