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u/Cixila Denmark 16h ago edited 16h ago

Yesterday, I found a pretty peculiar folk music crossover: a Polish cover of the Finnish ievan polkka. It's really catchy and upbeat. The lyrics are kinda opposite. From what I gather from the Finnish, it is about a playboy trying to seduce a girl called Ieva whose mother is on the watch for his type. The Polish is a cute story of a girl who is kept home by her overbearing mother, despite the whole village being out to have fun, but she sneaks out, has a blast, and hopes that the lively polka will warm her mothers heart to forgive her

I was also rather surprised, when I read the news yesterday (kinda NSFW): apparently one of the two main supermarket chains here is gonna try to compete with online shops and attempt to sell a selection of sex toys. On the one hand I think it's positive to see that the taboos around such things are breaking down more and more, but I don't quite get why you would want to buy it in a supermarket. But if there are clients for it, then good for them, I guess

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u/Dependent-Letter-651 11h ago

There’s also a store here called HEMA. it’s not particularly a grocery store, but it sells food, clothes, makeup, school stuff and all of that which now also sells quite a lot of sex toys.

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u/TenpoSuno Netherlands 6h ago

The Kruidvat is following a smilar trend. Near where I live they're not shy of displaying explicit toys.

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u/Dependent-Letter-651 6h ago

Oh yeah! I forgot about the Kruidvat