• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    Note that there’s a typo in the source article:

    One woman, from the southern province of Smålandeven, Småland, even managed to get Social Security benefits for calling in gay.

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        9 minutes ago

        It is indeed.

        It’s a bit of a play on words, since Småland literally translates to Small land, making it apt as this is where you can leave your children at IKEA.

        I looked up the etymology of the name out of interest, and it seems like it stems from it being made up of a collection of smaller self-ruling villages, located between Skåne that has often been under Danish control, and Götaland which was controlled by Götar.