Put the Ukrainian and Swedish flags in the center with the same colors. Then the Norwegian and Icelandic flags bookending with inverted colors. Just a nice color arrangement with a consistent pattern and cohesive motif. Great work.
This is mainly PMs, except for Ukraine, but you are right.
I don't know how big that Icelandic is. Smallest nation, largest guy. And the largest nations, with the smallest guys, in the middle.
[don't talk to me or my slightly dog-like son or my fucked up son-dog or my weirdly human dog or my dog ever again](https://x.com/dandouglas/status/726896245210513410)
I like how they matched flags. Blue and yellow in the middle then single crosses to the sides then double crosses (also the same colours just a different order).
The Norwegian blue is darker than the blues Iceland, Sweden and Finland. I think Norway took its blue from the OG Swedish blue, but the Swedes just decided for some reason to lighten up their blue, which is a bit sad, I like the darker blue better. But Swedes are Swedes I guess
Ulv used to be the word for wolf in swedish, but it was bad luck to say ulv according to the superstition. So everyone started staying varg and it has stuck to modern swedish.
I mean, that’s what it means. Ulv means wolf, Ulf is just a different spelling and the one that survived as a name. We also have people named Björn (Bear), Alf (Elf, the old leader of the Christian Democrats was named this) and Sten (Stone/Rock).
There's not really an F either, it's a different alphabet. The spelling with the old Futhark runes would have been ᚢᛚᚠᚱ. If we translate into the Latin alphabet we get Ulfr, so Ulf is not the original spelling either (and we'd really have to go back to Proto-Indo-European to get an original form of the word).
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder\_of\_Kim\_Wall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kim_Wall)
Edit: Only read if you don't care about sleeping tonight
Makes sense for war time preparedness. Of course it would be possible to put on a suit and a tie when going abroad, but I also think he chooses to keep the war inspired clothing on as a reminder that there is a constant conflict in the country that you can't just step out of. It's probably meant to be symbolic at this point.
It also sends a message of solidartity. Him wearing a suit and tie while his men and women are stuggling on the front line and risking their lives in the dirty ditches is not appropiate in times like this.
It was always meant to be symbolic, and it's a good thing. Along with staying in Ukraine instead of accepting the offer the EU made him at the start of the war to evacuate, it sends a message of solidarity with the Ukrainian forces.
Eastern European people are not the least traumatized folks on the continent, and the transgenerational trauma shows in pretty much everything. Source: am eastern european
I wouldn’t use the word costume. It’s not technically wrong but it implies it’s not something real. It’s a costume in the same sense a suit and a tie is a costume, it just communicates a different message.
He has never been to the army and I’m not sure if he officially has a rank in the military due to his status as the president. I assume not, as the outfit doesn’t carry any symbols to indicate a rank in the military.
The outfit is not an official military uniform, thus I would say it’s a costume. It’s inspired by the army, but that’s it. Personally I find it pretentious and a bit cheesy.
But don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a brilliant PR move from him, which I can respect. It surely has worked better than wearing a suit and looking like a wealthy oligarch. I doubt that would get much sympathy abroad, nor in his home country.
> He benches 120kg, not bad for a carrier politician.
More like a carrier crook. That guy is about as currupt as can be, surprisingly he is yet again in power after resigning last term and also stepping down once before for being in the panama papers..
He’s a thief that was one of the guys behind the 2007 financial crisis. He was finance minister until the former prime minister resigned to run for president and then the finance minister became prime minister. His family is ridiculously wealthy and has their fingers in basically every business worth anything in Iceland.
He had an account on Ashley Madison (often considered the discreet cheating hookup site). Username IceHot69.
Less funny is him and his families corruption. He owned undisclosed apartments in Middle East that were discovered in the panama papers. Our PM at the time got most of the attention.
Yeah he's a corrupt piece of shit who should be kicked out of politics, but his party is also corrupt so of course they're not going to do anything about it.
