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Rauha 2009-11-11 23:43
Anybody know what this site is about?
 
Found this strange site that, amongst other things, tells americans to stop buying Nokia products. It's pretty damn freaky and to be honest I don't know if its joke or not. Having beer pint bets with friends about the what the hell it is about. Apparently me and other finns and swedes are stealing from every american.

http://www.nordicethics.com/

And few quotes:

Sweden and Finland cheat every man, woman and child in the United States. They set aside laws, treaties and trade agreements to seize our small slice of a great success.

[B]BY VOTING to Give Sweden and Finland Least Favored Nation Treatment - VOTE with your pocketbook. STOP buying goods from Sweden and Finland. STOP buying Nokia and Ericsson cell phones. Stop buying Volvos and Saabs. STOP buying oil from Neste Oil. STOP buying anything made in Sweden or Finland. Shift your purchasing to more trustworthy trading partners.[/B]

mrojas 2009-11-11 23:45
Re: Anybody know what this site is about?
 
It must be run secretly by Engadget!:D

mece 2009-11-11 23:52
Re: Anybody know what this site is about?
 
WTF?!

Apparently Nordic countries make profits without giving 3% to the galactic overlords. Bad bad bad!

dormant 2009-11-11 23:55
Re: Anybody know what this site is about?
 
Why have you guys got similar sigs?

Some sort of club?

Aren't there two R's in "aggro"?

mece 2009-11-11 23:56
Re: Anybody know what this site is about?
 
We're in a special club. A club that only has one r in agro. You too can be a member, but it'll cost ya!

mrojas 2009-11-11 23:58
Re: Anybody know what this site is about?
 
Well, I gave the website more detail and it is wrong in many levels.
  • It doesn't make clear in a simple way the problem.
  • It doesn't provide much context to it.
  • Tries to inject nationalism/xenophobia/government-phobia into their argument (seriously, truth can hold itself without further "embellishment").

I guess it won't help their cause much.

Texrat 2009-11-11 23:58
Re: Anybody know what this site is about?
 
Oh good God.

They don't even say what the issue actually is. Plus the writing style is "pidgin" English, suggesting it wasn't even written by a natural-born US citizen.

Quote:
Sonera Corporation, then controlled by the Republic of Finland, engaged and encouraged our Sonera U.S. team to create value in the U.S. Our US based team worked hard. We made good things happen. We found ways to create business opportunities and gains of $1.6 billion in the United States for Nordic government controlled Sonera. We found ways to respect our Nordic partners and add great value. We did the “Right Thing.”
I can't quit lauging at the writing style. I can only think of one thing:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...seAnimated.gif

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_you...e_belong_to_us

:D

mece 2009-11-12 00:02
Re: Anybody know what this site is about?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 373058)
I can't quit lauging at the writing style. I can only think of one thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_you...to_us#Examples

:D
Aaaha exactly! "3% of your base are belong to us"

ewan 2009-11-12 00:02
Re: Anybody know what this site is about?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 373058)
Plus the writing style is "pidgin" English, suggesting it wasn't even written by a natural-born US citizen.
I'm not sure that follows, after all, it's not like any of them can spell worth a damn either :-P

mece 2009-11-12 00:04
Re: Anybody know what this site is about?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ewan (Post 373066)
I'm not sure that follows, after all, it's not like any of them can spell worth a damn either :-P
Texrat can spell! I've seen him do it!

Texrat 2009-11-12 00:06
Re: Anybody know what this site is about?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ewan (Post 373066)
I'm not sure that follows, after all, it's not like any of them can spell worth a damn either :-P
Hey, at least we don't pointlessly waste the letter u on words like "color"!

:p

Texrat 2009-11-12 00:09
Re: Anybody know what this site is about?
 
I'm not suggesting anyone game the survey.

No seriously, don't.

But since you're curious, here's what you're not supposed to fool with:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?s...0EuJ4PWw_3d_3d

It's good to know we all have the ethics to not play with that survey. At all. No matter how tempting.

b2barker 2009-11-12 00:31
Re: Anybody know what this site is about?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 373058)
...suggesting it wasn't even written by a natural-born US citizen....
Are you suggesting it was written by a US citizen delivered by Caesarean section?

krisse 2009-11-13 03:41
Re: Anybody know what this site is about?
 
That site seems to be entirely obsessed by TeliaSonera... they got screwed by TS in some way so they're going to take it out on the entire Nordic region?!

That's like being screwed by AT&T and then setting up a site called American Ethics, calling for a boycott on US goods.


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