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I've only ever met 2 Finn's. Both of them were really big guys and we drank a lot. We would get back to camp from work and finish a flat of beer in an hour or so and then stumble to dinner. They were also pretty rowdy and fought a lot. They told a bunch of good Finn jokes but the only one I can remember is "What's the closest thing to a fish's @$$hole? A Finn."
H.B.M.C. wrote:
"Balance, playtesting - a casual gamer craves not these things!" - Yoda, a casual gamer.
Three things matter in marksmanship -
location, location, location
MagickalMemories wrote:How about making another fist?
One can be, "Da Fist uv Mork" and the second can be, "Da Uvver Fist uv Mork."
Make a third, and it can be, "Da Uvver Uvver Fist uv Mork"
Eric
My cousin married a Finn, she's a pretty girl and quite sweet, but very boring.
Pretty girls are much more interesting when they open their stupid mouths
Fixed.
Misogyny! Hurrah!
Fixed again.
Ha-ha! Double entendre!
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
And since my link was much too subtle, whenever I think of Finland I think of Metalocalypse episode 4, Dethtroll. If you've seen it, you know what I mean. If you haven't, go back to page one and click my link... (there's candy)
Simo Hayha what now? No one has mentioned this in any way? Did I miss the post that did?
Anyway, as it appears that only sebster briefly mentioned this, your country is home to one of the greatest snipers to have ever lived.
You are branded with that fact. That, fish, ice, maybe saunas... blonde women? Umm... hmm. Not sure, maybe my stereotype is that I have none? Dunno.
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Okay, after a bit of looking into, I have added something else to my concept of Finland.
Finland is no less than a bad-ass in my opinion. ROCK ON FINLAND.
Verna Erikson, a young student, was a Helsinki White Guard. This image became a popular iconic photo, a sexualizing of female resistance. The photo was originally published on the front cover of the Suomen Kuva Lehti (Finnish Photo Magazine) in June 1918, just shortly after the civil war ended. Although there are photos of white women of the civil war time, they were not the ones collected. Rather, because Mannerheim frowned on women carrying guns, images of mother or grandmother in active resistance were put in the bottom of the drawer. Except for the sexy photo of Verna. It has lived on, although she died of cancer shortly after posing for this photo.
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err... Pretty much the only thing that springs to mind is/are Sami Hyypiä and Jari Litmanen, I've been led to believe you're very keen on English football over there as well. I got blind drunk once, years ago, with some Finns who had come over to Anfield.
..relating to that, they can drink with the best of them.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
It's amazing no body has mentioned finlands other great export.!!!!
The worlds best rally drivers
Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
Häyhä's specialty was his knowledge of the forests, his enduring patience and his impeccable rifle marksmanship. A sniper by trade, he would dress up in all-white camouflage, sneak through the woods with only a day's worth of food and couple clips of ammunition, and then lie in wait for any Russian stupid enough to wander into his killzone. His first battle-experience came in the hard-fought Kollaa campaign, where a severely outnumbered Finnish force bore the brunt of a large-scale Russian assault. Temperatures at this time ranged from -20 to -40 degrees Celsius, and the entire forest was covered with several feet of snow. While this played havoc on the inexperienced and under-equipped Russian invaders, the Finns were right at home in it because FINLAND IS fething COLD AS gak ALL THE TIME and they're used to it there. Throughout this campaign, Häyhä basically just ran around doling out head-shots like the ice cream man gives out Dove bars on a hot sunny day in the Sahara desert. His personal best was fething twenty-five kills in a single day. That's like an entire baseball team.
Throughout the Winter War (as it would come to be known), Simo Häyhä ran around being what experienced HALO players would call a "camping cigarette", and scoring enough kill shots to make fething RoboCop and the Terminator hide their heads in shame. He would come to be known throughout the Russian Army as "The White Death", and at one point in the war they even went so far as to try and launch a couple of goddamned artillery strikes on locations at which they thought he might be hiding.
After hearing about how much ass Häyhä was kicking out on the frozen tundra of eastern Finland with an antiquated bolt-action piece-of-gak rifle, the Finnish High Command decided to give him a special award: a custom-built Sako M2/28-30 Sniper Rifle of Headshots +3. He put this to good use, killing the ever-loving gak out of anyone that crossed him. On several occasions the Russians sent their own snipers to take him out, but Simo managed to win those duels every time. You see, Häyhä not only passed out long-range silent death to anyone with a red star on his hat, but he did it without the aid of a telescopic sight. He preferred to use the rifle's regular iron sights because it allowed him to present a smaller target, and because several of the commie snipers he moked out were given away by a glint of light reflecting off the lenses of their scopes. He obviously didn't want to fall to this fate, so he went balls-out and wasted donkey-caves the old-fashioned (and unarguably the more hardcore) way.
