It's time for the ever elusive /Ice/ thread
any and all discussions and questions about the autism island belong here
will be posting a few pictures from 1930's Iceland to keep the thread going
to start off we have wrestlers from the biggest gymnasium at the time
the first radio newswoman
a woman getting hot water from a geothermal pool
still one of the most popular pools in iceland
view from a park of central Reykjavík
women working dried fish
Thinking of going there during the summer. Where else should I visit besides Reykjavik?
hello /ice/
>>56512054
how big was it back then ? like 20000 people ?
Now you're just a bunch of Americanized ayy lamo fagitz
Bring back the healthy level of poverty
government's house with the statues of King Christian IX of Denmark (and then Iceland) and Hannes Hafstein the first Icelandic minister
>>56512101
Reykjavík is not the reason to come to Iceland
you take a day or two, max three while you're here but you visit Iceland for the natural sights generally
I'd recommend the glacier Snæfellsjökull, the southern tip of Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður and Skaftafell
and if you want to venture that far lake Mývatn in the North is a must see
feel free to ask more specific questions, hard to answer these open ones
Reykjavík harbor
>>56512182
28,000 in the city, 33,000 if you count the surrounding small towns too
>>56512189
I know, seeing these pictures makes me wish for a simpler time
Wool factory
more fishworking
farm workers at one of the largest dairy farms at the time
>>56512337
do these surrounding cities still exist or were they absorbed by Reykjavik ?
also is there any icelandic funk scene ? Ice is a funking rad band
>>56512256
Of course! The sights are the reason why I'm going.
babe getting a car started? not sure what she's doing, any /o/ types know?
>>56512576
they exist nominally but there is now a continuous city where the old towns and farms were
and there isn't really much of a funk "scene" but Jagúar is a band that did funk
we've got 6 mayors for one city, it's madness
tourists at Gullfoss
and that's it for the pictures I think hope you enjoyed
>>56512695
not /o/, but yeah that's how you did get cars to start back then
otherwise too bad for the funk but I did expect that, few "cold" countries but Sweden did good at this
Man, some of these look downright contemporary! I always thought Iceland was a Stone Age Viking shithole till we occupied it in WW2.
Got any recommendation for a movie about Iceland? Preferably something slow-paced or contemplative.
I can only remember Skrapp út, which was kinda nice.
>>56512764
swedes have always been very cosmopolitan and into the bbc
How many non-whites are in your country?
>>56511865
Who are these aquamen?
>>56512897
honestly it surprised me too
but keep in mind that a few people still lived in turf houses at the time
it was still a very poor country by then but there was a great deal of growth at the time and the occupation kicked it up to 11 which allowed Iceland to catch up to the world
>>56512917
Nói Albinói is an interesting one
sort of like a Nordic even more depressed version of Donnie Darko
>>56512695
You had to hand crank them to get the cars started back in the day
Breaking the red white blue flag color combo itt.
>>56512917
101 Reykjavic
>>56512935
too bad these faggots contributed to ruin good disco with ABBA
>>56512946
probably about 1500 or slightly more
most of them from Thailand, The Philippines and Vietnam
>>56513034
didn't even notice it but you're right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5q77MQzU2Q
>THREE FUCKING HOURS
You can't make this shit up!
>>56513023
Holy shit now I remember I had it in my DL list quite some time ago, and never ended up bothering to find it. Thanks!
>>56513055
Will check too, thank you anon.
>>56513134
it was kind of a meme answer to be desu with you, I don't think the movie really represents the average icelandic life
still good though
>>56513123
kek
winter depression is real though
>>56513185
it doesn't really but it's still one of the best movies of Icelandic cinema and a great suggestion
>>56513185
Well who knows I might like it anyway, at least it'll take off a little bit of boredom.
>island
>fish
>oil
>drinking, yet low violent crime
>North Atlantic
>colourful buildings
>irrelevant on a global scale
how are Newfoundland and Iceland not the same thing ffs
>>56513269
Just post the rest of your pictures.
>>56513269
daily reminder that by the legacy of Leifr Eiríksson and successive explorers Newfoundland and Labrador is rightful Icelandic clay
>>56513304
kek, will do
>>56513221
I think it's one of the first icelandic movies I ever watched
>>56513260
you can also try Börn naturunnar (iirc the english title was Nature's children) too, it is very good too
>>56513332
>>56513386
bump for /ice/
I know this band did a small tour of Iceland some years ago
did any icelander catch them ?
