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  • its actully true

  • hahaha så jävla cliché at mannen står med foten och lutar armen mot tv:n eller på öppna spisen!

  • Drive a Tank Through Her House!!

  • I LOVE IT! My girlfriend was an au pair, she saw this video and agreed, being an au pair in the USA must be fucking horrible!

  • This commercial is a joke damnit! Why do some of you Americans even take offence? You could just laugh at it..

  • What about this video ?

  • this is  the stupidest thing i have ever seen, besides muslims

  • All swedish recruitmant adds shows everything exept what U are supose to do and how it is.

    Maybe beacuse it is not cool at all.

    You will be cold, wet, hungry and tired.

  • @Sjusovare2 Well, if you look at the latest ones. They're the opposite of what you just said xD

    And yes, they do tell you that you're gonna be cold, wet, hungry and tired. In training.

  • @SnoweyMan111 where in this add do you find that info ? I cant find it ? it says: drive a tank, blow up a bridge, not freeze your as off, and why is it in english ?

  • @Sjusovare2

    /watch?v=AprqomTW-Wo

    /watch?v=6Se4c_Wz4jg

    Those two. I did say the later ones, this one is specifically targeted at girls.

  • @SnoweyMan111 And you can´t tell girls how it is ?

  • @Sjusovare2 Well it's not me that makes these. Those other two aren't meant for men, they're unisex. Somehow this is supposed to be aimed at girls because in this situation most men would be killed, the women would be kept as slaves or something like that. Or so people think it. But maybe you should stop arguing and realize that you were wrong.

    Look at the two videos. Those are advertisements, directly contradicting what you said.

  • @SnoweyMan111 wrong about what ? You are not tired? you are not hungry ? you are not cold ? It is not hard to serve ? What am I wrong about ? This add is not saying any of that.

    Blow up a bridge

    Drive a tank

    Take command....

    Yeaaaa right !

    This add is nonsens. It has nothing to do with serving in the military ! It is a BS recruitment add.

    Stop arguing and realize you are wrong.

  • @SnoweyMan111 I´m focusing on this add because , well this comment strip is for this clip and not all other clips on U-tube...

    But if you want more swedish adds that has nothing to do with reality... here goes.

    watch?v=ms5-uX0bIPU

    watch?v=_j_62oHLlck&feature=re­lated

    watch?v=J-Oab6nvJuE&feature=re­lated

    watch?v=xe48VqBLVqE&feature=re­lated

  • @Sjusovare2

    watch?v=ms5-uX0bIPU - Same campain

    watch?v=_j_62oHLlck - Requiting officers, it's supposed to be about how stressful it is to be an officer, and it challanges the viewer "can you take the pressure" p.much

    watch?v=J-Oab6nvJuE&feature=re­­lated - Same campaign

    watch?v=xe48VqBLVqE&feature=re­­lated - Same campaign

    It's about the target audience.

    Compared to other nations Sweden's recruitment commercials are quite realistic. I mean holy shit, look at the US, Poland, Germany, Russia etc.

  • @SnoweyMan111

    It is about target audience and not about reality you say.

    The reality will strike your "target" audience as a big unsuspected suprice.

    So you finaly admitt i am right. It is about attracting a target audience and not about telling the truth so our young can make a fair choise.Thanx !

    You can´t use other countrys failiures to make good adds as an excuse for our failiure.

    This swedish add should never have been used !

  • I don’t understand the references.

  • Oh I did not know Sweden had an army..after all, what is there to protect? XD

  • @CommonFail Haha, trodde det var en kommentar från en Amerikan först. Blev nästan sorgligare när den kom från en norrman.

  • @TNorberg

    Ti stille og skrell en banan, svenskehore

  • @CommonFail Gleder meg til det året den norske økonomien er så sterk at vi sluker den svenske økonomien.

    Jeg vet ihvertfall at der hvor "slottet" deres står skal vi plasser en enorm statue til Roald Amundsen.

    Ved hele havnen i Stockholm skal vi ha bilde av den virkelige kongen.

    Hjemmet ditt river vi og erstatter det med et renseanlegg.

    Gøteborg blir minnested for svenskene.

    Synd ingen vil vedlikeholde stedet..

    Svensker er snart en utryddet art..

    Svensker altså..bare vent..

