It is NaNoWriMo… And you just got handed a gift of a plot.
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In Socialist Denmark, sub goes out for you.
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YES. that’s exactly what I wanted to read!
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Can’t find a source, but remember someone saying there weren’t enough unsolved murders in Denmark for there to be a serial killer. By comparison, it’s estimated the U.S. has 25-50 at any one time.
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I can’t believe we are 24 posts into this and no one has mentioned the Icelandic noir murder mystery Trapped.
The more details that emerge about the whole thing, the more Mrs Cynical and I become convinced that someone in their marketing department got really carried away doing a promo for the next series… 
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I like to think that if I had a daughter who was a journalist and she said “This weekend I’m going in a two-person submarine with a rich, obsessive, creepy dude who built it” - I’d suggest she didn’t.
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Don’t go to pieces on us.
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Speaking of which, in Nat Geo this month a chart shows that the best places to live in the world are Costa Rica, Singapore and Denmark.
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I’d live there.
Then again, I don’t chew gum.
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(all in good fun Enkita)
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This, though, is part of the problem. Women can’t get ahead if they make the smart choice (don’t do this story) and it’s unlikely a man would have met the same fate, so they don’t see the inherent risk and say women aren’t willing to pay their dues writing a “fluff piece”. She would have been labelled picky or a prima donna (or been fired) if she refused, but that non-refusal got her killed.
We’re damned if we don’t, dead if we do. That’s one hell of a fucking choice.
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The lack of chewing gum is one of the nicest things about living in Singapore. I haven’t had to clean that nasty shit off a pair of trousers in nearly 4 years now. It’s everywhere in London and I hate it.
That said, you can totally chew gum here if you want. You just can’t buy it, sell it, import it for sale or dispose of it anywhere except wrapped up in a bin. I’m ok with all of those things.
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We’re less restrictive about pot over here.
And pot is a lot more fun and a lot less annoying.
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Pot gets you publicly caned, imprisoned and then deported here, or you get the death penalty if you bring it into the country.
But still, my trousers are clean. Which is nice.
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This was in Denmark. I think you may be wrong.
Yeah, maybe I shouldn’t live in Singapore.
I can put up with dirty trousers.
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Except she was also a freelancer, so @MalevolentPixy is totally right.
Besides, any journalist who refuses to speak to men alone or do anything nominally adventurous is in for a short, unfulfilling, boring career.
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