The WEIRDEST things about living in ICELAND 

About my country, it's citizens, bye from Italy

In mexico I've noticed women talk on their inward breath when gossiping lol! I love the cold and cant wait to visit Iceland someday!

I live in the U.S. so the list of weird things is long

Why can't you turn on subtitles on your channel? this is weird lightly

Talking about super personal things with other people is also prevalent in Indian culture

I lifted my wife and broke my back. (hairline crack) I learned I am not a crane.

Lol i want the biggest girl 😂

lmao

​@@newjerseybt how big is your wife? holy shit

That's fantastic 😅👍

Gives me a very pleasant image of a nearly naked Hrafna.

You will be shocked visiting and seeing us strip naked if it reaches 20 degrees 😂

Brazilians: 34 degrees? Normal winter.

Heh. Sounds like someone from New England living in the South in the winter.

Its been around 5-15°f at my home and I would be so happy for 14°c

We don't even know what a "personal question" is -and whenever we hear that term we immideately assume it is something very sinister. If you say "non of your business" everyone thinks you are I don't know a drug dealer.

i was literally like ??? personal Smalltalk??? omg i'd thrive in iceland

Oh we Balkan people do that all the time.

So a Norse thing

Yeah, i confirm this as a Turkish :D

I just drive to the Netherlands for Skyr, just because Germany doesn't sell Ísey Skyr 😭 I'm so glad you have it in some of the stores ❤️

ivyM85 yes I’m so glad too! But still not the same as the skyr in Iceland. With a bit of cream or milk is the skyr the best!

Kjötsúpa is the fucking best

Doesn't he has people shopping for him? Why go by himself to IKEA if you are the president of a country? Well cycling is okay, this is sport, health, good example. IKEA...sorry🙂

@@Dbbehsuzysgx Must be true then

@@markust7709 Just to clarify, I am Icelandic. The president’s have never had personal shoppers. Sure some have had assistants that have gone shopping for them. But when Guðni was elected he told the country that he would continue to do things the same as before. Because of his then young children. He would take them to kindergarten/preschool, shop with them if they needed stuff etc.

@@elin24thora I see! That is awesome!

Yep. My thoughts exactly.

Yah by larger western European standards such line of question would be prying. Common in the USA tho

@@jonsnows1188 Roger that.

Here in Canada, I've had complete strangers ask me things like "do you lock your door?" as well as the examples she gave. When it's friends you've not seen in years.. then they ask things like "what's your fave sex position these days?"

@@HrafnNordhri ok, that's weird. I don't know how that rates by Canadian standards, but it seems weird to me.

Well if you're asking during the 1940's, the answer is: The fun part!

That is sad.

While actualy it should be: in which part of Germany is it? :-)

;D

I always say "I'm from Poland, starting with P", most people know.

And we also talk while breathing in. I hear it all the time when older women are gossiping.

@@MrZarewna Hearing it does my head in ngl 🥴

They do it in the Faroe Islands too

And the sun guilt is so relatable to us too!

@@MrZarewna I can't physically do that

You would love Oregon then. We got all the cloudy rainy weather you could want.

Welcome to Phoenix. 🤣

In the southe we're happy when it rains so we have an excuse to be lazy & stay indoors

I’m in Northern Michigan and would love the dry heat in Texas. We never seem to have a long enough summer but our fall season is absolutely gorgeous.

That'd be awesome!!!

Svið (transliterated as svid or svith) is a traditional Icelandic dish consisting of a sheep's head cut in half, singed to remove the fur, and boiled with the brain removed, sometimes cured in lactic acid. Svið originally arose at a time when people could not afford to let any part of a slaughtered animal go to waste.

Good idea... Howbout a vid on the international Peen/Wiener/Male animal genitalia museum in Reykjavik? Shes prob to modest for that one though...Prob not Grandma approved? To think I was staying a few stumble steps away from such an oddity & never went?!..Next Time...

Thanks for the video, i have a question about food. I live in the US, but have traveled to Scotland and fell in love with Haggis, the pictures you showed of the food depicted what looks like a sausage. What are the banes if some if them so i can look for recipes? Thanks very much!

Hey Mac! If watching me feed my girlfriend shark and brennivín (our very strong liquor) sounds interesting, please head over to our channel. Video is out on Friday!

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To be fair, being the president of a 340,000 population is just like being the mayor of some medium sized city in every other country.

Maybe he wanted to experience the novelty of it? Iceland doesn't have a public railway system.

I must admit its been a while since I last heard Norway being a city in Sweden... The absolute heresy of such a statement. It is utterly shameful, thankfully it seems to be disappearing.

Licorice sauce?! That sounds amazing I need to try it!

No, Trump only walk with guns!

