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6th February, 2004 at 15:18:56 -

Ahh... My exams are over, and there's nothing to do, but clicking and... DAMN! There is still one essay to write about 'What the other europeans think about finnish people?'? There was a source article, but I thought that the essay would be better if I used opinion of you too. So, what do you think about finns?

Here is some questions:

What do you think that finns are as persons?

How much you know about finnland as country?

How many finnish enterprises do you know and what are they doing?

What do you know about lappland?

Etc.

 

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6th February, 2004 at 15:39:32 -

eek, tough essay. i know next to nothing about finland... apart from they managed to defend a russian invasion in world war 2. and is nokia finnish? if so it's the only finnish company i know.

 
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6th February, 2004 at 16:36:53 -

Well;

1. I think you are nice . Just to fanatic about hockey (I also have heard you haven't got the best hockey team) anyway, I am not really that interested in watching sport.
2. a)Your position in the world.
b)Litle about your language background
c)Some of your wars you started and joined
d)That you invented the sauna, but the swedes "copywrighted" it, or whatever
e)That santa is supposed to live there
f)I also have heard you announce the Worldchampionship in sauna bathing
g)You have euros, but before that marks
I live in Tornedalen, I think I am supposed to know alot about you
3. Nokia and Tamperen (yes, a shop in Tornio, not the town) thats all I can think of right now.
4. They are populated by, what is it in english? Samer, and lives of raising reindeer.

If I come up with more, I post it later.

You should also write what you know about Tornedalen (a small litle corner somewhere in sweden)

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6th February, 2004 at 16:59:56 -

I know very little about Finland, but I'd be prepared to say it's great for the sole reason that it produced this band. http://www.nightwish.com/

 
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6th February, 2004 at 17:05:25 -

Isn't Lappland where all the raindeer live?

 
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6th February, 2004 at 17:08:39 -

Everything that i know about Finland...
This is a hard one...
a) They are just GREAT persons!! They like motorsports VERY much!

b) Finland separated from Russia after ww1, it had a civil war,
they attacked to Soviets, and took back some land in Petsamo,
they defended their land from soviets invasion, (btw. this is 60th anniversary when Finland defeated Soviets large airbombers (ībout 1000 bombers attacked to Helsinki, and thay managed to destroy ībout 20 buildings )
they invented many things as modern locks, saunas (finland has itīs copyright), the machineguns that
Nato forces once used, they invented modern cellphones, they are on the top developers of global Fusion
energy source developement, they have good education, they have small size of unemployment, they invented the
classic gangster weapon SuomiKP, they created the Max Paynes.

c) Nokia(worlds top cellphone producer), KONE (worlds top elevator builder),
Iittala (worlds top glass designer thing), Arabia (same thing that the previous),
Valmet (worlds top metallurgy engiinery developement thing),
Others will come after i have sleaped.

d) Nothing. (Exept that itīs primaryly tundra and there are reindeers and amazing sightseeing.)
(and that the Juhannus looks amazing in there (The land of midnight sun))



 
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7th February, 2004 at 00:06:40 -

I know practically nothing about Finland, cept that the Finnish make good games.

 
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7th February, 2004 at 02:59:13 -

I see that almost no-one here knows
anything ībout Finland, so itīs time of
PROPAGANDA!!!!!
*evil laugh*

 
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7th February, 2004 at 04:52:43 -

Thanks for the replies!
jonNickArt: Yes, we are little fanatic about hockey. (Lol, 1995 Swedes were composed song named "Den glider in" (It slides in) because the world championship final match was Sweden vs. Finland but when finland won. And now we sing it at every ice hockey match.)
Wong Chung Bang: Nightwish rules!
Kris: Yes, it is where all the reindeer live. (Lappland is in Finland, Sweden and Norway)

Yes, Max Payne and Nokia are from finland, and did you know that Linux was too?

Again, thanks for the replies! Keep 'em coming!

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7th February, 2004 at 13:21:59 -

I also know (or think) you have just one genus in your grammatic: Hend, or something like that.
And not all reindeers, silly . Somehow some of them have escaped here to Norrbotten.

