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norwegian_apt

Included: washer, dryer, Hell mouth.

Found by: me

Loveliest comment, by K: It’s either a hellmouth, or we all just got goatse’d by a building.

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  1. dino says:

    Nice place though. They need to ditch the non-modern EIK table/chairs, ugh. No pictures of a bedroom, I see. Doesn’t have one, you sleep on a sofa?

    • Solvi says:

      They list a bedroom, but no pictures of it is usually a bad sign. On the other hand it’s a newish building (1995), and how bad can you destroy a room in 15 years. Wait, I just remembered those episodes of Hoarders …

  2. K says:

    It’s either a hellmouth, or we all just got goatse’d by a building.

  3. Texchanchan says:

    That’s a — uh — what is that? It looks like the top of a huge, mostly submerged jukebox. And it’s not explained in the full set of photos, either.

  4. Berry says:

    I actually stayed at a hotel not three blocks from there, but I never spotted the hellmouth. I guess it’s usually better concealed.

  5. robyn says:

    They have the Simpsons on the boob tube, in Norweigian–awesome!

  6. ac says:

    One of these days, somebody’s going to be coming down the street all “loo-dee-doo,” and right when they’re about to pull into the garage entrance, a massive demonic bullet train from the future is going to shoot out of there at 317MPH, spewing brimstone and sparks, lay waste to the entire city block, then sprout clearly-evil-yet-delightfully-shiny nanotech wings and wheel off into the sky trailing black smoke and bits of wreckage.

    And Michael Bay will be across the street with a camera when it happens.

  7. LadyBelle says:

    What am I not seeing? To me it look just like the entrance to an underground parking garage.

  8. Lindsey says:

    For some reason, the hellmouth looks photoshopped to me. I can’t seem to click on the actual listing though.

    • Lindsey says:

      Ah, nevermind. Weird computer… There’s always something wrong with the cool places. Bad/outdated decorations, sand, hellmouth. Minor detail.

  9. Stuart says:

    Bless you for working the word “hellmouth” into everyday conversation. Ironically, that happens to be one of my New Year’s resolutions.

  10. Cassondra says:

    I know Buffy is living in England. Do you think she does house cals to Norway? It can’t be that far and she used to day trip to LA just for re-insoulments.

  11. ~eriC says:

    This is pretty fascinating, the city of Tromsø has a whole series of tunnels. They seem to connect the main hi-way to various parts of the city.

  12. Land of shimp says:

    Maybe this is in Cleveland, Norway?

    It’s actually kind of a nice place, and I’m amused by the Simpsons being dubbed into Norwegian. That’s somebody’s job, doing Norwegian captioning for The Simpsons.

    Also, just to add an extra surreal note: On the page for the listing, one of the adds has Alton Brown, clutching a goat, which is really not something I thought I’d see, but particularly not on a Norwegian real estate site.

    • Land of shimp says:

      And now he’s in the margins here. I conjured him! Woo hoo, I can conjure Alton Brown holding a goat!

      “That’s a big rock. None of my friends have a rock that big.”

      I’m done. I promise.

      • Trish says:

        It’s a baby calf. Female baby cows are called heifers, it’s for Heifer International which helps the poor and hungry, not by giving handouts but by helping them to develop sustainability.

        Sorry, animal science major here… didn’t mean to get all soap-boxy about the difference between a goat and a cow! I’ll quit now.

        • Land of shimp says:

          It’s cool, Trish. I do know what a heifer is, but I thought he was holding a goat. I am not an animal science major though, so I’ll bow to your wider knowledge base.

          There’s another organization, and I’ve donated to it, so you’d think I’d remember it but I’m spacing it right now…I think Oprah promoted it for a while…anyway, it also has the “Give a cow!” “Give a sheep!” “Give a bunch of Guinea Pigs!” (and lose sleep forever over their fate) …and I thought this was the same organization — which has cows, pigs, oxen, chickens, the aforementioned guinea pigs. That’s why I was so willing to accept, “It saw Heifer in the title, yet he appears to be holding a goat.” (but again, I spend no time on farms, and the animal I mostly come in contact with is our deranged cat).

          • Trish says:

            I’m glad I didn’t offend! It’s unfortunately one of my most common traits *sigh*

            I am sitting here LMAO @ “give a bunch of guinea pigs!”

            and OMG I just saw the ad and that IS a goat! I’m so embarrassed! the ears are definitely goat. that’ll teach me to mouth off without looking at the ad. I’m sorry I questioned you! I’d seen another one somewhere else that did have a heifer and I just assumed they were the same ones.

    • Solvi says:

      TV-programs here aren’t dubbed, they are sub-titled. We Norwegians really hate dubbing!

  13. Solvi says:

    On the listing it says that it’s the entrance to a underground parking garage AND leads to the road tunnel-system under Tromsø center. Strangely enough it is specified that this apartment doesn’t have any parking …

  14. MarcyLoo says:

    If the hellmouth parking garage isn’t scary enough, how ‘about those neon orange/green colors in the bathroom? And..um…I don’t think I could get anything accomplished in there, if you know what I mean, with Mr. Froggie toilet scrubber holder staring at me!

  15. Quark says:

    “This delightful one bedroom-ed apartment is part of an apartment complex built over the entrance to the Tromsø underground nuclear reactor. As such, this complex benefits from both cheap electricity and free hot water, and somewhere to park your car without worrying about frost or snow.

  16. JMixx says:

    “Grow an extra arm or nose FOR FREE!”

  17. Krissy says:

    i think this place actually looks very cute, though very Ikea-ish, but i’ve often thought Ikea furniture was puked up from the bowels of the earth through a terrifying hellmouth tunnel. they should have left out the photo of the space heater that lets you know it’s a freezing cold, drafty barn though. and maybe the photos of the unplowed snowy streets but i guess that’s Norway for you


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