I've never understood why, in a country where the thistle is the national flower, men wear skirts with nothing underneath.

@rlb *applauses for best comment ever*

@rlb *claps even more*

Lego is Danmark's revenge ;-)
(step on a Lego-brick, if barefoot, and you'll know why... )

@Packless1 I'll see your Lego, and raise you the British 3-pin mains plug.

It's a (very slow) arms race.

@Epi i raise you the D4 dice

@o98 ...mind the Geneva Convention...! ;)

@Packless1 i didnt say it was metal

@o98 I'll raise you fiberglass or a dog bone

@EclipseMaster459 ok now i raise the metal D4

@o98 I'll raise you a metal D20 and 100 grain sand paper.

@EclipseMaster459 a D20 will never outdo a D4 for sheer foot-savaging potential. We even call the D4 the caltrop in our group.

@commissarfeesh Fair point. Ok, I'll raise you a dog bone and a thistle instead

@EclipseMaster459 Two words:
Carpet grip.

@Packless1 The ultimate booby trap!

@Packless1 When you have kids, you need to train for this exact situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUciJ4WXEDg

@Natifftoff ...isn't there a thing called 'Geneva-Convention'...?

@Packless1 Yes, but that kind of goes out the window in SATW.

@Packless1 yep, they definitely got back at us with that one :/ :P

Vikings and stealth... We don't exactly look like ninjas. Unless those ninjas suddenly are tall and blonde. And well, I'm not saying that pale-skinned Scandinavian directly glows in the dark, but...

@QaRajhCreations Aren't Fins Vikings too though? And they are masters of stealth. I believe I once read or heard somewhere about a military practice exercise where the Finnish army would hide out in the woods for several days while the Swedish army would try to find them. They couldn't find as much as a trace of where the Fins would be. Meanwhile the Fins had been in the Swedes' tents, taken weaponry and underwear, hung the underwear in flagpoles at the Swedish base, all unnoticed. Not sure how much of it is true, but I'm pretty sure they at least are good at stealth.

@Zeust Vikings were Scandinavian, while Finland had historical communications with Sweden. Finland is in the Nordic region, but Vikings weren't from there.

@EricTheRedAndWhite @AussiePengwin Thanks! I thought Vikings were Nordic but not necessarily Scandinavian. I believe I heard somewhere that at least Iceland actually had Vikings too, but maybe that's because they've been under Scandinavian rule.

@Zeust
Yeah, Scandinavian rule. Icelandic ancestors were Norwegian Vikings, IIRC.

@Zeust

That would make a FANTASTIC comic and ... is Denmark hugging a jellyfish??

@Maris #9811751 Yes, that's my little Jeljel! Isn't he cute?

As dame Edna put it: Scotland's national weed.

Even our flowers protects the Land of the Free.

@The_Yellow_Ardvark Land of the free and home of the deep fried mars bar!

XD Love the picture you selected.

@TralliE It fits so much.

Sometimes, Murphy decides to be a complete asshole.

Yeah, I think they were guarding something important in a tower - I really should know more about my *cough* own country. Honestly, most of my knowledge is on the Nordics :P

How do we know it wasn't a hedgehog?

I can just visualise my ancestors shouting “ya mess wih Scotland ya mess wih te land! Now ge weep te ya maw!”

@AuroraYuki agreed

That is a beautiful thought.

I read this story when I was nine or eight years old.

@Zeust
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Iceland is not Scandinavian in the modern geopolitical sense, but they definitely are Scandinavian culturally and linguistically, in which senses Scandinavian and Nordic pretty much mean the same thing. And the Icelandic Vikings were originally settlers from Norway. ;)

@Zeust
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The word Viking usually refer to Norsemen, the Old Norse-speaking Germanic tribes of Scandinavia. So in that sense of the word, Finns weren't Vikings.

That's the story at least

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thistle#Origin_as_a_symbol_of_Scotland

That's wonderful. I know the general rule is to re-use existing art from the comics, but this would be hilarious incident to see an image of. Maybe this story even warrants it's own 1-panel comic.

XD lol that sucks. at least for the VIKINGS! XD

@a_norwegian_guy yeah it really stings