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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:

Yepp. :) The problem is that he is probably not getting it done. He only got halfway and everything will go back as it was before with the exception of the balance in SCOTUS. He could have got a lot more done with better recruiting and more discipline.

I heavily dislike Trump's management style, but I and lot of people over here in Europe are still hoping that he can find a way to turn it around, because we are having the same fight with the difference that we have basically already lost. Many countries in Europe have totally changed the last...

I agree, but I think most people would be pretty upset if they were running for office and experienced this level of fraud against them. Basically all ballots regardless of quality were accepted, and the AG obviously refused to look into it. I think, I read somewhere that about 10% of the...

AG Barr is out. President Trump is for sure the uncrowned king of disruptiveness. :)

They seem to be repeating the trick. https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/12/13/abrams-dems-will-win-ga-runoffs-1-2-million-absentee-ballots-requested-85000-of-those-new-voters/

One problem Republican voters have is that many Republican politicians (including Republican appointees) do not want Trump to succeed. They are just happy to get rid of him.

Trump has no one to blame but himself. He says the he only recruits the best, but he is probably the worsed recruiter in the world. It is a bit of irony that his the SCOTUS picks will be those that sends him back to Florida.

It is much easier for Europeans to move within the EU instead of going through a work permit process to the US. Most businesses do not want to have to deal with adminstrative processes unless they have to. And by the way, large parts of Sweden have been totally destroyed and dissassembled as a...

The PA case is still pending. SCOTUS only denied emergency injunctive relief.

This is how it should be done: Another good example:

Does Trump and Republicans really want to win? I just watched Sekulow host a show on Youtube. Should he not be working on cases? Many of the cases also seem to be amateurishly put together. Judge Alito is really active in PA and it seems like he is eager to try these cases because he has...

There are obviously real concerns in some counties about the process, but one interesting thing that many have missed is that President Trump won easily in Florida where he encouraged people to do mail-in voting. He probably missed out on many votes because of his rethoric regarding mail-in...

It's not really free of charge. Their customer service model adds to the sales price of products and you are paying for it that way. :sneaky: I do like their products too for many reasons, one due to the fact that they strive to keep the weight down on their products. Their sister company Kahles...

No, but other things. Try looking for seafreight instead of airfreight! I used to order hunting and fishing equipment from the US when the exchange rates were more favourable. If I recall correctly, I paid customs duties on top of product price, transportation cost, insurance and handling fees...

I would in general be careful using copper bullets when shooting close range at animals the size of a duiker due to the ricochet risk. I would like to point out that I'm only using small and medium bore cartridges anf therefore do not have experience of .416 bullets.

Thank you, but we could have been without that socialist (and liberal) part that have totally tranformed our society. It will visit you as well in a not so distant future. :( Most people I know in the private sector work 40-65 h/week and pay almost all of their income in taxes. In order to have...

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/new-yorkers-fleeing-to-florida-need-to-leave-their-terrible-blue-state-policies-behind-as-well

I usually run a couple of patches with denaturated alcohol/methylated spirits (and end with a dry patch) after the main cleaning is done. This generally removes the need for taking "settle down shots" after cleaning.

I would say the that the Merkel Helix is probably the quickest straight-pull on the market. Ejector problems (replacement of ejector spring); too large headspace in some rifles; too weak/short firing pin (replacement of firing pin or bolt) are some of the issues I can remember. I discussed this...

Never heard about these recoil reducers and had to google the company. :) How much recoil do they take away? Is it equivalent to using a good suppressor? Do they change the balance or is it manageable? Thanks for the tips! (y)

First, don't take this the wrong way. :) R8 is a very good rifle :) (a friend of mine own one) and it has become the benchmark for production straight pulls. I would however not be totally comfortable with using it for DG. Like all (overly) engineered productions rifles it has had it fair share...

Tikka T3x Compact in .308 Win or 7mm-08 Rem.

There are no such size requirements. Every, by the government specified, area hunts out of a quota given to them. The area normally then decides the age distribution of the bulls themselves. I think the rules can differ somewhat depending on where in the country you are, but these are the...

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/425970-america-the-new-socialist-frontier

Thanks, I might take you up on that offer some day (and offer another hunt in return). (y) Life is a bit chaotic at the moment, but I will definitely keep it in mind for the future. ;) 12 bears. :D I assume you have a healthy population of wolves as well. If I recall correctly, it was in Dealu...

Thanks, I'm a Northern (Scandinavian). So, I assume it works in a similar way to Poland. If I recall correctly, they also have hunting associations that lease hunting rights. Can you also resell hunts, like they seem to do, directly to visiting hunters or indirectly through agents in order to...

Hi and welcome razvan, Great trophy photos! :)Can you please explain a little bit under the circumstances you hunt in Romania? You say that you hunt in a team, is it any type of syndicate? And how do you go about acquiring hunting rights in Romania if you aren’t a landowner? I have been sort of...

I once shared an apartment with a guy whose parents succeding in crossing the border. He told some horrifying stories about failed attempts. I can't recall whether they did it by using an air ballon or dug a tunnel, either one it was.

Sure, Trump could go about things in a smarter way and get more things done, but obviously he's getting energy from flipping the bird at the establishment. And who wouldn't want to do that, biased as they are? :cool: I think many (even those that have spent too many years at universities, like...

Isn't this a part of a bigger trend in general? I used to travel to and visit fishing and fly fishings fairs, but stopped after a couple of years when they were not able to update the shows. The seminars were pretty similar from year to year often even involving the same celebrities. Basically...

I don't know about the US, but I assume that the reason tipping of significant sums still exists in many places is that it keeps the prices down for the consumer. VAT and income tax (given the fact that the net salary should stay the same) would increase the consumer price.

Different countries have different perspectives on this. The tipping in Sweden (and in many other European countries) was removed because left-leaning politicians wanted to be able to tax 100% of your actual income. Inventing new taxes for the ever expanding government & public sectors has been...

Yes, but from what I can read the area normally holds stags up to 7 kg and it's not a cap on what you are allowed to shoot, just what the area normally holds, but I might be wrong. I think that we are on same page here, but my point is that there are no free lunches: You will have to pay for a...

Your welcome! :) You should probably also check out Buhls. They are a large booking agent over here. I know that they are at least offering fixed prices for roe deer hunting. https://buhlsjagtrejser.dk/