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ColourofFire said:
I'd love to go to a football match again, I used to go to Feijenoord and Excelsior quite a bit when I lived in Rotterdam. Here in Finland they suck so bad it's not even worth the metro ticket to get to the stadium.

I think you'd already be in the national squad if you know it's played with a ball and not a puck...
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Yeah, Finnish league footie is arguably even worse than the Norwegian one. :embarrassed:

Litmanen was fabulous in his day though. :)
 
Morning best friends (like the fat one from Hangover)

Its strange really, Norway and Sweden are sort of 'known about', that is, they are popular holiday destinations and feature regularly in many things. People KNOW Sweden and Norway, but Finland? I don't know anything bout it apart from that its (probably) cold and kind of desolate.

Does it even really exist? :)

Oh and I didn't include Denmark in this as I've been there and its crap.
 
Some one brought some chinese sweets in to work as someone is leaving. I just tried two different ones. Jesus Christ, what the fuck did I just (half) eat?

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
 
Acadiafall said:
Its strange really, Norway and Sweden are sort of 'known about', that is, they are popular holiday destinations and feature regularly in many things. People KNOW Sweden and Norway, but Finland? I don't know anything bout it apart from that its (probably) cold and kind of desolate.
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Helsingrad is all right, and people do go there. For the rest, it's even more boring than Sweden (lakes, pine trees, midges, repeat FOR EVER). I get adverts telling me to go to Lappland, with our without a visit to Santa. I ignore them.

Danmark at least has Legoland.
 
True. I didn't make it to Legoland though. Stayed at two or three campsites and the place seemed to be full of Germans. Not a bad thing in itself but driving was allowed on the beach so most Germans read this as "drive as fast as you possibly can all over the beach, like an arsehole"

We then moved on to Sweden which I loved. Well apart from the fucking mosquitoes or midges or whatever they were.
 
Acadiafall said:
Morning best friends (like the fat one from Hangover)

Its strange really, Norway and Sweden are sort of 'known about', that is, they are popular holiday destinations and feature regularly in many things. People KNOW Sweden and Norway, but Finland? I don't know anything bout it apart from that its (probably) cold and kind of desolate.

Does it even really exist? :)

Oh and I didn't include Denmark in this as I've been there and its crap.
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I can confirm its existence :embarrassed:

But yeah, it doesn't really have the appeal that the other Nordic countries have. Norway has fjords, Sweden has nature and hot chicks. Finland has.... lakes, excessive drinking and Lappland. And people who, even though very friendly, make quite a point of coming across as the most cranky people in the world. Except when they drink :embarrassed:

It's nice though, Helsinki is a good city, education here (that's why I'm here) is very good, they all speak english and they're very fun if you get past the cranky appearence.
 
Gorgon90 said:
Finland - A couple of rally drivers, couple of F1 drivers, Nokia. That's about it isn't it?
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They are good at a wide variety Nordic skiing events, although their ski jumping team has been pretty underwhelming since Janne Ahonen lost it, retired, came back (without it), retired again, came back again (still without it) and generally hung around to no obvious purpose in lieu of anyone better.
 
It's quite weird the thing with Finland for us Norwegians, we don't really know much about it.
And it's not a frequent holiday destionation for people here (while Sweden and Denmark always has been), and I suspect that's a lot to do with the language (as well as the distance). With the Swedes and Danes we share languages that are very similar and have no problem understanding each other. Icelandic and Dutch make more sense to us than Finnish. :embarrassed:

The only things we seem to have in common with the Finnish are skiing, metal, awfully cold weather, strong liquor, being natural introverts and shit in football (coincidentally one football manager has had stints in both Norway, Sweden and Finland. Hodgson....) :embarrassed:
 
vonbladet said:
They are good at a wide variety Nordic skiing events, although their ski jumping team has been pretty underwhelming since Janne Ahonen lost it, retired, came back (without it), retired again, came back again (still without it) and generally hung around to no obvious purpose in lieu of anyone better.
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Yup, and a ton of insane snowboarders.

