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I watched the Swan Lake yesterday at a local place that is now an even center and restaraunt. It used to be a place for repairing and maintaining steam locomotives. This made the place not that good for things like ballet: the whole place is flat, and they did not stagger the seats, so the person sittning in front of me blocked a large part of my view (I was at row 8, but given that they had the orchestra between the stage and the seats, it was only 3 or 4 rows of seats in front of me). Combine that with a low stage and you could not see the feet of the dancers very well. Kind of one of the points of ballet..

The ballet itself was good and I will gladly watch more, though maybe not at this place... Was the International Festival Ballet that performed.

Ulfgeir, is it common in Sweden for people to thank those in the military or veterans for their service? Do you know if it's common in other European countries? Why does no one thank educators or daycare workers for their service? Why does no one thank nurses or other medical services people for their service?

I'll see people drop what they're doing and go out of their way to thank a veteran. I remember this one time at a restaurant when a woman learned the elderly man next her was a veteran she repeatedly thanked him. He wasn't paying attention or listening to her. She was so hell bent on thanking this man she was actually being kinda rude.

Looking for this comic I noticed different times on different images indicating this complaint has been around for a long time. I remember seeing this many years ago.

I remember when we were in school my mom would buy small gifts like little bottles of hand lotion for us to give the bus driver and the teachers at Christmas. I wonder if parents still do this.

Aeson said:

Ulfgeir, is it common in Sweden for people to thank those in the military or veterans for their service? Do you know if it's common in other European countries? Why does no one thank educators or daycare workers for their service? Why does no one thank nurses or other medical services people for their service?

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Nope not common here in Sweden. I am old enough to have served and been drafted. They have changed so it was a professional military at a time, and now back to semi-draft...

Might be slightly more common in some of the other European countries, but nowhere near the US-level.

Remember that Sweden hasn't been at war for like 200 years. We have successfully though participated in various UN-missions, like Kongo, former Yugoslavia, and we had people in Libya and Afghanistan.