When I was seven, I broke my arm. For reasons I still don't understand, it looked like a normal arm with a lower case "u" in the middle of it. My doctor referred to it as a "swan neck" break. (He also called me a cry baby, which I don't think was fair.)
No actual swan was involved, but your sentiment often makes me think of that.
A lot of animal/wildlife rescuers will use the swan straightjackets to keep both themselves and the swans (but mostly themselves) safe during rescue efforts. I remember the Wildlife Aid channel on YouTube had some videos with swan rescues where they explained that adolescent male swans leaving to find their own territories often ended up landing in suburban areas by accident (saw someone's pool, or a reflective surface that looked like water) and had to be captured and relocated because they got too confused and disoriented to leave, etc. Since swans have breeding seasons, you can end up with a busy season where a bunch of swans need rescued in the space of a month or so. I expect something like that probably is the backstory here.
Fågelbehållare i guess? Idk my swedish isnt very good and i just use behållare usually cause its a very general word. Also people outside the nordics love å so its a win to use it in an ikea meme. Väska could also work for more variety? Fågelväska
As somewhat of a polyglot, it just occurred to me that swedish is a language I've never once considered as a language I know absolutely nothing about nor have ever considered studying.
Ehh its not that interesting grammar wise. Just check the phonology, you will be slightly horrified but other than that its a very generic isolating northern germanic language. Huge amounts of vocab from proto-germanic(duh), english and french. The grammar is basically a remix of english. I still think its good to learn if you live in sweden which is kinda hard nowadays actually cause even swedish youth thinks theyre better off with english which is kinda sad.
I'm Norwegian, so basically the same both language and cultural wise. I know several foreigners that has had a hard time learning our language since we will jump over to fluent English after the smallest sign of struggle. When I was a kid I loved speaking to foreigners just so I could practice my English. Never occurred to me that maybe they needed to practice Norwegian more.
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itrealgood@mander.xyz · 77 pts · 59d
M137@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 59d
ø isn't a Swedish letter.
itrealgood@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 58d
pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 56d
Are you telling me that the Monty Python and the Holy Grail Swedish subtitles lied to me??
Bixcut@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 59d
That's, like, your opinion, man.
aeiou@piefed.social · 44 pts · 59d
FÅGELKONTROLLVÄSKA
whaleross@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 59d
IKEA VINGKLIPPT
pmk@piefed.ca · 13 pts · 59d
Vingklippt is good :). Maybe also... ANDRUM or SKAMVRÅ?
Dojan@pawb.social · 10 pts · 59d
ANDRUM sounds like it exists. I love SKAMVRÅ.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 59d
Who removed the dead bodies of the poor souls tasked with putting the bags on the murder birds?
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world · 14 pts · 59d
Now you've just made them angry.
M137@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 59d
It never stops being weird that people think the IKEA names are just basically swedish chef speak (which doesn't sound like swedish at all).
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 59d
HONKHALT MYFUCKINSIDES XD
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 59d
Don’t try this at home; a swan could easily break a grown man’s arm. Or at least his glasses.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 59d
I've never had my arm broken by my glasses.
Mine don't have the spring-loaded flippy-outy bit, though.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 59d
https://youtu.be/VAFqUhfpz5E
Mpatch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d
No fucking way, for real? Like not gona lie, giving me mad urges to go fuck around and find out.
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 58d
If he can reach them, sure.
toynbee@piefed.social · 1 pts · 58d
When I was seven, I broke my arm. For reasons I still don't understand, it looked like a normal arm with a lower case "u" in the middle of it. My doctor referred to it as a "swan neck" break. (He also called me a cry baby, which I don't think was fair.)
No actual swan was involved, but your sentiment often makes me think of that.
Zephorah@discuss.online · 8 pts · 59d
What’s the deal with swans? I’ve heard of angry geese, I’ve even known a few people who received injuries from one, but not swans.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe · 37 pts · 59d
Survivor bias. Those attacked by swans don't live to tell the tale.
JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 59d
They're basically much bigger geese
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 59d
Take a stroll near a nesting swan and let me know how it goes for you…they may be pretty, but they are extremely defensive birds
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 4 pts · 59d
Fucking dinosaurs
Zephorah@discuss.online · 1 pts · 58d
So was my rooster but he was cool. Granted, they can be awful.
pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 56d
My understanding is that swans are basically just geese with good PR.
rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 59d
Anyone know why they're being restrained? Maybe relocated?
Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org · 7 pts · 59d
They're angry. That's all the information provided to us. Angry swans.
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 59d
For the safety of themselves and society at large.
pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 56d
A lot of animal/wildlife rescuers will use the swan straightjackets to keep both themselves and the swans (but mostly themselves) safe during rescue efforts. I remember the Wildlife Aid channel on YouTube had some videos with swan rescues where they explained that adolescent male swans leaving to find their own territories often ended up landing in suburban areas by accident (saw someone's pool, or a reflective surface that looked like water) and had to be captured and relocated because they got too confused and disoriented to leave, etc. Since swans have breeding seasons, you can end up with a busy season where a bunch of swans need rescued in the space of a month or so. I expect something like that probably is the backstory here.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 58d
why make angrier version of gooses more angry.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 59d
Fågelbehållare i guess? Idk my swedish isnt very good and i just use behållare usually cause its a very general word. Also people outside the nordics love å so its a win to use it in an ikea meme. Väska could also work for more variety? Fågelväska
Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org · 4 pts · 59d
As somewhat of a polyglot, it just occurred to me that swedish is a language I've never once considered as a language I know absolutely nothing about nor have ever considered studying.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 58d
Ehh its not that interesting grammar wise. Just check the phonology, you will be slightly horrified but other than that its a very generic isolating northern germanic language. Huge amounts of vocab from proto-germanic(duh), english and french. The grammar is basically a remix of english. I still think its good to learn if you live in sweden which is kinda hard nowadays actually cause even swedish youth thinks theyre better off with english which is kinda sad.
virku@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 54d
I'm Norwegian, so basically the same both language and cultural wise. I know several foreigners that has had a hard time learning our language since we will jump over to fluent English after the smallest sign of struggle. When I was a kid I loved speaking to foreigners just so I could practice my English. Never occurred to me that maybe they needed to practice Norwegian more.
pigup@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 59d
BIRDBAGG
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 59d
Honkhalt sounds like merch you could buy at Honkbal Hoofdklasse.
VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d
IF you need a name for your metal band, Ikea is full of them
starik@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 59d
Fuglpokr