I live near a park and during weekends it was literally crowded with cross-country skiers as well. They never seem to win that stuff though, usually Norway runs with it unless the have a smørbom :embarrassed:
 
Dexter Inferno said:
It's quite weird the thing with Finland for us Norwegians, we don't really know much about it.
And it's not a frequent holiday destionation for people here (while Sweden and Denmark always has been), and I suspect that's a lot to do with the language (as well as the distance). With the Swedes and Danes we share languages that are very similar and have no problem understanding each other. Icelandic and Dutch make more sense to us than Finnish. :embarrassed:

The only things we seem to have in common with the Finnish are skiing, metal, awfully cold weather, strong liquor, being natural introverts and shit in football (coincidentally one football manager has had stints in both Norway, Sweden and Finland. Hodgson....) :embarrassed:
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Yeah, finnish is insanely hard and not anything like Norwegian, Swedish or Danish. I was quite happy that official signs have to be both in finnish and swedish, otherwise I would have had no fucking clue what was going when I arrived here :embarrassed: And if the general difficulty isn't enough you have shit like kuusi palaa, which can be translated as 'your moon returns' and 'the spruce is on fire' and 7 other things :facepalm:

Edit: One of the most annoying things in daily language is the fact that they have completely unrelated names for months as well. It's now Helmikuu....
 
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ColourofFire said:
Yup, and a ton of insane snowboarders.

I live near a park and during weekends it was literally crowded with cross-country skiers as well. They never seem to win that stuff though, usually Norway runs with it unless the have a smørbom :embarrassed:
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Norway is trying its very best to destroy the cross country skiing to be honest. It's been ridiculous this winter. :embarrassed:
Have to admit it's not nearly as fun watching now as when I was younger.
 
Howdy winter world cup finalists :facepalm:

Managed to make it until half past two today before one of the kids called me a cunt, one of the downfalls of teaching special needs kids (and being a cunt :embarrassed:)

Started a new tiling job, this time it's the wall tiles and they're a fecking nightmare to get off. They're mega fit and unlike the rest of the house, the guys who did this have actually done a bang up job so they're not too quick in removing themselves from the wall.

Good news is that after this project I then move on to clearing and ecking the garden which is the pre cursor to my final big project of the year - sticking a jacuzzi in :grin:

Oh yeah I think I'm buying a bearded dragon tonight too :thu:
 
Morning all

Who watched The Brits then? I did, it was ok. Of course the Madonna thing was hilarious and Royal Blood did the best performance.

Kanye West was terrible, ok half of his song was muted due to swearing but even when you could hear him I couldn't make out a thing.

And why oh why was fucktard Kim Kardashian asked to present an award? And what the hell is wrong with her arse? It looks really really stupid. If thats supposed to be sexy, well, I just don't get it.
 
Acadiafall said:
Morning all

Who watched The Brits then? I did, it was ok. Of course the Madonna thing was hilarious and Royal Blood did the best performance.

Kanye West was terrible, ok half of his song was muted due to swearing but even when you could hear him I couldn't make out a thing.

And why oh why was fucktard Kim Kardashian asked to present an award? And what the hell is wrong with her arse? It looks really really stupid. If thats supposed to be sexy, well, I just don't get it.
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I never watch adward event things. I watched a couple a few years back and I thought it was a waste of my time to watch people kiss each others asses accompanied by shitty performances by artists I either don't know or wish I didn't know :embarrassed:
 
Oi oi is it nearly Friday??? :)

Getting tiles off the kitchen wall is being a bit of a mare.

Some tiles are coming off like they were put on with a pritt stick and others are ripping off massive chunks of the gyproc.

I phoned my old man to consult and he said just to plow on and he'd plaster it if need be, I don't know much about plastering, I thought it was for levelling mainly flat stuff out not filling in huge holes you've gouged in the wall???

Oh yeah and my feckin tile scraper I got out of B&Q yesterday decided to break so I get to go there for the 3rd day in a row on the way back to work to have the arses replace it :mad:

On the upside, my brother brough tme a tonne of pallets around today as a base for my jacuzzi I plan on installing once I'm done with these cunting tiles :embarrassed:
 
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