YUROP
Welcome to YUROP
The Ultimate Eurozone of Culture, Chaos, and Continental Excellence
A glorious gathering place to celebrate (and lovingly roast) the lands, peoples, quirks, and contradictions of Her Most Magnificent Europa. From the fjords to the Med, the steppes to the Atlantic spray, this is a shrine to everything that makes Europe gloriously weird, wonderfully diverse, and occasionally passive-aggressive in 24 languages.
Here we toast:
🇪🇺 The progressive Union of Peace (and paperwork)
🧀 The freest of health care
🍷 The finest of foods
🏳️🌈 The liberalest of liberties
🌍 The proud non-members and honorary cousins
💶 And the eternal dance of unity, confusion, and cultural banter.
Post memes, news, satire, linguistic wars, train maps, cursed food photos, Eurovision fever, propaganda and whatever makes you scream “only in YUROP.”
Leave your stereotypes at the border control and enjoy the ride.
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Försvarsmakten (Swedish Armed Forces) is the umbrella the army, navy, air force, and home guard exist under.
Tack, but it was just a joke about sailors.
Har sjömän större chans att vara bögar eller? Är jag i fel yrke, månne?
Forlat, jag pratar inte svenska (this the only thing I remember how to say in Swedish, which is ironic because it's actually completely useless to use in conversation - every time I said it while I was there, people didn't know what to say next)
As the other poster said, it's just a joke - there's a stereotype about sailors finding comfort with each other while they're stuck on a boat in the middle of nowhere.
It was (is?) a long standing joke or inference that the US Navy attracts gay dudes. I've never looked to see where this came from because I never really cared, but it's there. The joke seems to be dying, thankfully.
Don't mind if I do
Sweden: Gay since 1945!
It's less about attracting gay dudes and more about not having much choice (hence the saying, "it's not gay if you're underway")