  • @CommonFail Only the most democratic nation in the world <<Statistics from 2010 ;P The US ended on place 42...fail..

  • Butthurt eurofags, lawlz.

  • flame wars wooot

  • It's a take on the fact that all to many host families have used au pair girls as unpaid maids and treated them like shit.

  • How offensive... But then again, I like the last part.

    Now where do I find the bloody basterd that created this commercial?

    I need to inform him of his wrongs?

    How my dear gents? Quite simple really, point a cannon at his face and force apologies.

  • Congratulations to the authors of this ad, it's a success. I love the attention to detail of this ad. Thank you.

  • yeah.... learn how to drive a tank.... right over this "nice" family's house....hahaha

  • Well, fuck Sweden.

  • u.s. is the best

  • I love how at the end it like; This, or drive a MOTHERFUCKING TANK. What's it gonna be? That would get me in the army.

  • Stereotype nothing. I have relatives like that.

  • Swedish army..what a fucking joke..WHAT DID YOU DO IN WW2..pussies..we saved your lives! WE fought the russian army! You dont need an army..cause WE ARE YOUR ARMY!

  • @artistforrealart typical finn is typical.

  • @artistforrealart And yet you lost the war? twice? lol you fucktard Sweden was neutral so basically you did not save anything other than ur shitty country

  • @Ermaxproductions Actually, the fact that Sweden was neutral could be debateable. Allowing Germans to enter Swedish borders. Sending help to Finland to fight off the Russian. Making airplane parts for both Axis and the Allies. Disallowing Ally forces to enter Swedish borders(incl our water) but we did allow Germans. This doesn't really sound neutral to me now does it lol.

  • @stoffni Sweden may have been focusing on an other side, and i belive the Swedish goverment sure bounded to the german goverment cause of scaredness, sending volunteers to finland to help the brother country.

    Sweden was neutral and sending airplane parts was to make sure that the world to know sweden was on no 1 side.

    Allowing the allies to enter Sweden (British) they would occupy the Sweden steel works to stop the germans. read you history boy

  • @Ermaxproductions Often when the subject of Swedens role in WW2 comes up people forget one thing that was not widely known. In Gothenburg there were a lot of resistance groups that tried to, with the help of great britain, stop the Germans. For example they tried to move big cargo ships so that the Germans wouldn't be able to lay a hand on them.

  • @artistforrealart

    Er lots of swedes fought, and no one saved Sweden. Sweden stayed well out of it.

  • @artistforrealart U supported Hitler man. Asshole

  • @artistforrealart actually we made ball bearings for airplanes that we shipped to the germans and the allies.

  • @artistforrealart

    you're so fuckin stupid. finland were swedish in 800years by reason. finland cant do shit

  • @Ajohansson By the same logic Sweden was like how much bigger back in the 17th century? Seems like we've failed since then ;)

    Anyway, I'd rather see Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark unite rather than hate =P.

  • @artistforrealart lmao tard america never fought against the russian army in ww2 unless you are german and you are talking about the wehrmacht and nazi's

  • @artistforrealart If you would be educated enough you would know very well that Sweden provided alot of help to Finland when you fought against the Russians. We provided Soldiers, Army material etc etc. Saying we didn't do shit is ignorant and just idiotic.

  • @stoffni Saying that Sweden helped "alot" is just ridiculous, but i do understand where that mentality is coming from.

    provided soldiers? there was a small group of volunteers.(i wouldn't call that providing) Army material, care to be little more specific? ofcourse not, that would just embarass you.

  • @Darusdei Sweden helped with 8 260 soldiers, 12 fighterplanes, which was a third of swedens fighterplanes, 131 000 rifles with 42 million Cartridges, 132 field guns, 100 anti-air guns, 85 anti-tank guns with 256 000 grenades and 8 airplanes, i think thats alot

  • @Cenobitee next time don't use a wikipedia as your source, specialy when nothing on the subject is cited.

    in other words stop wasting my time...

  • @Darusdei next time dont use your head as your source

  • @Cenobitee i completely understand, no one likes to be called cowards

  • @Darusdei My grandpa was one of the volounteers from sweden, so i dont take offence :)

  • @Darusdei Wikipedia is a great source. As it redirects to other sources. OBVIOUSLY anyone who checks wikipedia checks their source. You don't? Only reason I would think you think it's bad.

