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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • Literally less darkskinned immigrants. In Sweden they manage to deport a bunch of people from non-european decent. They did it by saying “you don’t make enough money, working full time in elder care, fuck off”. Like the meme above, they pissed on both immigrants and Swedish citizens. Immigrants get deported, citizens get to stay poor, by their own admission. Anyway. They say it is to open up jobs for people already living in Sweden (that is their way of phrasing it). But there are not hundreds of people just waiting for these jobs. So they had to quickly try and get EU immigrants instead. Instead of these already swedish speaking employees who live here that the people they care for already know. They tried to replace them with non-swedish speaking immigrants who are completely new.






  • Lyrics from Christy Moore’s On A Single Day https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qWdqcVX4rgs:

    A list of exports from Cork Harbour
    On a single day
    The fourteenth of September, Eighteen Forty-Seven
    Ran as follows:

    147 barrels of pork
    986 casks of ham
    27 sacks of bacon
    528 boxes of eggs
    1, 397 firkins of butter
    477 sacks of oats
    720 sacks of flour
    380 sacks of barley
    187 head of cattle
    296 head of sheep, and
    4, 338 barrels of miscellaneous provisions
    On a single day
    The ships sailed out from Cork Harbour
    With their bellies in the water
    On a single day in County Galway
    The great majority of the poor located there
    Were in a state of starvation
    Many hourly expecting death to relieve their suffering

    On a single day
    The Lady Mayoress held a ball
    At the Mansion House in Dublin
    In the presence of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
    Dancing continued until the early hours
    And refreshments of the most varied and sumptuous
    Nature
    Were supplied with inexhaustible profusion
    On a single day
    On a single day

    It’s about time this little country of ours had a bit
    Of peace





  • Får får inte får. Får får lamm.

    sheeps don’t get sheeps. Sheeps get lambs.

    Får = sheep/to get

    var tog vägen vägen? Ute på en åker och åker

    where did the road go? Out in a field and driving

    “Tog vägen” = literally “took the road”, meaning “where did it go”, sort of. And åker = driving and a farm field.

    I got a t-shirt from the Swedish Society for People with Anxiety. It came with a print on the chest.

    “print on the chest” would be “tryck för/på/över bröstet” having the double meaning “preassure over the chest”.

    Then there are endless of jokes from Gothenburg which all do not translate.

    Who is faster, Eminem or Taylor Swift? Eminem, he is a rapper

    “rapper” in swedish is “rappare”, meaning also “faster”.

    In stockholm a snake escaped the zoo and has not been found. The zoo is missing him a lot

    The last bit in swedish would be “saknaden är enorm”, “saknad” being the emotion of missing someone, “enorm” being large/a lot/great. But also enorm=en-orm=a-snake.