Look out, Tuomas, they're on to you!

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At least if you were in the military, which I gather you're not. ;-)

A number of Finnish conscripts have had their full term of military service slashed because of their addiction to the internet, the army says.

The Finnish Defence Forces say doctors have found some young men miss their computers too much to cope with the compulsory six months in the army.

The forces' recruitment officer said some troops were diagnosed as addicts.

The men concerned were sent home and would be called up again three years later, he said.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 August 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Well yeah, like they will be much less addicted in three years time.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 5 August 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The lack of response is all the confirmation the story needs.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 5 August 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.tarsan.ee/images/lc_1.jpg

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 5 August 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I read about this in yesterday's paper. Finland has a compulsory military service for all healthy men; however, if you're a conscientious objector, you can choose the "civil service", which means working for some governmental or communal or non-profit organization. The civil service lasts for 13 months, though, which is considerably longer than the military service, and the Finnish law has been criticized for this. The other option would be to go to jail for six and a half months, but I wasn't quite ready for that (even though they place conscientious objectors in an "open jail", from where you can go to work or to school), so I chose the civil service. Funnily enough, I did my service in a library, and that's where I first learned to use the Internet.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

join the library and learn a trade!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.washedashore.com/events/kyoto97/r2_ravers4.jpg

― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

eight years pass...

http://www.avclub.com/article/there-is-a-symphonic-finnish-prog-rock-concept-alb-201493?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default

― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:06 (eleven years ago)

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