A very good reason not to come to Denmark

If you’re hung up on your looks.

It’s true. Danes, per head of population are very good looking. They are also well proportioned physically and have cheeky smiles to complete the package. It’s very depressing if you are 85kg when you should be 82kg and balding. No joke. You only have to step out the door on a bad body day and in minutes you literally feel like throwing yourself from the Oresund Bridge. But best you don’t cross the other side of the bridge and end up in Sweden where the situation is, apparently, worse. Swedish women were recently voted the ‘most beautiful’ in the world and Danes second, although Danish women are the tallest women in Europe – I don’t know why. Nothing was said about the men but I should think it would be roughly the same story. What makes it even harder to take is it all must be genetic and natural, for Danes love a drink and a cigarette more than just about anyone.

And while I know it’s what’s on the inside that counts (‘so they says’) I can tell you first hand it means nothing really because Danes don’t seem to even realise how aesthetically pleasing they are. In Australia, for instance, if you’re a good look, you know it and you act accordingly – like you really are God’s gift to women or men or both because you are a minorty. Here, Danes even seem to have trouble with the reality of the situation.

Both NQDII and I have found at our respective jobs talk of this beauty phenomenon is not even acknowledged: “I don’t know how you can say Danes are good looking”, is the stock answer. Right. Well they should take note of some of the other places they visit on their gazillion weeks of holidays. But the nice thing about that is, they really obviously don’t.

NQDII and I do. We’re just hoping the longer we stay here, the more ‘Danish’ we’ll become. ☺