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  • Björn Tantau
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    Once had a really great easter party where we legally roasted a pig and illegally distilled liquor. Never in my life have I had a cleaner buzz. When I got home the next day I wrestled with myself whether I should tell my mother about it. But eventually I elected to tell her because I had such a good time.

    When I mentioned my reservations for telling her about distilling liquor she shot me an incredulous look and just said: “Dude, have you forgotten that I’m Norwegian?”

    In Norway alcohol is very expensive so basically everyone has distilled liquor at some point in their life.

    • iri
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      86 days ago

      Is this one of those “1/37th of me is Norwegian” stories from the US based on 23andme results?

      • Björn Tantau
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        356 days ago

        Nah, it’s a German “my mother was literally born and raised in Norway” story.

        When I moved to another city I even discovered that me and even my kids are technically Norwegian as well as German. At least according to the German authorities. I wanted to see if we could get a Norwegian passport but didn’t have the time yet.

        • iri
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          46 days ago

          Nice. Could be useful if any of you are interested in living/studying in Norway. Since its still not EU, status of how easy that is can change. Also it is a pretty country.

  • @[email protected]
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    Same when me and my friends got the cops called on us as a kids for climbing onto our school building at night to eat pizza. Like damn dude, have you never enjoyed life or wtf is going on?

      • metaStatic
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        66 days ago

        There’s a reason every school has those stupid security fences now and it’s not because students where having a bit of harmless fun after dark.

  • Cruxifux
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    276 days ago

    My mom cried when she found out I tried mushrooms when I was 16.

    My mother who has had two long term boyfriends I know about, the guy before my dad who was a Coke dealer, and my dad who went to jail for selling drugs. She met my dad because she was trying to find mushrooms and he sold them.

    She cried.

    • @toynbee
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      386 days ago

      Possibly she thought she had gone down a bad path in life, regretted it, and was worried you would go down the same path?

      I obviously don’t know her, so I can’t say if that’s the case, but I have seen that happen before. Mainly in movies.

        • @toynbee
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          76 days ago

          I suspected it might not be, unfortunately. Hope things are good now.

          • Cruxifux
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            They are. This was like 15 years ago. Also it was fine back then, nothing actually bad happened except my mother way overreacted about me trying a psychedelic once.

    • @[email protected]
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      Maybe she was afraid to see you walk the same path. ( Not that mushrooms are dangerous, but dating a coke dealer isn’t ideal)

      • Cruxifux
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        15 days ago

        Lol I wish this was true, because it’s better than just erratic behaviour.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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    6 days ago

    “I used to be a piece of shit.”

    The most criminal thing I ever did was buy drugs and pirate stuff. Now the drugs I would buy are legal, so that just leaves the piracy.

    • @BreadOven
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      226 days ago

      I used to be a piece of shit…I still am, but I used to be also.

      • @aeronmelon
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        16 days ago

        Sounds like dialog from Poorly Drawn Lines.

        • Decoy321M
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          76 days ago

          The basis of the joke is most commonly attributed to Mitch Hedberg.

          • @BreadOven
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            26 days ago

            Thanks. I can’t remember the exact wording offhand. I may have butchered it. But that is what I was going for.