What does Síminn færir þér stjörnur Skjás Eins mean? I bought a long sleeve from a second-hand store in Kazakhstan, it has this written on. Googled it, something about Iceland tv. Any ideas?

SIminn is the old big Icelandic telecom, Skjár Einn is/was a TV station. The text says: “Síminn brings you the stars of Skjár Einn”

A lot of the clothes that get thrown away here are given to the Red Cross and the Red cross seems to distribute them far and wide.

Seems it has brought it all the way to Kazakstan!

*setur á sig álpappírshattinn*

Notandi sem er ekki einu sinni eins dags gamall, ekki virkur neinstaðar nema hérna, eina innleggið. Er þetta auglýsing?

skjár einn was a ” hip and cool ” tv station in the early 2000s in Iceland, this is amazing to see you have this sweater now travelling so far😅 ! the text sais that “síminn” that is the phone company paying for the tv station will: “færir þér stjörnur skjás eins” meaning: bring you the stars of this tv station. So this is like aðn advertisement from a phone company that it will bring you the tv stars from this new cool tv station

What makes this blurb funny as hell is that Síminn got embezzeled for shitloads of money to fund the TV station.

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Fittingly the ad under the post is from Síminn

SkjárEinn (Screen One) used to be a TV station that started in 1998 and specialized in both Icelandic and American reality TV shows (and Icelandic versions of American reality TV shows) with some American sitcoms and talk shows thrown in as filler. Unlike most Icelandic television at the time it was free for everyone and payed for itself entirely via ad-breaks.

Standout hits include Ali-G Show inspired mockumentary series Sjáumst með Silvíu Nótt (See ya! with Silvia Night) where actress Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir played a fictional heiress Silvía Nótt who was a sort of exaggeration of a Paris Hilton type with the backstory that her father owned SkjárEinn and the conceit was that the show was real and that Silvia was an actual person who’d do interviews with real people and try to make the interviews about herself. Silvia Night even represented Iceland in Eurovision in 2006 staying in character the whole time.

Another standout is Djúpa Laugin a fairly standardized blind dating show mostly notable for the time the guys from Jackass were contestants and didn’t take it very seriously and the person doing the Icelandic subtitles for the guys used very antiquated and formal language to translate whatever they said which made it even funnier.

Síminn (The Telephone) used to be the publicly owned telephone company but was privatized in 2005 and bought the company which owned SkjárEinn. Now Síminn runs the much more boringly named Sjónvarp Símans (The Telephone’s Television) which is basically SkjárEinn rebranded but with a higher budget and you can pay for it if you want to be able to watch the shows on the Sjónvarp Símans streaming service and not in old timey linear television. Their current most popular hit is Ice Guys which is a semi-mockumentary show where a group of 30something already established musicians (and one footballer who had only dabbled slightly in music) form a boy band. They are actually one of the most popular bands in Iceland despite basically being a joke.