How others see us!

[Violetta]

Worry?

Wouldn't worry me. I don't give a tinker's cuss for the opinions of people who think they know something because they know a stereotype.

 

[Viking]

There we go again stereotyping again. I find that Norwegian have a high sense of humour. They humour is very British and they have a great sense of fun (it helps in the winter here) They send themselves up as we do and dont take themselve seriously. They have a TV programme here were they are redoing Tony Hancocks series word for word 'The blood donor' etc.
I fact they are the most 'British' national (god help them) that Ive come across. But then again I must not stereotype.

 

[ccscott49]

Re: Worry?

Doesn't bother me either, I don't fit in any of these "clubs" anyway.

 

[sailbadthesinner]

aah sod it stereotypes are ideal shorthand for comedy. has anybody thought as to why and how sterotypes occur?
there was a time when you would see city types all wearing bowler hats and dark suits. flat caps and whippets were common up north. liverpool WAS rife with shell suits.

the only problem is that society moves a lot faster these days and is much more fragmented so there are more smaller groups of stereotypes and they are born and die more quickly ( the steroetypes that is)

all i can say about norewegians is that that i only know three and by god can they drink.

Come on brain.get this over and i can go back to killing you with beer

 

[robp]

Re: Stereotypes

Just answer him, "That's funny cos all the Brits think you wear hats with horns on!"

 

[ccscott49]

Re: Stereotypes

Those aren't hats!

 

[FlyingSpud]

Isn’t the point here whether or not there is a grain of truth in the Norwegian’s reply? I have visited quite a few yacht clubs over the years and cannot say that any of them, ‘Royal’ or otherwise, come anywhere near some of the golf clubs near us for snobbishness. Does anyone want to name and shame a Yacht club that does?

 

[tome]

Hear hear!

And they use understatement, which IMHO is brilliant humour. And I'm not biased being born in Bergen...

 

[janie]

Totally agree. After our holiday with our Norwegian friends this summer on their boat (7 of us crammed into a 6 berth boat), they said 'Thank goodness you enjoy the basic sailing like us - no instruments, etc. It wouldn't have worked otherwise'. They had obviously worried about our expectations.

What I particularly enjoyed was all the boats without engines, or whose engines didn't work, being expertly sailed onto moorings (helping hands everywhere). How different to our Yacht Club who won't let us race whenever our engine doesn't work.

 

[chippie]

What's a shell suit?

 

[Viking]

Re: Berthing under sail

I saw a Norwegian 35ft yacht, sail into the harbour here (no engine) with the harbour wall on his portside. The crew where tieing fenders to the starboard side. The skipper spun the boat on a sixpence and finish along side the quay, starboard side to, sliding in behind another boat as the crew drop the sails as it was an every day event - perhaps it was.
It was abit like the stunt parking trick were the car, at speed, spins into a narrow parking space.
Brillant!

 

[Cornishman]

As worn by anyone below the rank of sergeant in the Royal Artillery.