Oh what I have been in Finland 3 times and I never saw these Ice cream shops. I saw sometimes just ice cream stands and no Ice cream shops open until midnight hahaha

Nahhh, you have so many great bands in Finland, so it's difficult not to exist as a country, me rakastamme suomea!!!!!!!!

@NA NA LOL!

Came here to mention Dairy Queen Blizzards 😁

McDonald's its a flurry or McFlurry. You usually just get 1 ingredient like m&m's or reeces, or oreo's etc..

@@kylekyle7386 at Culvers concrete mixer maybe a little closer to the fox lol

I think I might have to go to Iceland for a tasty fox ;)

In my region of the US, it's like our thing to be outside, but I know so many people who get tired of the sun and will become nocturnal in the summertime. It gets so hot.

Danielle Ross it is very hot in Sweden in summertime and Pretty cold in Wintertime. But the swedish people are never happy with the wearher😂😂😂🤷🏼‍♂️

@@titti7530 I live a bit above the equator, yet still get snow up to my waist. I live in a very strange place (also part desert)

Danielle Ross where do you live in US?

@@titti7530 northeastern Colorado

Same

I had a plastic igloo in my backyard when i was 6. I loved that thing so much😍

These were probably 12 year olds given that it was on Tumblr.

... from IKEA.

Many ppl from France think people from Quebec(french canadian) live in igloos too or that we dont have cars etc ..Haha thats deep

I agreee!!! I wish we had a railway system🙏🏻

There were plans to build railway from Keflavik airport to Reykjavik, but its very difficult because of volcanic activity in Reykjanes. I think that railway in Iceland would be unprofitable, very high construction and maintenance cost would make prices of tickets too high. Straetó is cheaper to manage, but still tickets are very expensive, so it's not popular transportation between cities.

@@Hrafna you need a destination, and as you said, there is only one city. I suppose a train would follow the perimeter of the island, rather than go straight across.

Also Iceland has no aboriginal people prior to the Europeans settlers.

Mc Bekon I agree.

😂😂😂😂

Same goes to Portugal.

looks cool tho!

Ugrak Plethkilik it definitely doesn’t, trust me lol i believe mistreating animals is not cool at all

I thought the sport is respected? Was it?

what's difference north german and south german? do you dislike south german or something?

“Mojn” is also a greeting in Southern Jutland (Sønderjylland in Danish; a southern part of Denmark close to Germany 🇩🇪🇩🇰)😊

And I live in the middle of germany 😂

Is Moin really a weird thing to say? As a non-German, I have met German game groups online and they say "moin" every single day. I guess it's just a Northern German thing

@@endomania Yes for me it is wierd 😅 In my region nobody sais "moin" 🙈

The president of Iceland is the equivalent of the mayor of a medium sized city, or the county executive of Westchester Country in New York State. In Iceland, all politics is literally local! Iceland is in an unusual spot, it is a part of an underwater mountain range called the Midatlantic ridge, it is one of the few parts of it that rises above the ocean surface, another such place is Bermuda. The Midatlantic ridge is where the North American and European plates seperate, the crust is pulled apart and some of the molten rock from below rises up through the gap to form the Midatlantic ridge, most of which stays underwater except for places like Iceland and Bermuda.

Thomas Kalbfus Yep! And it’s the magma plume that Iceland is resting above that allows its hot springs to naturally occur and to use geothermal energy!!

Interesting about accessibility to the Pres. When I went to recover my lost US passport....the US embassy was like a bunker/fortress!!! Not inviting at all and they wouldn't let me take a photo of the front of it.. I mean geez! it's Iceland not Jerusalem!!

@@thomaskalbfus2005 but i like the icelandic approach to politicians (its similar here too)... theyre just people XD i feel like in the states you can be like a rockstar

@@scotverdin9401 which would make it an inviting target for terrorists. The hard targets are in the middle east, which is why the terrorists would go for the soft targets, it is not Icelanders who would be the terrorists, but rather visitors to their island, and the US cannot afford to let its guard down.

Iceland and ice cream has to be in the book of world records. We have Ice cream shops for every 1000 people or something. So we have about 350 Ice cream shops hahah. We eat ice cream when it's sunny, when it rains and when it snows. Tasty foxes are just 2lb boxes full of ice cream mixed with all the fruit, candy and chocolate you can think of.. and like 2500 cals ;)

It is also common in some places in Italy. I come from Calabria (the southest peninsula's region) and "pesce stocco" or "stoccafisso" - dried cod- is a traditional food. I think this is a common thing of historically poor places having the need to store food for long times.

@@rubenlatella3664 rather where winter is long

....and in Portugal, Brasil aso.....nothing very special.

😂😂 here we almost have cloudy-day guilty

Conversa. Os brasileiros quando emigram queixam-se sempre da falta de sol e do frio. Deve ser daquelas coisas que nem se apercebem que adoram.

