Is Finland the greatest country ever?

that's pretty much all i have to say about this subject.

(to name just one of those who haven't been mentioned on this thread yet)

Seriously. They were pretty good.

http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/enter.html

Finland is the only country to beat the Russians twice in battle. Other than that, I dunno.

I've never heard of this, and I should know, I've studied political history. If you're talking about WWII, Finns actually lost both of the wars they fought against the Russians in 1939-1944. But I guess you could call it a victory in the sense that we never got occupied, and never became a Soviet satellite like the Eastern European countries.

Moomins are the best thing to come out of this country, in my opinion. Have any of you read the Moomin comic strips by Lars Jansson, Tove Jansson's brother? They're great, as good as the books even.

They ran in the Evening Standard - I *think* there weren't any collections, just as well as I'd pay big ebay sums for any. A friend sent me a copy of the "Books From Finland" journal once which had an article on them, they look great!

Above our mantelpiece is a huge Tove Jansson poster for a Moomin art exhibition in which Moominmanna is stirring a mysterious brew from which are flying all sorts of curious creatures including Little My flying on a bat!

Musically? Deeply dud.

"do you want! total war?!
YES WE WANT! TOTAL WARR!
do you want!
fucking war?!
YES WE WANT! FUCKING WAR
SUOMI FINLAND PERKELE!"

musically, i'm not sure - i think there's one magnificent bit of keyboard prog i've lost the name of, it was used in blue jam once... and some folkie i was once played doing a version of 'too drunk to fuck'.

and enormous discredit to you wall for not mentioning hanoi rocks.

Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Eating breakfast or dinner,
Or snack lunch in the hall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.

You're so sadly neglected
And often ignored,
A poor second to Belgium,
When going abroad.

Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I quite want to be,
Your mountains so lofty,
Your treetops so tall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.

Finland has it all.

I want to get hold of The Silver´s 2 7" Do You Wanna Dance & No More Grease from 1979. email me if you are willing to part with them

Circle, etc., etc. are great!!! 'Ptolemaic Terrascope' sez it; I believe it; that settles it. Well, not really, but close.

Yes, it is. ^__^

and the first one, "envoy of death," i swear to god circle must've listened to it a lot before recording "sunrise."

Little is known about this Punk unit. They borrowed their name from a (i think) hydraulic tool manufacturing firm.
They didn't play booked gigs.
They just showed up at a venue when someone else was playing, waited for a sign and then stormed the stage, took the other band's instruments and kicked them away as the Rammers delivered a short, intense storm of pure noise. And then - they disappeared.

Only in Finland, kids, only in Finland...

(I've never seen them, but since I read about Rammer Oy in a booklet called "International hopeless tunes support organisation" I've been very intrigued)

Yes! Come to Helsinki. You'll love it.

these Finnish ravers head out to a rave. They take a load of ecstasy pills. After a while one of them says "Great pills". A couple of hours later the other says "Yeah. Really chatty".

This is true.

it was pretty fucking great once i realised that silence is golden.

no small talk.

my wife (one of the success stories of my visit there) after 14 years of marriage in uk still doesn't do small talk.
or single glazed windows.
or carpets in bathrooms.
or seperate hot and cold taps.

wonderful place.

thats top of the list.

my parents hate coming to our house.

they just dont understand why we dont allow shoes inside .. and complain each time.

then again i would prefer if the never came at all .. but thats another story ..

There's lots of great Finnish design: Marimekko, Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, etc.

can't mess with 20th century finnish classical

My order of Alamaailman Vasarat's Käärmelautakunta arrived today and destroyed me. I am in awe.

Those little speckles of biography, along with the songs, screams to me that they must have been superstars; I expect the reality is not quite so exciting as what I'm imagining, but I'm interested nonetheless.

Also I was told there that the Russians took a lot of their land in the North part of the country and still hold it today. Kind of a sore spot.

Knowing the people here, I'd say they're more interested in good mainstream rap than boring undie like Murmur. Though I didn't think much of Kapasiteettiyksikkö either, until I heard their latest LP, which is really dope.

"I'm from fucking FINLAND."

only finnish person i've ever "met."

http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/aqkorhon/tuulipukujuhla11.jpg

It has to be, it hosts dog game shows like this and the golden retriever is a hero:

http://jezebel.com/we-are-all-this-glden-retriever-spectacularly-bombing-a-1660886189/

answer = yes.

that said, bh used to get so embarrassed by gubbins like this.

the wife throwing competition that used to get media attention every year, and other such things, used to make the country look so very different to her homeland that she missed.

whereas from my 13 months of living there, these selected insights are often pretty spot on.

i firmly believe that no other country could produce a band/act quite like leningrad cowboys.

are Demilich from Finland? they're great.......

also, Aransi Pazuzu (sp?)... they're pretty good too......

the helsinki airport is so dope yall. there's a reading room and book exchange that is totally empty where u can just post up for say 7 or 8 hours and chill out.

last time we were in helstinki airport, was just as they re-opened it had been closed for a week after the big icelandic volcano chaos a few years back.

me and my gang were amongst the first people in hoping to catch a plane back to england having had many flights cancelled etc.

an empty airport is a weird thing.

explain yourself, tuomas

http://gawker.com/helsinki-cathedral-under-siege-by-1-000-life-size-cutou-1710357891

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYNmGHhIJ8k

https://brightside.me/wonder-curiosities/finland-will-become-the-first-country-in-the-world-to-get-rid-of-all-school-subjects-259910/

Instead of individual subjects, students will study events and phenomena in an interdisciplinary format. For example, the Second World War will be examined from the perspective of history, geography, and math. And by taking the course ”Working in a Cafe," students will absorb a whole body of knowledge about the English language, economics, and communication skills.