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  • Icelanders: Simply The Best

    Icelanders: Simply The Best

    Icelanders are, in general, better and more competent persons than most of the people who reside in other countries. This can mostly be attributed to the clean food we enjoy here. The pork and Corn Flakes we buy in Bónus are free…

  • Icelanders Love Copenhagen

    Icelanders Love Copenhagen

    Copenhagen was the favourite travel destination for Icelanders this summer, reports Vísir. London has long been the destination of choice for Icelanders, in the winter months nearly a quarter of flights departing Keflavík airport head to the British capital, but this summer…

  • UN: Icelanders Smoke The Most Pot

    UN: Icelanders Smoke The Most Pot

    According to the UN’s annual World Drug Report Icelanders smoke the most pot, per capita. The report estimates that approximately 18.3% of Icelanders aged 15-65 smoke cannabis, the highest per capita percentage in the world followed by the United States at 14.8% and…

  • Icelanders Show Interest In Muslim Society As Show Of Support

    Icelanders Show Interest In Muslim Society As Show Of Support

    Many have been in contact with the Muslim Society of Iceland to express an interest in joining, even though they are not necessarily Muslims themselves.Yesterday, former Fréttablaðið editor Gunnar Smári Egilsson wrote a column on his Facebook explaining that, since he is not a…

  • Are Icelanders Racist?

    Are Icelanders Racist?

    I never intended to actually write this piece. It started off as a joke, in a bar, after a bizarre incident with an extremely drunk Icelander. My group—a Brit, an Australian and two Americans—was sitting in the corner, minding our own business,…