Ismo is definitely a pro and extremely hard worker. There is definite support here for him, we know he is damn funny but he has pretty much made the Finnish stand-up scene happen by just tirelessly performing all over the country. Stand-up hasn't enjoyed very much success in Finland outside TV but now we have stand-up clubs in every major town. Ismo deserves this price.

You're welcome

That's a great aarvark story I'm actually quite happy to be associated with such cute little fellows.

I don't think our zoos have one though

According to my on-line dictionary they're maasika in Finnish, but I assume they're not terribly common there

She should come to Minnesota and tear down all the Norwegian/Swedish/Finnish flags you can find in this state.

Oh, wait. She wouldn't object to those, because those are white people's heritage.

Well... My mom filled out a raffle ticket on my name when i was two, we won a SAAB 96 and traded it for this model, 99. Almost the same color (metallic paint was for US export model...). My family kept it for 25 years, it served us really well. I learned to drive with it and that thing handles like a dream (it has heavy steering but is is so stable and responsive, just wonderful, plus ours had aftermarket short gearbox from police unit and bored cylinders, small tweaks to oomph the torque for caravan use. Finnish police used SAAB for a loong time, it accelerated like a rocket..).

Seeing the inside of that just brings me memories. Mom, Dad, my big brother and me and a full sized double bass, all inside (you can't transport it outside when it's freezing, the thing can explode..). It meant that i had to ride shotgun, seat fully front and back against the front door, head on dashboard. Backseat folded and mom and bro at the back, equally cramped. We used to say that first comes the bass, then the family if they fit in and there is always room in the boot (joke.. ). The day he started to play cello was a blessing and a curse. Have you ever had to live with a person that learns to play cello? It's horrible but i paid him back when i got full blown PA in my room, cabinets from floor to ceiling.. Musicians family is always a bit eccentric and weird..

My dad still has SAAB (fourth one) as they are just amazing to drive, handles winter conditions like nothing and are great for long roadtrips. I just hope i can get him the Citroen CX he has wanted from his teens...

the only Finnish words I know are perkele, vittun and saatana, and I'm pretty sure I heard at least two of them in there

*Finnish

No, it's about watching Finnish drivers win...

There is some slight irony there, kuka is a Finnish word that literally means "who?"

That's weird, considering that she's a native Finnish speaker. Sounded pretty Finnish to me, and definitely nothing like Northern Sami, though there may be other Sami languages that sound more Finnish-like.

The "finnish" is closer to Saami. Not far but no price. Eesti is pretty spot on.

Willing to guess..that the so-called heckler there who asked Obama aloud his inane shit and reset the wannabe president's unscripted ass, was followed home by assholes, or is inna box being questioned somewhere as we speak so....fuck all you Obama dick-riders out there, you suck sweaty, unwashed and hope-ridden ballzack

Oh wait! You can vote for someone else in one of the 2 parties that makes you feeeeel goood because of what you heard while trying to decide what frappa-latte-jizmo yer gonna have for the fast-breaking, non-nutritive brain-lozenge before unconsciousness grips you and then beddy-bye.

There's yer choice peeps. 1 of 2 shit-heals, whoever they may be.

Election 2016-As flat 'n refreshing as an un-fizzy soda pop found in a bus terminal with some hideous shade of lipstick on the cap and you drink it anyway...cause yer whore-mongering ways are so, so cozy....

....gonna write-in 'cocksucker' when floating by the polls next go-round, maybe watch some Finnish porn after-

For the rest of us, who don't speak Finnish - http://lyricstranslate.com/en/Lautturi-Ferryman.html

Called Jätkän Kynttilä (loose transl. Redneck Candle) in Finland.. Never heard of Swedish Torch.

The other great fire for outdoors is Rakovalkea (white crack, yeah it's double entendre), it consists of 2 large logs and the fire is set between them. It'll warm up one camp for a whole Finnish winter night, guaranteed. Same principle, restricted burn.

Bloody hell, .905 is what, 23mm? Better put some shock absorbing butt plate on that sucker or it'll split you in half.

Kinda reminds me of that old Finnish AT rifle, the Lahti.

Here's an idea form another "troll" (As I'm often inaptly labeled by most shit-slingers) @ JustSaying & MilkmanDan: Humane sentiments for the inhumane, and a bit overly-forgiving of not only past atrocities and wholesale land-grabs avec/slavery both physical and economic, but their entrenched and continuing perpetration of the same....until we kill the mechanism by losing all the "nicey-nice" and start racking-up body-counts, the spectacle continues.
The empire will not stop until they have destroyed humanity-Annihilate them all, kick their poisonous bloodlines out of the gene pool, and sell all their shit at a discount!

Basically, what we are watching here, are international criminals at a circle-jerk, and common earthlings (we, the victims of their crimes) are expected to dutifully and respectfully stomach the ceremony without a cocktail.....of the Finnish, Molotov persuasion.