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7th February, 2004 at 17:16:44 -

what wong chung bang said. Replace nightwish with stratovarius

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7th February, 2004 at 21:59:50 -

I don't know any Finns, or much about the country in general...maybe cause I live basically over the other side of the world ...but yeah, I have nothing against them I have no reason to. Hooray for Finns I say. If i'm ever in that part of the world, I may even stop by.

 
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7th February, 2004 at 22:00:46 -

Finnish Ppl are cool, I once had a finnish friend.

 
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7th February, 2004 at 22:02:19 -

Are Voracity Patch from finland? They are cool.

 
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8th February, 2004 at 03:55:23 -

What's a Fishland?

 
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8th February, 2004 at 05:42:25 -

Yea, finns are GREAT
But, its Finland, not finnland

 
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8th February, 2004 at 05:58:13 -

Yeah, I know. I have propably read too much german.

Ashman: Fishland is land that is in your sick fishhead-fantasies...

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8th February, 2004 at 06:44:37 -

Isn't fishland somewhere in the Fishhead games?

 
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9th February, 2004 at 02:27:12 -

Finland is the green one in the map:

http://www.mtt.fi/ktl/ksu/tat/eurooppa.gif

 
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9th February, 2004 at 03:01:45 -

The best thing about Finland is Nightwish and Stratovarius

 
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9th February, 2004 at 03:04:30 -

The one that looks like part of the neck on a camels head?

 
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9th February, 2004 at 05:28:42 -

Part of neck on a camels head.. lol! Actually we've used to say that the shape of finland looks like a woman who holds out her hand. Before, there was another hand, but those russians took it.

Btw. You knew Nightwish nad Stratowarius. Do you also know Sibelius, Sonata Arctica, The Rasmus and Kwan?

 

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9th February, 2004 at 07:12:56 -

Do you guys have any good/well known beers? Can't say i've heard of or seen a Finnish beer in my time.

 
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9th February, 2004 at 07:27:33 -

I have much respect for the finnish becoose they spend much cash in IT, and they bashed the swedes in the past

 
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9th February, 2004 at 09:02:36 -

Finns was called fenners by the Romans.

 
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9th February, 2004 at 09:16:56 -

Sonata Arctica aren't bad at all, though I've only heard one song by them (Champagne Bath). Are they from Finland as well, or is this veering off topic?

Stratovarius are good but seem to be in rather a lot of trouble at the moment. Have you seen the interview with the three bandmembers on their site? It reads more like a Private Eye parody of a band interview.

 
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9th February, 2004 at 15:02:36 -

Doesn't anyone know Finland has once been a part of the superpower Sweden? It hasn't belong to Russia in all times before it was seperated from Russia

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10th January, 2007 at 09:57:36 -

Nice to see that at least some other people than us Finns know things about Finland and even a little about us

...Funny thing though that not many foreign people knows that his Nokia cellphone is a finnish product.

 
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10th January, 2007 at 10:44:48 -

you did a bad thing

 
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Someone slap him.

 
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fuck, some people need a life

 
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Finnish people are faceless and irrelevant. Finland is the Scandinavian version of Belgium - it is always in the shadow of a larger country, like Sweden and Russia.

 
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Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Pony trekking or camping,
Or just watching TV.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
It's the country for me.
You're so near to Russia,
So far from Japan,
Quite a long way from Cairo,
Lots of miles from Vietnam.

Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Eating breakfast or dinner,
Or snack lunch in the hall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.

You're so sadly neglected
And often ignored,
A poor second to Belgium,
When going abroad.

Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I quite want to be,
Your mountains so lofty,
Your treetops so tall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.

All together, Finland fans!
Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I quite want to be,
Your mountains so lofty,
Your treetops so tall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.

Finland has it all.



 
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10th January, 2007 at 13:10:55 -

All I know is that Finnish is one of the hardest languages in the world according to linguistics

 
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10th January, 2007 at 13:12:39 -

That's crap. Finland is just a bunch of spitting and yelling, kind of like Hebrew or German.

 
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10th January, 2007 at 13:32:47 -

Parcel-tongue is actually the hardest

 
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10th January, 2007 at 13:55:04 -

Noodle: You never learn, do you? Finland is not part of Scandinavia. Scandinavia = Sweden plus Norway (plus Denmark, sometimes). And your comment probably only applies to Finland as it was about 50 years ago (Or over a century, for the Sweden part). In the shadow of a larger country, perhaps, but we've always stood up and raged against the machine.

