Careful what you say about them,
their traditional hangover cure involves
beards, axes, longboats, your stuff and your women.

It's ok, it's not like foreigners like me or you can pronounce those names properly anyway :P

Some of them are such a mouthful we need to use surnames / nicknames. Ah yes and good luck trying to call a taxi into a street name. Remember that Icelandic volcano that bothered the rest of Europe for a while? They couldn't call it "MegaBadAngryVolcano" or "Mount Doom" or something like that, they had to call it "Eyjafjallaj+¦kull".

Seriously, it's like speaking Klingon family names, but without the nice perks (no bladed weapons, no cool uniforms or cloaking device).


*starts running away like a pure Frenchman before some Icelandic people in the office catches that*

Careful what you say about them,
their traditional hangover cure involves
beards, axes, longboats, your stuff and your women.
My ginger beard can confirm that this has been the case for some time.

If only CCP would take a cue from the Icelandic govt and implement an approved list for this game.

I'd personally travel to Iceland and kiss the monument if I didn't have to have my eyes abused by the ignorant, racist, leet and just plain stupid names I see every time I log in.

Mr Epeen

no ... cloaking device

Weird?

You dont know weird until you have lived in NYC. People there are nuts.

So that makes sense... At least to the part of my (romance language speaking) mind that hasn't been blown by the idea of conjugating names.

Are you calling Icelandic a 'romance language'?!?!!

I swear, if my wife sauntered up to me in some skimpy outfit and leaned over and whispered "F+í af t+¦lvunni og fara a+¦ breyta ol+¡u +¡ b+¡lnum m+¡num!" I wouldn't be turned on at all.. id more than likely tie her up and dowse her with holy water.

If only CCP would take a cue from the Icelandic govt and implement an approved list for this game.

I'd personally travel to Iceland and kiss the monument if I didn't have to have my eyes abused by the ignorant, racist, leet and just plain stupid names I see every time I log in.

Mr Epeen

Are you calling Icelandic a 'romance language'?!?!!

I swear, if my wife sauntered up to me in some skimpy outfit and leaned over and whispered "F+í af t+¦lvunni og fara a+¦ breyta ol+¡u +¡ b+¡lnum m+¡num!" I wouldn't be turned on at all.. id more than likely tie her up and dowse her with holy water.

F+í af t+¦lvunni og fara a+¦ breyta ol+¡u +¡ b+¡lnum m+¡num!"

Translation:

"Im wearnig a strap on dong tonight honey, so get the vaseline and brace yourself?"

It's ok, it's not like foreigners like me or you can pronounce those names properly anyway :P

Some of them are such a mouthful we need to use surnames / nicknames. Ah yes and good luck trying to call a taxi into a street name. Remember that Icelandic volcano that bothered the rest of Europe for a while? They couldn't call it "MegaBadAngryVolcano" or "Mount Doom" or something like that, they had to call it "Eyjafjallaj+¦kull".

Seriously, it's like speaking Klingon family names, but without the nice perks (no bladed weapons, no cool uniforms or cloaking device).


*starts running away like a pure Frenchman before some Icelandic people in the office catches that*

Apparently there are only 1,853 female and 1,712 male names that are legal in Iceland. Harriet, apparently, isn't one of them.

http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/59181/illegal-name-costs-icelandic-harriet-her-passport

You people are weird.

Iceland is perfectly normal.

When compared to what? Mordor?

One does not simply walk into Iceland..

It's ok, it's not like foreigners like me or you can pronounce those names properly anyway :P

Some of them are such a mouthful we need to use surnames / nicknames. Ah yes and good luck trying to call a taxi into a street name. Remember that Icelandic volcano that bothered the rest of Europe for a while? They couldn't call it "MegaBadAngryVolcano" or "Mount Doom" or something like that, they had to call it "Eyjafjallaj+¦kull".

Seriously, it's like speaking Klingon family names, but without the nice perks (no bladed weapons, no cool uniforms or cloaking device).


*starts running away like a pure Frenchman before some Icelandic people in the office catches that*

Well, the article explains that the name "Harriet" is inappropiate because it can't be conjugated properly in Icelandic language, which probably would make it bothersome or impossible to use.

So that makes sense... At least to the part of my (romance language speaking) mind that hasn't been blown by the idea of conjugating names.

You're going to wake up with a goat's head on the pillow next to you, instead of a horse's head as in other countries. You know that, right ?

One does not simply walk into Iceland..

Iceland is perfectly normal.

"F+í af t+¦lvunni og fara a+¦ breyta ol+¡u +¡ b+¡lnum m+¡num!"

apart from some of the street names, ie lighthouse road with lighthouse bar at the top of the road, that has never had a lighthouse

or the fact you can't drink and drive but for some reason you can drink and ride a horse.

then there is some of the food you eat over there.

Are you calling Icelandic a 'romance language'?!?!!

I swear, if my wife sauntered up to me in some skimpy outfit and leaned over and whispered "F+í af t+¦lvunni og fara a+¦ breyta ol+¡u +¡ b+¡lnum m+¡num!" I wouldn't be turned on at all.. id more than likely tie her up and dowse her with holy water.

One does not simply walk into Iceland..

or the fact you can't drink and drive but for some reason you can drink and ride a horse.

When compared to what? Mordor?

Viking paraphernalia is at least as cool as Klingon - swords, axes, dragon boats, horned helmets, mead. They eat boiled sheep heads, and whales. They have volcanoes so active that you can poke them with a stick and shut down all of the airspace over Europe, if only you can find a stick. Icelandic people give Klingons a run for their money any day.

There you go.

That myth is especially irritating.

You should embrace it. Horned helmets may be historically inaccurate, but they are indisputably badass.

you know who actually wore horned helmets and get absolutely no credit for it? samurai

and example.

aaaand....another.

Those are antlers, not horns. And to be honest, I think samurai are almost as badass as vikings. Probably better fighters, but less fun to share a horn of mead with.

you guys know what is weird? Mom and Dad can sign you up to go kill people for mega corporation's interests erm I mean the government with 17 years of age, or you can sign up yourself with 18 years of age , but you can only enjoy a refreshing beer legally once you are 21 years old. Now , that is weird.

wait you waited till you were 21?

wait you waited till you were 21?

"You people"...

Wow that sounds like something I've heard before

Like most americans I used to think we were "better" till I went overseas. No one is "better". I wish people would stop being so judgemental of others because their culture is different.

Congratulations. You took part of the continuing "Iceland is Weird" meme that has been floating around in EVE for the past 10 years and turned it into some sort of diatribe. Friends (in the sense that I love the good Icelandic people of CCP) tease each other; it doesn't mean anything more than that. +++¦ ert h+ílfviti.