Talk:Denmark

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That's funny

That's funny, didn't we have this article already? Guess not. --AKjeldsen^{Cum dissensie} 05:48, 17 July 2008 (EDT)

I thought we did.--Bob^{bing up} 05:56, 17 July 2008 (EDT)

Ah, I was probably thinking of Danes. --AKjeldsen^{Cum dissensie} 06:03, 17 July 2008 (EDT)

Oh yes, that's the one.--Bob^{bing up} 06:07, 17 July 2008 (EDT)

See Anders! I do read your links.--Bob^{bing up} 07:31, 17 July 2008 (EDT)

Good to see it. I might add that we're also probably heading into a banking/credit crisis in the near future. Fun times await! --AKjeldsen^{Cum dissensie} 08:22, 17 July 2008 (EDT)

Interesting, the same is being prognosticated for Spain. Well, actually it's going on, but not everybody has noticed. I blame Bush.--Bob^{bing up} 08:29, 17 July 2008 (EDT)

At the risk of sounding overly nuanced, I'm more inclined to blame the people who have bought real estate at ridiculously inflated prices over the last few years. I'm looking forward to when that bubble finally bursts - cheap apartments and the delightful wailings of the afflicted. --AKjeldsen^{Cum dissensie} 08:43, 17 July 2008 (EDT)

And maybe, just maybe, dinner parties where property prices are not the only topic of conversation. Silver Sloth 08:48, 17 July 2008 (EDT)

My blaming of Bush - and by extension the US - was an automatic European socialist conditioned response. I agree completely that the the blame for the various European property bubbles lies squarely at the door of European purchasers. House price inflation in Spain has been running at at an annual 15 to 20 percent for at lest the last ten years. An absurd level. And everybody thought this could continue indefinitely. Seriously. I've lost count of the times that I told people that it was obviously unsustainable, only to receive blank looks. Now, of course, everybody is an expert and knew prices were going to drop.

However the thing that actually burst the bubble was the sub-prime mortgage problem in the US. (Although, to be fair, it could easily have been something else.) But at least I can blame Bush for the bursting.--Bob^{bing up} 09:00, 17 July 2008 (EDT)

I guess the question is if the US crisis was the actual cause of our similar situation in Europe, or whether they are rather similar situations that are just happening in parallel, so to say.

Silver Sloth, I fear that property prices will still be the dominant dinner subject, only now it'll be people moaning about how much their property has lost in value. That's still an improvement, though. >:-) --AKjeldsen^{Cum dissensie} 05:05, 18 July 2008 (EDT)

I would say that the property value situations in the US and Europe had similar causes in they they were brought about by 1) low interest rates 2) a belief that prices would go on rising indefinitely 3) an over-eagerness by banks to lend money. So one didn't really cause the other. The collapse was going to come at some point - it just happens that it was detonated by the US.

I agree that property prices will continue to be a subject of some dinner party importance.--Bob^{bing up} 06:00, 18 July 2008 (EDT)

Neo-Nazism

I really doubt the claim that Denmark "is home to the second largest neo-Nazi movement in Western Europe" for two reasons. One is that it's not sourced and the other is simple arithmetic - with such a small population, a huge proportion of Danes would have to be neo-Nazis to make any Danish neo-Nazi movement one of the largest in Western Europe. Hell, Denmark doesn't even have its own section in neo-Nazism either (unlike Sweden). ScepticWombat (talk) 06:00, 20 June 2015 (UTC)