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Visit Norway makes shithouses ‘great again’ after Trump insult
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Tourist board responds with toilet humour after US president’s ‘shithouse country’ jibe over failure to win Nobel peace prize Some might find it decidedly incommodious to be dumped on by Donald Trump as a “shithouse country”. Not the Norwegian tourist board, which chose instead t
Tourist board responds with toilet humour after US president’s ‘shithouse country’ jibe over failure to win Nobel peace prize Some might find it decidedly incommodious to be dumped on by Donald Trump as a “shithouse country”. Not the Norwegian tourist board, which chose instead to lift the lid on some of the nation’s loveliest lavatories. “Are these the world’s best shit houses?” asked Visit Norway on its website , days after the US president vented his fury once more over failing to win the Nobel peace prize by describing Norway as a “shithouse country” at a rally on Sunday.
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