Rotsne's Blog

As a Dane I know how hard mental illnesses hit when they are not treated seriously. In my family we also saw a tragedy where the local social services hated when the hospital suddenly after an diagnose stated that the social services were totally off. It was not bad upbringing as the government want most cases involving truancy or bad functioning schoolchildren to be. It was a serious illness…

January 2026 a lot of people has to pay 25 percent more if they want to use the gym and train. The European union has decided that customers in these businesses should have to pay VAT. Unlike some countries that use differented VAT, Denmark only have 25 percent and that means that about 60 percent of all gyms in Denmark will close down because people can no longer afford to use them. It will…

Working as a journalist in Denmark is generally not associated with the same level of danger as in countries with more restrictive regimes or conflict situations. However, there can be challenges, especially for journalists working on sensitive topics or investigative journalism. Journalists can experience pressure, both from authorities and other actors, when uncovering controversial stories.…

If you want to establish a business outside the cities, you need a number of permissions. All too often such permissions are granted based on the prospects of new jobs. The neighbors are ignored, the neighbors are ignored. The village of Ølst near Randers was suddenly exposed to risky mudslides. In Højby in Odsherred on Sealand, a minigolf center was suddenly established. A chemical plant was…

Yesterday the people living in a number of flats in the town of Nyborg in Denmark were told that they had minutes to leave their apartments. Why? Because an inspection earlier had revealed that the houses could collapse IF a fire came in the basements. The chaotic evacuation which left many of the families with the only option of sleeping in their car if they had no relatives in town took place…

The United States is still looking at Greenland. Question is whether we did good and perhaps we did not. Fact is that the law of Jante which very much is the basis of life in Denmark do not allow immigrants from Greenland much slack when it comes to take a break like they do in the public. Reports from Sydhavnen where many immigrants from Greenland coexist peacely together with former workers…

Once again, we are looking into a new year full with challenges. 2024 was no easy year. Due to an error in our Tax system caused by a faulty IT-system, I like thousands of Danes do not know if we will have something to eat at all. The error was that we perhaps paid too little in taxes for our houses. The system is very complicated and the only people who can calculate the correct amount are…

For many years in the week leading up to Christmas, I have been listening to “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” I have done damage to people by doing this. Apparently there are no longer climate related issues and wars in Africa. So by listening to this song I give the impression to my surroundings that there are problems in Africa. Problems with flooding, wars, food etc. Do they know it in the…

They are voting in the United States. Voting on what matters for them: Does it count to focus on getting a job security and selling the right to abortion for women? Fact is that there is no future for any child if there are no jobs for their parents. Also we need to start and win the trade war with China. The European Union started their war with China putting taxes on cars produced in China…

Cruise Ship after cruise ship enters the harbor of Copenhagen. The tourists are put into buses and then driven into the Copenhagen city center. The pollution from the ships is the source of thousands of Danes dying every year to lung diseases. With a health care system which was close to collapse just a few years ago, these Danes are not likely to receive the care they need. They just die and…

More and more nations want to stop tourism in general. Forget all about their lies about curbing cheap tourists who only want to visit certain countries to eat and drink. That is bascially a lie and just something they say to justify the loss of jobs. They do not want tourists at all and the pandemic is to blame. We saw it in Copenhagen after the pandemic was over. People who lived in the…

The village of Egedal seems to be the latest area where a firm gets the task of keeping visitors away from the village. A bit about Danes In Denmark house owners see the street outside their home as part of their private property. They are prepared to miss out visits from family and friends in order to keep other citizens from parking their car outside their property. Part of the problem is…

Some Danish students were sent home from a visit with their school in Scotland because they consumed alcohol and acted like your typically turist from the United Kingdom. I have seen plenty of tourists from UK in both Greece and Spain which I have visited before they decided that they will not have tourists at all anymore. That is a wish, I respect, so I have been to those countries for the last…

This week the Simba award show made headlines. Normally none cares about yet another award show. It is like “Year of the service employee in the supermarkets of a village” kind of award show. The award show serves a self-promotion for a few Youtubers or other kind of influencers who cannot achieve subscribers enough to get money from Google. I feel like they are talking about me. I know how many…

The Moderates is a rather new political party in Denmark. It was founded by Lars Loekke Rasmussen who is a former prime minister of Denmark. Unlike other former top-politicians in Denmark, he did not resign and then go down and spend his time down in the European Union where he could get a lot of good food while relaxing among other former has-been figures from other European countries. He…

One of my friends did som crazy stuff when he was young and travelled to South America. He told me that they ate Guinea pigs in some part of that area. I also heard that people in China used to eat whatever, they could get close to – among the animals both dogs and cats. Some in Denmark have rabbits as pets, other eats them. So, when it is not OK to eat animals because others have them as…

The horrors happening at boarding schools in Missouri has even reached and choked Europe. Christian boarding school allowed to operate without any supervision was able to subject children to abuse. It was as countries would allow ISIS to run their own boarding schools without supervision. The extreme degree of so-called Christian discipline resulted in abuse and post traumatic stress disorder…