The Swedish Institute is, according to Wikipedia, a Government agency in Sweden with the responsibility to spread information about Sweden outside the country. One way the organisation does this is the Twitter account @sweden, which is handed over to a new Swede every week. This week it's me.
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How is the Swede of the Week chosen?
Anybody can nominate prospective people. I don't know who does the selection. According to a friend of mine they often manage to choose maniacs. The list of dos and don'ts they've sent me reads like a history of things that have gone wrong with various tweeters. "Don't get into fights." "Don't try to pick up people for sex." :-D
I'm about as surprised to learn this as Captain Renault was to discover that gambling was taking place at Rick's Cafe. Admittedly, it's hard to make a coherent argument in 140 ASCII characters. But the medium does attract a certain kind of person.
"I’m about as surprised to learn this as Captain Renault was to discover that gambling was taking place at Rick’s Cafe. Admittedly, it’s hard to make a coherent argument in 140 ASCII characters. But the medium does attract a certain kind of person."
Indeed; your comment has 147. :-)
Sweden looks Wolwerine-esque this week. As befits our status as the benign mutants (the malign ones being in the US Republican primaries).
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I found the obvious candidate for when Scotland follows suit with @ Scotland...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6vDzf-wSbk
I think this makes you officially "World Famous in Sweden"
Yeah, a C-list celebrity!
Please do not join some "reality" show! Or if you do, let it be "Neanderthal vs. Cro-Magnon"!
Or maybe Ctulhu Manor -the last survivor (literally, survivor) gets the reward.
I did play 7 games of Jeopardy 15 years ago...
I trust you did better than "Weird Al" Yankovic: