The North Sea Lotto

I’m surprised America didn’t show up at the sound of oil.

Sweden: Kronor
Denmark: Kroner
Norway: Kroner
Europe: Why didn't you take Euro like Finland? He agreed to this and now he is my favourite Nordic country!
Finland: *writes on a paper* I don't like gay soo much.
Europe: Oh God!

This is why I don't give people lottery tickets.

If they don't win, I paid money to give them something worthless... and statistically that's almost certain to be the case, so I might as well have bought them a piece of paper that says "This was expensive. Please remember to recycle it when you're done looking at it."

If by some miracle they WON... I would have trouble feeling happy for them because I'm 100% wishing I'd kept the ticket and bought them a nice toaster oven or something.

Sweden doesn't even care anymore. I think he has seen too much weird shit.

Sweden´s face is mine everytime

@TheSwedishLittleGirl Yup. When the whole world crashes around me, I just look like Sweden. xD

Oh God..Denmark has a razor blade. Close to his arm/wrist..and Sweden is telling him not to do...that...Oh god I didn't get it before now..

@ProudToBeDanish i thought it was a ticket, so denmark wanted to cut himself?

@ProudToBeDanish That panel always makes me a little squeamish.

@ProudToBeDanish Sweden ... sweden doesn't seem too concerned when he's saying that ...

@PaxRomana yeah Sweden is like "oh no Denmark please don't, or whatever" totally monotone

@ProudToBeDanish Good catch there! I thought it was another ticket.

Denmark is my favourite in satw by far

Oil is one hell of a drug.

@keplar I just love the comparison between oil and drugs!!! The countries get addicted to it, and gen though they know it's bad, they just can't stop using it!!

Actually, while it is true that Norway once was one of the poorest in Europe, and now is one of the richest, it's not true that the oil reserves were the primary driving force behind that, although it is a commonly believed myth. Obviously, they helped, but Norway was already rapidly moving up the economic charts before they discovered oil. The effects of WWII had the biggest impact, given that Norway, despite being occupied, was relatively unscathed in its infrastructure (although deeply scarred in its psyche), a fate shared by the rest of Scandinavia and the US. The second biggest impact was the wise political decisions to invest in human capital, something that was shared by the rest of Scandinavia. That's the reason why all Scandinavian countries, with or without oil, are now among the top 20-25 or so in per capita GDP (depending on which measure you use), as those advantages were shared by all. The small relative difference between Norway and Sweden/Denmark is likely due to oil, but that's a small part of Norway's economic growth. Many countries, including the US (even in oil alone, the US is number 3 in production, but the big US advantage is that it's near the top in almost every single important natural resource, especially in nominal terms, although even in per capita, it's usually way above the average), have more natural resources, but lag far behind Norway in income/wealth.

i like the lil party hats