  • This is too stupid for showing

  • i.........don't get it. O_o

  • @murphxbox It's meant to make girls join the army in Sweden instead of becoming au pairs xD

  • lol that prety much the us army. its very classy and hige teck... but thire soliders sux. they dont even get trained on how to use a map and compas. why? cus they got GPS, and ig the batteri dies? thiere domed

  • @lordofdarkdudes I don't know what you're talking about. I was a sergeant in the US paratroopers, and I still don't know how to use a GPS because we always used a map and compass. Do you actually know what you're talking about, or are you just running off at the mouth?

  • @lykej odd, i have spoken to many us troops who dont know how to use a map and compase.

    maby its cus youre airborn, you guys a pretty thougth, unlik the armourd forces of the us

  • Speaking of inferior, has your educational system still not taught you to capitalize proper nouns?

  • Im sorry my english is not so good im actually new to america I was born in china where i did not have the freedoms that so many people moch

    I love america

    I hate Obama

  • Why hate Obama, man?

  • @ladiesmanmatt it also funny how you dont understand the concept of jokes and humor :D

  • slave labour xD

  • Lmao. I love how an American stereotype has caused a discussion about WW2.

    But seriously though, the stereotype is that the upper class in our country are a bunch of deranged loons who talk to immigrants like children?

    ....

    Dead-on, Sweden. xD

  • If I was American I think I might feell a lil offence?

  • @Enderwiggan1

    Why, watch EVERY movie in hollywood/american adverts and see how they portray the Swedes, French, English, Irish, Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Canadians, Mexicans, Italians. Usually negatively. Dont see anything wrong with this myself, its comparing the boring work of au pairing to the excitment of the army.

  • WTF..This is too funny...She should have also pointed out that her husband John Senior will be showering with the new au-pair. Anyway, I personally would like to Thnk Sweeden for being our friends and allies. And also......Thanks for Henrik Zetterberg!

  • wooo zetterberg!!!!!

  • hockey sucks.

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  • What does a commercial making fun of the US have to do with joining the Swedish Army?

  • didnt you watch the end? do you want to become an opair, or join the army :D

  • Haha..so it is every Swed's nightmare to have to become an Opair for a US family, who, in this case looks like a family of crazy people?

    I got this point but it just is poorly done I guess. The US and Sweden are allies...or maybe the people who made the commercial did not know that. I am not being serious...

    Oh well, I guess I need to study Swedish humor more. :-)

  • haha, they also have one making fun of Japanese people :P

    its just playing with sterotypes

  • omg how cool is this hahaha LOL

  • well i havent a the slittest idea about sweds and fins in ww2 and techniclly... dont give a shit... what does it matter plus if ther neutral the swedish... maybe thts why they didnt want to get in such a big fuss over a war by helping them all the way instead they did what they sore fit and left it at that... and do people really care about these things? cause i cant see why

  • I know that the swedish army has a bigger and older tradition than Finland's army. Second...yes, they owned Finland for 600 years. I read weapon magazines and I've read a lot about swedish weapons and mmm...nothing about Finland. The swedes also gave support (maybe not so direct as everybody wished) to Finland against the soviets. Friend, I think you should read more.

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  • Let me just remind you that the Viborg province where a colony where alla where native swedes, its loss hurts as bad as it did for the finns, and about the Åland thing, we where pretty pissed when the leauge of nation delcared it finn teritory and war never came to Åland sense its people didnt need to serve in the military. So what? the russians where never there anyway even if we promised to protect it, It to is a native swedish province.

  • The way i see it we had no obligation to put our own nation in jeopordy against a war that seemed like a sertain defeat in this case, its just silly of the finns to think we had. You had independence and you defended it well, like you should, and you where victorys, but still you hold a grudge against uss. Cleary you showed your own merits in the war and didnt need mutch of our help, its like the finns blame sweden for the lost of the karoline lands.

  • It allways sounds like it was Swedens obligation to help a indipendent Finland in war, just you where a part of the Swedish kingdom. Its true our nobles put Finland trough hardship whit war, but that wasnt any diffrent from the rest of the country. And besides Russia is the one to blame for that hardship, they declared war so many times. You chose your protective state, whitch was uss over the Russians and you had your own dutchy  rule.

