"This again? Yes we are fond of treating people humanely, even criminals, and yes it seems to work out pretty fine in terms of repeat offender statistics and such."
- Martin Jacobsen
martinj on A redditor eloquently gives the business to a famous redditor telling a victim of rape that she deserved it and should be raped again soon - http://www.reddit.com/r...
martinj on Finland and Norway have the world’s freest press, Reporters Without Borders’ new media freedom list says. The United States tumbled 27 places to 47th, mostly because of the “many arrests of journalists covering Occupy Wall Street protests.” - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"Not carrying guns is the rule. You'll never see a Norwegian police officer with a gun unless s/he has already justified its use and gotten permission to get the gun out."
- Martin Jacobsen
martinj on What are the best 'last words,' real or fictitious, you have ever heard? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"I'm a native Norwegian speaker and I speak English and Spanish as well. Whenever I spend any amount of time concentrating on either second language I will start thinking in it. After I lived a year in South America I actually had to spend a couple of days before speaking and thinking Norwegian felt natural again."
- Martin Jacobsen
martinj on Here's something white people wish they didn't copy from black people - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"The far-right and anti-Islam factions came out of the woodwork only days after the massacre trying to portray themselves as the victims. (We're being censored because of Breivik, etc...) Just a couple of days ago a representant of the christian conservative party chose to stand with a kook who basically said that the attacks were gods punishment for Norways relationship with Israel having soured lately."
- Martin Jacobsen
martinj on Saturday I suffered an eye injury. Tonight, my autistic toddler got hold of my eye patch. She then demanded a pirate hat. Then a sword. Then... things got out of hand... - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"I love that song as well. My true guilty pleasure though is 99 Luftballongs by Nena. I know all the words in both German and English (neither is my first language) and I have, in additional to the original version, a Ska version, Industrial version, Punk version and lord knows how many other covers."
- Martin Jacobsen
martinj on When did saying that you have 'OCD' become a substitute for being anal-retentive? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"Since when is there something surprising about people using a mental diagnosis as an colloquialism? OCD, Anal retentive, Manic, Psycho, Crazy, Mad, Idiot, Imbecile, Lunatic, etc..."
- Martin Jacobsen
martinj on God Punished Norway with Utøya Massacre Because of Anti - Israel Policies - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"It's so crazy for someone from Norway to read this shit. If anyone representing with a corporation so much as bought a politician lunch there'd be a huge stink over here."
- Martin Jacobsen
"I'm Guild master of the Thieves Guild, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, Legate of the Empire and Harbinger of the Companions. I haven't done all the cities or all the masks or even all shouts, but that seems more like a completist thing than the rich quest lines I mentioned above."
- Martin Jacobsen
martinj on When you have kids, are you going to show them Star Wars in the order of 456123, or 123456? - http://www.reddit.com/r...