4/27/2023 0 Comments Swedish postbox![]() As with many opinions, potatoes, and behinds, it’s not always a perfect division.”įinns det hjärterum så finns det stjärterum – If there’s room in the heart there’s room for the arse They liken opinions to bottoms as both are often perfectly divided down the middle, not unlike the potato below. “While English speakers sometimes rather crudely compare opinions to arseholes (everyone has got one), Swedes take things one step further. When something strange is afoot, they’ll whisper to each other about those fishy owls and and their boggy surroundings.” Smaken är som baken, delad – Taste is like your bum, divided But what about owls in the bog? Yes, those crazy Swedes are at it again. “You may think there is nothing fishier than a buried dog, and that’s a perfectly logical assumption. Perhaps it’s the stench of a buried mutt, perhaps it’s the idea of a missing canine companion, or perhaps it’s just the absurdity of it all, but it’s definitely fishy.”Ītt ana ugglor i mossen – Suspecting owls in the bog “There’s something fishy going on here… There’s nothing fishier than a buried dog, right? Well, that’s what a Swede would say. Don’t ask what they’re doing with their faces so close to the letterboxes in the first place…” Det ligger en hund begraven – There’s a dog buried “While their English-speaking cousins are messing around getting their hands stuck in cookie jars, Swedes are getting their beards caught in letterboxes. In fact, it makes more sense at a glance than the one about the cigar anyway.” Skägget i brevlådan – Caught with your beard in the letterbox The Swedes talk about how how a close shot will never get you a hare, and that’s fair enough. ““Close but no cigar” gets a lot more violent in Swedish (and it has a much nicer ring to it!). Nära skjuter ingen hare – A close shot will never get you the rabbit It remains unknown how often Swedish cattle are milling about on frozen lakes, but it’s no stretch of the imagination to understand that a cow on ice would be definitely worth worrying about.” “This is a popular saying in Sweden, which quite simply means “Don’t worry”. Ingen ko på isen – There’s no cow on the ice The Local published a list of 10 odd sayings a while back, including some commentary about them, and here is the complete list. A few years ago, the Twitter hash tag #swedishsayings did exactly this and gained a lot of popularity and laughters, even among people who knew no Swedish at all. You cannot cancel deliveries of community information, it is covered by regulation of the press and the constitutional law on freedom of expression.Sayings can become very amusing when they are translated literally, and Swedish ones are no exception. Put up a sign, ’’Nej tack till gratistidningar’’ (No thanks to free newspapers) on the front of your mailbox or near to your mail slot on the door.Īpartment buildings with property boxes for mail are to be marked on the inside of the box. Would you like to stop receiving free newspapers? Put up a sign ’’Nej till reklam’’ (No advertisement) on the front of your mailbox or near to your mail slot on the door.Īpartment buildings with property boxes for mail are to be marked on the inside of the box. Would you like to stop receiving non-addressed advertisement? Unregister yourself at NIX adresserats spärregister. Would you like to stop receiving addressed advertisement? It is required for distribution of addressed mail and parcels. It is important that all surnames of the people living on the address in question be marked on the property box for mail or on the mail slot on the door. If the building property has property boxes for mail then we will deliver addressed mail and parcels there, otherwise in the mail slot on the apartment doors. ![]() Otherwise the information will be covered when winter comes. Please note! Always mark the front of your mailbox and not the top. Mark your mailbox clearly with the address on the front of the box. As a certified postal operator we follow the regulations of the PTS (Swedish Post and Telecom Authority). We also distribute advertisements, free newspapers, community information, postal mail and postal packages. Nim Distribution delivers more than newspapers.
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