  • For a nation that declared its own independence and refused swedish military aid after it. The finns where officaly warned that sweden woudnt step in to help if russia attacked, and im sure the finnsh didnt expect it ither, but they hoped. Yet the swedish gouverment decided to send arms and ammonution, along whit 8350 volenteers woud make thier way to finland on thier own.

    Sweden didnt have mutch of a army at that time, and surely ho coud have -

  • We didnt refuse from it, we literally begged it. it was agreed before that swedes would defend Ahvenanmaa(Åland), if the war comes. But you broke ur promise

  • I was talking about 1918, not 1939. At the meeting of the nordic countrys head of state at October 1939 we clearly claimed we woudnt help in any way in case of war, but we did anyway so be happy we did, besides Germany sold you out in the winter war when they had guaranteed your independence and refuse to lissen when you called for aid, we awnserd and the other nordc countrys to, even the allies did. But your best pal Germany didnt.

  • Wikipedia and the finnish sources say otherwise. We got the most aid from Germany. No official help was given by Sweden during winter war you can check it if you want. Those 7000 valenteers came here from their own will, not because the government send them. Some aid might have arrived unofficially by the people of Sweden, but the government refused to help Finland in any case.

  • wikipedia is for dummies, no offence. Never trust sutch a source, there where 8350+ swedish volenteers so theres one fact that was wrong. And there was "Offical aid" in terms of supplies and ammo, the gouverment was splint in 3 section. 1. Direct alliance whit Finland 2. Send volenteers and supplies "volenteers had to come out of free will and by own means" 3. None involvement what so ever. The parlament voted for the 2nd option, Ive read this countless times in "BOOKS"

  • Well actually that"s not true those about 7500 valenteers came from an organisation, which was founded by the people of Sweden and that organisation was the one who send all food supplies medical help, which came from Sweden.

  • Anyway, im half finn and half swede. I got higest scores om my history tests being my favorit topic. Im pretty sure SIR that im being the one whit the right information here..

    Besides, leave germany out of this, we are talking about the winter war, where they betrayed you remember??? Its not everyday you guarantee a nations independence then give them over to the soviets.

  • some finns might find your comments as insults. First i dont what they teach you there in Sweden, but atleast i have got most of my information from a man who fought in winter war, so......... P.S Maybe our people know more about the, which they experienced with their own eyes, than people that refused to help their so called "beloved neighbour". We had one of the most advanced weapon industry during 1930"s and 1940"s. Examples such as Finland machine gun, which was widly used around the world

  • First which one knows better about the finns or swedes, think about that and tell me the answer when u know it.

  • 70,000 Finnish children were sent to safety from Finland to Sweden during the 1940s

    However, Sweden was declared 'non-belligerent' rather than neutral during the conflict and accepted that as many as 8,000 Swedes voluntarily went to Finland

    Im deeply suprised wikipedia got these facts pretty accurate. Maby its not totaly for dummies. Anyway im talking about the winter war and not the countinuation war. Germany sold you out during the winter war...

  • 13 000 of them returned, if i remember right, so you just gained more citizens.

  • I"ll just leave you here with your illusions, cos they are pretty insulting, since my uncle was killed in winter war.

  • And how do i insult you by correcting you in history.

    #1 The Swedish "Gouverment" sent offical aid.

    #2 We didnt promise to defend Åland, becuse it was belived it woud lead to future military involvement on the mainland.

    #3 I accuratly presented what we did to help.

    I find it insulting that you claim we didnt help, and my grandfather fought in the winter war, he was a swede. My mothers father died trying to smuggel jews across the norweigan-swedeish border. So i anyone is unsluted, its me.

  • source is some swedish gossip magazine i suppose?

  • Get you danm facts straight before you comment on something you clearly know litle about. Its not that hard to google the winter war, or sweden during ww2 and read the facts. Now i leave you to your illusions.. one day when you read a proper history book you will think back to this moment.

  • Sweden was totally neutral country in ww2 and i think that was a very wise move from your government, but the thing what pisses me off here is that some swedes including you actually think that you did something in ww2.

  • Jesus christ, read some military history. I never claimed that but you to stubborn and stupid and lazy and or you just have a hard time admit i was right.

    I dont think we did a shit in WW2, but we did help alot. If you doubt that then go fuck yourself.

