Jutland vs. Copenhagen with Conrad Molden

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

Conrad is a right hoot! I love hearing his perspectives on life in Denmark.

[@elisabethrexromoser2786]

I live in a small village with 450 citisens. We have some internationals: 3 from Britain, 2 from Norway, 1 from Sweden, a family of 6 from Syria, 2 and a family of 5 from Romania and mayby 3 from Ukraine - and even some from Copenhagen😉

[@hejmuesli]

One comment on Bornholm: going with the Kombardo bus to Bornholm is actually enjoyable, and it's quite cheap. Mike and Derek you should definitely go if you haven't been already. My recommendation would be Gudhjem or Svaneke. Then use the buses on Bornholm to get around. You need to buy a klippekort, but it just kinda really works with the entire vibe of Bornholm to go by bus. It's a slower pace that suits the experience well.

[@KHValby]

I´m from Jutland. Lived in Copenhagen for 45 years. My Sisters and brothers from Jutland tend to forget, that CPH is Jutlands largest City 🤣 ! BTW! Friend and me went to see Conrads latest show at "Bremen" (April 2024). Great show and everyone loved him 👍😀👍 !!! He has this talent of making fun of us (in a good way) and not getting lynched afterwards 🤣 !

[@AHABNR.1]

you ment denmarks largest city right? 😅

[@anders9646]

Copenhagen/CPH is not jutlands biggest city since Copenhagen is in sealand/Sjælland. Aarhus is jutlands biggest city.

[@Keloggs86]

Remember, Fyn is the bumb you feel in your car, when you drive from Jylland to Sjælland. (Carsten Bang I think)

[@inuuteqstotts9639]

Well done Robe and Conrad on this episode!

[@omega1231]

Just a small correction on the part about Rigsdansk being spoken in Copenhagen, this is actually not the case. The Copenhagen dialect is part of the ømål group, specifically the nordsjællandske variants. Fynsk is also a group of ømål dialects, Rigsdansk is derived from an old Fynsk dialect. Rigsdansk as a spoken dialect was originally an aristocratic dialect which died out in the post-war period from the 50s to the 80s, and was actually based on a dialect from Fyn. The former queen Margethe speaks Rigsdansk, and it was likely a product of the national romance period of the 1800s when the aristocracy rose to power after the dissolution of the absolute monarchy. People born before the start of WW2 might speak Rigsdansk, but today it's quickly dying out. After the aristocracy lost power in the 1870s and specifically also the removal of the Landstinget as a fixture of Danish politics (making folketinget the whole parliament) in the 1950s, Rigsdansk as a spoken dialect became the formal way of speaking Danish, and with the informalising of Danish society in general over the course of the 1960s to the 1990s, people just don't speak formally to eachother anymore so people don't speak Rigsdansk, except if they are very old, you'll hear it alot in plejehjem. However, the reason written Danish doesn't correspond well to spoken Danish, is because written Danish is based on Rigsdansk (since the last real reform of written Danish was in the 1800s, and subsequent reforms have stayed with Rigsdansk) so very few of us actually speak the dialect our written language is based on. Some people do write in dialect, but it's not as normal as say Norway, and Rigsdansk is still used in some work sittings, what would colloquially be referred to as "speaking properly" but really what's happening is that people don't speak their own dialect in formal settings, because there's sort of a whole dialect for formalities.

[@esbennielsen8832]

The fude with with Jutland and The devils Isle, is like the fude we have with our Nordic nabours, its like yung siblins arguing, but if shit ever hits the fan, we there with you all the way.

[@dyseskytten1]

The "Fyn" sandwich is a piece of "rundstykke" with some butter smashed together with a piece of "brunsviger". It is awesome.

[@drumstick74]

Fyn Er Fin!

[@4455thor]

I'm from Århus. Work brought us to Copenhagen (we lived in Farum - understand this: we SURVIVED in Farum). 2003 we moved to Næstved. (We tried to move back to Århus, which failed). Næstved is ALMOST like Århus, but MUCH better than Copenhagen/Farum. And I'm NOT jealous. Things are too fast in Copenhagen, going much too FAST.