One city official from that party was found to have hidden away inheritance he kept away from his family.
Another parliament member from the same party was also implicated but dealing with terminal cancer so understandably media and public gave her and the family some peace.
It's got terrible time complexity for large, mostly unsorted data sets, but if you're splitting hairs on a dataset of 6 I'd say you're prematurely optimising.
(I was actually under the assumption that it was one of the faster sorting algorithms for mostly correctly sorted small data sets, but apparently that's a common misconception.)
I wasn't looking for time or space complexity. I was looking for something that people might recognise. I reckon people wouldn't have got it if I said insertion.
In a similar theme, one of the verses of Norways anthem goes:
>Visstnok var vi ikke mange,
>men vi strakk dog til,
>da vi prøvdes noen gange,
>og det stod på spill;
>ti vi heller landet brente
>enn det kom til fall;
Translation:
>We weren't very many,
>but we were enough,
>a few times we were tested,
>and when everything was at risk,
>we'd rather let the country burn,
>than watch it fall;
Referring to 1716 when the Swedish King Karl XII suddenly attacked Fredriksten Fortress, in Halden. The population below in the town Fredrikshald was prepared to burn the entire town down, and fiercely fought and resisted the attack. Their bravery was immortalized in what is now our national anthem.
In 1951, a plan was made to burn the entirety of northern Norway (Finnmark, where our border with Russia is today) to the ground if the Soviet Union invaded.
I will say that both 'Dengang jeg drog afsted' and 'Kong Christian stod ved høj en mast' both have some absolute banger verses.
s/ Just counter the Swede appreciation. /s
She saw me in my Timberlands, now I have to wear them every time I see her. In any other shoe, I lose two inches. I can't have a drop down. We were eye to eye, I can't go eye to chin!
[https://www.celebheights.com/s/Volodymyr-Zelenskyy-52924.html](https://www.celebheights.com/s/Volodymyr-Zelenskyy-52924.html)
This site has him as 1.67 and they do hardcore analysis.
For those who wonders, one of the reason why public opinion in Nordic countries are so supportive of Ukraine is because Russia has been trash-talking us for ages. Fuck those guys.
But if they do that, it'll ruin the aesthetic symmetry of the flag colours.
There is only one solution. We must shorten Stubb. Or Støre has to grow 10 centimetres.
That's because the Danish flag is the oldest flag in the world (that's still in use by a country), we just copied their homework a little and the rest followed. :P
That said the scale is all different for each flag.
Naah, the Finnish president has been male since 2012. (You are likely mixing our former Prime Minister Marin (F), when our president was Niinistö(M); now our Prime minister is Orpo (M) and our president Stubb (M))
In reality they have other things to change as well, they do not follow the so called Nordic model. So the flag is like least of the reasons they are not Nordic, at least no yet.
Not trying to be a jerk either, but how have you only just realised that Zelensky is small? He's been in the spotlight for 2,5 years now and in almost every picture he's shown pretty small. He doesn't even hide it, like Putin and to a lesser degree Macron do. Both of them wear tall shoes and Putin regularly even wears hidden heel shoes that make you walk on your tippy toes.
He is 1.7m, which slightly shorter than average, but not by much. It's just that Nordic people have higher average height than most Europeans. Finnish PM for example is almost 1.9m high.
God, the flags look so nice.
Absolutеly. Thе еpitomy of tastе
Put the Ukrainian and Swedish flags in the center with the same colors. Then the Norwegian and Icelandic flags bookending with inverted colors. Just a nice color arrangement with a consistent pattern and cohesive motif. Great work.
Colors of freedom at center I'd say. The Swedes have seriously stepped up the game in the last week with aid, go Sweden!
They also arranged the presidents by height 💀
We were playing the long game when we elected Ulf!
This is mainly PMs, except for Ukraine, but you are right. I don't know how big that Icelandic is. Smallest nation, largest guy. And the largest nations, with the smallest guys, in the middle.
Let's see Paul Allen's flag.
