I went to go watch Kungliga Smycken, the amazing documentary about the Swedish royal jewelry collection, to get in the Nobel mindset before Saturday and found out that it is being taken off of SVT's video player on December 10th so make sure you watch it while you still can!!!
SVT - Kungliga Smycken
The documentary features interviews with Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria, and Princess Christina and stunning shots of jewels. It's not geo-blocked so everyone can watch it. There are Swedish captions that I used to be able to translate using Google's translation extension but it's not working for me anymore. Is it working for anyone else or is it just me? Does anyone have any other suggestion for how to translate the captions? If you can't get the captions to translate and don't speak Swedish here are my liveblogs from when I originally watched it.
Episode 1 Liveblog
Episode 2 Liveblog
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here are things about me that nobody wanted to know, but i wanted to answer
1. What is your name? ELLEN
2. How old are you? 20
3. Are you sure? ??? /?? ? ? ? ??
4. What is your earliest memory? something that is pink
5. What is your favorite alcoholic drink? i don’t drink, gurl!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6. What is your favorite vegetable? the humble potato
7. Do you remember your first day at school? ya
8. What is the worst exam result you remember ever getting? 50% for both year 12 maths methods exams lolol
9. How tall are you? 5'5
10. Can you swim? splish splash! yep!
11. Who is your favorite movie actress? i really don’t care
12. Who is your favorite movie actor? ibid.
13. Who is your favorite comedian? bo burnham ? idk
14. Who is your favorite politician? hmm i disagree a lot with this q. i agree with a lot of politicians and i think some are cool and interesting people, but having a “favourite politician” would be putting them on a pedestal?? and like when u do that it makes it harder to disagree with them when they have a BAD opinion on some issues. i don’t think that’s good. i think we need to always be critical of politicians no matter how groovy some seem.
15. Who is your favorite historical figure (been dead for at least 100 years)? Louis XVI ! :O :O Tsar Nicholas II (even tho he’s only been dead for 99 years), Charlotte Corday!, Woodrow Wilson (BTW by “favourite” i’ve interpreted that as mOST inTeresting, i don’t necessarily think these historical figures were good people loL especially wilson ahhhh i just think his contribution in beginning wwii was super interesting, especially how wilsonian principles like self-determination influenced different nations, i think he wasnt a super great dude tho lol) hmmm, some more probs but i cannot recall at this time.
16. Who is your favorite super-heroine?jessica jones ?? idk & idc
17. Who is your favorite super-hero? idc at all lol
18. Can you name a female scientist other than Madame Curie? yes lol omg ?????? jane goodall, marie pasteur, rosalind franklin ?? (even tho marie curie is my fav tho <3 ) i feel like if people don’t know about female scientists they NEED to do independent research bc they really don’t teach much at school !!!!!!! and the contributions of women throughout history are so important obvs.
19. Who is your favorite mythological god or goddess? ooooooo tricky tricky !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! athena is cool but idk if fave ??? i just like mythology itself and not specific gods in particular reallyyyyy
i deleted questions 20- 30 bc they were so weird lol
31. What is the worst movie you have ever seen? omg last night i watched spy kids 4 , and it’s so bad that it’s past the point of being so bad that it’s funny (such as the room and birdemic, u feel?) this was just bad bad.
32. What is the worst TV show you have ever seen? i do not watch tv shows that are bad lolol
33. What is the worst book you have ever read? idk New moon mayB
34. What is the worst song you have ever heard? idc
35. What is the worst sport you know of? what do u mean by worst tho lol idk i dont have interest in many sports so idc enough for this q
36. Who is the worst movie "star" ever? i really don’t care about celebrity culture
37. Who is the worst comedian ever? idk, u feel ? it’s like... i have never witnessed ever comedian EveR so idk who is the worst, i feel like i would need to do extensive research to answer this.
38. Who is the worst author ever? there are plenty of bAD authors. i feel like i wanna say zoella lol. but ultimately, see above Q.
39. Who is the worst musical act ever? IDC
40. Who is the worst sports "star" you have ever seen? i dont understand so GOodbYE
41. If you could go back in time to witness an historical event in person, what event would you want to see? signing of treaty of versailles ??!?!?! i would say russian rev but that could be dANGERous :////////
42. If you could go anywhere in the world right now, where would you go? my bed, goodnight!
43. If you could meet anyone in the world, who would you meet? idc bc i feel like i could say a few different bands but ultimately, they don’t know who i am and they don’t care. meeting them would make me feel like OMG for a few mins, and then that would be it. i would think it was fun, they would forget me after 1 day and again, this weird kind of idolisation... i don’t think it’s healthy. people are just people. sO if i could meet anyone in the world, i would want to meet someone who is nice and who would ultimately become a nice and close friend for me!
