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Sweden's new culture minister
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 10:34 am
by Morning
Ananda... what's going on up there? Some mushroom farm exploded, went into low orbit and spread spores all over the place?
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Bah grew up in Horda in Småland, Sweden with her Gambian father and Swedish mother. She went to a track and field athletics oriented high school in Växjö, and was one of the country's best female sprinter runners in the late 1980s, with 200 meters being her speciality.Her television career began in 1992 with SVT's Disney Club. Between 1998-99, she had her own talk show at TV4 and many other television assignments including current events show Kalla fakta.
After she left television to study political science, and has, among other things, been Director of the Department Ideas for life at insurance giant Skandia. In 2004-2007 she worked as Secretary General of fair trade organization Rättvisemärkt.
She was a member of the Swedish Church synod 2006-2010, member of the Board of Dramaten Theatre, as well as Vice President of YMCA-YWCA Sweden.
In September 2009 she started as the Environmental and Corporate social responsibility manager at ÅF. Alongside her job at ÅF, she also serves as a board member for internet consultancy firm Doberman.
So,... 200m runner, tv host, corporate cogwheel, lobbyist, member of a synod (!), green party stuff, and board member of a design company... I don't know if I want to move immediately to Stockholm or get someone to barb-wire the whole place around. Seriously, this gives me feelings that are as ... dispersed... as this girl's curriculum.
On the one hand, this is a huge leap from southern-european politicians, who never worked or produced anything in their lives. But on the other hand, come on. Too surreal, maybe?
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 12:44 pm
by Ananda
you're just jealous of our politicians being hotter than yours.
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 12:54 pm
by Morning
Mind-to-mind liaison at work here. I had written "TV Hot" and immediately amended it to "TV Host" (ess) as it should be. More recent pictures show her from a not so hot angle, though. But yeah I like black girls as long as they are athletic. And athletic girls on the skinny side, regardless of colour or age.
Back on topic... it's no secret that as we move north, the correlation between being the recipient of individual competence and securing a political mandate increases exponentially. Our politicians are, and I can say the, exclusively, the 100% illiterate, lazy, nepotist, irresponsible and futile product of a disgracefully anachronical electorate.
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 1:32 pm
by Ananda
Morning wrote:Mind-to-mind liaison at work here. I had written "TV Hot" and immediately amended it to "TV Host" (ess) as it should be. More recent pictures show her from a not so hot angle, though. But yeah I like black girls as long as they are athletic. And athletic girls on the skinny side, regardless of colour or age.
Back on topic... it's no secret that as we move north, the correlation between being the recipient of individual competence and securing a political mandate increases exponentially. Our politicians are, and I can say the, exclusively, the 100% illiterate, lazy, nepotist, irresponsible and futile product of a disgracefully anachronical electorate.
Aren't you mayor of your town?
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 2:59 pm
by Morning
Something lost in that link... I wouldn't take a position like that if it came covered in sapphires.
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 5:37 pm
by Ananda
Morning wrote:Something lost in that link... I wouldn't take a position like that if it came covered in sapphires.
our minister comes covered in sapphires...
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 6:07 pm
by Vraith
Ananda wrote:you're just jealous of our politicians being hotter than yours.
Hee...your King and Queen visited the college my wife works at a couple years ago...
The campus would have a lot of happy folk if this poli came over.
Just in the name of tradition and cultural exchange of course. 
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 7:39 pm
by Morning
Ananda wrote:Morning wrote:Something lost in that link... I wouldn't take a position like that if it came covered in sapphires.
our minister comes covered in sapphires...
I've come a long way but never like that
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 10:42 pm
by aliantha
Vraith wrote:Ananda wrote:you're just jealous of our politicians being hotter than yours.
Hee...your King and Queen visited the college my wife works at a couple years ago...
The campus would have a lot of happy folk if this poli came over.
Just in the name of tradition and cultural exchange of course.
Needless to say.
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 1:47 pm
by michaelm
Ananda wrote:you're just jealous of our politicians being hotter than yours.
Usually I don't put the words 'politician' and 'hot' in the same sentence, but I think I have to make an exception here...
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 4:58 pm
by peter
It sets a terribly bad example for a politician to be photographed smoking.
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 5:16 pm
by Vraith
peter wrote:It sets a terribly bad example for a politician to be photographed smoking.
SEXIST!!! She can't help it if she's smoking, and you shouldn't be commenting on it.
The cigar could go, though. Might lead to masculine/feminine identity problems among the 14-year-old Swedish boys looking at this and...um...pondering political science.
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:41 pm
by michaelm
Vraith wrote:peter wrote:It sets a terribly bad example for a politician to be photographed smoking.
SEXIST!!! She can't help it if she's smoking, and you shouldn't be commenting on it.
The cigar could go, though. Might lead to masculine/feminine identity problems among the 14-year-old Swedish boys looking at this and...um...pondering political science.
At least it's not being utilized in the way that Bill Clinton allegedly utilized one...
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 4:15 pm
by aliantha
Is this where I'm supposed to say that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar?
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 5:10 pm
by Cagliostro
I have to say that this is one the greatest threads I have read on Kevin's Watch. I mean, really, this has it all; humor, politics, partial nudity...What else could you want?
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 10:21 pm
by michaelm
Cagliostro wrote:I have to say that this is one the greatest threads I have read on Kevin's Watch. I mean, really, this has it all; humor, politics, partial nudity...What else could you want?
Nope, I think you checked all the boxes there.
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:44 am
by peter
Cagliostro wrote:I have to say that this is one the greatest threads I have read on Kevin's Watch. I mean, really, this has it all; humor, politics, partial nudity...What else could you want?
Full nudity?
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 3:49 pm
by aliantha
peter wrote:Cagliostro wrote:I have to say that this is one the greatest threads I have read on Kevin's Watch. I mean, really, this has it all; humor, politics, partial nudity...What else could you want?
Full nudity?
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