On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:05:06 +0000, Markus Splenius
wrote:

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:53:01 +0000, "."
wrote:

Because they have no brains. The Scandinavians are shocked that we do the
washing in the kitchen. They say "do you also take the dishes up to the
bathroom to wash them their too". They have the washing machines upstairs

No they don't, they have them in their utility rooms, just like us.

Only occasionally in Finland do they have utility rooms. Most of the
time the washing machine is in the bathroom. It's true that they think
the concept of getting your laundry anywhere near the kitchen is
disgusting.

Finland isn't in Scandinavia, and most Finns are mildly insulted by
the suggestion. The language is totally different to the other Nordic
languages, although there is a small Swedish speaking population
(there is a dual language policy), and generally Finns learn Swedish
and English in school.

The area where the utility room might be is often used as a sauna.

I've seen utility rooms with washing machines or in bathrooms in most
countries outside the UK.

The bigger disgust factor is the notion of having carpet in the
bathroom.


More often than not there is no upstairs in a scandinavian house.
"Upstairs" is something designed for countries that have too many
people for the amount of space available! :-)

That's a generalisation which very much depends on location. Away
from the cities it tends to happen, but if you take areas like greater
Stockholm, there are lots of houses with two storeys plus cellar
(washer goes there) and town houses where there is a separate communal
building with space to put the washer for each house. It's the same
issue that land is expensive, although problems are solved in
different ways.







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..andy

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