[@louiseerbslisbjerg7854]

I'm born and bred Fynbo! From Odense. However, I studied at Aarhus University, worked in Copenhagen (at Østerbro) and later moved to Aalborg when I got married. Now I'm back on Fyn, in a village along the western rails and I'll tell you; The 3 biggest cities and one village and not one, not a one, of those places are the same. Wastly different traditions, culturel quirks and the language! It has almost felt like the time I livdd in Seattle, WA. Far away from home, wastly different - but climate's pretty much the same ;) I'm happy to just be the brunner in the runner again 😂

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

Der er altså D i runder 🙄, lige som i run'styk' - igåsda!! - men der er selvfølgelig aldrig nogen, der har hørt det 🤣🤣🤣

[@HankHopeless]

@@ane-louisestampe7939 Jow da ! Nu er jeg fra Aalborg, så jeg er vant til stumme D'er. Det kan være ret uvant for mange. [ eksempel : "udstødning" udtales uden d'er = Ustøning ]

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

@@HankHopeless I worked in incomming tourism on Fyn. I've often joked, that the D'es they missed on Fyn, they can pick up on Sjælland. They got plenty - even one i kaffe 🥰

[@birterasmussen8133]

My impression is that the fight is going on from Jutland against Copenhagen and not the other way.

[@Gadeberg90]

Definetely does go both ways, but it depends on which crowds you are around.

[@BenjaminVestergaard]

My takeaway - you can get more cinnamon powder from a jutlandish bakery, under the table paying jyske dollars of course, than you can find in an entire outdoor food market in Asia 😄 I'm from Jutland myself, Silkeborg area, which is quite dialect-neutral to the untrained listener... but you can still hear that it's jutlandish. I can basically hear from what direction people are from relative to Silkeborg, north, south, east and west, even if people are using their "TV-danish" trying not to let the old dialect be too obvious. Most people, even from the deep synnejylland, can do that and be easy to understand. But yes, people are proud of their home areas, and would often just do their everyday talking if they know people are not from far away. But Zealand has dialects too, and judging from the dialect, postman Pat is from somewhere near Næstved 😋 Bornholm and Fyn are really competing on who has the cutest and most "hyggelig" dialect. As for the dispute between the regions... I wasn't proud when I went from the mainland to monkey island... But there is just a more diverse job market in greater Copenhagen than most larger towns/cities in Jutland... and in the suburbs there are also hints of nature here and there.

[@JesperSandgreen]

Norway is like Denmark, and not the other way around :P, Oslo was more or less build by danish kings... Same goes for other "big" cities "up there"

[@TheChiefEng]

Once upon a time, most police officers in Copenhagen were mostly from Jutland and many police officers in Jutland were from Copenhagen etc. So when you came upon a traffic police check in Copenhagen, you would roll down your window and be greeted by a police officer with a thick Jutland accent and if you were a typical local born Copenhagener, your reply, with a smile of course, would be "Ohh, so your older brother inherited the farm?" Sometimes, that kind of humor did not go down particularly well but that was the typical banter between people from Copenhagen and people from Jutland. Copenhageners sometimes have parents from other regions in Denmark. My father was from Løkken in Jutland while my mother was from Odense.

[@janlindtner305]

The police school in Copenhagen was also called "The Jutland Embassy"

[@6point5x55]

AGF shirt is 10/10

[@AlexandraBryngelsson]

Bornholm? Everybody just forgets 😥

[@JesperSandgreen]

ang. befolkning, ja, så er bornholm komplet ligemeget... De nævnte heller ikke Langeland, eller samsø vel?...

[@brittabrandtoft110]

Conrad talks about Bornholm ❤

[@Bjowolf2]

Closet Swedes 😂

[@BRANDRUMZ]

@@JesperSandgreenSamsø looks really cool to visit.

[@billigmad3720]

About Fyn - that is not completely true. I'm a Copenhagener, and I once had a girlfriend from Odense, Fyn for 4 years. When we attended some christmas lunches, with her large family, they called me "Københavnersnude", and they considered themselves kind of like jutlanders. Not neutrals in any way, even though they were very proud of their Odense Pilsnere.

[@thinkdatanow]

We also have Danfoss in the northern part of Als.