  • why havent i heard anything great of ur valenteers then? and if i remember right they arrived to battlefield at the last day of the war, so thank you for ur great help!

  • Buuhuuhuu, im not trying to smutter national pride all over your face, im not proud of sweden during the WW2, i do this becuse im pissed when people dont know thier history and think they smart enough to open thier mouths. But anyway, next time we wont help at all Finland, sense cleary you dont need it or whant it.

  • You think we need help from a country, which doesnt have an army nowadays? Oh yeah you have an army which is the size of finnish patallion. hehe!

  • Batallion? The finns army isnt that mutch bigger then the swedish, twice the sieze. But we have twice as many airfcrafts and like 5 times the bigger navy. We have more tanks and advanced infantry equipment. But that aside, i can pull my triumph card whitch you cant defeat. We owned you country for 600 years. End iof story, you lost.

  • actually it"s five times bigger than yours and its getting smaller all the time.

  • I heard that one of ur batallions ran away from peace keeping mission in Libanon some years ago, god those pictures were hilarious!

  • also your attempt to gain credit for swedes from fighting in winter war insults me, cos that war is the symbol of finnish courage and skill.

  • Meh, enough about WW2, we clamied to become a neutral state after the great nordic war 1721 whitch had terrible consequenses for both finnish and the sweddish population, we lost Finland in the swedish-russio war of 1809 and yet we fought Napolean 1814 if i remmeber correct. That was the last war we had and the years afterward sweden got the slogan "the peaceful sweden" Now in 1939 you expect that nation to step in to a war -

  • Lazy bum.. :D

    No j/k wth not?

  • the USA accent there was PERFECT, the most anoying accent of this planet....

  • There are more than 4 different American dialects my friend. You're probably referring to the "Southern' folk" :-)

  • what´s the Boston accent? that one is ok.Usually actors speak ok.But go to the streets, I´ll see, specially women, like sex in the city women, the "R" and "th".You know when a Pug dog tilts his head?My head tilts when I listen to them, when I´m in the states.....

  • I'd rather stand and try to fend off the Russians myself than become an au pair. I mean, come on, raise someone elses fucking brat because they're too lazy?

  • HAAHHAHAHAHAHA Swedish "army"

  • lol

  • it is very very funny ad

  • hahahaha omg!

    seems gud haahaha

  • These ads are bizzare.

  • American soldiers like to party. Outside their own camp. Bought them beer and tought them how to drink. Miss those days in Kosovo...

  • hahahahaha

  • WTF? The commercial is a "joke" and it´s not bashing on the US forces. It was for recruiting women to the swedish armed forces. "Why go to the US as an Au pair and maybe get stuck with a boring family when you can drive a tank and get free make up?"

  • communists? well our army sent much compared to your i taske it american or pakistanian or chineese or indian, but then we havent got our asses on the line in any war in oh say the last 400 years have we? unlike some other barbaric societies?

  • i just have to correct a little fault there, sweden have not been in a war for 200 years, not 400. Dont you know that the last war sweden had ended 1809 when the ruissans got finland from us.

    learn your history first.

  • oh but offcourse, sorry for my misinformation i realise im wrong...

  • Sorry no, it was when we took Norway from Denmark.

  • Russia "got" Finland from you? I would've sold it to them for a dollar.

  • 400 years? we can almost say 50 years since world war 2. When russia invaded finland we swedes sended troops to aid them, but since they was there just the day it got peace in the country, the swedes didnt kill anyone unluckely?). If the finish witer war had been for like 1 day longer, Sweden would be in war.

    Damn bad no swed died since now everyone thinks we're cowards.

    btw, americans weights alot...

  • you do know that those were volunteers which came Finland? please notice that despite the promises before the war, no official help came from Sweden.

  • Yes. There was no official help. A third of the Finnish airforce was swedish planes, piloted by Swedish pilots, with the Swedes even having their own airbase. The Swedish government did help a lot, just not officially.

  • Actually no, u donated fourteen planes and those were flown by finnish pilots.

  • Dunno why Finns are such racists just because of Sweden let them down (a bit) for many years ago.

  • you"re the ones who are racists, since one of ur "scientists" classified us to be equal with cave men years ago. Same theory was the inspiration for Hitler in his "race cleanings".

