The Best Ever Book of Swedish Jokes: Lots and Lots of Jokes Specially Repurposed for You-Know-Who

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This funny Swedish word has its place as one of my all-time favorites. It’s a compound noun, and you can add “sugen” to mean that you’re craving something to pretty much anything else. There has been a language war in Norway. The goal was to have a real Norwegian language, not a language that was a kind of dialect of Danish." Okay, but I really want to go swimming so we’ll do that after we’ve had a swim. 18. Nu blir det andra bullar Der Richter zum Angeklagten: “Sie sind beschuldigt, Ihren Nachbarn unter Schimpfworten in den Wald getrieben und dort ganz fürchterlich verprügelt zu haben. Sind Sie da nicht ein bisschen zu weit gegangen, Angeklagter?” Antwort: “Ja, das stimmt, Herr Richter! Ich hätte es schon vorher auf der Wiese tun sollen!” 6. Papa needs his medicine Ok, ok, I was at a friend ́s house and we were watching a Christian film…” The detector beeps. “Fine! It was a p*rn!”

Yes, this is (unfortunately) also kinda true. Two things to consider here: We don’t get a lot of sun in Sweden and alcohol is expensive and not as readily available as it is elsewhere in the world. Chef, darf ich heute zwei Stunden früher Schluss machen? Meine Frau will mit mir einkaufen gehen.”“Kommt gar nicht in Frage.”“Vielen Dank Chef, ich wusste, sie würden mich nicht im Stich lassen.” 5. Apparently crimes work better in rural places So, he walks into the shop and sees an old Chinese gentleman sitting in the corner. The visitor asks, “How in the world did this place get a name like Lars Andersen’s Laundry?”The CEO of IKEA was just elected Prime Minister of Sweden. The first thing he'll do is to assemble his cabinet. The father looks at him disapprovingly, “I’m ashamed of you! At your I age I never lied to my father!”. The detector beeps. Two minutes later, she is getting dressed again. The man asks her “will you take me to jail, officer?” This word came about in the 1970s when paternity leave was introduced in Sweden and it’s been a staple word ever since.

These insults do work especially well in relaxed environments and with friends who are usually up for some banter, like sports teams, tightly-knit work teams, etc. The Classic Swedish insults (SFW) I was at the library, studying for an exam”. The detector beeps. The father explains, “this is a lie detector, boy! You better tell the truth…” A man comes out of the shower and says to his wife, “It’s too hot to wear clothes today”. He continued, Honey, what would the neighbors think if I came out to mow the lawn like this?” False. Sweden isn’t Narnia, even though it looks like it during the winter months. Winter is much longer than summer and some years it even snows in May! Most of the time though, Sweden enjoys lukewarm summers with the temperature around 23°C (73°F).

You’ve had it way too easy, things are going to change around here! Tomorrow we’re studying algebra! 19. Fartdåre This phrase is typically used during the winter time, when leaving the front door open and letting all the warmth escape is a silly, silly thing to do. Or if you’re just doing something pointless. This can have advantages: people tend to make more effort to make what they say stand out, to craft their speeches in advance, and, yes, make more jokes (for those at the top of the hierarchy, obviously, this does not apply, or at least the jokes don't have to be any good). US sitcoms are also popular but it’s the archetypal British satire that has endured. “Fawlty Towers and Monty Python are as popular today as they ever were,” he adds. Unsurprisingly, Engman cannot provide an academic explanation for the appeal in Sweden of The Benny Hill Show. The Spanish guy sitting next to her asks what's wrong and she replies that 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed in a drug bust.

The Scandinavians was published in 1966, so that joke predates the Joke War by nearly ten years, and according to af Klintberg, the relatively few jokes Scandinavians made about each other before this time tended to build on stereotypes, such as that Norwegians are ridiculously nationalistic (which annoyed the Swedes and Danes, who had both controlled Norway in the past), Danes are workshy and pleasure-seeking, and Swedes are uptight and moralistic. And you shouldn’t use humour to make yourself look better than others.” Here we go again; that reccurring rule of Jantelagen just had to rear its ugly head somewhere. But, wait a minute. I like to spend my weekends playing chess with old men in the park. It’s not easy. You try finding thirty-two old guys. In other words: when everyone has calmed down from whatever happened before the joke was made, there is less tension in the room, and it’s easier to laugh about it . On his honeymoon in Jamaica, he’s in the bathroom and notices the guy on the urinal next to him also has Wy tattooed on his pen*s. He asks her if his wife is also named Wendy. The guy replies, “No man, why do you ask?”This funny Swedish phrase basically means to get revenge, and whilst it’s hard to take it seriously, remember that, in this case, “old cheese” means beware! Polar bears? No. They aren’t native to Sweden so this is a bit of a mystery. We have brown bears in Norrbotten and in Lapland people rub shoulders with the increasing bear population daily. But in the large cities? No, no bears. Short swedish puns are one of the best ways to have fun with word play in English. The swedish humour may include short blue eyes jokes also. A man goes to the beach and sees a woman with no legs and no arms, crying by the shoreline. He asks her what ́s wrong.