How trusting is Iceland? Their prime minister’s home number is listed in the phone book. For those who have never answered constituent phone calls before and don’t appreciate the magnitude of that gesture, how about this: Icelanders don’t use bicycle locks. They park their bikes around Reykjavik, then retrieve them later. Nobody steals them. I read more
Tag Archives: Iceland
Icelandic Dinner & The Cod Wars
July 28, 2009 – 11:03 pm
Yet another great feature of iPhones is that you can scope out wikipedia while at a bar after work, allowing you to seem intelligent and well-informed upon meeting an ambassador half an hour later. I did an independent study on Vikings while in college, but was worried something major might have happened in Icelandic affairs read more
Sick and Tired of Icelandic Whalers
October 29, 2006 – 9:16 pm
By now you’ve probably heard that Iceland recently told the global community, “Nuts to you, we’re eating whales anyway.” Their insolence flies in the face of numerous international agreements prohibiting the slaughter and digestion of tasty endangered aquatic mammals. Apparently Icelandic whale killers have something better to do with their time than reflect on the read more
