Hogge Wild posted:

are the refugees still in the bus?

BravestOfTheLamps posted:

They were once Swedes

Dark Off posted:

i think flying toast's are darn scary

Edit: these things also poop rice.

uncleTomOfFinland posted:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/europeans-comfort-touch-social-bonds/412861/

Even racist bog mongolians want a hug now and then.

LordArgh posted:

quote:

Hardy and reclusive swamp-dwellers, the crannogmen are derisively referred to by outsiders as "mudmen" and "frog-eaters". They are a poor people, mostly subsisting on fishing and frogging, as well as eating any game they can hunt. By the standards of some of their neighbors their culture is somewhat primitive, but they are very woodcrafty, with great knowledge of their terrain as well as of poisons made by local plants and animals in the swamps, which they often coat their weapons with.

Due to their self-imposed isolation, the crannogmen culture remains mostly unchanged since the time of the First Men, before the Andal Invasion six thousand years ago (though they have learned the Common Tongue imposed on the continent by the Andals). Like their Northmen cousins, they still worship the Old Gods of the Forest, maintain a close connection to nature, and were rumored to be close to the Children of the Forest in past millennia.

In other respects, the crannogmen are something of a unique hybrid culture between what is normally found in the North and the kingdoms of southern Westeros. As the southernmost region of the North, the climate of their home is not as cold and desolate as most of the rest of the North, but is instead humid, swampy, and overgrown with fish and game. The surroundings of their home thus shaped their way of life to be quite different from that of their cousins in the main parts the North.

The crannogmen do not march into open battle, and if invaded rely on retreating their crannogs deeper into the swamps. The crannogmen will then use guerrilla tactics, poisoned arrows, and their superior knowledge of the difficult swampy terrain to bleed the invaders through attrition. For ten thousand years, the crannogmen have proven to be very difficult to conquer, though otherwise they usually seclude themselves in their swamps and do not trouble outsiders. They are embroiled in a centuries-old feud with House Frey, whose lands directly border their swamps (whose limit forms the border between the North and the Riverlands), as the Freys often try to encroach on the lands of the crannogmen.

Free Market Mambo posted:

Today I had a potato pizza. It was good.

Dyna Soar posted:

there's less bogs than this thread makes you expect!

Captain Yossarian posted:

How's internet speed in Finland?

Ahundredbux posted:

just popping in to tell you finnland still owns

Captain Yossarian posted:

How's internet speed in Finland?

Idiootti posted:

It's okay I guess. This comes with my rent.

Dark Off posted:

refugees haventh even complained about finnish language yet.
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~fkarlsso/genkau2.html <--- the word kauppa has 2.253 forms (it means shop in english)

DeepQantas posted:

LordArgh posted:

we're good at skiing you gently caress

LordArgh posted:

we're good at skiing you gently caress

Hogge Wild posted:

you're good at doping

Zzulu posted:

why is norway so utter poo poo at sports, especially the only sport the rest of us nords are good at, i.e cold sports


They got snow and ice just like us

Zzulu posted:

why is norway so utter poo poo at sports, especially the only sport the rest of us nords are good at, i.e cold sports


They got snow and ice just like us

rear end cobra posted:

hockey is for bog brutes, we have the chess world champion instead

serious norman posted:

Had to explain in detail today how to pick a number and wait in line to a syrian refugee.