The last person to post wins !

[Sal]

I should win, just because.

[ignoramus]

Sal, don't know too much about you, but just has a look at the town you're from because I hadn't heard of it.
Absolutely stunning and surreal! Tell us more about the day to day life there ...food? people's pastimes?

[Sal]

I used to work at an IT/GIS company, but I quit the job due to stress, simply got too much to do/not what I was hired to do in the end.

Day to day life is rather peaceful. You wake, go to work from 8-17 with 1 hour off between 12-13. I live in the capital, which I guess you've already figured out, and people commute to/from the capital between 7-8 and 16-18. You can see the ocean from pretty much everywhere on the Faroes, and there probably is something to the old saying that we're born with a bit of the ocean in us (we're helluva good navigators and seamen people say). In the weekend, people go out and drink their socks off and get into all sorts of trouble. Most problems we have, socially speaking, are alcohol related; at least, that's the main pattern we see after every weekend; not that I'm totally against drinking or something (I drink too, socially) it's just we have an unhealthy relation to alcohol here (also a problem in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland), dunno about other places.

Food is mainly various fish that swim around us: cod, halibut, mackerel, etc. we do have some sheep running around that we farm too, almost no agriculture to speak of though, so we've survived mainly on what we could catch from the ocean, a bit sheep and catch seafowls like the seaparrot and others. About half a century ago, during WW2 we lived mostly like we did in the Middle Ages, a cow in every basement, domestic chickens, ducks, geese and domesticated sheep. I'd say we live rather close to nature and it's normal for us to go to the mountains and herd sheep and catch seabirds or go fish in a small boat and literally fish your dinner from the fjords. (I caught a cod once, that I fried on a pan with some garlic sauce, baked potatoes and some greens a couple of hours later, better than any Burger King menu meal.)

Besides going on a binge drinking, I'd say we're pretty conservative (pastime speaking), although I'm in a charter organization Gudloysi (literal translation: 'God-free' or 'Godless') that tries to affect politicians and inform the public into changing the Grundlógina (aka Constitution) to remove the Christian Lutheran phrasing and instead have a "godless" worded Grundlóg which doesn't have a state religion, sorta the same way the U.S. Constitution is phrased. Other than that, our pastimes are just living quietly and doing artsy stuff like writing books, singing songs, drinking ourselves stupid and herd sheep.

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We're also notorious pilot whale "murderers" if you want to believe Paul Watson and his merry little band of eco-terrorists

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[Shining_Finger]

Anyone here watch anime?

[The Valkyrie]

Nope.

[vorlon13]

just the hentai and bukake stuff

nothing hardcore

[Losty]

What's anime?

[vorlon13]

Japanese (or apparently Japanese) animation.

For purposes of this thread, be thinking adult themes. You know, grown ups balancing their check books, attending time share presentations, dusting off tables with doilies on them, that sort of thing.

[Losty]

Winning

[The Valkyrie]

You're coming second, Losty.

Kinda the story of my life, actually...