44. If you could become famous for one thing, what would that thing be? bEING IN A BAND PLz
45. If you could buy anything regardless of cost, what would you buy? like how with genies you use ur last wish for infinite wishes, so like i would buy infinite money and i would get trapped in some kind of capitalist money loop where i am spending infinite money to buy infinite money. i think that would be cool
46. If you could change any one thing about your country, what would it be? ONE thing ?????? i live in australia, i would remove politicians like pauline hanson, dutton, joyce, morrison, abbott, frydenberg lol they would all just disappear from the public eye forEvER. OR even better i would LET REFUGEES SETTLE HERE , if u dont know , australia is literally THE WORST pls read up and learn about how inhumanely refugees who try to come to australia are treated. it’s awful http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-14/manus-island-why-are-asylum-seekers-suing-the-commonwealth/8610482
47. If you could change any one thing about international politics, what would it be? really. REALLY. I feel like this is so obvious that im not even going to say anything. thanks ok
48. If you could meet any famous person who is dead, who would it be? idc
49. If you could become dictator of the world, would you? a benevolent dictator sURE but UMMMMMM as much as i think i am cool and right about everything, i would for sure become corrupt, so no thanks.
50. If you could eat an entire cow at one sitting, would you? no thanks!
51. Have you ever illegally downloaded music/TV shows/movies from the net? I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT LIMEWIRE IS I SWEAR
52. Have you ever used illegal narcotics? no
53. Have you ever gotten any points on your driving license? i’ve only done 8 houRS on my L plates lol so NO
54. Have you ever stolen anything from a shop? nop
55. Have you ever bought alcohol or cigarettes while underage? nop
56. Have you ever bought alcohol or cigarettes for another person who was underage? nop
57. Have you ever tried to cheat the taxman/social security/other government agency? i don’t have any money lol idek how to pay taxes hehe
58. Have you ever ridden on a train or bus without paying? perhaps
59. Have you ever been arrested? nooono
60. Have you ever been charged with a crime ... ? nononoo
61. What's the furthest you've ever been from home? euROPE but idk which country in europe that i visited would be geographically furthest from australia... UK probs??
62. Where have you visited that you would like to go back to? EVERYwhere in europeeee
63. Where would you like to visit that you haven't yet? stonehenge!
64. Where is your favorite place in the world? my bed, goodnight!
65. Where have you visited that you hope never to go to again? greece, i went in summer summer and air was hard to breathe and hot idk museums were cool but not again soz greece xoxo
66. Where would you definitely never go to? idk a bunch of places lol
67. Where is your least favorite place in the world? how would i know! hMM!
68. What is your favorite way to travel ? my own two feet i really don’t like any other kinds of transport bc i am scared of trusting other people to transport me
69. What is your least favorite way to travel? boat maybe lollol
70. deleted bc idgi
71. What was the last movie you saw? spy kids 4 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!L O L
72. Was it any good? i answered this above ahhhehhhaehehaeo
73. What was the last book you read? a storm of swords
74. Was it any good? ya i guess
75. What was the last song you listened to? HUMDRUM BLUES BY THE GROWLERS
76. Was it any good? YESYESYSES!
77. What was the last computer game you played? Dolphin Olympics!!!!!!
78. Did you do well? Yes
79. What was the last meal you ate? gnocchi
80. Was it any good? nah
81. Do you believe in God/Goddess/Gods/Goddesses? nah
82. Do you agree with the war in Iraq? nah
83. Do you believe in aliens? liKE.... does it really matter what i think???? what ever i think doesn’t change the reality. but YA
84. Do you agree with the theory of evolution? OfC
85. Do you believe in reincarnation? ?? nA h ???
86. Do you agree with the idea of the UN? United Nations (UN)? ya i guese ? ??
87. Do you believe in karma? meh
88. Do you agree with the theories of man-induced global warming? IT AIN”T JUST THEORIES GURL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAs
89. Do you believe in democracy above all other systems of government? hmmm ya
90. Do you agree with Freddie Mercury when he sings "Fat-bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round"? w hh at a
91. What is your favorite movie? SCHOOL OF ROCK. SCHOOL OF ROCK. SCHOOL OF ROCK. SCHOOL OF ROCK.
92. What is your favorite book? Animal Farm (ik im a cliche shh)
93. What is your favorite song? difficult question bc having favourite things is a bit weird imOP! buTTtttttt i will say rn it is proBS Tell it how it is, by the growlers, but that is just my fav like for this week, it will change soon lolol
94. What is your favorite city? where i live ? lol idk
95. What is your favorite sport? NETBALL
96. What is your favorite place in the world? IDK and IDC!!!!!!!!!!
97. Are you glad these questions are almost over? I LOVE ANSWERING QS but all of these ones were pretty weak so yes
98. What are you going to do next? sleep
99. Do you anticipate this activity being fun? yesyeysyeyses
100. Give us a quote to end on...”i’ll kidnap a thousand children before i let this company die” - Mr Waternoose.
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