[@Smilepiien]

It's interesting hearing how foreigners view Denmark. I grew up on Samsø, a little island, above Fyn and between Jylland and Sjælland. I lived in an area with only three other full-time houses, and the rest around us were summer houses, really close to the water. Around 3,600 people live on Samsø, to put it into context, one policeman whose house is connected to the police station, and one midwife. The word "hygge" is deeply built into my DNA. After school, we would bike down to the water. There was a lot of stargazing too, with beautiful clear skies-very peaceful. Sadly, you had to move away from the island when you were 16-17 if you wanted further education. The north and south of the island were actually split in the past, and what’s funny is that people in the north and south speak with accents closer to different parts of Jutland than to each other. To add to the hygge, Samsø Festival is called "Den Hyggeligste Festival" (The Coziest Festival), and it lives up to its name with a super laid-back, friendly vibe. During that week, 6,000 people visit. Now I live in a town in Jylland with 60,000 people, and I wouldn’t want to go higher than that-I think I would get a culture shock even visiting Copenhagen. I’ve only been there once when I was young.

[@RS71234]

Great podcast!

[@sifrasmussen2315]

Great episode. :)

[@HOlsson-nu5ms]

Take a trip to Bagenkop - and You run away screeming lol

[@michelleheegaard]

born and raised in Jylland (west coast so I have a weird love for the harsh wind and terrible weather out there), lived in cph for three years and 100p there are things I prefer about cph: diversity, alternative styles, awesome cafes, constantly things to do, much easier to be gay there, international environment (which results in lovely food and a mixture of cultures). I just recently moved back to Jutland to be closer to my family and tbh.. there's just something very wholesome about Jutland you dont get in cph. Can't say I will never go back to living in cph or elsewhere on Sælland but for now, Im happy with my decision to move back home. The 'feud' between jutland and sjælland is very much like the feud between Denmark and Sweden. Sibling rivalry but we all love each other and if you mess w one of us, the others will have our back.

[@mgeverett]

Derrick, how are you getting so much more handsome as time goes on? Is it the quality of life and happiness culture in Denmark? Maybe people don't get older in Denmark. Looking good. And I'm loving all your insights into Denmark.

[@biostud666]

In old times a mature woman who wasn't married was called a pebermø and a man a pebersvend and somebody then probably started some tradition about giving peber, and then someone put it into hyper drive with the peber/cinnamon bombing.

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

How do you find a Jute in Copenhagen? You just go in the first shop you see, and ask for the manager. Do you know, why the Wendelbos call the Funen motor way "G-strengen" (the Thong)?

[@PalleRasmussen]

The polarisation is a global phenomena. By coincidence I made a ten minute video yesterday explaining it.

[@larskjar]

Nearly every coastal town in Vestjylland has a rock with the names of dead fishermen, made for a bit of religion, the sudden death of young men.

[@LisKofod]

We also have Grundfoss😊 and Danfoss

[@vrenak]

Well Conrad should find Jysk easier as the more west you go the closer the dialects come to the dialects in northeastern England, 2 people from either side with extremely strong dialects would be able to understand each other without learning the other language proper.

[@drumstick74]

😂Keen observations! Bravo! 🤩

[@fastertove]

Money from the the Great Belt Bridge (Storebæltsbroen) has been used to pay for other things, but that isn't particular important. Storebælt was never meant to be free of charge to use.

[@RobeTrotting]

Well it was the original agreement though, but now it’s used to fund other projects - totally respectable use of course… but the toll is perhaps a bit higher than ideal (at least for domestic drivers).

[@fastertove]

​@@RobeTrotting ​The state lend the money for the bridge, but it was to be paid for by the users. Maybe I'm too young and bad at searching the web :), but I can't remember/find where it says; that it was to be free of charge. I'm sure that a lot of people thought and hoped that at the time, and I'm sure some politicians marketed it as such, but it would have been optimistic with things like competition, congestion and other future connections (planned and not). I agree that the prices for crossing the strait are "pebret" - it's expensive. Using the toll for paying others things, might not have been in the original agreement, but that's politics in a nutshell. "...pray that I don't alter it any further" :)

[@TroelsNybo1st]

There is at least one more aspect of this: Rural vs. urban. Inhabitants of larger Danish towns may be jealous of Copenhagen, but there is no such thing in the village where I live. We are simply annoyed by the stupidity that is shown by some people in towns and cities, who regard us as inferior.

