Scandinavian countries Denmark and Sweden engaged in some friendly fire on Thursday. And no, there weren’t automatic rifles, tanks or missiles involved. Instead, the weapons of choice were acid, tongue-in-cheek tweets exchanged between the official accounts of the Danish Foreign Ministry and the Swedish Communications Unit.
The Twitter war began with a rather innocuous tweet by Denmark, which only chose to highlight the mutual hatred for wall-to-wall carpeting by Danes and Swedes.
just one of many things, Danes and Swedes have in common https://t.co/9yC2zfO4Yl
— Denmark.dk (@denmarkdotdk) July 7, 2016
It, however, quickly spiralled into war after Sweden’s obnoxious reply.
. @denmarkdotdk Another thing we don't have in common is that our lakes are the size of your country.
— Sweden.se (@swedense) July 7, 2016
The two countries sparred over everything from who had the highest peak and the most beaches to who had the stranger accent.
Dear @denmarkdotdk how "high" is your highest peak? So cute you don't even have enough for a top 10 list. pic.twitter.com/uhGfzKQe8h
— Sweden.se (@swedense) July 7, 2016
Dear @swedense, while you're sitting on a hill top, we'll just go to one of our many beaches pic.twitter.com/mOdgEu3D4P
— Denmark.dk (@denmarkdotdk) July 7, 2016
.@denmarkdotdk or what did you say exactly? pic.twitter.com/BrRRsLKYVw
— Sweden.se (@swedense) July 7, 2016
.@swedense please, you can't even understand your own people https://t.co/7DDIWveBms
— Denmark.dk (@denmarkdotdk) July 7, 2016
There was also some flag waving involved in this heated exchange.
.@swedense please, you started when you copied our flag
— Denmark.dk (@denmarkdotdk) July 7, 2016
Dear @denmarkdotdk of course, we know beauty we when see it. Except admit that we choose way nicer colors. pic.twitter.com/OterkG7F1v
— Sweden.se (@swedense) July 7, 2016
This Twitter battle didn’t spare Danish toy company Lego.
It's all fun and games until children in @swedense are named Lego https://t.co/XgCyFo2P7Y pic.twitter.com/uBYOKYXM8G
— Denmark.dk (@denmarkdotdk) July 7, 2016
Dear @denmarkdotdk LEGO? Really?! It's because we have #FREEDOM pic.twitter.com/EHPfQjRHFG
— Sweden.se (@swedense) July 7, 2016
Things, however, got a bit bizarre when Sweden attacked the Danes’ low fertility. Denmark quickly countered, tweeting a report that pointed to the country being the epicentre of the donor sperm market.
.@denmarkdotdk We're happy to give you 5 moose seeing as you didn't have any for 5000 years. Is that the reason your fertility is so low?
— Sweden.se (@swedense) July 7, 2016
.@swedense while you were breeding moose, we were busy propagating the world https://t.co/fiRbe0ljrT
— Denmark.dk (@denmarkdotdk) July 7, 2016
Although the two Scandinavian neighbours didn’t exactly declare a Twitter truce, they did eventually move on to other things.