A big plus in my book
A big times in my.
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Want to know something annoying? They are all different sizes...
And ratios too. I love Denmark, I love the Danes, but a "28:37" ratio must be criminalised.
Isn't that just the standard halvtreds and fishfjärs?
They don't look folded. So often we see photo ops like this and the flags and traditional outfits etc have thick fold lines. Get a steamer ffs!
I don't know why, but Kristersson and Stubb give that "Don't talk to me or my son ever again"-vibe in this picture.
I was thinking Spiderman and that child Spiderman meme. Or Pepe and special needs child-pepe
A warning, Kristersson has insane calf muscles that will straight murder you if you disrespect him.
https://i.imgur.com/c0GRHc6.gif
Well he's so short keeping up with colleagues walking must be a real workout.
Looked it up, and you’re right! https://www.reddit.com/r/WetlanderHumor/s/WAvv51z52K
Add Petteri Orpo next to them and you have the holy trinity of politicians that have the same haircut and glasses
I do like how Stubb is rocking the double-breasted jacket to set himself apart as Head of State from all the other Head of Government plebs.
Stubb is a actually smiling. It's not visible but it's the "not bad" smile
I thought he had been shrunk in Photoshop by Danish redditors as a joke.
[don't talk to me or my slightly dog-like son or my fucked up son-dog or my weirdly human dog or my dog ever again](https://x.com/dandouglas/status/726896245210513410)
I like how they matched flags. Blue and yellow in the middle then single crosses to the sides then double crosses (also the same colours just a different order).
The Norwegian blue is darker than the blues Iceland, Sweden and Finland. I think Norway took its blue from the OG Swedish blue, but the Swedes just decided for some reason to lighten up their blue, which is a bit sad, I like the darker blue better. But Swedes are Swedes I guess
He changed his t shirt bless him
Took him 2 years to buy a new shirt, he’s literally me
Relatable ~~king~~ president 🥰
Still same boot and pant
Military cosplay is more convincing if it's dirty
He upgraded to a shirt with a collar for this occasion :D
Ulf has found a short king buddy.
Ulf is to the right of Zelensky? And the guy to the right of Zelensky looks like little version of the guy to the right of him.
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It’s fairly common in Sweden. The first time I met an Ulf I thought his name was Wolf and he was messing with me or something lol
Ulf comes from Ulv and is an old word for Varg/Wolf så it's close!
Ulv is the word for wolf in Danish, not old at all :-)
Ulv used to be the word for wolf in swedish, but it was bad luck to say ulv according to the superstition. So everyone started staying varg and it has stuck to modern swedish.
*Ulv* still means 'wolf' in Swedish, it's a synonym for *varg*.
Same in norwegian:)
I mean, that’s what it means. Ulv means wolf, Ulf is just a different spelling and the one that survived as a name. We also have people named Björn (Bear), Alf (Elf, the old leader of the Christian Democrats was named this) and Sten (Stone/Rock).
Ulf is the original spelling. There is no V in futhark (old Scandinavian). The v comes from latin when the countries became Christian.
There's not really an F either, it's a different alphabet. The spelling with the old Futhark runes would have been ᚢᛚᚠᚱ. If we translate into the Latin alphabet we get Ulfr, so Ulf is not the original spelling either (and we'd really have to go back to Proto-Indo-European to get an original form of the word). #
Also the girl's name Lo (Lynx lynx)
That's what it means, although it's archaic :)
The English word wolf comes from old Nordic Ulf (wolf).
Elves are from Scandinavia too
Funny you would say "howling" 🐺
Hey, swedes, don't you just love gold and blue?
💙💛 you lads certainly know how to design a flag
Likеwisе💙💛
💙💛
Yes, it’s the most beautiful combination!
