goatse.cx haver posted:

two finns walk into a bar, four hours later one says "so how are the wife and kids?" the other one downs his beer, slams it on the table, walks out and drowns himself in the lake

goatse.cx haver posted:

a finnish man and woman are talking

Bip Roberts posted:

Finland seems like Minnesota without any white people.

Metanaut posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUyFg9xoPKk

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.

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.

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.

etalian posted:

I like the story on how finns would place frozen russian soldiers upright next to roads to troll the russians.

Warbadger posted:

The T-34 of the time was a pretty good on-paper

kikkelivelho posted:

Lord Tywin posted:

Finland was good when it was east Sweden and we got into a lot of useless war with Finnish cannon fodder to die for us, then the Russians got tired of our poo poo and cut off our balls. Without Finnish men to die for us we decided sending actual Swedes to die wasn't any fun, so instead we decided to be the smuggest pricks in the north and treat our Nordic brethren as retarded children.

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

Hob_Gadling posted:

They should have stayed in Canada

Nurge posted:

Did someone paste what Tacitus wrote about the finns back in the day yet? It's pretty hilarious:

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 ''In wonderful savageness live the nation of the Fennians, and in beastly
  poverty, destitute of arms, of horses, and of homes; their food, the common herbs; their
  apparel, skins; their bed, the earth; their only hope in their arrows, which for want of
  iron they point with bones. Their common support they have from the chase, women as well as
  men; for with these the former wander up and down, and crave a portion of the prey. Nor
  other shelter have they even for their babes, against the violence of tempests and ravening
  beasts, than to cover them with the branches of trees twisted together; this a reception
  for the old men, and hither resort the young. Such a condition they judge more happy than
  the painful occupation of cultivating the ground, than the labour of rearing houses, than
  the agitations of hope and fear attending the defence of their own property or the seizing
  that of others. Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the
  Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains
  even to be wished.'' 

hard counter posted:

de_dust posted:

this legit sounds awesome

poopzilla posted:

They most certainly do not hate americans as half the loving country came here after the winter war and ww2, my family included. They hate the crazy bullshit america they see from fox news and tmz.

BexGu posted:

They have a straight up championship for it in America if you want to join in.

http://sundayriver.com/events-and-activities/events-calendar/north-american-wife-carrying-championship

The winning couple takes home the wife's weight in beer, five times her weight in cash, and an entry into the World Championship, which takes place in Finland the following summer. Each year, the field includes 50 couples with pre-qualification given to the winners of state or regional events.