Norwegian Drinking Culture - Working With Norwegians

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3 жыл бұрын

To say Norwegians don’t party hard would be like saying the tax is only a little high in Norway. It would be quite the understatement. No, in fact, Norwegians enjoy a drink or two or fifteen and those drunken adventures often cross over into business life as well.
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@WorkingwithNorwegians 3 жыл бұрын

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@ryangrose1481 3 жыл бұрын

I think skål actually comes from the word for bowl. Most everyday Norwegians likely wouldn't be drinking from enough skulls for it to have an influence today. Instead, punsch may be more likely to blame. In 18th century Scandinavia punsch was a very popular party drink and the bowl would often be passed around at parties. So when you wanted to drink you could yell "skål!" to get the punsch bowl!

@kebman 24 күн бұрын

The Norwegian word for bowl comes from the form of the skull. So.......... This is also why skull is cognate with skål, and thouhg it's called skalle (scowl) in Norwegian.

@Alex-ir9nx 3 жыл бұрын

Like we say, "You have to have at least a full time job to be an alcoholic"

@WorkingwithNorwegians 3 жыл бұрын

😂

@croc1608 3 жыл бұрын

One does simply not rock up to a vorspeil (pre-party) sober.

@DjBeatdriver 26 күн бұрын

How could you even forget about "russetiden" in this video? 😂 It's like the Norwegian exam in "how to drink" 😂

@Conzales Жыл бұрын

That explains why they seem so shy; drunk in the evening and nights and thereafter hung over during the day 😂

@MouseGuardian 3 жыл бұрын

We have the highest prices, but we also have the highest wages!:)

@exentr Жыл бұрын

I think vorspiel has a tradition at least on the countryside. We can't wait to get started or wait for the bar to open. In many villages and small towns a public fest arranged by an voluntary association or organisation, e.g. sports club, is rooted in the culture. When we move from the countryside to the city, we meet others from the countryside and party together starting with the vorspiel in a private home. That is what I think and I can't speak for those that comes from the city but it might not be any different from the city to the countryside. In general Norwegians party the same way whether we come from the city or the countryside. And we love to drink with fellow Nordics because we share the same culture, and also Irishmen and Britons.

@falkenjg 3 жыл бұрын

Yes drinking starts at a young age, as 15 soon to be 16 i will agree

@volvo2frrchevy3 2 жыл бұрын

Still 15 in Trøndelag, even younger

@marioborgen 2 жыл бұрын

Isn’t the drinking age 18

@falkenjg 2 жыл бұрын

@@marioborgen yes..... but if you watched the video you would know that drinkings starts at a young age

@dr.vikyll7466 2 жыл бұрын

@@marioborgen I began drinking at 16 and I was very late

@Audigiant 3 жыл бұрын

Grøftefylla... Blitt for gammal for det, dessverre...

@WorkingwithNorwegians 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@exentr Жыл бұрын

Og nå lurer vi på hvordan i helsike vi hadde helse til å holde på

@clintongraves8806 6 ай бұрын

I remember that in Denmark too.

@bjrnjensen7074 3 жыл бұрын

..which is why I avoid bars late at night altogether. I do consume alcohol, but I don`t need it every week, or even every month for that matter. Yes, some Norwegians need alcohol to talk to strangers- I am luckily NOT one of them. Social light drinker, I drink some alcohol every now and then, but NOT in order to get drunk. Some years ago, I had sometimes trouble finding people to socialize with, because you "had to drink" in order to fit in. Luckily, these days, I have found people who also drink little or even no alcohol at all. People have become more health conscious these days, supposedly Norwegians have adapted more to central european drinking habits these days. "Shy Norwegians"? hmm.. that depends on. You just need to find the right person. In a way I pity those Norwegians who are not very talkative when they are sober, and then after a few drinks they become another person. I am probably not the loudest person at the party myself (like some of these), but at the same time not the most quiet. In other words, I don`t change much when I drink compared to when I am sober. I love small talk, and one of my favourite things to do here in Oslo is asking tourists on the street of Oslo, where I live, if they need any help when I see them standing there with a tourist map, seemingly lost. This is mostly welcomed. The "worst" thing that ever happened to me was that they said "Oh, we`re fine, thank you!". I totally get it if you feel a bit lost when you are among these people, but the good thing is that there are alternatives out there. Don`t get me wrong, I don`t judge them, just not my way of socializing.