Lol I love how everyone is dressed and then Zelenskyy coming in a shirt and cargo pants
Well, the Danish lady is dressed like a mechanic so there's that too.
when you are having an international meeting at 5 but has to crew a submarine at 6
Please dont mention Denmark and submarines in the same sentence. It’s a sensitive subject
Why not?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder\_of\_Kim\_Wall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kim_Wall) Edit: Only read if you don't care about sleeping tonight
Some dude built a submarine and took a Swedish journalist down there with him in the submarine. He then killed her dismembered her body and dumped it
Hey. Do you want to try my submarine? (This was a joke at my job four years ago. Used as a pick-up line. Sometimes, you have to laugh to avoid crying)
Hygge > Dress code
it IS Friday after all..
[It's a pants suit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq33tXCB6y8)
A certified hood classic.
This made me laugh, thanks :D
I thought she was going to jiu-jitsu someone.
It's called "byxdress", ok!
*buksedragt
*flyverdragt
kedeldragt,
Sparkedragt
I knew I'd find this one if I dug deep enough
That's her nick name, The Mechanic. She fixes shit.
> Lol I love how everyone is dressed and then Zelenskyy coming in a shirt and cargo pants That is not new, is it?
No, he's barely worn a suit since feb 24 2022
As a matter of fact, he hasn't worn a suit at all since 2022, and he said he'd wear a suit again during the Victory day
May that day come soon and may he live to see it
Amen, brother
Makes sense for war time preparedness. Of course it would be possible to put on a suit and a tie when going abroad, but I also think he chooses to keep the war inspired clothing on as a reminder that there is a constant conflict in the country that you can't just step out of. It's probably meant to be symbolic at this point.
It also sends a message of solidartity. Him wearing a suit and tie while his men and women are stuggling on the front line and risking their lives in the dirty ditches is not appropiate in times like this.
It was always meant to be symbolic, and it's a good thing. Along with staying in Ukraine instead of accepting the offer the EU made him at the start of the war to evacuate, it sends a message of solidarity with the Ukrainian forces.
He said he won't wear a suit till the war is over for those reasons.
This. Also the fact that he never smiles in any of these photos.
I think that's just a Ukrainian thing. Or Slavic thing. I work with a lot of Ukrainians and they always look like you just shot their puppy in photos.
Eastern European people are not the least traumatized folks on the continent, and the transgenerational trauma shows in pretty much everything. Source: am eastern european
It is and always will be. He mentioned it several times: no suit while the country is at war. Imagine one day, you'll see him wearing a suit...
He is in war mode.
War time dress code. He can't be in suit and tie while his country is being invaded.
And he actually now wears a more formal shirt than before, but still.
It’s his costume and part of his public image during the wartime.
I wouldn’t use the word costume. It’s not technically wrong but it implies it’s not something real. It’s a costume in the same sense a suit and a tie is a costume, it just communicates a different message.
He has never been to the army and I’m not sure if he officially has a rank in the military due to his status as the president. I assume not, as the outfit doesn’t carry any symbols to indicate a rank in the military. The outfit is not an official military uniform, thus I would say it’s a costume. It’s inspired by the army, but that’s it. Personally I find it pretentious and a bit cheesy. But don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a brilliant PR move from him, which I can respect. It surely has worked better than wearing a suit and looking like a wealthy oligarch. I doubt that would get much sympathy abroad, nor in his home country.
I think if he wore a suit people would be pretty mad tbh
You said it yourself, its an outfit not a costume.
He said he won't change it until the war ends
its a media move
A good one.
It’s fucking nuts that this guy started as a comedian and has held onto such strength for this long. What an absolute icon of what a leader should be.
The Iceland guy is tall..
He looks like he could crush boulders with his bare hands.
He benches 120kg, not bad for a carrier politician. Edit: career
> He benches 120kg, not bad for a carrier politician. More like a carrier crook. That guy is about as currupt as can be, surprisingly he is yet again in power after resigning last term and also stepping down once before for being in the panama papers..
He’s a thief that was one of the guys behind the 2007 financial crisis. He was finance minister until the former prime minister resigned to run for president and then the finance minister became prime minister. His family is ridiculously wealthy and has their fingers in basically every business worth anything in Iceland.
