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**reds8n**

..couldn't resist the p(b)un..sorry..

McDonald's is to close its business in Iceland because the country's financial crisis has made it too expensive to operate its franchise.

The fast food giant said its three outlets in the country would shut - and that it had no plans to return.

Besides the economy, McDonald's blamed the "unique operational complexity" of doing business in an isolated nation with a population of just 300,000.

Iceland's first McDonald's restaurant opened in 1993.

The franchises are run by a firm called Lyst, with owner Jon Gardar Ogmundsson saying the decision was "not taken lightly".

He said that the restaurants imported the goods from Germany, but that costs had almost doubled, with the falling krona making imports prohibitively expensive.

Mr Ogmundsson said the restaurants had "never been this busy before... but at the same time profits have never been lower".

"It just makes no sense. For a kilo of onion, imported from Germany, I'm paying the equivalent of a bottle of good whisky," he added.

He now plans to run the restaurants under another name so that he is able to buy cheaper Icelandic products.

Iceland's banks collapsed at the height of the global credit crisis - wrecking the country's economy and forcing it to rely on an $10bn (£6.1bn) international aid package.

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.. so, according to certain theories about conflict, we are now allowed to go war with Iceland then ? Cod war II !

**Ahtman**

reds8n wrote: .. so, according to certain theories about conflict, we are now allowed to go war with Iceland then ? Cod war II !

Perhaps we might bring an end to this long global nightmare!

**reds8n**

I'm certain that scientists ahve proven that if the world ends through the machinations of some sort of super destroyer-- like the one out of Ghostbusters I-- the form of the destroyer will be Bjork.

....or maybe Orko.

**gorgon**

Wrong and wrong.

It'll be Snarf.

**KingCracker**

Jesus if only Bjork wouls just disappear.
I watched Bizarre foods with Andrew Zimmern once in Iceland. Cool ass country from the looks of it. The food was pretty damn strange tho. Like the rotting shark meat farms lol. Oddly enough tho, I would like to try it
And the geothermal for the whole damn country would be cool to me as well

**Gwar!**

Iceland Created EvE Online, have Drinking Beer as their National Pastime and turned Fermented Shark into a Gourmet food.

Viva La Iceland!

**dogma**

So what you're saying is they masturbate a lot?

**Wrexasaur**

dogma wrote:So what you're saying is they masturbate a lot?

Epic.

**Albatross**

Bjork is an exceptionally talented artist. I put 'people who dislike Bjork' into the same category as 'people who dislike Radiohead'. But then, I'm a muso-snob.
The interesting thing about Iceland is their language. My Swedish friend told me that Icelandic is effectively, 'Old Norse' - they only use old words and don't create new ones. When something new is invented, they have to come up with a combination of old words that describe the new thing. The example she used was a Tank - in Icelandic (translated into english, obviously...) they call it a 'Steel Dragon'. Pretty cool.

**Gwar!**

Albatross wrote:The interesting thing about Iceland is their language. My Swedish friend told me that Icelandic is effectively, 'Old Norse' - they only use old words and don't create new ones. When something new is invented, they have to come up with a combination of old words that describe the new thing. The example she used was a Tank - in Icelandic (translated into english, obviously...) they call it a 'Steel Dragon'. Pretty cool.

This is 100% Correct.

Icelandic is also considered almost impossible to learn if you are not born into it apparently.