Copenhagen slutspurt

[imomus]

How much can you glean about a foreign city by walking around before the shops are open, taking pictures through windows?



Welcome to Copenhagen, where you see, from top to bottom, a Vesterbro live-work space, some junkstore pots, an Islamic travel agency, a Thai health spa, a furniture shop, a black hairdresser, a Thai-Chinese supermarket, a fabric store, a vegetarian restaurant, a kids' clothes shop, an electronics store with a sale ("slutspurt") on, and the Henrik Vibskov shop (with Vik Prjónsdóttir's sealpelt visible).



From this brief walkabout, I got the impression that Copenhagen was like Berlin, but with prettier girls, more Thai restaurants, and a bunch of bawling imbecile drunks for whom Sunday morning is just a brighter, later Saturday night.

Comments

Danes are smug drunk racists.

[(Anonymous)]

As much as I admire their design, beautiful capital and general niceness to people (as long as you agree with them) there ain't no getting around that Danes are smug drunk racists.

Re: Danes are smug drunk racists.

[merrow-sea.livejournal.com]

Meh. That's true of most groups. Change *drunk* to whatever a culture's preferred form of intoxication is, be it caffeine, prayer, or kava kava. And swap out *racist* for sexist, ageist, or any other intolerance you can come up with. Most groups you're not a member of, world wide, are fine, as long as you agree with them. Or appear to. It's probably just a knee-jerk, evolutionary response to the potential threat of the *other*.

Re: Danes are smug drunk racists.

[(Anonymous)]

That's so funny. You're either a dane i denial or you simply don't know much about Denmark, do you?