Recent content by Blue Moon

Yes, it is a big diffrence in customer service. There is no monetary incentive för providing good customer service. Service charges are already included in the bill and therefore significant tipping basically only occur in very upscale and expensive fine dining restaurants. In other restaurants...

A tip does not usually stay with the waiter or waitress over here. If tips at all are given, they most likely end up in a common pot, which is then shared between all restaurant workers.

I'm sure that there are Europeans who understand this just as there are Americans who understand why you pay trophies by inch in Europe. Basically, tipping has disappeared in Europe because governments want to tax your last dime. If you deal with non-taxed cash in this way it is even likely...

Well, hold your horses will you ... The Olof Palme Prize was set up and funded by the Swedish Social Democratic Party and is basically by definition almost always given to left-wing activists or at least recipients who embrace that spirit. "Swedes" in general have nothing to do with this award...

There was a pretty funny segment on air the other week on TV4: Their main political commentator suddenly out of nowhere encouraged viewers to watch CNN, because they always report the truth. Your comment was actually spot on. :ROFLMAO: For information, Sweden only has two "news" reporting TV...

You forgot market access to the Chinese market. Many CEO's complain about technology theft but look the other way – intellectual property theft impacts companies long term in contrast to market access which boosts revenue and bonuses short term. Most CEO's will be gone when it becomes a critical...

I am not a fan of Trump's leadership style, but he is very likable compared to most other Republican politicians. The guy was out working his butt off holding rallies for some of them and now they want to remove him in addition to doing everything they can to tarnish him. It was perhaps not a...

Just for disclosure, her mother is an opera singer and a pretty radical left-wing activist. I wonder where she got her ideas from? Think of her as somewhat of a Swedish equivalent of Rosie O'Donnell and you are pretty close... Both the mother and the daughters also have several medical...

Well, at least you got some funds for ammo. :) I sometimes watch American (fake) news and they always seem to mention that Scandinavian citizens get 80% of their salary from the government when losing their job. The truth is that Swedish citizens have received nothing. The 80% that they are...

My family have had Norwegian Elkhound, Finnish Spitz and Finnish Hound, but I have hunted or experienced other types or breeds, for example pointing dogs. Hunting with or over hounds have in the past been the traditional style of hunting. Urbanization and changed lifestyles have to some degree...

It is legal all around Scandinavia, but with country specific laws and regulations. We hunt moose, deer, hares, birds, bears, foxes etc. with hounds, but almost always with only one specialized hound (with some exceptions). We do not use packs because it is not particularly effective and in most...

Today the Swedish Defence Research Agency, which is government agency in Sweden for defence research under the Ministry of Defence, published a report called "Ecofascism - a study of propaganda in digital environment". What they did was to study randomly 1077 chosen pictures from Telegram and...

What happened in Sweden was that they expanded the number of government agencies and found jobs for this category of graduates. And in order to expand the public sector they raised taxes. I think you will see a similar development in the US.

The art of the deal – take an extreme position and negotiate yourself in to the centre. The president has been doing this for the last four years. He probably won the election on the basis of what in the past have been normal election standards and it is natural to think that he wants some sort...

Good description of what occurred: