Sandi Toksvig

So the Danes have a great sense of humor, but they will also tell you straight out if you say to them what you think of the thing I'm wearing.

It doesn't suit you, and they're trying to be kind.

They're really trying to be kind.

I don't think it's just a Danish thing.

I think it's a Scandinavian thing.

I was in Norway.

We went to Norway to the Arctic for our honeymoon, and we were right up in the north in a place called the Lofoten Islands, and I was talking to this guy, and I said, how bad does the weather get up here?

He said, well, last winter the porch blew off our house.

And I said, oh, that's terrible.

And he said, no, it was winter.

Who needs a porch in the winter?

And I thought, wow, that's such a Scandi attitude.

Okay, we'll worry about that in the spring.

I know, right?

You just imagine some porch flying past.

Somebody go, oh, there's Olaf's porch again.

I quite like it as an attitude.

I think we all worry too much about stuff.

My dad didn't really talk very much about it.

So Denmark was occupied during the Second World War, Copenhagen in particular.