Not much conversation is exchanged until one gets up and mutters something to the rest of them. I imagine he says “I’m going after more beer” as after 10 minutes he returns with yet another crate of beer. From which they continue to drink even more beer, as well as the occasional cigarette. Stimulating activity for a Saturday afternoon. While they were waiting for him, a man with a long, greyish, beard stands up and starts asking random passer-by’ers for money. For the most, people ignored him but there were a few who gave him a few coins. He must’ve gotten tired of standing up as he sat down again and simply just asked people for money.
The six men seem to be a bit “jollier” after drinking more and they start laughing with one another. They repeat the term “hyggelig” a lot through out their random conversations. The reason why I use the word “random” in describing their conversations is quite frankly because it is. The one-minute they talked about how hungry they were and the next how attractive certain women appear to them. I’ve lived in Denmark for six years and speak the language fluently and even I had a hard time keeping up. They, on the other hand, seemed to know exactly what the other said and meant.
After 45 minutes of drinking and smoking, 2 of the original 6 decide to leave. I’m guessing either to get on a train (home?) or just to go as they went inside the main building. I didn’t see them since. The remaining four didn’t seem to care much but when another man came up to them, they all got up and enthusiastically greeted him. Maybe because he brought a plastic bag from Netto full of beer but regardless they all seemed to know him and started talking, very loudly, with him. Up until this point, they had remained relatively quiet and relaxed where as now they seemed energetic. A few of them got up and started to walk around the immediate area while one man, who hadn’t moved for a while, seemed to be extremely relaxed and dozy. The next 20, or so, minutes were very much like the first 40. Other than the new member of the groups introduction, it was quiet and they tended to keep to themselves except when asking the occasional passer-by’er for money.
Personally I don’t believe they purposely chose to live this way and that some forces, whether lack of education, lack of effort or just bad luck, played with their fate. Or maybe it’s just they way they chose to live, to make a culture outside of the mainstream Danish culture, much like the “free-state” Christiania.