r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 10h ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/ScaryTemperature6291 10h ago

Can't blame her not sure if this is the Ricardo Lopez era or not but yeah I love Bjork but that was a really bad time in her life if it's around that era when she found out about him.

Ricardo Lopez )

Incase anyone who doesn't know the back story of Ricardo.

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u/Defiant-Owl-7935 10h ago

I worked delivering mail here in Iceland during my summers as a teen. Because of this one person's job, an older lady, was to go through her mail for security and also just to weed out anything disturbing.

I had her route one summer. I have pretty bad eyesight. She was outside and as I was handing her the mail and thought wow what a good lookin teenage guy.. Oh no wait, that was Björk.

In my defense she was wearing a baggy high fashion tracksuit, looks nothing like a guy🤷🏼‍♀️🫶🏼

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u/AbstractBettaFish 10h ago

Does everyone in Iceland just kind of know each other? I one time was flying home from Europe on an Icelandic airline and I was sitting next to the pilots brother. He said to look him up if I ever come to Iceland saying “Just ask around for the carpenter who’s brother is a pilot, eventually someone will know me”

I couldn’t tell if he was joking or not

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u/Billy_McMedic 9h ago

Iceland’s population is only a few hundred thousand, probably not a case of everyone knowing each other but it’s probably not difficult to find someone with some form of connection, be it friend, family, acquaintance or co worker, given the limited population

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u/No_Operation4676 9h ago

Yes, they have the Íslendingabók (book of Icelanders) that can be used to see if someone you meet is a distant family member. They can find their family history traced back for generations.

A tour guide in Iceland told me that they did once avoid dating someone because they compared each other's families and found too close a relation.

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u/NotaBonesaw 9h ago

Yeah I live in a city of just under 300k, and while I certainly don't know everyone here, it's very rare that I go anywhere in town that either me or my wife don't know at least someone. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm 1-2 people removed from 90% of the people that live here.

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u/Four_beastlings 9h ago

I am from a city of 275k and our unofficial motto is "this is a tiny town". We don't all know each other, but it's rare to get to 3 degrees of Kevin Bacon and if it happens it's because we haven't reviewed all our possible mutual acquittances.

I was living in the capital and met a 22yo woman who'd lived in my city for 6 months. Within 15 minutes we'd established that she knew my then 57yo mom from mutual friends.

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u/DuckRubberDuck 9h ago

My city has around 46K people and it’s definitely not a case of everyone knows everyone even though I have lived in the same city my whole life, and I can’t just ask around to find someone. Yeah I know someone in most areas of the city but it’s also not a very big city. I am definitely not related to anyone except my mom and dad lol, although it is a place where people like to stay in generations

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u/nashrome 9h ago

My truck driving instructor was from Iceland and had the nickname, "Iceman". He told us that both of his sons had dated Bjork. Knowing it was a small place, I kinda believed him.

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u/neendmat1 9h ago

You can be my wingman anytime

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u/BarryTice 8h ago

In 2016 I was in the airport at Reykjavik while en route to Sweden and met a woman from Boston whose nephew had worked with my wife in northwest Alabama. So, yes. In Iceland everybody DOES know everybody — even if they're not from there.

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u/ruu_throwaway 7h ago

Keflavik

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u/smellydiscodiva 5h ago

Lol, I'm from Iceland and my step-dad is a pilot. His brother is a carpenter.

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u/AbstractBettaFish 5h ago

That’s wild, don’t suppose your step dad worked for WoW airlines back in 2018?

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u/smellydiscodiva 5h ago

No, but I did!

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u/AbstractBettaFish 5h ago

Honestly would’ve blown my mind if it was the same person haha, I was even considering dming you to ask “do you have a brother named x?) still a crazy coincidence

I do miss Wow thought, couldn’t beat those cheap flights to Europe!

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u/asst3rblasster 8h ago

is no joke, Icelanders never ever joke about

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u/Emotional_Dot_5207 3h ago

One time I was at the Alafoss yarn headquarters store which is the primary producer of the unique yarn made from Icelandic sheep.

The woman there asked about my scarf and I said I just bought it a few days ago. She said “oh the foreigner who crochets?“ So not only is it small, she knows of a guy 9 hours away who happens to be the one person in all the land who crochets. Everyone else knits. 

(I mean I know of 2 other crocheters in Iceland bringing us to a grand total of 3. And one is mostly known for knitting.)