Still under the thumb of the Danes. Supposedly they turned down an offer of $50 billion from the US for it in 1946. Has datalounge been there? What is the gay scene like?
Greenland
by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 24, 2018 5:03 PM |
There is a USAF base there so the US has some presence beside the Danes.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 18, 2017 1:19 AM |
"Under the thumb of the Danes" is relative. They were granted home rule a few decades ago. And there are some hot guys there.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 18, 2017 1:27 AM |
Haven't you heard? The gay scene is hopping except for the chilly willies.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 18, 2017 1:46 AM |
The queens of Denmark and Norway go hiking there together every year.
I am not making this up.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 18, 2017 2:15 AM |
Mmmmm! With a population of 56,000, Greenland is sure to be a great place for the gay vacation of your dreams.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 18, 2017 2:17 AM |
The capital city of Nuuk (population less than 17,000) had a popular dance-and drink de facto gay bar (as of 2010) that was comfortably mixed called Manhattan,” he said. “The graffiti on the side of the building said for a while, Gayhattan.” Renewed Gay Pride
Then in 2010 19-year-old stylist Nuka Bisgaard and her friend Lu Berthelsen, 24, another woman, decided to team up with a few other local Greenlanders and create a Pride celebration.
Their efforts paid off on May 15, 2010 when Pride drew over a thousand participants in downtown Nuuk, the capital including a colorful and musical parade.
Which Dan Allan noted “may not seem like much, until you know that only 57,000 people actually live in Greenland. (Put another way, that’s like five and a half million Americans showing up for the first New York City Pride.)
by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 18, 2017 2:23 AM |
Amazing!
by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 18, 2017 1:19 PM |
I wonder about a gay pride paraders in Greenland carrying a sign in English.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 18, 2017 1:24 PM |
Interesting point, R9.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 18, 2017 2:17 PM |
[quote]The capital city of Nuuk
Now why would they name the capital of their country after the noise Curly Howard makes?
by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 18, 2017 3:30 PM |
Ah, but what if you vacationed in Greenland and... fell in love. In love with a citizen of Greenland.
Would you move there? For love? Or just dump the guy, possibly giving up the love of your life?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 18, 2017 4:31 PM |
I know, r9, and the gay rights group of the UK is called . . . Stonewall!
It's all very, very fishy.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 18, 2017 5:25 PM |
Miss Arnaq Nielsen, the Erin Burnett of Greenland
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 24, 2018 6:41 AM |
I met a straight guy who went there to do some research. The straight man's standard joke about Greenland is:
"Greenland, where there's a woman under every tree!".
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 24, 2018 6:51 AM |
I think this is a children's show, but it looks like it was shot in somebody's den.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 24, 2018 6:57 AM |
Greenland
Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, pronounced [kalaːɬit nunaːt]; Danish: Grønland, pronounced [ˈɡʁɶnˌlanˀ]) is an autonomous constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and Denmark, the colonial powers, as well as the nearby island of Iceland) for more than a millennium. The majority of its residents are Inuit, whose ancestors began migrating from the Canadian mainland in the 13th century, gradually settling across the island.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 24, 2018 7:36 AM |
They are making a Greenlandic version of the Golden Girls
Dorthea) No, Blanchet she's upset because they keep coloring the polar bears brown.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 24, 2018 10:13 AM |
Is it very green? I don't think it's very green. Are Danes colorblind?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 24, 2018 11:59 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 24, 2018 12:05 PM |
the US offered $100 million in Gold...NOT $50 billion to buy Greenland.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 24, 2018 1:31 PM |
R21, the Norse explorer Erik the Red named it Grœnland to attract settlers. It was basically an age old publicity scam to trick Icelanders and Norwegians into thinking there was better farmland to be had. Those early settlements vanished due to the brutal winters and resulting famine.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 24, 2018 3:44 PM |
It wasn't a scam, R25. The tip of Greenland where the Vikings arrived would have been green back then, but the climate got colder afterwards. They were able to grow corn when they arrived, but it became impossible later on.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 24, 2018 4:02 PM |
There are still some Hydrogen bombs lost in the bay after a B-52 crashed there in the 50s.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | November 24, 2018 4:05 PM |
R26, the tip of Greenland is green, but the remaining 98% is ice, yet they named it Greenland anyway. Okay.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 24, 2018 4:21 PM |
Did you expect them to explore the entire island before naming it, R28? The point is that the area they lived in actually was green back then.
[quote]Ice core and mollusk shell data suggests that from A.D. 800 to 1300, southern Greenland was much warmer than it is today. This means that when the Vikings first arrived, the Greenland name would make sense. But by the 14th century, maximum summer temperatures in Greenland had dropped. Lower temperatures meant fewer crops and more sea ice, forcing the local Norse population to abandon their colonies.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | November 24, 2018 4:36 PM |
Actually, the B-52 crash was in the late 60s:
by Anonymous | reply 30 | November 24, 2018 4:42 PM |
R25, seems like they did the same with Iceland...so as NOT to attract settlers.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | November 24, 2018 4:51 PM |
I have a friend who was stationed there. (straight) He said it was terribly depressing and bleak. Greenland is apparently what most think of Iceland, whereas Iceland is actually green and nice.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | November 24, 2018 4:57 PM |
I have friends in Iceland and Greenland enjoys a strange reputation there. It's said that public transport buses in Greenland show hardcore porn on video. The island's economy is completely based around fishing and the locals are very unfriendly. Expect to get into a fight if you go to a bar in Greenland.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 24, 2018 5:03 PM |