Ha ha that's funny Karl. Yeah, Busdrivers get around you know;)

ProjectM


He he, most people still seem to be speaking Norwegian for the most part. Who knows, with the generation growing up with the nonsense I do for a living, perhaps ALL they'll know in a few years is Norwegian? At least I got free lunches out of it

What good is a free lunch when they don't give you any popcorn to watch the movie with? what a rip. As far as the lava lamp goes......I am with Craig on this one. Maybe he can send you one of his.

Yeah, I've got extras.

ProjectM


You're making this very difficult Craig...


No overpriced candy, nor popcorn...



I get free food from a hot and cold buffet... Tho

Smorgasbord?  Yum.  

You have an awesome job, Marius.  Just.... Wow. :):):)

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Norway isn't so primitive. There's just a lot of weeeeeird people here LOL

But well observed about the language thing. We usually are quite good in english. It frustrates a lot of foreigners who come here to learn the language. Everyone speaks english to them - because we want to speak english and grab every chance we get - so the foregners don't learn a thing. I know people from other countries who have lived here for many, many years and they can hardly order a beer. 

On the other hand, after a few glasses most of them know a lot more Norwegian than they think. 

I'm from Newcastle in England originally and I used to have a Norwegian friend back there. He came to England as a student and first lived in London, where he said he had trouble understanding people. Then he moved up to Newcastle and instantly clicked with the Geordie accent. He could understand it no matter how thickly it was spoken. For instance we Geordies will say "gannin hyem" for "going home" and he instantly understood that. 

I'll tell the guy to get a lava lamp for sure! At my "office" I already have one

@Old55 - Smorgasbord is Swedish. Here in Norway we call it "Et bord med mat på" which translates to: "A table with food"

@Julibee - The job is interesting, I'll give it that. But it can be so tedious as well. I don't really care about the product most of the time which is childrens cartoons. So I hope I made a good impression on the guy working in the studio I've been hanging out at this week. I might try to get a foot inside. Or perhaps I'd try to do something else for them. I've never been a sound guy at heart. It's always been about the music and the words (I'm an educated writer). But thanks;)

@Sharke - That's a cool story. And I've experienced simmilar. I lived in Australia for a while and shortly after I came there, the people I lived with took me to a birthday party for a scottish man who turned 65 or something. On the way over there they told me that I should just let them know if I got bored because I probably wouldn't understand what they were saying. Many of the guests were scottish. Anyway, we came there and I had absolutely no problems understanding them. The Aussies were more difficult. Then one Scottsman introduced me to an Irish guy there and told me it would be impossible to understand him! However, it turns out that he was the one I could understand best. I dare to say it, throughout my life I have lived and travelled over seas a lot and have little or no problems understanding english in most forms. And I'm slightly proud to say that when I'm out and about I'm often mistaken for being Irish, Australian or American by English speaking people. Some years ago I actually managed to pick up this lovely girl from Ireland on the train after she was convinced I was Irish after she heard me speaking on the phone with some friends from Australia. She looked a little disapointed when I told her I wasn't so I took her out for coffee when we got off the train and had a lovely six months together after that.

Darn I thought I was being a good tourist by calling it a koldbord

:-)

It's pretty good Mike. We call it a "Koltbord" however - but only nice and rich people do

BTW - here's a link to the trailer for the movie I've been mixing this week, in Norwegian. I produced and directed the Norwegian dialogue for it. I dunno if it will work in other countries. It should start playing automaticly. Here's the English one for comparisment. It's a little different but you shoudl get the idea of the damage I do to kids' movies

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Oh.... It's not a studio... it's a mixing cinema? 


I hope that helps...




I really do....

My kinda place!!!  Has coffee and a couch Woot Woot  


Looks like a relaxing atmosphere to work in. Have a great time