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Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« on: June 23, 2011, 11:24:57 AM »
Well...actually we are:

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STOCKHOLM – Saab, the Swedish car company renowned for its sometimes quirky designs, moved closer to bankruptcy Thursday after it conceded that it didn't have any money to pay employees' wages.

After months of production stoppages and problems with paying suppliers, Saab said the situation is so dire that it won't be able to pay its 3,700 employees, raising doubts over how long the brand can survive.

Its Dutch owner Swedish Automobile, previously known as Spyker Cars, has courted Chinese and Russian investors and put the Saab factory up for sale in its attempts to revive the brand it took over from General Motors Co. last year.

Analysts said the future for the company was very bleak indeed and Swedish Automobile shares fell by 62 percent to euro0.948 on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110623/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_sweden_saab

Posted here because this is where the lurking lurkers lurk.

We keep hearing about how awesome Sweden is in thread-after-thread at the DUmp.

Feel free to hunt down threads extolling Sweden's virtues for employees and post them here.
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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2011, 12:09:40 PM »
Not surprising, Saabs are POS's.
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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2011, 12:30:42 PM »
And strange people drive them.  I worked with a guy who drove one.  High level EVP.  Was caught at a rest stop, soliciting strangers. 

I read somewhere that Sweden is supported by one billionaire.  When he dies, nobody knows what's going to happen after that. 
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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2011, 12:32:59 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on June 23, 2011, 12:09:40 PM
Not surprising, Saabs are POS's.
Good things from Sweden = Volvo, ABBA, Stieg Larsson trilogy

Jerry Seinfeld drove a Saab. Enough said.
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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2011, 12:35:47 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on June 23, 2011, 12:32:59 PM
Good things from Sweden = Volvo, ABBA, Stieg Larsson trilogy

Jerry Seinfeld drove a Saab. Enough said.





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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2011, 01:01:52 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on June 23, 2011, 12:35:47 PM




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What's wrong with a Volvo? It will haul a moonbat around, along with 200 bumper stickers, for 400,000 miles with hardly an oil change.
And the stage show "Mamma Mia" is fabulous, although the movie is an abomination.
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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2011, 01:26:29 PM »
I just got the third Stieg Larsson from Amazon the other day.  Starting tonight. 

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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2011, 01:42:13 PM »
Quote from: Karin on June 23, 2011, 01:26:29 PM
I just got the third Stieg Larsson from Amazon the other day.  Starting tonight.
The Kindle edition is $12.99 now. I got it on Kindle for $5.99 a few months ago. Their pricing is crazy.

Okay...back  to knocking Sweden.
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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2011, 01:49:17 PM »
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In a swedish army camouflage book: "When the soldier is moving through woodland, he`s supposed to break off branches and put them on his helmet. When he is moving through cornfields, he`s to break off some cornstalks and put them on his helmet. When the soldier is moving through a cabbage field he`s supposed to take off his helmet for the best camouflage."

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The little swedish kid asked his teacher why the days in the summer were so much longer. The teacher answered, "Oh, that`s because the heat makes everything expand."

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"This letter is too heavy," the post-clerk stated, "You will have to put on an additional stamp." The swede looked wonderingly at him, "Will it be lighter then?" he asked

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A swedish road-worker was hired to paint the line that goes down the center of the road. The first day he managed to paint 2 kilometers, and his boss was very pleased. The next day he only painted 200 meters, but his boss thought that he`d probably started off too hard on the first day. But on the third day he was only able to paint 20 meters. The boss called him into the office and demanded an explanation. "Well, you see it`s getting so darn far to walk all the way to the paint bucket," the swede explained.

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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2011, 01:54:23 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on June 23, 2011, 01:01:52 PM
And the stage show "Mamma Mia" is fabulous, although the movie is an abomination.

Know how I know you're gay?

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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2011, 01:57:36 PM »
What SAAB story....Sweden wasn't such a bad place until they let  the socialist run it and they allowed all those ragheads in.
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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2011, 02:00:46 PM »
Quote from: wasp69 on June 23, 2011, 01:54:23 PM
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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2011, 02:11:27 PM »
I'v driven a Saab for a few years now and haven't had any issues with it.

Here's the key:

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... in its attempts to revive the brand it took over from General Motors Co. last year.