@@dudanunesbleff Eu me sinto extremamente confortável em dias acinzentados. Acho que depende da pessoa mesmo.

I live in New Mexico, which is a state in America. It is actually sunny more than 300 days per year. The temperature range from about 0-40, but it mostly stays above around 10, so it's basically sunny and warm most of the time, and the humidity is very low so it's very pleasant most of the time, but even I get "sun guilt". I think, "The weather is so good here, but I don't appreciate it enough!" There's a lot of pressure to be outside since it's so nice, so you tend to feel guilty of you stay inside. There are a few weeks in the winter when it's cold enough that you don't want to go out for very long, but even then it's usually sunny and dry, so outside is comfortable. Even so we stay inside a lot in January to February. Skiing in the sunshine is great though! Then in the summer the sun can get so intense that if you do go outside, you have to stay in the shade. We are at 1830 meters elevation, so the sun is INTENSE.

My God! This. This was something I should have done during my seven years of computer support My BOFH-level would increase a tenfold times. Dang it. Lost opportunity there.

I wish I lived in Iceland or Russia or Greenland, Because the Summers in The UK isn’t very hot and We don’t get a lot of snow 😢

Nonce

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It's not even that bad 🙈 try it!

The WHAT

@@Kinobambino Hákarl, fermented shark.

I tried it. Its pretty bad. Think very small cubes of tofu with a VERY strong ammonia smell to it

Lol.. as a rottweiler mom... I can hear it lol :). But I am Icelandic so I can speak in my inbreth lol :)

Norwegian do it also, it's kind of scarry for ppl who never heard of it.

Was going to comment on that. I went out with a Danish girl for a while and after a short time realised I totally understood an in breathed “oh” sound as meaning “yes”. 😜

I live in a rural area near a small town. Nobody in town knows where my area is even though it's in the same county.

Alabama needs something like that.

It's common in Ireland too. Also late average age of marriage is something we share, the average age of 1st marriage here for men is 36.8 and women 34.8, and 3 years later for same-sex couples. As I understand it's similar in Iceland.

@Michael Miner how so?

@Michael Miner lol

We know you exist... I love "airport security".🤗

sasha rama I love NZ I would love to visit!😊 NZ became really popular here in GER due lord of the rings ;)

@@linajurgensen4698 I totally agree with you. Those landscapes... It's like heaven in earth😍

@@linajurgensen4698 I totally agree with you. Those landscapes... It's like heaven on earth😍

I'm pretty sure that's unique to Texas.

One of the Latin American countries used to have a president who drove around in a VW beetle.

Classic australia

I live in Arizona. I can relate to 50.5, lol. We get at least 3 days of 48 every year in Phoenix. This year we have had 52 days above 43, 14 days above 46. Our record for days above 38 in one year is 146. Phoenix can be absolutely miserable lol. There's also the added fun of tons of roaches, scorpions, and tarantulas. No crocs though lol

Also everything is upside down

50.5 ohh my lord some people must have dead working outside.

Idk man, people probably get eaten everyweeks by pythons here in Indonesia

Right. The "weirdest" thing about my country is that it only has one or two women as beautiful as Hrafna, and they're married.

Greenland consists of ice while Iceland consists of green -_-

Sean Villanueva , Iceland has many glaciers.

@@juandiegovalverde1982 Don't ruin the joke m8

Those Danes

I nearly posted Americans of a certain age know Iceland as the villains of Mighty Ducks 2

We do it in France when we say for example: Oui, so it's a breathy "Oui", which basically means " Yes". In Sweden and in other countries it also applies.

Yes!! I used to work at IKEA a few years ago and on super sunny days there would be very few customers so my boss would often let me and a few of my co-workers just go come home and enjoy the sun 😀 a lot of big companies in Iceland do this for their employees

@@Hrafna Amazing! It's like a Spanish Siesta for Icelanders :D

Hrafna whaaat?? Omg that’s amazing😆

@@Hrafna, we don't have a word for sun-guilt in Polish but I can sort of relate. I felt it when you said that! Yes, we have quite sunny (but also stormy) summers but the November-March period, much darker (on the shortest day of the year the sun rises at 07:44am and sets at 03:23pm in Warsaw), often with gloomy weather, makes some people depressed. I try my best to stay decently active each winter in order to save my sanity ;) and when it's sunny in late autumn and winter it feels like heaven! I'm blessed with somewhat flexible work schedule so I often put an OOO in my google calendar in the middle of a day just to go for a walk when the weather forecast is promising! Also, when spring comes, many kids and even university students have some classes outside :) I can remember that when I was a student at the Jagiellonian University we begged some teachers to give a lecture on the Vistula river banks instead of a classroom. Beautiful times!