  • Ah... thats right. A scientist claimed for ages ago that different races was differed good? Never heard of it. So you think all swedes are racists then? We let much more immigrants come and live here than Finland does.

    Just stop be a racist. Youtube Finns have no reason to be racists.

  • ur people have a racist background, which you are trying to fix with taking hundreds of thousands immigrants. Anyway i havent said anything racist like.

  • Racist background from when? Where the hell did you get that little fact from? We were not very aggresive vs Hitler no. But that was like 68 years ago. Do we try to compensate? Whoaa? Where do you get your ideas from?

    I suppose you are 13 years old maybe less.

    Get some brain and pubes before u speak little fella.

  • Dude I have never even heard a friend of mine talk shit about a Finn. We have nothing bad to say about you. We are the same kind of people dammit!

  • maybe not u, but others have. In a way are the same kind of people and in a way we arent, cos ure scandinavians and we are Slavic. U can recognize the difference for example in appearance.

  • In Sweden most people are social-democrats. The nationalist party is a minority.

  • Sadly its growing :(

    They are getting arrested I hear.

  • though that Sweden and Finland woud hold agains the might of Soviet Russia? Everyone was sure finnland was doomed, but it hold. It was a heroic defence it was, peace when the finnsh where on the last ammo clip.

    Yes sweden made the first racial studies in europe, and declared the lap people inferior, not the finnsh though becuse your not native scandinavian the laps are. But the nation itself wasnt racists, it was just free to allow these seincetist to work as the pleased.

  • To be honest mate, you gotta be a retard, not only did we send planes, which, many were flown by swedish pilots, it came 20 000 swedish soldiers for you assistance, and also, ammunition, weapons, fuel, tents, doctors, engineers etc, etc. Do you really think we could have helped you more? We also had to have enough to be able to protect our country from an attack, if that would have happened. So you should perhaps reconcider that.

  • Little bit over eight thousand valenteers came from norway and sweden and those were not professional soldiers. As you know clearly the biggest help came from Germany. The number was fourteen planes check if u dont believe. And if couple pilots came from Sweden, then why havent i heard any great story of them?, unlike our own pilots. Due to the arrogance of ur country, the international press wrote quite angry articles of sweden.

  • Christ. -.- Why the hell do you think you did'nt here any great stories about our pilotes? Becaus your country fucking hated us for no reason, did that never occour to you? And seriously, the biggest "help" came from Germany, what the fuck do you think they would have done to your country when they had defeated the Russian's? They would take over your country, don't you realize that? Hitler wanted to rule the entire world, why would he leave you?

  • Every considerd that we had to be neutral there was a ad in sweden they put up to slicence people just to avoid a war it was a tiger behind bars with the text "En svensk tiger" and that means "A swedish tiger" But it also means "A swede is silent". Ssweden hadn't been in a war for 150 years. Why break that? For a country that doen't care about how nice the support we silently sends is? Hell no.

  • thats true and i consider that a very wise decision, but the thing what im trying to say here is that you should commerce yourself as a neutral and not as a great military power like some swedes do.

  • Have you even been in the army? Fucking fag, you hide in your little room, when your countrymen are dying in the fields. Coward you are.

  • well it goes 10 marines on one swedish conscript!!!

  • haha our coverment sucks.. sweden have no defence 150000 thuasend sweds can join the army evry year.:(

  • haha our coverment sucks.. sweden have no defence 150000 thuasend sweds can join the army evry year.:(

  • lol u are talking bulshit :P we are not defence less xD but soon we are haha xD but not yet :P

  • Ah, the Swedish army mostly conscripts but damn good peacekeepers and artic soldiers.

  • hahahahah :P

  • Every au pair would love to end up there... *g*

    Just join the AuPairArmy... AuPairs the man Friday for everyone!

  • LOL!!

  • Hahahahaa, sweet. That's the swedish army that's for sure.

  • lol lol lol ,can i take tank and kill this lady ?

  • wtf

  • agreed :\

  • Hilarious

  • moahaha :D

  • Wow.  That's flippin funny!

  • You obviously don't know what the army is like in Sweden.

  • No, of course i don't. I was referring to an army in one of the Eastern European countries where i did serve for 14 weeks in 2002 and still regret it as the biggest waist of time in my life.