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Swedish Gender Equalities Minister is so Bananaphobic Her Staff Email Ahead to Keep Fruit at Bay
Breitbart ^ | 2024 11 30 | Oliver JJ Lane

Posted on 11/30/2024 11:40:40 AM PST by Silentgypsy

New revelations about the lengths to which 41-year-old Liberal Party politician Paulina Brandberg, Sweden’s Minister for Gender Equality, has her aides go to protect her from bananas have emerged in Sweden.

Brandberg admitted to the fear in 2020, but the revelation that she has her staff clear rooms and “secure” them before she enters them hit headlines earlier this month. Now, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet says it has seen no less than 44 emails from Brandberg’s office, where her staff have written ahead of very high-profile meetings to prevent fruit-based gaffes.

Brandberg’s staff emailed EU summits, the Norwegian government, and the speaker of Sweden’s Parliament. Even the top of Swedish society is not immune, with an email making sure Brandberg wouldn’t be confronted with her fear for no less an occasion than dinner with the King.

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TOPICS: Food; Local News; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bananaphobia; bananas; brandberg; equality; europe; eussr; fourthreich; gender; mentalillness; paulinabrandberg; svenska; sweden
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To: Veto!

Bananas are an excellent source of Potassium.
Helps make your muscles fire.


41 posted on 11/30/2024 12:42:24 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Silentgypsy

Agreed. Hormones in our meat and dairy is criminal ... but our wonderful leaders in D.C. must take care of their ag donors and they do.


42 posted on 11/30/2024 12:43:43 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: abigkahuna
Japan-nana
43 posted on 11/30/2024 12:52:09 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Silentgypsy

I sense phallic overtones...


44 posted on 11/30/2024 12:53:53 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: bigbob

That’s her problem.


45 posted on 11/30/2024 1:07:03 PM PST by Silentgypsy (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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To: Lizavetta
Probably because people have accommodated their nuttiness, rather than call them on it. I remember we were detailing a building, once, ahead of a walk-through by a four star General. Painting any chipped spots, generally making sure things were orderly, and a Lt Col was going around putting the dictionaries in every office in desk drawers “because the General hates the color red.” Did the General tell him to? I doubt it. Did the General really care? I don’t know. But I watched a growed-ass man run around hiding dictionaries.

Generals are treated with a great deal of deference, by pretty much everybody. Any nuttiness might be brought to thd fore by such behavior.

46 posted on 11/30/2024 2:25:54 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: BenLurkin

Swedish Gender Equalities Minister... That’s a joke.


47 posted on 11/30/2024 2:57:45 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: NorthMountain; PGR88
The Name Game
48 posted on 11/30/2024 3:12:10 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Republicans are the party that says ‘Government doesn’t work.’ Then they get elected and prove it.)
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To: Silentgypsy

Are cucumbers OK?


49 posted on 11/30/2024 3:40:12 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: ClearCase_guy

50 posted on 11/30/2024 4:29:56 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: Silentgypsy
I'm sure she just needs a short nap.


51 posted on 11/30/2024 6:03:36 PM PST by Grim (Michael Moore is a big fat pig.)
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To: Silentgypsy

We’re gonna get hi hi hi
With the music on
Won’t say bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye
‘Til the night is gone
I’m gonna do it to you, gonna do it
Sweet banana, you’ll never give up
We’re gettin’ hi hi hi in the midday sun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HeEwPoDGnw


52 posted on 11/30/2024 6:10:23 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: Darksheare

Dang......sort of looks like Mairead Nesbitt, former fiddle player for Celtic Woman.


53 posted on 11/30/2024 8:21:30 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: P.O.E.

“Electrical Banana is gonna be a sudden craze / Electrical Banana is bound to be the very next phase.”


54 posted on 11/30/2024 8:33:36 PM PST by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: Silentgypsy

My brother-in-law was forcefed bananas as a small child because of potassium deficiency and can’t stand being around them or the smell of them. This sounds different.


55 posted on 11/30/2024 8:37:09 PM PST by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: KarlInOhio
Karl, Thank you! You saved my having to look up a Banana Crazy Cat video.

Galen bananfobisk katten!

Not bad looking but on the high crazy end of hot crazy scale.

56 posted on 11/30/2024 9:24:02 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Silentgypsy

What about pointed sticks?


57 posted on 11/30/2024 9:32:57 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: All; Silentgypsy

Elon/Space X not a fan of the “Gender Minister”:

https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-test-flight-six-banana

https://shop.spacex.com/products/spacex-starship-flight-6-banana


58 posted on 11/30/2024 10:57:29 PM PST by Drago
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