>>56513826
never really heard of them
there are a lot of bands that come here
are they well known?
>>56513414
>>56513906
no they're not well known at all, but they did this mini tour as they were waiting in Iceland for their plan to the US
pretty brutal jazz, even more live. when I saw them it was in a circus and even if we were only about seventy people attending the place was quite wrecked at the end of the show
>>56513332
this looks like it could easily be Norway
or Iceland if there weren't so many trees in the picture
>>56513995
plane*
>>56513995
I see
I wouldn't have noticed unless they were a major name because I never leave the house
>>56514172
are there lots of neets in Iceland ?
>>56514236
not that many
not a neet myself but a student
really only go to uni and back
and that towelhead shitskin triggers me
>>56514236
wew, even the non-whites look white in iceland
>>56514349
do you have exams only in icelandic or sometimes in english as well ? and do some "strange" fields of study (ie sagas studies) exist ?
>>56513323
wew, here's his little settlement from a 1000 years ago
>>56514451
the dude is a muslim retard though
think he's the head of the muslim organization here or something
doesn't stop whining about how we should take in 6 gorillion syrians and how oppressed they are here
>>56514479
in elementary to high school there are of course English classes which are mostly in English
in uni it just depends on the profs
have had English and Italian professors but they got someone else to translate the exams to Icelandic even if the class was mostly in English
and if you study Icelandic literature the sagas will play a large role
>>56512054
Thats pretty comfy.
>>56514641
wow you guys in Icelands are pretty brutal by any standards, oppressing muslims and shit in your peace heaven
otherwise this looks ok as far as your language relevancy is concerned. when you do phds do you have to write them in english or icelandic ?
>>56514646
the area hasn't changed much since then
here it is by air, you can see the white cylindrical structure that's on the right in the original picture on the bottom right here
>>56514765
Muslims aren't oppressed here unfortunately, the guy is just delusional
not sure about the PhD's actually although I assume you'd at least translate them to English if you did them in Icelandic
>>56514646
>Svalbard
>>56514924
Good job getting me to check
/ice/ quickly speak your language
>>56514891
>I assume you'd at least translate them to English if you did them in Icelandic
like, really ? I get it there are a lot more francophones than icelandicophones but still
I mean if you're doing research in this specific field you have to know icelandic at some point isn't this contributing to less people speaking icelandic and overall icelandic being a less popular language ?
>>56514977
en ég er bara einn í þessum þræði svo það skilur mig enginn ;_;
>>56515031
I heard that Icelandic people can understand old English
>>56511865
how hard is it to move to iceland? thinking of moving there when I retire because of how chill it seems
>>56515028
so few people (less than 350,000) speak Icelandic that it's futile
the only hope for the language is preserving it in the homes
Here we have the first and last Indian toilet ever made
>>56515077
not really true
I've seen some texts and while I can recognize quite a few words there are many more that don't make any sense
it probably is similarly similar to Icelandic as it is to English
>>56515148
if you're not an EEA citizen it's pretty difficult but not impossible
similarly to if you want to move to America you pretty much have to get hired before you arrive or marry a citizen
>>56515170
do you mean that some households in Iceland abandonned icelandic for english, even in family dinners and such ?
>>56515229
No your language is totally foreign to me.
>>56515234
I love you Iceland
I wanna learn your language but unfortunately there isn't enough resources in Japan...
>>56515234
no, not yet
but that's how a language dies
there are already some all-Icelandic autists who mostly speak to each other in English and we must hope that remains confined to those mountain dew drinking retards
>>56515305
Oops
meant to reply to >>56515229
>>56515306
well don't worry I hear sometimes people speaking half-french half-english, but they're a special case of retarded businessmen who can't hold it to business people only
>>56515305
yea it's pretty bad
plenty of people who learn Japanese in Iceland though
mostly autists but still
know anything about faroe islands?
>>56515382
wait a second... are there non autistic non native people learning japanese ?
