Behold the Volvo of justice
Most Americans probably aren’t aware of this, but even the horrible socialist hell-hole nation of Sweden has laws that govern its citizenry — such as a two-abortion minimum and a 92% tax on herring sandwiches. There is even a law declaring it illegal to break into a bank-run cash depot and [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Vikings’
September 24, 2009
Swedish cops don’t go commando
September 14, 2009
A man this awesome needs more names
Scandinavia is a land of unspeakable danger, what with all the trolls, elves, black metal bands, snow nazis, socialized medicine, maelstroms, and, um, fjord goblins scattered throughout the landscape.
To combat these threats, a man needs three things:
1. A handsome face
2. A mullet
3. Names. Lots of them. Tough ones.
Say hello to Andreas Jankov. Whoops, sorry — [...]
March 17, 2009
Self-plagiarism: Happy something day, you mackerel-snappers!
Pax Arcana
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on St. Patrick’s Day 2008. I think it says everything I will ever have to say on this occasion, and is therefore ripe for a reprint. Once I figure out how to monetize online content, I may have to pay myself twice for this — I’m not [...]
September 3, 2008
Drunk high jumper = two fist pumps of awesome
Pax Arcana
The pressure of high-stakes track and field can be a terrible burden. Most international superstars cope by meditating or listening to their favorite music on their headphones.
Russian high jumper Ivan Ukhov apparently does things a little differently.
According to Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten (via FanHouse) the below video, shot at the Lausanne Grand Prix, shows Ukhov [...]
July 16, 2008
Astronaut Jesus + Vikings + Space Dragon = WTF?
Pax Arcana
Here is the official trailer for the new movie Outlander, starring Jim Caviezel as some kind of astronaut who falls to earth in the time of the Vikings while pursued by a giant space dragon.
I shit you not. That’s the story:
Personally, I don’t find this film very historically credible. For [...]
May 29, 2008
Oh we are so dead
Pax Arcana
In their ongoing effort to hasten an apocalypse full of blunt-force trauma and split brain pans, scientists in Denmark say they have successfully extracted 1,000-year-old DNA from a group of Vikings “buried” on a remote island.
I put “buried” in quotes because it implies that these Vikings did not intentionally crawl underground simply to lay [...]
May 27, 2008
One phone to rule the world
Perry Ellis
Here’s one to warm the cockles of Pax Arcana’s cold, northern heart. The Old Grey Lady sez we should gird ourselves for an invasion of über-connected Vikings armed with the latest in portable phone technology that doesn’t really work all that great as a phone:
“On Tuesday, operator TeliaSonera announced it will sell Apple’s iPhone [...]
May 17, 2008
Syttende Mai and the return of the gay Vikings
Pax Arcana
Not much time to post right now, but I’d like to commemorate the Norwegian national holiday Syttende Mai (May 17th) with a re-run of this post from an old, dead blog I used to write. It’s about Vikings and gay marriage, which at the time seemed certain to tear the fabric of marriage in [...]
May 9, 2008
Friday Random 10: Viking Scotch Edition
Pax Arcana
Just because they love monkeying about with the British Isles, the fair-haired cousins of Pax Arcana have decided to pillage the international scotch market by creating their own version of the stuff.
“Hvor er du, Hven?”
Via the Scotch Blog, the latest distillery to get into the game is Hven, named for the island in Sweden [...]
April 28, 2008
The Vikings didn’t kill that lady
Pax Arcana
Way back in 1904, researchers found a buried Viking ship in Oseberg, Norway with two dead ladies inside. The younger lady had a broken collarbone, so the scientists just assumed she’d been killed by her Viking tribe and buried with the older woman — presumably a queen.
Now, 104 years later, scientists are saying the [...]
