a check-list of your "Swedish-ness"

To my non-Swedish friends in Sweden,

I found an interesting check- list. The original one contains more than 350 check items. This is just an extract of it. I enjoyed reading it, which means......

YOU KNOW YOU’VE BEEN IN SWEDEN TOO LONG WHEN...........

01. When a stranger on the street smiles at you, you assume:
a: he is drunk
b: he is insane
c: he's an American

02. You mutter "oy,oy,oy" continually to yourself even though you are the only one in the room.
03. You can use bra, fart, and slut in the same sentence without giggling (bra=good, fart=speed, slut =finished).
04. You start calling squid "black fish".
05. You accept that the best answer for a question is always "Jag vet inte" meaning "I don't know".
06. Silence is fun.

07. Sundays no longer seem dull with all the shops closed, and begin to feel restful instead.
08. You pass a supermarket and think "Wow, it is open, I had better go in and buy something!"

09. You no longer look at sports pants as casual wear, but recognise them as semi-formal wear.
10. You no longer see any problem wearing white socks with sandals.
11. Indoors you wear sandals with socks, regardless of the season.

12. You know the names of at least three different types of sill (pickled herring).
13. You know how to fix herring in 105 different ways.
14. You eat herring in 105 ways.
15. You no longer eat yoghurt, you drink it.

16. You think that riding a bicycle in the snow is a perfectly sensible thing to do.
17. You're complaining in January not because it's minus 10 degrees, but because there's no snow.
18. You regard it as sensible to eat ice cream when it is –15C.
19. It's May. It's 15C degrees. And you're stretched out on your balcony in your bikini trying to get a head start on your tan.

20. Your wife watches TV while you look after the kids.
21. You are no longer surprised when you see full-frontal male nudity in a commercial or on TV.

22. When offered a bottle of beer the first thing you look at is the alcoholic percentage.
23. You know the catalogue numbers of all of your favourite wines at Systembolaget.

24. While visiting England someone gives you directions and says, "It's about 5 miles down the road." You in turn ask, "Are you talking Swedish miles or English miles?"

25. A 25 % sales tax on just about everything is no big deal.
26. You don't find it strange that they add tax on top of the taxes.

27. You think everything in Sweden is good.

28. You think that reading this list is one of the most exciting things you have done for ages!!