🇳🇴 There is one day of the year when Norway loses its mind completely, and it is magnificent.
The 17th of May is Norway’s Constitution Day, and if you have never seen a Nordic nation decide to throw the most joyful party imaginable, you are missing something. Every town in the country erupts in a procession of schoolchildren waving flags with the focused enthusiasm of people who genuinely mean it. The adults wear their bunad, the traditional folk costume, with a seriousness that would be reserved elsewhere for a state funeral. Here it signals the opposite.
Oslo is the epicentre. The children’s parade winds up Karl Johans gate toward the Royal Palace, where the royal family stands on the balcony for hours, waving back at roughly a million people who are waving at them. It is relentlessly cheerful. There are brass bands. There is ice cream at ten in the morning. There is champagne. There are hot dogs consumed at a rate that would alarm a cardiologist.
The whole country smells of spring and optimism and someone’s grandmother’s lefse.
Come once. Just once. You will understand immediately why Norwegians consider this the finest day on the human calendar, and you will struggle to argue with them.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
🟡 BODØ/GLIMT 3 - 1 MANCHESTER CITY 🔵
BODØ/GLIMT TAKE THEIR FIRST EVER WIN IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND WHAT A WAY TO DO IT. 🟡🇳🇴
BODØ/GLIMT IS NOW 26TH IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE ON 6POINTS!!! #UCL
@Pierceddanger@AtherlyMoney@SeeRacists Norway's 88 year old King and Queen are still loved and respected, especially after this inclusive speech:
https://t.co/g0fhZlE2Rg
@Pierceddanger@AtherlyMoney@SeeRacists Many feel sorry for the royals having to deal with this. Some feel they should have helped him more - or stopped him - in the past, or have spoken more about the situation now.
In 2017, 81% supported the monarchy, last year 62% did. I suppose even fewer do that today.
@Milestek_MeGa@SeeRacists It has been announced that he *will* be prosecuted, probably in January. The Oslo police has worked quickly, checking thousands of media files. Norwegian will accept any special treatment of this guy.
@envisionalt7@CollinRugg This is egalitarian Norway. He will be prosecuted in January and there is a lot of evidence against him (videos etc). He will be convicted.