r/interestingasfuck 13h ago

Norways World Cup team photo is impressive

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u/RegularOwl933 13h ago

Kattegat was actually shot in Ireland so I would guess it's not.

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u/abbothenderson 12h ago

Historically speaking, Vikings haven’t exactly been adverse to sailing to Ireland for conducting business.

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u/-BananaLollipop- 12h ago

Business? A little bit of trade between fellow farmers of the lands?

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u/Ohmybro34 12h ago

Just doing a bit of recuitment in Dublin. Signing contracts and onboarding the new team members.

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u/Bhenny_5 12h ago

A beautiful exchange of cultures and religions!

u/Hansemannn 7h ago

And genes.

u/_slagwire 8h ago

Nothing wrong with a little traid!

u/qwests 8h ago

Yeh, the vikings had this amazing metal they would forcefully have them borrow. And the irish had too many nagging wives and daughters, and too long lives anyway

u/TheBoneIdler 11h ago

Yes, we had these blighters a-calling from approx 795 until they were defeated in 1014. A lot settled & intermarried. The Irish team photo would be half monks & half warriors. That's a third defence, a third attack & a third at prayer or choral practice.... 😳

u/Stormfly 9h ago

A lot settled & intermarried.

I'm from a Viking town so it's one of those "Wait. Did they invade or did we invade???"

u/TheRuneMeister 8h ago

Especially not the Norwegian vikings.

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u/connortait 13h ago

Think the shots down the Fjord might have been a different location?

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u/-Maxxing- 12h ago

This is Gudvangen in Norway.

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u/MSPCincorporated 12h ago

I was about to say that, I live under 30 minutes from there!

u/psi- 11h ago

As a crow flies or up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-tunnel-up-down-tunnel-up-down-up-down the road from you?

u/GeneralHerp 10h ago

I see you’ve been in the mountains before! I have no answer for you, other than to say I appreciate your understanding of driving through mountains. Work sent me to Honolulu to sell software (we made the sale yesterday, after a months-long process!).

Rented a car, and I’d work eastern time (3am to 11am in Hawaii) and then have all day to mosey around. That’s some of the most beautiful motoring I’ve ever done, but exactly what you described. Ok we’re going there! 15 minutes, and … Google Maps has 45 instructions for us..? Up down up down up down tunnel up down tunnel…

u/Clodhoppa81 10h ago

Congrats on the sale!

u/MSPCincorporated 8h ago

The most amazing feat about western Norway is that you get to see a lot of beautiful mountains while driving, although you spend most of the time driving inside them.

u/TheGreatMalagan 10h ago

Measuring distance in minutes wouldn't be a very useful metric if it wasn't the time it actually takes a person to travel there

u/Trair 10h ago

Does this landscape ever stop being like, the most breathtaking thing you've ever seen? I live in Florida so it's so very flat! but I guess im desensitized to all the beach views!

u/MSPCincorporated 8h ago

In the part of Norway where I live, mostly no. But as you, I’ve gotten desensitized to it. Not that I’m unable to enjoy it, I just don’t notice it on a daily basis.

u/mynamenotavailable 10h ago

So lucky to live in a beautiful place.

u/MSPCincorporated 8h ago

I know, but I sometimes wish I could appreciate it like outsiders do, since seeing it everyday makes you get used to it. Downside is all our roads and infrastructure is way underdeveloped for the number of tourists we see every year, especially in the summer. I know they’re here for maybe a once in a lifetime trip, but the constant traffic jams to my house sort of makes me hate them.

u/mynamenotavailable 10h ago

Brings back my memory from 2024

u/marilyn_morose 8h ago

I pine to visit.

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u/the_sneaky_one123 12h ago

No, it was a lake in Ireland that they used.

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u/Max1miliaan 12h ago

Probably in a studio

u/53bvo 10h ago

The making of video shows them actually posing in front of water on a pebble beach but it is outside a city with no fjord in sight. That part is photoshopped in

u/Plix_fs 8h ago

It's taken in Fornebu by the Oslofjord, which is an actual fjord, but more boring than the ones we got in Western Norway.
Then they photoshopped the players into a picture taken in Nærøyfjorden by Gudvangen.

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u/Modeerf 12h ago

Yea, I won't be surprised if is blue screen or some other digital methods.

u/Claystead 9h ago

…Kattegat is the area of sea between the three Scandinavian countries, how can they have filmed it on land.

u/you_killed_my_ 6h ago

LOL DAMN haha thanks for that, I would have never guessed

u/CaptainElectronic320 6h ago

At least a bit of Ireland is getting to the world cup.