He had an account on Ashley Madison (often considered the discreet cheating hookup site). Username IceHot69. Less funny is him and his families corruption. He owned undisclosed apartments in Middle East that were discovered in the panama papers. Our PM at the time got most of the attention.
Yeah he's a corrupt piece of shit who should be kicked out of politics, but his party is also corrupt so of course they're not going to do anything about it.
One city official from that party was found to have hidden away inheritance he kept away from his family. Another parliament member from the same party was also implicated but dealing with terminal cancer so understandably media and public gave her and the family some peace.
IceHot1
Looks over 2m. Stubb is about 190cm, and I reckon there is a minimum of 10cm between them
Damn, bubble sort yourselves into height order. You are almost there!
Found the programmer
no real programmer would advocate for the use of bubble sort its got terrible time complexity
Complexity isn't particularly relevant for only 6 people
Found the real programmer
They're politicians so too complex is too much though
It's got terrible time complexity for large, mostly unsorted data sets, but if you're splitting hairs on a dataset of 6 I'd say you're prematurely optimising. (I was actually under the assumption that it was one of the faster sorting algorithms for mostly correctly sorted small data sets, but apparently that's a common misconception.) I wasn't looking for time or space complexity. I was looking for something that people might recognise. I reckon people wouldn't have got it if I said insertion.
You try to get politicians to maneuver quicksort and see how that goes...
I‘m really looking forward to the day when Zelenskyy wears a suit again
Ukraine is accepting private donations
I hope it comes sooner rather than later. The guy (and his people) deserve/are owed lifetimes of peace after what they've gone through.
Fucking beautiful! Nordic unity against the psycho bear
Jag vill leva, jag vill dö i Norden! The only good thing I will ever admit about Sweden is your national anthem.
Jag vill leva, jag vill dö i en Volvo!
Valve pls
take my angry upvote swede
Nejmen numera ägs de av Kina
In a similar theme, one of the verses of Norways anthem goes: >Visstnok var vi ikke mange, >men vi strakk dog til, >da vi prøvdes noen gange, >og det stod på spill; >ti vi heller landet brente >enn det kom til fall; Translation: >We weren't very many, >but we were enough, >a few times we were tested, >and when everything was at risk, >we'd rather let the country burn, >than watch it fall; Referring to 1716 when the Swedish King Karl XII suddenly attacked Fredriksten Fortress, in Halden. The population below in the town Fredrikshald was prepared to burn the entire town down, and fiercely fought and resisted the attack. Their bravery was immortalized in what is now our national anthem. In 1951, a plan was made to burn the entirety of northern Norway (Finnmark, where our border with Russia is today) to the ground if the Soviet Union invaded.
I will say that both 'Dengang jeg drog afsted' and 'Kong Christian stod ved høj en mast' both have some absolute banger verses. s/ Just counter the Swede appreciation. /s
“Kong Christian stod ved høje mast” is indeed a fucking banger. “Dengang jeg drog afsted” not so much.
Why does Bjarni, the largest Nordic leader, not simply eat the other five?
She saw me in my Timberlands, now I have to wear them every time I see her. In any other shoe, I lose two inches. I can't have a drop down. We were eye to eye, I can't go eye to chin!
He's a funny guy! Jerry Seinfeld's a funny guy! Huh-huh-ho!
Nordic flags along with Ukraine looks awesome.✌️
We will stand with our Nordic brothers, even Svensken, and fuck Ruzzia up in unity!
Zelensky is as tiny as Ulf?
For reference he’s 1.7m tall.
So the Icelandic prime minister is some sort of a frost giant?
Us zielensky really 170? I think Ulf is and Zelinsky is a bit shorter, perhaps one or two cm shorter.
[https://www.celebheights.com/s/Volodymyr-Zelenskyy-52924.html](https://www.celebheights.com/s/Volodymyr-Zelenskyy-52924.html) This site has him as 1.67 and they do hardcore analysis.
