Thorn: We can go in the queue again, if you want to do a song from Sønheim.
Leif (thinking): I should try to make him feel better about his country, not worse . . .
Leif: No thank you.
I want to see more of Ceannis. Like your tapestries. They’re so . . . quaint!
And the architecture here is . . . nice. The windows are no stained glass, but they have . . . charm!
Thorn: You’re very proud of Sønheim, yes?
Leif: Our citizens are the greatest people in the world.
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*Buries head in hands*
Oohhhh yeah…
Hopefully Thorn will clue in soon that Leif might be/is overcorrecting to avoid Brain-volts©™®.
Admitting unambiguously that any other country might have something approaching the quality of Sønheim being worth a juicing is just the sort of thing I can see reedy little bureaucrat deep in the bowels of a government building 30 years ago choosing to make standard practice for compulsion gems.
I’m gonna hang my head in shame now.
I forgot that Leif might also just be repeating what he has heard all his life. Summerfest and Thorn’s Nuisance-tastic Nameday are the most time he’s ever spent immersed in a foreign culture.
Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.
If you look at http://leifandthorn.com/comic/sweet-summer-children-314/ you see not only servants are completely sure Sønheim is the best.
At least he’s trying, the poor child.