Hello Sweden, you're on fire

Raymond Chen

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The longstanding tradition of Norwegians telling Swedish jokes and vice versa, was recently refueled by a border story. A Norwegian man called Sweden on his mobile phone to tell them they had a forest fire. Not only did the firefighters not know about the blaze, they didn’t recognize the name of the place on fire.

Mitt bidrag att försämra diplomatiska förbindelser mellan Sverige och dess grannländer…

Raymond Chen

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