So, how great is Kromm anyway?

[Anders]

Originally Posted by Icelander

Asta:

Either your dad is (was?) a close colleague of Dr. Mengele or the Swedish Army would have been a great setting for Catch-22. ;)

He didn't expect quite that severe a reaction (and the guy could have told him how bad it was), but he was very happy that he was well prepared. But the Swedish army had some catch-22 situations built in to it. As most military institutions do, I suspect.

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Asta Kask

He didn't expect quite that severe a reaction (and the guy could have told him how bad it was), but he was very happy that he was well prepared.

Yeah, I'm told Mengele was pretty surprised when the twins bought it, too. ;)

Originally Posted by Asta Kask

But the Swedish army had some catch-22 situations built in to it. As most military institutions do, I suspect.

Or just "institutions", in general. Bureaucracy somehow brings out the worst in people.

[Þorkell]

Originally Posted by Asta Kask

How many people die from bad weather in Iceland?

It has happened once or twice that people have gotten drunk (yeah, I know. Unheard of in Iceland) and done something they'd not do while sober. Like passing out somewhere in the snow and barely being rescued from there. Or the guy who decided to walk home after a party, this happened in the NE of Iceland where there's a reasonable distance between places. He got lost, the search and rescue guys went to look and didn't find him for weeks. But found him later frozen dead, but sober.

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Þorkell

It has happened once or twice that people have gotten drunk (yeah, I know. Unheard of in Iceland) and done something they'd not do while sober. Like passing out somewhere in the snow and barely being rescued from there.

Well, for people who live out in the wilderness. Personally I hadn't seen snow for quite a while before this year. ;)

Originally Posted by Þorkell

Or the guy who decided to walk home after a party, this happened in the NE of Iceland where there's a reasonable distance between places. He got lost, the search and rescue guys went to look and didn't find him for weeks.

Reasonable distance meaning miles and miles of miles and miles.

Originally Posted by Þorkell

But found him later frozen dead, but sober.

Bloody bad luck, having to die sober. ;)

KROMM 'alaykum.

[elShoggotho]

With a proper lifestyle as lived by Our Holy Savior, Lord KROMM, they would still live today. Basically there's one main rule: Don't be stupid.

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by Þorkell

It has happened once or twice that people have gotten drunk (yeah, I know. Unheard of in Iceland) and done something they'd not do while sober. Like passing out somewhere in the snow and barely being rescued from there. Or the guy who decided to walk home after a party, this happened in the NE of Iceland where there's a reasonable distance between places. He got lost, the search and rescue guys went to look and didn't find him for weeks. But found him later frozen dead, but sober.

This doesn't sound any different from Canada.

[Nikolai]

Originally Posted by Icelander

Well, for people who live out in the wilderness. Personally I hadn't seen snow for quite a while before this year. ;)

Icelandic snow stops at the city borders? Fascinating!
Do you have giant heating units there? ;)

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Kromm

This doesn't sound any different from Canada.

And yea, verily, Our Home is proclaimed to be as the Celestial Abode of Fabled Canada, the Mystic Shambala of KROMM!

Hosannna!

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Nikolai

Icelandic snow stops at the city borders? Fascinating!
Do you have giant heating units there? ;)

Nah, I just glare at it until it gives up in embarrassment. ;)

The fact that our city is at sea level and the places that get the most snow are higher might also have something to do with it, of course.

[Nikolai]

Originally Posted by Icelander

Nah, I just glare at it until it gives up in embarrassment. ;)

How do you glare at the snow without seeing it? ;)