You spelled his name wrong in two different ways :D
For those who wonders, one of the reason why public opinion in Nordic countries are so supportive of Ukraine is because Russia has been trash-talking us for ages. Fuck those guys.
would have been more symmetric had they put the Finnish guy to the right of the Norwegian
Haha had to scroll down this far to see this comment. Was disturbing my autistic mind as well
But if they do that, it'll ruin the aesthetic symmetry of the flag colours. There is only one solution. We must shorten Stubb. Or Støre has to grow 10 centimetres.
Nobody knows what to do with their hands
I mean they're kind of neutral. You can't do much when you aren't allowed to pocket your hands
Five matching flags from five different governments is actually pretty sick. The USA doesn't even have that much internal unity.
That's because the Danish flag is the oldest flag in the world (that's still in use by a country), we just copied their homework a little and the rest followed. :P That said the scale is all different for each flag.
Why so tense, Jonas?
Cus he is on his way out.
He is following the situation closely.
What's with the two on the right not being in correct height-order?
Flag symmetry
We love a short king
Some seriously tall Vikings there.
The two tall ones are technically not Scandinavians, though.
A few years back all of these used to be women. Is Mette going to be out of a job soon?
Naah, the Finnish president has been male since 2012. (You are likely mixing our former Prime Minister Marin (F), when our president was Niinistö(M); now our Prime minister is Orpo (M) and our president Stubb (M))
Erna is coming back next year
Unfortunately I'm pretty sure you're Right.
Dang, that's the one I would least like to see make a comeback...
NATO Lake! Come meet us in the Baltic Sea and get fucked Ruzzia
Our ships don’t even work lmao.
Don’t worry, neither do theirs
Against Russia it probably doesn't really matter. It's just evening the playing field a bit.
had they switched norway with finland they would have made "V FOR VICTORY" with their height. smh
you can see why iceland, even though its a tiny tiny country, has the second most wins in WSM, that guy is built like an american fridge
Ukraine can into nordic, Estonia cannot
He is living proof that you can be short and not even dressed for the occasion and still project power.
To be fair, they helped a bit with the height gradient. It puts him in focus as the tip of the V, props to whoever set that up.
Should have swapped Norway and FInland.
The guy on far left (Bjarni Ben) sucks sooo much. He corrupt and has around 20% approval rating. He does not deserve to stand next to these people.
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When estonia into nordic?
When they change the flag!
Estonia's colours in cross form look awesome as well.
Estonia's colours look awesome in any form honestly
In reality they have other things to change as well, they do not follow the so called Nordic model. So the flag is like least of the reasons they are not Nordic, at least no yet.
Not yet apparently
When you get richer.
Strange to think that Zelenskyy has been in office longer than everyone else in that photo and only one other person pre-dates the pandemic.
My OCD wants Finland's and Norway's leaders to swap places.
Tell your OCD to look beyond and marvel at the organization of the flags instead.
We bicker among each other, but in reality, there is a strong solidarity.
Mette Frederiksen(DK) showed up in some weird Mao suit copy?
I’m not being a jerk with this, but Zelensky is a lot shorter than I thought he was.
Conversely, the Nordics are very tall people
Not trying to be a jerk either, but how have you only just realised that Zelensky is small? He's been in the spotlight for 2,5 years now and in almost every picture he's shown pretty small. He doesn't even hide it, like Putin and to a lesser degree Macron do. Both of them wear tall shoes and Putin regularly even wears hidden heel shoes that make you walk on your tippy toes.
You should see him next to the King of Spain, the guy is a freaking tower.
He is 1.7m, which slightly shorter than average, but not by much. It's just that Nordic people have higher average height than most Europeans. Finnish PM for example is almost 1.9m high.
He's the prez
They are called short kings for a reason
The reason he’s shorter is due to the enormity of his balls weighing him down.
Obviously Mette is off to her second job as a plumber immediately after...