Congrats Sweden! =)

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Yay!

Sweden took this years place as the worlds most connected country after being second the last 2 years :P

Top 5:
Sweden
Singapore
Denmark
Switzerland
USA

Full list at page 17 (or 19 depending on how you count...) in: http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GITR10/GITR% ... 0final.pdf

Posted mainly as the report has a few intresting parts worth reading that some might find intresting :)
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Let's celebrate... bring on the Swedish Bikini Team!!

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how did USA get 5th? more like 50th. Well Sweden should get it I can throw a rock from one side of the county to the other :) You don't email there you just put it on a paper airplane and throw it.

just kidding Falk, congrats to your homeland you lucky bastard ;)
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Congrats!! LOL@Halls
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Sweden is already the luckiest country in the world. You can buy snus anywhere over there! I have not smoked a cigarette in nearly 2 years because of that stuff :)
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hallsofvallhalla wrote:how did USA get 5th? more like 50th. Well Sweden should get it I can throw a rock from one side of the county to the other :) You don't email there you just put it on a paper airplane and throw it.

just kidding Falk, congrats to your homeland you lucky bastard ;)
Haha ye, but from south to north it is a bit longer...but we are great at making paper planes :D
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Jackolantern wrote:Sweden is already the luckiest country in the world. You can buy snus anywhere over there! I have not smoked a cigarette in nearly 2 years because of that stuff :)
Trying to get a decent beer in Sweden will swiftly disabuse you of that notion. There is a legal limit of 2.5% alcohol there.

It makes North America's mass market swill (and sorry Canadians, I know you love your Molson and Labatt, but they are closer to American Budweiser than to the decent NA microbrews you can get these days or pretty much anything in this part of the world). Whenever I go to Sweden, I'm asked to bring beer.
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Wow, 2.5% max? :shock: I don't really drink much, but that does sound like a problem. I still like snus more than I like beer, though lol.

EDIT: It must be awfully sweet, if it is only allowed to be fermented to 2.5%, unless they just distill excess alcohol off.
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Cayle wrote:
Jackolantern wrote:Sweden is already the luckiest country in the world. You can buy snus anywhere over there! I have not smoked a cigarette in nearly 2 years because of that stuff :)
Trying to get a decent beer in Sweden will swiftly disabuse you of that notion. There is a legal limit of 2.5% alcohol there.

It makes North America's mass market swill (and sorry Canadians, I know you love your Molson and Labatt, but they are closer to American Budweiser than to the decent NA microbrews you can get these days or pretty much anything in this part of the world). Whenever I go to Sweden, I'm asked to bring beer.
No no no. You got that all wrong. It is a limit of 3.2% to be sold in regular stores to 18+ year olds.
If you want something stronger you have to buy it from the goverment owned liquor stores where you can buy most kinds of alcohol (About 50+ different kinds of beer). This is mainly to reduce how easy it for minors to get alcohol. Ofcourse all bars and pubs are allowed to serve alcohol of above 3.5% to everyone 18+ years old tho...Isn't that 21 in USA? ;)
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OK, I was wrong, but I still take German beer to Sweden whenever I go and it is greatly appreciated.

That 21 rule is not a bad idea in the US. Remember, everyone there gets a driver's license the moment they turn 16 or 17 (depending on the state), buy their first clunker and never ride a bicycle again unless they get into mountain biking or rediscover it later for health or enviro reasons. In most European countries, from what I've seen, the teenagers tend to have motor scooters (or stick to bike + mass transit if they go to uni) and if you get into an accident because you were drunk on a scooter, you only kill yourself.

IMHO, the waiting a couple of extra years for a legal beer is better than riding a scooter. It is impossible not to look like a dork on those things.

That said, I'm a fan of Sweden. It has some of the best hiking in Europe.
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