@HighlandHorseman 7 ай бұрын

Love a night out in Norway - they are as mad as us Scots :-)

@ultra_axe7812 3 жыл бұрын

never bofore have i been this offended by something i 100% agree with

@dreamopeth 3 жыл бұрын

Before even watching the video, after going to Bergen in 2013 I'd say the drinking culture is far less destructive than Englands. I mean I couldn't even buy some beer after 6pm I think. Then bars stopped serving after midnight and I was shocked. Wish we would take a leaf out of their book, but here theres a pub on every corner and cheap booze shops all over so..

@Aliquis.frigus 2 жыл бұрын

Alcohol serving and sales are regulated locally within a national legal framework. I believe in Trondheim, clubs close at 2am, whil in Oslo its 3am.

@ianport2185 2 жыл бұрын

🇬🇧 shares a lot with 🇧🇻...

@carlosfreitas1722 3 жыл бұрын

Why is alcoholl so expensive in norway?

@WorkingwithNorwegians 3 жыл бұрын

Well everything is expensive in Norway :)

@puteborddelux1309 3 жыл бұрын

alchohll sales in norway is regualted by the government, so they set the price

@carlosfreitas1722 3 жыл бұрын

@@puteborddelux1309 in Portugal there would be a revolution with blood, cheap alcoholl keeps that from happening

@renehoyvik 2 жыл бұрын

A VERY high tax on anything unhealthy for you. Esp alcohol and tobacco. But also sugar, fast food etc. Many stores like KIWI actually reduce the price on products the healthier they are to encourage healthy eating.

@JBguitar-cj8pc 2 жыл бұрын

@@renehoyvik lameeee

@arnekarlsen5072 Жыл бұрын

Good salesman!

@mimosa7070 3 жыл бұрын

Taxes aren´t very high, especially considering the benefits we get from it. I would much rather have the -Norwegian tax, than the American system. Being a single mother with a disabled child, and not being able to work because of that, I would have been bankrupt.

@teleopinions1367 2 жыл бұрын

You'd be homeless in the USA.

@ph11p3540 2 жыл бұрын

@@teleopinions1367 And in and out of jail or prison

@Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too 2 жыл бұрын

Is that how you justify legalized theft?

@RustyPancake53 Жыл бұрын

Everyone seems to just not understand that we do have extra benefits for people with low income in America I'd actually argue being middle class is harder than being poor because when you're poor you can get free healthcare for you and your child cheap to free housing that's why most single mothers don't work. I make about 50k a year and I can't afford health insurance but make too much to get government subsidized healthcare and my mortgage is 1700 a month I'm struggling to have everything I need but Ms. Welfare can just not take her birth control and be set for 18 years to life depending how good that kid does in school.

@VeerTheWeekender 6 ай бұрын

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@billparrish9200 2 жыл бұрын

I think it's a bit sad that the high cost of alcohol in Norway forces Norwegians to be a little stingy. I can't imagine arriving at someone's home in Ireland and not being offered a drink. And "the round" is an essential part of Irish bar drinking culture.

@gullfeber 3 жыл бұрын

well the tax isnt very high.. at least income tax

@WorkingwithNorwegians 3 жыл бұрын

True for most incomes but not high income earners. For them it’s among that highest in the word at 50%+

@gullfeber 3 жыл бұрын

@@WorkingwithNorwegians No, maximum income tax is 49%. If you pay more, its completely voluntarily

@tst6735 8 ай бұрын

Lol Fans bra 😊

@mikeylejan8849 2 жыл бұрын

Talking to a stranger is considered crazy?

@lolartlolartson6355 2 жыл бұрын

Well, basically no. When you are in a shop, you don't greet other people unless you know them. That is one of the nice things about being in other countries, seeing how polite people are.

@thomasgrhn9618 25 күн бұрын

We like our privacy, so in everyday life, like on the bus, I would never just start talking to you, out of respect for your private time.

@neziselement 3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@fullfyr 2 жыл бұрын

Have you ever been to the great kingdom of Norway? Seemes you¨ve only have cruised the surface of eastern Norway, whith is the part the rest of Norwegians DISPCE!