Comments on: Hell, Norway

By: alicia

alicia — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:50:34 +0000

double lame-o

By: xyzea

xyzea — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:39:23 +0000

Sweden part of norway? someone really needs to install a brain or look on the map

By: Jenrai

Jenrai — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:54:56 +0000

I would imagine pretty much anything.
Can’t see two huge burly demons stood at the door taking sharp objects and liquids off you, tbh.
Hell, you’d probably find they’d give you some if you didn’t bring any.

“No Knives? No guns? No C4? My dear boy… where did you pack for, Sunday School?”

By: Raychee

Raychee — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:27:48 +0000

I’ve deffinetly been here,
and yes, it is near Stjørdal

By: bad in english, sorry..

bad in english, sorry.. — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:09:21 +0000

omg!!!! hell is not a fucking city!! its a little place near a city, Stjørdal!

By: AB

AB — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:04:18 +0000

I beg to differ. Sweden is, in fact, a part of Norway.

By: NorwayTheBest

NorwayTheBest — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:30:17 +0000

Norway!!

By: Norwaydandee

Norwaydandee — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:36:43 +0000

Nitpickers the whole lot of you!

By: oslo

oslo — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:42:50 +0000

Imagine what you are carrying when it must be customs cleared for “Hell”

By: Heidi

Heidi — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:27:48 +0000

Eh..In Norwegian yes…but not in Swedish..
*hopes that you r not norwegian* but if you are I got to tell you something.. Sweden is not a part of Norway..plz read the comment before correcting..

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:57:21 +0000

There’s a famous old pic of Ripley of “Believe it or not” fame standing in front of Hell (Norway)’s city sign with a caption of “people have told me to go here for so long, I thought I’d make the trip!”

Believe it… or not!

By: WickedFrost

WickedFrost — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:44:41 +0000

You lost me at ‘both’

By: Ellen

Ellen — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:09:35 +0000

Mais, oui.
And the word “hell” means “luck” in Norwegian.
Fail ^^ Not Engrish. But it’s an awesome sign for English readers!

By: Thunderbone

Thunderbone — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:11:26 +0000

Norwegians don’t misplace r’s for l’s, hence! not an EngRish fail.

By: EnaBean

EnaBean — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:59:25 +0000

Mynd you, moose bites kan be pretti nasti.

By: Thrawn

Thrawn — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:17:35 +0000

Yep…the newspaper here likes to put the headline “hotter than hell” on really hot slow news days

By: lolbukkit

lolbukkit — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:03:37 +0000

You guys just made my day.

By: Indefatigable

Indefatigable — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:30:22 +0000

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/expedite

It makes sense for that word to be connected with shipping. They’re shipping goods to, er, Hell. Hell in Norway, not the other one.

By: jamar

jamar — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:57:36 +0000

Still, expedition?

By: aggy

aggy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:55:39 +0000

hehe indeed its a place in norway.. same place have have the nice little place to sleep.. “Hell hotel”
how do you think lost english tourists feel when they see the sign “hell 25 kilometers”

By: jonas

jonas — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:42:38 +0000

FYI:
Both “piss” and “kiss” are words for “urine” in swedish, although there is a difference… I’d say “kiss” means “pee” while “piss” means “piss”.

“pitt” means dick in swedish, while “pick” I believe is norwegian for dick.

By: inlina

inlina — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:49:53 +0000

Ahhh…OK. That one took me a while because I was looking for a warped translation. This was a bit too subtle for me. I need in your face dick-and-fart jokes.

By: random

random — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:11:06 +0000

Actually stupid people go into SuperTarget all the time and then gripe when we don’t have a butcher or some stupid thing like that, thinking that SuperTarget is a grocery store. It’s not. It’s a retail store with a convenient grocery attached. Easiest to think of it like a gas station. You don’t go there to do all your food shopping (unless you’re either loaded with money or just plain lazy).

By: J

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:16:07 +0000

I think the gripe is that the content of this site supposedly contains engrish while so many things isn’t. People come for engrish and get stuff like this instead. You don’t go into a food store to realize they barely sell food but lots of other stuff instead.

By: Ms Norwegian

Ms Norwegian — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:07:21 +0000

Nopes, because as others have pointed out, ‘gods’ means goods. It doesn’t count as Engrish as it’s not a mistranslation.

By: regina

regina — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:17:54 +0000

i’ve been there. it’s really funny to stand in front of it, but it’s a neat place.

By: ryszard

ryszard — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:16:57 +0000

I hear they haven’t figured that out yet in Fucking, Austria. Brit tourists keep stealing the sign.

By: dr_handle

dr_handle — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:52:17 +0000

And here I was, naively and ignorantly having a bit of a giggle at the idea of God’s expedition – God going slumming on holidays, to check on how the other half are after-living. I could imagine her donning a pith helmet, and wearing a money belt under clothes, and perhaps taking along a slavering heavenly pitbull for protection, and plenty of bottled water and anti-diarrhoea tablets, because you can’t trust the water down there you know, and the emergency contact number for American Express, and a little note to get a snowglobe souvenir for St Pete because he collects them, and a loud Hawaiian shirt, and a whizz-bang new camera bought duty-free on the way in that has so many buttons she can’t work out just how to take a picture…
Surely the answer to the gripes is to vote with your mouse – if you don’t like the content of this site, go and look at something else out there on the interwebs. Or make your own site. I’ll come and look at it (just tell me if I’m going to need a pith helmet).

By: dr_handle

dr_handle — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:30:43 +0000

My sister was bitten by a moose…

No, hang on, that was Sweden, wasn’t it?

By: ktnxbai

ktnxbai — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:07:54 +0000

“Piss” means pee and “pikk” means dick, for future reference.

By: MrFluffles

MrFluffles — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:02:47 +0000

Very little to do with customs.
It’s simply the old cargopart of the now closed Hell Railway Station. (It’s just a stop these days)
(Gods = Cargo)

Still a funny one for us locals though

By: Barakku

Barakku — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:43:42 +0000

Preas shutting the facility up, and exceed the denotation of merit Engrish.

By: john k

john k — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:42:50 +0000

also a city in michigan, in either case hell most likely freezes over on a regular basis.

By: Yuri

Yuri — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:04:14 +0000

I see it, obviously “Gods Expedition” is NorEnglish. lol that’s where the funny is

By: Kelponia

Kelponia — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:05:43 +0000

Oh man, I’d better learn to be more anal retentive if I want to post on this site more often. I mean, I might just wear out my retention stick digging in the hole of useless nitpicking. Oh well. Anyway, I’ve got a lot of kokking to do this afternoon, so I’d better go.

By: Rawr|

Rawr| — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:03:56 +0000

I live at Hell, Norway. Its kinda funny, but no worth putting on engrish lol -_-

By: MOF

MOF — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:40:11 +0000

I live close to Hell and visit every week… ehh… hmm…

As some people have pointed out it translates into something like “Hell – Cargo processing” (It’s a railway station). Funny thing is they have started welding the road signs in place because tourists keeps stealing them.

By: random comment

random comment — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:32:45 +0000

Hell goods? Hmmm…

By: BAW

BAW — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:10:42 +0000

In addition to Hell, Norway, there is also a Hell, Michigan.

By: Burphel

Burphel — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:36:30 +0000

Will wi get tø see the majestic møøse?

By: Godevil

Godevil — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:35:59 +0000

Trust me, it’s one hell of a ride… better than happy heaven ending.

By: Other side of the Fence

Other side of the Fence — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:13:09 +0000

I agree, this is just a sign that is only funny in a foreign language(English). I wander what they would think of some of our signs.

By: J

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:52:05 +0000

Why can’t they put up pics that fits with the theme of the site instead of funny words and names in foreign languages/countries? Last time I checked, that isn’t engrish. Kiss means pee in swedish and pitt means dick. Swengrish? No. Hell no. -_________-

By: signe

signe — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:35:42 +0000

yeah, it’s not engrish, but i guess it looks funny anyway, if you read it as if it were english.

By: Dan2025

Dan2025 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:05:38 +0000

While it’s not Engrish, I generally avoid such feelings towards the site through a simple mindset.

You’ve heard of jokes lost in translation? I just consider this site to be dedicated to jokes CREATED in translation, which I believe is what the general idea was in the creation of this site. It just that it turns out that there’s a lot more mistakes/coincidences made in non-Asian languages than was initially believed.

That being said, I don’t find this joke funny. Someone explain please?

By: The L

The L — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:05:15 +0000

There is also one in Norway.

The funny here is that the sign basically is meant to say “Goods Exportation.” Oops!

By: The L

The L — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:03:57 +0000

Considering that this describes the city as “Gods Expedition,” though, it definitely counts as a sign fail of some sort.

By: Pretentious White Girl

Pretentious White Girl — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:50:47 +0000

Yep. And that’s funny.

Also, it justaposes “Hell” and “Gods-Expedition” which undoubtedly means something mundane in the local languag, but in English is very comical because it makes it sound like the Gods are on an Expedition to Hell or some shit.

*offers Inlina an irony supplement*

By: mARI

mARI — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:03:39 +0000

This sign is written in Norwegian, not Engrish and it’s a real town – I know because I’ve been there many times! The sign actually reads: “Hell goods processing (customs).”

By: K80

K80 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:03:26 +0000

and the cayman islands