Attention Tuomas - I have Finnish question

new hawt girlie in my office just moved from Finland.how do i seduce?

you could just say "Haluan sinua." (= "I want you.") There's no other way to interpret this than sexual.

Like any other girl, I'd say. There isn't any Special Finnish Neck Pinch that'd make her fall for you.

rohypnol, then

are you famous in Finland? if i say i know Tuomas from Finland will she be impressed?

Maybe you could get her some rye bread? It's common in here, and most people like it, but in other European countries it seems to be pretty hard to find. Don't know if that applies to Britain though.

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No, unless she thinks you're referring to the leader/keyboard player of Nightwish.

What's her name?

it was something like Nada but not quite. i couldn't understand her to well when she told me

you should tell her that you're a feminist

Maybe you could get her some rye bread? It's common in here, and most people like it, but in other European countries it seems to be pretty hard to find.

Roffle. There's a few things you know and then it seems to be faulty. Rye bread is not that rare to find. Those bakeries are selling you LIES.

Carne, Tuomas has probably sundaed her cherry.

Interpret that however you like.

damn, he's always doing that

Roffle. There's a few things you know and then it seems to be faulty. Rye bread is not that rare to find. Those bakeries are selling you LIES.

Well, at least in the countries I've been, I haven't really seen rye bread in the grocery stores. Not even in Sweden. In here it's like half of all the bread they sell.

Rye bread is very common in Oxford. A favourite shop of mine sells Russian and Lithuanian varieties but never at the same time.

I bet there's none in Rye

This is how crazy this world has become

so you're saying that rye bread is the way to her heart?

not heart

further down

washed down with

http://www.saveur-biere.com/images/lapin-kulta-33.jpg

and then use the bottle for sexual exploits

i was just talking to her. she's super foxxxy

roffle ken

Tonight a Finnish guy showed me this poem and said it was in Finnish despite looking mostly English.

Sun on helmet,
Sun on villas.
Talon join.
Ah, sure Hamlet.
Miss lie into sun?
Miss on ties?
Maiden pimentotie.
Vale helmet vain
Sullen vein.

Tuomas: is this actual Finnish and if so could you please translate it?

That looks more like some kind of palindromic play on words to me.

Or like, cryptic crosswordism.

i don't get all the fuss about finland. surely the climate is awful

or like read aloud it sounds like finnish you retards

Yes yes, thank you Bender.

how do you feel about miikka kiprusoff in goal?

Tonight a Finnish guy showed me this poem and said it was in Finnish despite looking mostly English.

Sun on helmet,
Sun on villas.
Talon join.
Ah, sure Hamlet.
Miss lie into sun?
Miss on ties?
Maiden pimentotie.
Vale helmet vain
Sullen vein.

Tuomas: is this actual Finnish and if so could you please translate it?

I guess this is someone's idea of a wordplay, because the poem consists solely of Finnish words that mean something in English too. The actual sentences sound kinda contrived in Finnish though... For example: "talon join" = "I drank the house". And "sullen" is an incorrect spelling; it should've read "sulle" ("to you" in Southern Finland vernacular speech), but of course "sulle" is not a word in English.

Dearest Tuomas, I got lost in wikipedia today and I found an entry about Finnish "drink" kilju. Have you ever tried it?

{I found it via a link on the page for pruno.)

thanks abb i'd been trying to remember the name of that stuff!

Pruno, or kilju? I spent a good couple of hours reading about pruno. Not as epic as the time I discovered Nutraloaf, but pretty close.

pruno, because i could only think of jenkem and i knew that wasn't what i meant. i would never forget nutraloaf.

tuomas how did you celebrate finland's world hockey championship?

i did not see you here

does anyone in finland have misgivings or shame about the alliance with hitler or does everyone accept the country had no options

I think majority opinion is there was no other options, but unsurprisingly many left-leaning and non-nationalist people view it as a black stain in Finnish history. And some of the major politicians during WWII, such as the Social Democrat prime minister Väinö Tanner, thought it as shameful too. Most of the Finnish leaders during the war had no particular Nazi sympathies, so to them it was purely a marriage of convenience

Also, among Finnish historians there's still hot debate whether The Continuation War was a "justified war". Certainly in the Winter War Soviet Union was undoubtedly the aggressor, and many people feel that the second war was "just" insofar as the Finnish army gained back the areas lost in the Winter War, but they didn't stop there: the plan was to conquer all the areas east to the Finnish border populated with Finnic peoples, creating a Greater Finland, even though these areas had never been part of the Finnish state.

is simo häyhä regarded with pride

Who?

Häyhä was credited with 542[5] confirmed kills of Soviet soldiers by Finnish military historian Robert Brantberg, while a Finnish TV documentary stated 505 sniper kills.[2][6]

I started watching a Finnish movie about the Winter War the other night, it was called Talvisota. I had drank too much and fell alseep but will give it another shot.

this be that Häyhä dude who was nicknamed White Death
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Simo_hayha_honorary_rifle.jpg/220px-Simo_hayha_honorary_rifle.jpg

Okay, I guess people interested in war history know him, but I've no idea whether he's regarded with pride, I'd assume most Finns wouldn't even know who he is.

norwegians considering giving finland a mountain for its 100th birthday is super-cute

a modern nation voluntarily ceding territory to another to celebrate an occasion is probably a first-ever event and an entirely novel idea!

h, I haven't heard of this Norwegian plan, do you have link to some news item?

Oh

I think majority opinion is there was no other options, but unsurprisingly many left-leaning and non-nationalist people view it as a black stain in Finnish history. And some of the major politicians during WWII, such as the Social Democrat prime minister Väinö Tanner, thought it as shameful too. Most of the Finnish leaders during the war had no particular Nazi sympathies, so to them it was purely a marriage of convenience

Also, among Finnish historians there's still hot debate whether The Continuation War was a "justified war". Certainly in the Winter War Soviet Union was undoubtedly the aggressor, and many people feel that the second war was "just" insofar as the Finnish army gained back the areas lost in the Winter War, but they didn't stop there: the plan was to conquer all the areas east to the Finnish border populated with Finnic peoples, creating a Greater Finland, even though these areas had never been part of the Finnish state.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, December 23, 2015 10:12 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank you, good answer
i will read some more about this on wikipedia

is there a strong sense of pan-finnic identity in finland today? in another context i was reading about this proposed tunnel the other day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki_to_Tallinn_Tunnel

i get the sense that finns and estonians feel quite close to each other maybe....not so sure about how finns feel in terms finnic peoples in the other areas mannerheim was trying to annex
(or finno-ugric, in which case that's loads of people scattered throughout russia and hungary etc)