Friday, September 19, 2008

What do pirates and Swedes have in common?

Alright, so we all know by now that Swedes have all sorts of crazy allergies, fruit, mozzarella cheese, mannequins, hamsters, dogs, N-U-T-S (I didn't dare put the letters together, someone might have an allergic reaction...danger..danger!). No one knows where these allergies come from. Some believe that they are made-up, that the Swedes imagine them to feel special, to stick out in a lagom world. Let me say now that the people who believe that are blasphemous! We all know that allergies come from the allergy gnomes that live deep in the mountains and ride around on the fabled animal "reindeer" (look it up, it's in the encyclopedia next to unicorn) and on the most vicious of all Swedish animals, the hedgehog. Every spring these gnomes awaken from their berry induced slumber and come to the villages that populate Sweden, leaving a devestating wake of allergy related bitching and moaning.

Well apparently Swedes have a new thing to fear, and it isn't "reindeer", hedgehogs or allergy giving gnomes, it is Alvedon! That's right apparently pain relievers not only can give you astma they can also turn you into a pre-teen pirate!!

Yes, DN has finally broken the heart-wrenching story of how small children can be turned into asthmatic pirates by simply taking a pain/fever reliever or two. Damn you Alvedon! Damn you all to hell! Now the Swedish children of tomorrow will be saying such things as, "Aye, she be a saucy wench" and "Arg! Scurvy Sea Dog" instead of "That chicken-head be fucked up" and "What's up my Nigs!". Oh the humanity!

http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=597&a=829952

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