>>56515417
not terribly much but a fair bit, more than most Americans certainly
never been there but intend to go eventually
>>56515440
know of one normie whose gf is japanese
>>56515480
i've heard that icelandic and faroese are so similar they can understand each other. is that true? if you know
>>56515480
yeah, he's autistic
like my caretaker pretends not to be but he learned chinese just to fuck chinese prostitutes
>>56515545
not really when spoken
if you speak very slowly and clearly maybe a little bit but nothing like Portuguese-Spanish or Dutch-German
in writing they're mostly mutually intelligible although there are plenty of strange words and expressions on both sides
reportedly Icelanders have an easier time reading Faroese than the other way around
they're artificially similar in writing though because the Faroese didn't preserve their written language unlike Icelanders and then in the late 19th century they created it by essentially localizing Icelandic with the intent of respecting etymologies
which is why 'ð' in Faroese has no fixed sound and why the written language generally doesn't map as well to the spoken language as most European languages (better than the clusterfuck that is English though)
>>56515595
kek that's dedication
one of the best reasons I've ever heard for learning a language though aside from living where it's spoken
>>56515689
thank you for the answer.
what are the people there like? do you live in reykjavík or kópavogur or a more small town?
>>56515950
I live a 40 minutes walk from central Reykjavík
Kópavogur is Reykjavík though
the city is divided into 6 municipalities for historical reasons, Reykjavík, Kópavogur, Hafnafjörður, Garðabær, Seltjarnarnes and Mosfellsbær all form "the Capital area" which is by all sane definitions a single city see >>56512695
but people where? here or in the Faroes?
people here are annoyingly progressive like in Sweden, more so in the capital area but also with a healthy dose of arrogance and patriotism, especially not in the city
the Faroese are more conservative, more religious
>>56516150
i was referring to iceland. sucks that iceland went progressive, i've noticed that nordic countries seem to succumb to it the most. i wonder if theres a reason for that?
i kinda have a fetish for the idea of rural icelandic fishing towns, with cozy little shops where everyone knows each other. it would probably get boring after awhile but the thought is nice
is it true that reykjavík has a "polish ghetto"?
>>56516261
there's definitely a reason for it but I'm not sure what it is
probably the cosmopolitan feeling of being able to speak more than one language and being internet addicts
if there's a reported Polish ghetto it's greatly exaggerated
it's definitely referring to a neighborhood in eastern Reykjavík called Breiðholt where a lot of immigrants, Poles, Lithuanians and Thais live but there are also a lot of lower class Icelanders there
there aren't as many Poles here as there used to be and they aren't as violent either, the crime rate in Breiðholt has been going down and the property prices up for the last few years
and yea those fishing villages are very comfy but I can't imagine living there for more than a while
there's a reason why the population of countryside has been going down while the population of Iceland is going up
>>56516413
most important question of all: hows the women?
>>56516527
they say they're slutty
but I wouldn't know anything about that
>>56516575
th-thanks
>>56516150
Do you understand Faroese?
>>56516747
i can mostly read it but I can't really understand it spoken see here >>56515689
a sl/ice/ of bread
>>56516837
kek haven't seen.
Is it common for young Icelanders to go to continental Europe for university? Or are the ones in Iceland seen as adequate enough?
>>56517086
most people study in the University of Iceland but a lot of Icelanders also go abroad, most to Denmark, Sweden and America and especially for advanced studies
What can you even get in terms of foreign food in Iceland?
Like, if a cliche 'foreign' takeout meal to Canadians or Americans is Chinese, what does Iceland have, if anything?
>>56517342
in Reykjavík just about anything
Chinese and Thai are very popular, as are pizzas, fried chicken, hamburgers, etc.
you name it and it's probably here
pizzas are the most popular with Domino's being the most popular brand though
>>56517507
he probably thought iceland was turbo isolated and 100% icelandic
probably a better question for the faroese
>>56517531
well there is one fast food place that serves traditional Icelandic food
their signature dish is boiled sheep's head and a coke
not as popular as domino's though
>>56513269
>new
>found
>land
you can't make this shit up
>>56517342
The Icelandic fast food of choice is raw fish on a stick
I have some old Finnish magazines from the 40's and I remember seeing an article about how rich Iceland was with some pretty nice pictures. Maybe I'll post some of them later on....
/ísl/ þráður?