 
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10th January, 2007 at 13:57:37 -

lol pwned

 
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10th January, 2007 at 14:18:24 -

Ah no! It's on!!!!

 
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10th January, 2007 at 14:22:13 -

Scandinavia schmandinavia. It's not an exact term anyway.

And you call "Lordi" raging against the machine? I wonder what you'd be like in a war - oh yeah I forgot, you were rubbish.

Edit: PS - you're Swedish anyway.

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10th January, 2007 at 14:43:33 -

Ooooh! It's gettin' hot in here!

 
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10th January, 2007 at 14:49:46 -

"And you call 'Lordi' raging against the machine?"

Haha, let's rage against the machine with some shitty rap gayness from, let's see now... Daz Sampson! Man, I can never remember the name. Could have something to do with the fact that you placed 19th

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"I wonder what you'd be like in a war - oh yeah I forgot, you were rubbish."

Oh please... Will you stop judging countries on basis of what wars they've fought. We stood against Russia with inferior military technology, and with like ten russian soldiers per one finnish man, and we were never occupied.

And what's with the übermensch attitude? And I thought you were cool, Noodle.

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10th January, 2007 at 14:54:28 -

omg lol and post gets ressurected and starts a war

 
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10th January, 2007 at 15:05:49 -

Lol meh, you're right.

I blame Noodle's provocative nature

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10th January, 2007 at 15:38:23 -

Your avatar is like the polar bear from crash bandicoot but purple

 
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10th January, 2007 at 16:09:21 -

Okay then I will judge your country on its culture.

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You're sort of near the bottom, next to Paraguay and Belarus. Hey, at least you're above Tajikistan and Nauru.

 
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10th January, 2007 at 16:39:41 -

I could bet any amount of money that you have never been to Finland, and you probably don't know anything about Finnish culture anyway. But fine, if that's your opinion.

 
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10th January, 2007 at 16:42:59 -

Heh, there's a reason that I don't know much about Finnish culture. It's because there isn't much. It's not because I've avoided researching it - Finland often comes up on my reading trawl - but from what I've gather, it's just a small country with a small population and it's full of lakes. Also they speak Finnish, which is a Finno-Ugric language. I recollect that it's somehow related to Hungarian (but I might be getting this mixed up).

 
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10th January, 2007 at 17:25:06 -

That is actually true. I had a Hungarian boy in my class, in elementary school, many years ago. He taught me a few Hungarian words, and many of them actually resembled the Finnish words for the same thing. But you know, Finland is a small country, so of course it's a bit harder to find info about it, but that doesn't mean there's nothing.

Oh well, enough nationalism and stupidity. Couldn't we let this topic die again now?

 
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10th January, 2007 at 17:33:33 -

No.

 
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10th January, 2007 at 17:35:45 -

Not then. But I'm tired, I'm going to bed now.

 
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10th January, 2007 at 17:41:02 -

You're both wrong, I win. Pwnd.

 
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10th January, 2007 at 19:45:40 -

"Oh please... Will you stop judging countries on basis of what wars they've fought. We stood against Russia with inferior military technology, and with like ten russian soldiers per one finnish man, and we were never occupied."

Although it could be that Russia thought, "hold on! Our own country is about 378 million square miles as it is. We don't really need any more land. Even if most of ours is ice!"

Anyway Finland wouldn't take much of a part in any decent war anyway because only the big boys take part. Like oh say Britain. (i joke with you)

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11th January, 2007 at 07:46:03 -

I believe Russia also wanted Finland for tactical advantages etc. And I really doubt that they'd just "give up", after throwing thousands of men do their deaths, without result. You know how Russians are

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11th January, 2007 at 17:19:32 -

So, whadah think 'bout that Bush feller, eh?

 
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11th January, 2007 at 17:35:51 -

I really don't know how Russians are.

Also i was making fun of them for invading other countries when their own is the biggest in the world by quite a large amount.

 
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11th January, 2007 at 17:39:35 -

I say we bomb the shit out of Ethiopia, they're looking pretty shifty.

 
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