Chilly willies: Swedish nudie nightclub opens in -11°C to disgust of locals

Re: IT?

Bootnote !!

Maybe the reg needs to highlight these article headers clearer, people seem not to notice the small category text top left of title.

Maybe some flashing....erm..

Re: IT?

David, you've been here about as long as I have, and yet you haven't noticed Bootnotes? Bootnotes covers all sins. All work & no play makes ElReg a dull vulture.

Re: IT?

"there are areas where guests can "do what you feel right now and then""

Sounds like the data centre/server room out of office hours to me.

Re: IT?

"Come naked. Come as you are. Do whatever you want. Everything stays here," the club promo stated. Apparently, there are areas where guests can "do what you feel right now and then".

Sounds like the your typical night-shift in a data center to me. Even the part where you freeze your nuts off because it's so darn cold...

Edit: Someone beat me to it already. We really have cool jobs, don't we?

Re: IT?

>Wait I found the IT angle, Bluetooth comes from Sweden,

Nah, he was Danish.

Also, how do you breed depression and broken souls? I'm pretty sure it's not with dance music, nakedness and rampant sex.

I daresay the naked ravers will be pilled up to their eyeballs, and that'll do the job, just like it does for fully clothed pill freaks?

Although on a point of detail, I'd legalise all drugs, since they're going to be "done" anyway. Might as well squeeze the criminals out of the supply chain, and improve the quality.

how do you breed depression and broken souls

At -11^oC I guess the average person's manhood is likely to be diminished, not to say depressed...

"[...] how do you breed depression [...]"

Working on a project in Stockholm in the 1970s we took a youngster with us whose tasks only required him to work a 9-5 day. Back in England he had heard about a particular Stockholm disco where it was said that the women asked you to dance - and took you home with them afterwards.

He went a few times - and vouched for the veracity of the situation. Poor lad - he was never even asked for a dance.

In many northern countries - it is the long dark winters and alcohol that often fuel depression.

So-called "dark rooms" for anonymous sex, beloved in the high-energy gay scene in the early 1980s. Without wishing to pass judgement: amphetamines and dark rooms correlate well with STDs. "Faggots" is the book to read if you're interested.

Re: Swedish Winter..

A man once asked an Inuit what they did in summer when the days were 24 hours long - "we go fishing and make love to our women" was the reply. The man then asked about the winter when the nights were 24 hours long and the Innuit answered "well, we don't go fishing" (I've seen this joke in several places but I first heard it many years ago told by the Anglican Bishop of the Arctic!)

Re: Swedish Winter..

But it'd not so bad in the summer..

Err, mosquitoes, horseflies, biting midges, wasps, ticks …

I'd probably be less likely to get my kit off during a Swedish summer than winter, unless there was a swimming pool full of DEET.

Re: Swedish Winter..

"But it'd not so bad in the summer.."

...after the middle of July when the midges are dead. Voracious things anywhere in tree shade near water - and there's a lot of tree shade and relatively fresh water in that part of the world. Bad enough round Stockholm and the Finnish archipelago. They get even bigger once you get to the tundra above the Arctic Circle even though there are no trees..

Re: Swedish Winter..

On a trip to Finland in the winter I arrived in the morning when it was still dark. In the taxi from the airport, I asked the driver when it gets light. With characteristic Finnish deadpan he replied "April".

Re: "do what you feel right now and then"

Köttbullar med gräddsås?

My Finnish girlfriend's family had an all-year-round holiday cottage in the archipelago. It had a wooden sauna built on the edge of the sea - with a boat jetty to give access to deeper water. When you had had enough of the sauna heat you could open the door - run down the jetty - and jump into the water. Repeat a couple of times - then retire to the adjacent lounge for fire-toasted sausage and weak beer.

The Baltic is a shallow sea - and not very salty owing to the rivers feeding it and the narrow Kattegat channel to the Atlantic. So it has quite a wide temperature variation over the year - frozen in winter - pleasantly warmer after high summer.

My girlfriend said that many people in the winter would roll in the snow after their sauna. She found it too hard at -20C - so she preferred to plunge into a hole cut in the sea ice.

On holiday there with her and her family she wore only her bikini bottom the whole week. Except when we went for a swim - then she would say "No point in getting it wet". In her younger teenage years she went riding on her horse bareback in all respects.

I've never been quite as comfortably English ever since that holiday. A stranger in a strange land.

Re: depression and broken souls

"Once the LGB&Q crowd are involved it's going to be cheap and tacky and about sex."

They are much he same as anyone else - some are clubbers - some prefer domesticity or fine dining.

My godson at university in the 1990s used to go to Godskitchen. As a sort of confessional he often told me some of the things his apparently straight group did. In some ways no different to the 1960/70s - except that The PlaceMate wasn't so free and easy in those days - at least as far as sex on the premises was concerned..

The place to go for that was the local church youth club. It was a converted house - with a soft drink "bar" and a table tennis table downstairs. Supervised by a trendy "call me Dave" guy. It was closed down after the organist's under-age daughter took advantage of the facilities in the upstairs rooms - and became pregnant.

Re: depression and broken souls

Just thought you might be interested; they're planning a film about your life..

Working title:

I, Bigot

Re: depression and broken souls

”Once the LGB&Q crowd are involved it's going to be cheap and tacky and about sex.”

Sounds a lot more fun that you do homophobe.

El Reg needs a "wanker" icon.

Re: Not my cuppa tea.

Maybe it's a personal grudge on the good pastor's part like the wouldn't let him for free to do "research"?

Re: Not my cuppa tea.

What's this "sexual purity".

Asking for a friend.

Re: Not my cuppa tea.

"People like Pastor Lennard Torebring of Södermalmskyrkan need to learn to mind their own business."

Reminds me of a fellow traveller of his back in the 1970's i9n South Africa. The NGK was the strict Protestant Church that was effectively part of the (police) State social control.

The liberal Jo'burg Star gleefully reported the cleric saying "If God had intended us to walk about without any clothes - then we would have been born naked".

That was a time when Afrikaaners kept their daughters under very strict control until they were 18. At which point like lambs to the slaughter they quickly became pregnant. It was said that the English speaking South Africans gave their teenage daughters much more freedom - and put the Pill in their breakfast cereal.

The Ingmar Bergman semi-autobiographical "Fanny and Alexander" has just been transferred to the London stage as a play. The original was a TV mini-series and then a cut-down film version. It portrays his bishop stepfather as the sort of cleric for whom the classification as Puritan is too liberal.

Will it manage 333?

Shall we all play ...

... "Spot The Youngster!"?

Re: Skandabrøt

Went into a US coffee bar called “Java”, and intrigued, asked for a “Java coffee”, whereupon bemused operatives said they had never heard of it. I guess this is why:

https://driftaway.coffee/coffee-called-java/

Now off to a Norwegian bar to enquire after Nora Knackers.