More to Finns than playing hockey honestly I had no idea.
And I always thought Nokia was a Japanese company I mean it has a funny name right.
I think of educated multilingual travellers who can drink most people under the table. They are also hard working and can take a joke at their expense.
Also Rally drivers, F1 drivers and metal bands.
@tacobake: lots of people here think Nokia is Japanese too. They also think Ericsson is German.
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
feeder wrote: Frazz's mind is like a wiener dog in a rabbit warren. Dark, twisting tunnels, and full of the certainty that just around the next bend will be the quarry he seeks.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Jokes aside, I'm a large part Finnish but I've never been there, don't speak the language, and know nothing about it.
MasterDRD wrote:Cheese wins.
And since my link was much too subtle, whenever I think of Finland I think of Metalocalypse episode 4, Dethtroll. If you've seen it, you know what I mean. If you haven't, go back to page one and click my link... (there's candy)
Ive heard "proud" as well, but it kinda made me think.. isnt that just.. everyone?
I mean, i was drinking with some Lithuanian soldiers on a base in Kabul once, and they were nice enough blokes, after a few pints they all started saying "oh Lithuanians are very proud.. we are famous for drinking .. etc etc"
And Macedonians, they said pretty much the same.
And who else have i been out on the piss with? Irish, American, Scottish, Welsh, South Africans, Japs, Ozzies... Kiwis.. fething... Azerbijainians..
Basically EVERYONE is proud, because human beings are stupid fething animals and they all love to big themselves up en masse.
Ridiculous.
Anyway, i disagree that it can be said about Finns especially.. people all over the world are proud cos they are idiots, and also because puny little weaklings like to brag about their betters as is their geographical location somehow makes some of their coolness rub off on them.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh by the way, the Rolling Stones are British and that makes me awesome.
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We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels.
mattyrm wrote:Ive heard "proud" as well, but it kinda made me think.. isnt that just.. everyone?
I mean, i was drinking with some Lithuanian soldiers on a base in Kabul once, and they were nice enough blokes, after a few pints they all started saying "oh Lithuanians are very proud.. we are famous for drinking .. etc etc"
And Macedonians, they said pretty much the same.
And who else have i been out on the piss with? Irish, American, Scottish, Welsh, South Africans, Japs, Ozzies... Kiwis.. fething... Azerbijainians..
Basically EVERYONE is proud, because human beings are stupid fething animals and they all love to big themselves up en masse.
Ridiculous.
Anyway, i disagree that it can be said about Finns especially.. people all over the world are proud cos they are idiots, and also because puny little weaklings like to brag about their betters as is their geographical location somehow makes some of their coolness rub off on them.
Tranlsation: Mattyrm drinks...a lot...and chances just greatly increased that that avatar was just an average real life pic taken from last tuesday.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Now that you mention it im trying to think of a nationality i havent had a drink with..
We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels.
I love real licorice. I love Korpiklaani and many other Finnish bands. When Lordi won Eurovision it reallly made my day. I love the language. I always use Nokia phones.
I speak rather basic Suomi. I don't really care much for saunas but at least I know how to pronounce it properly. I inform Finnish people that they are the property of the Soviet empire.
mattyrm wrote:Now that you mention it im trying to think of a nationality i havent had a drink with..
Ecuador baby, Ecuador.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Emperors Faithful wrote:Finnish people tend to have a reputation of absolutely kicking arse when ticked off.
Looks like the Finnish commander was actually Swedish?
No... you know there are two sides to Finland don't you? The Finns are often bilingual around the coasts since their ancestry is mainly swedish, you know, from the time when Finland was a part of Sweden. Mannerheim was born in what was used to be called "Finland Proper", the area around Tuurko (or Åbo as we know it here) and even though his parents had swedish names they were Finns a way long run through the generations.
As a half finn born in Sweden and with strongest familial ties to my finnish side I have never really put my mind to any Finnish stereotypes. So, can't help you there. =p
Emperors Faithful wrote:Finnish people tend to have a reputation of absolutely kicking arse when ticked off.
Looks like the Finnish commander was actually Swedish?
No... you know there are two sides to Finland don't you? The Finns are often bilingual around the coasts since their ancestry is mainly swedish, you know, from the time when Finland was a part of Sweden. Mannerheim was born in what was used to be called "Finland Proper", the area around Tuurko (or Åbo as we know it here) and even though his parents had swedish names they were Finns a way long run through the generations.
As a half finn born in Sweden and with strongest familial ties to my finnish side I have never really put my mind to any Finnish stereotypes. So, can't help you there. =p
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