poopzilla posted:

hold up.

is this really a term coined by sweden to call finns big meanies when it comes to business? holy lmbo

BombiTheZombie posted:

Im 100% finnish but i live in sweden and almost all finns ive talked to revere their homeland like mad. But deep inside we all know its a frozen hellwaste straight out of a lovely post-apoc movie. National sports include axe throwing (kirveenheitto), boot throwing (saapasheitto) and carrying your wife on your shoulders in a race to win her weight in beer (ämmänkanto). Sauna and beer is legit though

BombiTheZombie posted:

The finnish Iron Age lasted until around 1400 ad until sweden took over Finland and dragged us into modernity

steady posted:

Will they let me make my own booze in that maze?

Fashionable Jorts posted:

Nah, they just gave it the nickname. Firebombs like that had been used for hundreds of years, and were especially popular during the Spanish Civil war a few years earlier. However, they became a staple among the Finns due to the poo poo design of the Russian tanks. Firebombs were used to blind the crew; you set the tank on fire and the people inside can't see what they are shooting at. But these terrible tanks would suck in the flames and bad things would happen.

Warbadger posted:

The T-34 of the time was a pretty good on-paper tank. It had a good gun and it had thick, sloped armor.

What it did not have is a dedicated tank commander (the same guy shots the gun and tried to direct the crew), good radios, good visibility around the tank, or a precise method of steering. The engines also killed themselves super fast due to the filters not actually filtering dust and sand, but that wasn't really an issue so much in Finland.

Drake_263 posted:

There's a story behind the name, actually. During the war, the Russians used these giantass cluster bombs to bombard Finnish cities, while one of their politicians - named mMlotov - loudly denied accusations of bombing civilian targets, claiming they were shipments of bread to a starving people. So Finns started first calling those bombs 'Molotov breadboxes'.. and when they started mixing firebombs, they'd say they were sending Molotov a drink back as a thank-you for all the bread.

So yeah. don't gently caress with a Finn - we don't get even, we get creative.

Rech posted:

They're quite not dark enough to be proper niggers.

Accretionist posted:

Hang on, do average Finns actually look like that?

Because I'm picturing Finland as a bunch of time travelers from the 1970s now, a nation where Led Zeppelin and board games are still popular, and I must go there

Zzulu posted:

finland aint even got no nukes

Nauta posted:

lmbo

kikkelivelho posted:

Finally a true sequel to Max Payne.

Yolomon Wayne posted:

Friendly reminder that the loving VIKINGS of all people were uneasy around finns.

Traditionally finns took a live pig with them in the sauna, as a kind of biologic chronometer while they were drinnking themselves stupid with hallucinogenic reindeer piss.
When the pig fell over, it was time to get out.

This is too awesome not to be true.

Accretionist posted:

Rape/sexual assault rates? I know Scandinavia's better-than-average reporting skews their rates up. And that internationally, low reporting and corruption skews rates down.

Dyna Soar posted:

there was a pretty good writeup about the medias self imposed silence on the rise of nationalism here,

http://suomenkuvalehti.fi/jutut/kotimaa/timo-soini-saa-viela-ministerinakin-pilkata-pasmaroida-ja-nimitella-muita-huippupoliitikkoja/

in finnish only unfortunately.

kikkelivelho posted:

Few more months and we'll have native swedish refugees on the border. Time to learn the beautiful finnish language boys and girls.

Alan Smithee posted:

why does the finnish emote have dad gay in it

does finland even have 5 guys

Dyna Soar posted:

pretty hosed up satirical cartoon published by the church & city magazine (official magazine of the church in the helsinki metropolitan area. circulation is aroun 200k, so it reaches a lot of people)

 

after the attack: the first one to arrive is the anti-immigration brigade

Jusupov posted:

Buffalo squeeze posted:

Oh come on, how are you supposed to set fire to a mountain?

LordArgh posted:

an investigation into the education level of syrian refugees in norway has found that it's not as good as was previously hoped/assumed, with two thirds being effectively illiterate and unable to function in a modern society

autoaim.cfg posted:

Depends.

Would you rather like to learn a bizarre alphabet that looks like Martian glyphs and makes your brain bleed because half of them look like our regular letters but really is a completely different letter...

...or learn a bizarre language with a horrible syntax that makes your brain bleed, but is really excellent for swearing, but only swearing?

Search your heart, Mushroom. Within it thou shall find thy answer!

Beeswax posted:

Welp, we had a good run. Pack it up boys, Ligur is here.