Okay, Svea, now listen...

What the hell are you doing?

Here I was, happy and content about being able to buy cheap food and buy reasonably priced goods -- and now, the swedish fucking joke of a currency decides to swing by deep down in the pit of unending failure. I mean, come on! The rest of the world is coping with the financial crisis, why can't you? Now, if ever, is a perfect moment for new directions. Throw out the fucking sofa-sitting sleezebags who are milking our government's teats while, uuuhh... watching the Simpsons on the telly? Throw the extreme socialism in the bin and adopt some form of capitalism. Replace the fucking revolving doors that we apparently have in our prisons and either kill off, or at the very least censor off, the population who are over 65 years and all they do is send in complaining letters to various newspapers, complaining about things like crickets making too loud noises after 22:00 or about the national flag having too vivid colours. Execute the king and bring in a national representetive who has the ability to spell his name correctly. Donate the top half of our area to the highest bidder - I don't care, just... do SOMETHING. Invade another country if you will, I don't care! Norway has oil - invade them! They wouldn't even notice the governmental change. Next, claim Denmark, because let's face it - they miss us since the 1600's. After that, crush Finland. They.... well, no actually, let the finnish people be, they're badasses and would destroy us even if we were to outnumber them 100 to 1. I mean, they sit in a wooden box with a million degrees in the middle of winter, spanking eachother with branches and then running out, screaming their lungs off out in the cold dark night for no apparent reason. That's as alpha as it gets... Okay straying off point -- My point is this:

When I got here, I was paying somewhere around 57 SEK for a full meal at a good restaurant. Now, I pay 81 SEK for the exakt same dish. I have a classmate who can't pay next month's rent because his budget got distrupted. Come on! Don't claim to be a modern civilized "top-notch" country if you don't even dare to try methods that would actually adapt you to THIS CENTURY. We had NO reason whatsoever to reject the Euro. Okay, so Britain wanted to maintain its Pound Sterling - fine - it's a global currency. What reason could we possibly have for rejection?

So, Sweden... try not to run the country like a one-legged man running the marathon. But yeah, I guess if the japanese economy would take a drop then that wouldn't hurt. Either way works for me, just... do something! If a nuclear-bombed small archipelagic nation out in the pacific ocean, with constant destructive earthquakes, storms and with an apparant national sport of jumping in front of trains, can handle their coin - so should you.

What's your biggest hold-up? Probably the annoying senior citizens. And we went through that already...