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tell me everything you can about this country. it doesn't matter whether or not it's true.
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they legalized gay marriage recently
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Americans cannot move there. You can spend some time to visit but they don't allow immigration from the states. We're too boorish for their fey ways.
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They have no money even though their banks were given a lot by UK councils.
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They once used to be Norwegians, but then we were all BITCHES, LEAVE
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They sex their elves (http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-if-elf-sex-is-real-then-we-should-all-move-to-iceland-asap/)
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they are occasionally insanely gay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6HjT4SQKJI)
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They have the worst hype:quality band ratio.
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They recently held me hostage for a week.
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There is a high ratio of land to ice.
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They have banned strippers.
Beer is expensive there.
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Most things are pretty expensive when you live on a remote island.
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Since the second world war, the UK and Iceland have fought three bloodless wars over cod fishing rights.
Icelands national dish is hakkarl, or fermented shark meat, which is one of the foulest things it is possible to eat. The national drink is brennivin, which is made from potatoes and flavoured with caraway seeds and angelica. It's actually pretty good but it has to be served at a temperature below 0 degrees celsius.
Icelands two main exports are pumice and Lazy Town.
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Iceland's age of consent is 14.
Why Iceland isn't a bigger tourist destination for horny teenagers is unknown.
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Iceland remains a feudal society.
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The national drink is brennivin
Translation: "burning wine"
EDIT: Icelandic guys all start growing beards before the age of 14. If they haven't gotten any facial hair before their fourteenth birthday, they are sacrificed into a geyser. Girls can survive until about 16 without a beard, it varies from region to region.
There's also a lot of geysers in Iceland. Some form hot pools, where you can take a swim in the middle of winter. Just remember to wear a woolen cap.
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land
dice
lance
idle
dance
lice
nice
lend
clad
nail
eland
dale
clan
lace
aced
nailed
ailed
iced
lead
deal
deli
lean
aide
laced
lanced
candle
These are all (four or more letter) words that you can spell with the letters in "Iceland".
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It's given its name to a shop (http://www.iceland.co.uk/).
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Iceland makes it easy for mum.
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It goes down hard but leaves no after taste
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Iceland ia a land of ice.
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It is currently under criticism by environmental scientists for allowing a volcano to erupt and contribute to global warming. Nobody there has noticed, because they are still trying to get out from under the ash.
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Also, it is far more green than the name would suggest. Greenland is the one that is icy. Blame the vikings.
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Íslands minni
Ţiđ ţekkiđ fold međ blíđri brá,
og bláum tindi fjalla,
og svanahljómi, silungsá,
og sćlu blómi valla,
og bröttum fossi, björtum sjá
og breiđum jökulskalla ---
drjúpi' hana blessun drottins á
um daga heimsins alla.
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Iceland makes bananas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_production_in_Iceland)
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It's given its name to a shop (http://www.iceland.co.uk/).
Their frozen Chicken Tikka Masala Lasagne sucks so badly. Steer away.
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It's one letter away from being Ireland.
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It occasionally poops out stuff like this:
(http://popsecret.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/bjork_narrowweb__300x44801.jpg)
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Haven For Reporters (http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/what-will-icelands-new-media-laws-mean-for-journalists/)
Additional comment (http://www.immi.is/)
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Íslands minni
Ţiđ ţekkiđ fold međ blíđri brá,
og bláum tindi fjalla,
og svanahljómi, silungsá,
og sćlu blómi valla,
og bröttum fossi, björtum sjá
og breiđum jökulskalla ---
drjúpi' hana blessun drottins á
um daga heimsins alla.
A try at what I can get:
"My Iceland"
First line, well, I have no clue
and flowers around the mountains (?)
and... swanislets, something
and something flowers... beautifully (vallhall - hall is home or some such, and I guess the vall-part is positive. So...)
and something waterfall something sea (ferocious, dangerous, powerful or something in that direction?)
and broad Jökull skulls (the Jökull is the trolls or whatever that's in opposition to the gods, right?)
... fuck it; "deep hens blows the queen away"?
In the day, everyone comes home
it's always fun to read something that split away from your own language about 800 years ago, but still sounds (at times) fairly similar.
EDIT: It's basically a homage to the Icelandic nature (and culture?), and a description of what the author associates with his/her homeland.
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They have the worst hype:quality band ratio.
no way man. if you like tunes, fish and snow you will love it
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Three automatic translations of that poem. Remarkable variety, I'm sure you'll agree!
Iceland fold less you know with gentle joy, and blue mountain peak, and Swan blast, silungsá, and bliss bloom stream, and steep waterfall, see the bright and broad glacial call --- drjúpi 'her Lord's blessing on the day worldwide.
Lceland memory i not fold me blíri eyelash , and bláum tindi cover , and svanahljómi silungsá , and slu blossom wallaby , and bröttum waterfall , rescue see and width jökulskalla drop her blessing queenly river about dawn cosmopolitan - allir.
Iceland memory
You know the fold of gentle joy,
and blue mountain peak,
and Swan blast, silungsá,
and bliss bloom Valla,
and steep waterfall, bright view
and broad glacial call ---
drjúpi 'the Lord's blessing on her
days of the world.
Where did the eyelash come from, I wonder?
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Here:
A Toast to Iceland
Íslands minni
Our land of lakes forever fair
below blue mountain summits,
of swans, of salmon leaping where
the silver water plummets,
of glaciers swelling broad and bare
above earth's fiery sinews ---
the Lord pour out his largess there
as long as earth continues!
A Toast To Iceland (http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/jonas/Minni/Minni.html)
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Their language makes me wish I were a viking.
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The tallest building in the entire country of Iceland is shorter than the tallest building in Idaho.
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To be fair, the Gigantra Tower is taller and more ancient than any spire on earth or it's evil twin, mars.
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Iceland is known to only exist some of the time. Sailors have reported sailing through clear, empty patches of water in the exact location where their maps indicate Iceland is. Nobody can explain why this is, least of all the Icelandic (when they can be contacted for comment)
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It's one letter away from being Ireland.
TRIVIA: IN WHAT MOVIE IS THIS FACT A PLOT POINT
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spelling: the movie?
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spelling: the movie? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0334405/)
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close enough
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I wanted to make a pun on Aaron Spelling but apparently the dude only ever made TV? No feature films I could see in his imdb entry, although to be fair that was from a cursory scan of a fucking massive list of stuff
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I got teargassed there and my photos were published in an English language paper. I got drunk in a bar called Boston with Sigur Ros. It's hella cheap in winter, but don't expect to leave Reykjavik. I find Icelandic women very attractive.
Oh, and Blue Lagoon is for tourists, there are better hot springs spas to visit.
I'm going back for Airwaves in October.
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They don't go in for guardrails and safety fences. Cliffs? Geysers? Waterfalls? You can walk right up.
They react unpredictably when you try to speak their language but the most common response is pleased surprise followed by an immediate switch to English.
The parking meters only pretend to take credit cards. Carry coins.
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they have the most bands per capita of any country in the world. this could be because the only other thing to do there is ferment shark meat and/or eat fermented shark meat. also, their rocks make good marimbas. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk3D5431SPs)
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Thanks to national consensus, was turned into a giant robot in 2007
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The only country to survive third impact.
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In the 51st century it will be the site of the Icelandic Alliance (http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Icelandic_Alliance).
World's highest per capita concentration of bookstores and AA chapters.
The impact of the economic crisis on ordinary people is well portrayed in a blogger's e-book, http://icelandweatherreport.com/living-inside-the-meltdown .
An iguana was found there recently and sentenced to euthanasia.
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The largest city there, Reykjavik, recently elected who is essentially Iceland's version of Henry Rollins, Punk Rock star/comedian/actor Jón Gnarr
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When the demonstrations over the financial crash began to get ugly, some of the demonstrators lined up and formed a human shield to protect the police.
Iceland is not like other places.
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Icelandic folklore speaks of terrible were-sharks, aquatic lycanthrope that hunt the frigid seas, wreaking terror on the settlers, hellbent on consuming the small island nation whole. The old worlds of the North sent their greatest wizards to end the evil threat, forging the nation now known as Iceland on top of the fiery gateways to the deep dark nether realms below our own world. It is said that for the last two thousand years, powerful conjurers have explored the frost-bitten wastes of the north, questing to seek out the ancient secrets of old magik to protect Iceland from the fiery depths that threatened to unleash evil and abomination so long ago. Evil has not forgotten its ways however, and still to this day you will hear stories of smoke and ash pouring out from beneath the grounds of Iceland, a haunting reminder of the past, a warning to future generations to fear the demon hordes of the Necromongor Eyjafjallajökull.
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Much like Greek pederasty, it is considered common practice for boys in Icelandic society to engage in sexual and spiritual tutelage with a salmon
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The largest city there, Reykjavik, recently elected who is essentially Iceland's version of Henry Rollins, Punk Rock star/comedian/actor Jón Gnarr (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxBW4mPzv6E)