GM couldn't match the workmanship that made the company a desirable brand to buy and incorprate into the GM family.  Hard to revive a brand when it's been given a black eye.  Saab would have been better off to have stayed in Sweden.  You don't see Toyota, Nissian, Acura, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Mercedes, Porche, BMW, Bentley, Ferrari, or anyone else selling their brand name to GM, Ford, or Chrysler, do ya?

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« Reply #13 on: June 23, 2011, 02:13:02 PM »
Ahhhh...so the UAW strikes again?
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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2011, 03:30:19 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on June 23, 2011, 01:01:52 PM
What's wrong with a Volvo? It will haul a moonbat around, along with 200 bumper stickers, for 400,000 miles with hardly an oil change.
And the stage show "Mamma Mia" is fabulous, although the movie is an abomination.

To be fair, the best car I've ever owned was a Volvo Station Wagon.
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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #15 on: June 23, 2011, 03:46:25 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on June 23, 2011, 03:30:19 PM
To be fair, the best car I've ever owned was a Volvo Station Wagon.

Enough said!
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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #16 on: June 23, 2011, 03:50:05 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on June 23, 2011, 03:30:19 PM
To be fair, the best car I've ever owned was a Volvo Station Wagon.

I like ABBA.  And Ikea.
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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #17 on: June 23, 2011, 03:53:24 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on June 23, 2011, 03:30:19 PM
To be fair, the best car I've ever owned was a Volvo Station Wagon.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jTM4ZOa69U[/youtube]

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« Reply #18 on: June 23, 2011, 04:02:34 PM »
Quote from: wasp69 on June 23, 2011, 01:54:23 PM
Know how I know you're gay?
Hey, chicks love guys with a sensitive side. Anyway, I like  ABBA, and the stage show was fabulous, though I was not among the audience members dancing in the aisles. The movie was unbelievably bad, even if Pierce Brosnan had not tried to sing. With his singing, it went from awful to a whole new dimension of terribleness.
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« Reply #19 on: June 23, 2011, 04:10:19 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on June 23, 2011, 04:02:34 PM
Hey, chicks love guys with a sensitive side. Anyway, I like  ABBA, and the stage show was fabulous, though I was not among the audience members dancing in the aisles. The movie was unbelievably bad, even if Pierce Brosnan had not tried to sing. With his singing, it went from awful to a whole new dimension of terribleness.

I watched the first 5 minutes, and had to stop.  I never even got to him singing.  I thought I would like it, I mean, I saw Xanadu.  Not so much.
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Re: Sweden is so-o-o-o ****ing awesome! Why can't America be more like Sweden!!!
« Reply #20 on: June 23, 2011, 04:19:15 PM »
Quote from: wasp69 on Today at 01:54:23 pm
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Quote from: GOBUCKS on June 23, 2011, 04:02:34 PM
Hey, chicks love guys with a sensitive side. Anyway, I like  ABBA, and the stage show was fabulous, though I was not among the audience members dancing in the aisles. The movie was unbelievably bad, even if Pierce Brosnan had not tried to sing. With his singing, it went from awful to a whole new dimension of terribleness.

'nuff said.  :hyper:
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« Reply #21 on: June 23, 2011, 04:23:51 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on June 23, 2011, 04:19:15 PM
Quote from: wasp69 on Today at 01:54:23 pm
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'nuff said.  :hyper:
Hey..."fabulous" is a very fine heterosexual word! Those queer Beekmans don't have rights to it. And, by the way, Liza sucks.
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« Reply #22 on: June 23, 2011, 04:53:16 PM »
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« Reply #23 on: June 23, 2011, 05:03:41 PM »
Quote from: Skul on June 23, 2011, 04:53:16 PM
Uffda, no lefse for you!
God, no. First we have coach and the cig chick taunting what's-his-name in Eye-tie. Now someone's speaking snow monkey. The last straw will be letters with the dots and little zeroes and squiggles they use. If this were FR, Jim Rob would zot the lot of you.
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« Reply #24 on: June 23, 2011, 05:09:01 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on June 23, 2011, 05:03:41 PM
God, no. First we have coach and the cig chick taunting what's-his-name in Eye-tie. Now someone's speaking snow monkey. The last straw will be letters with the dots and little zeroes and squiggles they use. If this were FR, Jim Rob would zot the lot of you.


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