[@kubehan]

Tysklands odde

[@bjartejohansen4]

this convesation makes me think of the saying " in the land of blind, the one eyed is king". just two city guys talking about rural denmark😄

[@RobeTrotting]

Conrad lived in Jylland for 11 years 🙄

[@ConradMolden]

Lived in Aarhus 11 years and have travelled to almost every part of Jylland 😊

[@brittabrandtoft110]

​@@ConradMoldenit is still 2 big city.. Visit and live is two different Thing.. But you understand most of the teasing between the different parts of the country.. But Jutland always stand together against the reserve Swedes 😉

[@bjartejohansen4]

@@RobeTrotting he lived in Århus for 11 years.... most danes consider Århus a city.

[@bjartejohansen4]

@@brittabrandtoft110 i agree

[@TheSkjold86]

note: im from jylland, im not jealous about sjælland or københavn, i have been there alot of time with family, and i don't like the speed for me the speed over there is like speed = stress, the expensive things is also a problem and many people over there is like im not open to you if youre are from jylland and its alwaya my xp is im better than you, so it's another lifestyle that i can't cope with... that my xp. also it could be fun if you talked with a danish person that live and live in other countries, happen to know one :)

[@brittabrandtoft110]

Kalundborg has nothing to do with the Storebælt. The ferry sailed from Korsør to Nyborg, where the bridge is also in between. There used to be a ferry between Aarhus and Kalundborg, but it around 10 years since it stopped I think. There is still a ferry between Aarhus and Odden.

[@nuxleee]

det æ da kun i kjøffenhavn de it ka fostå wa vi saje

[@HOlsson-nu5ms]

Så godt hilsen fra Langeland

[@missa2855]

arh! ah haje jenne kammerat fra wordinbour, å han ku' ett forstå'et når til'sa at wi war uje å wandre, å de her tuer knejter komm ti'wås å sa' "wi war nej' å baj i æ å."

[@pernielsen4935]

To be fair, Holstebro and Aalborg is not the same size 😅 37.000ish in Holstebro and 120.000ish in Aalborg, is not the same amount.

[@RobeTrotting]

Not sure the context. Did someone say that?

[@StigMuldbjerg]

Odense ligger på Fyn og der bor 200.000 mennesker😅 8:17

[@ConradMolden]

I don’t mention Odense, just Nordjylland 🤔😅

[@spyro257]

Sjæland is closer to Sweden, than to Jylland, so we jokingly say they are more like Swedes, than Danes...

[@lenalund3263]

No no we are don’t like the Swedes, an I from Jylland

[@spyro257]

@@lenalund3263 u might not, but i know a LOT that does, and like i said "we jokingly say they are more like Swedes", so focus on "jokingly"... PS: u live in Sjæland, so ofc u dont hear it/dont say it...

[@henningfischer3447]

Don’t forget that Sweden has occupied Skaane in 1658

[@GankZ9911]

Nah, Jylland is straight up against Germany. Which means, Jyllændere are just northern Germans. Which makes Sjælland into Denmark and Fyn is just a road bump. So by your logic being “if you are closer to Sweden, you are swedish” that means you are Germans😂

[@spyro257]

@@GankZ9911 i was born in Skagen... cant get farther away from both the German border, and the bridge to Sweden, sooo "i'm the most Dane u can be"... nice try tho...

[@janlindtner305]

Jutland and Copenhageners can be compared to the English and Australians

[@andersch788]

Ikast is a run down city of poverty? You clearly don't do your research. It is probably the highest concentration of high middleclass in midtjylland with international schools and it is the textile capital.

[@ConradMolden]

You’re right, one rundown area I visited was actually in Karup - about 20km outside of Ikast 🏚️

[@andersch788]

@@ConradMolden haha that i understand better. I just got shocked when i heard Ikast was 🤣

[@mathiasjensen4434]

Karup is more like a city built around a military base. It does have some things like an airport, i only use that to go to meetings in Copenhagen It is nothing compared to the city right before called Ilskov, that is a place a poor place

[@agerlund1961]

Not really a thing.