Really interesting.. We, Finns, also have no he or she and we were amongst the very first to give voting rights to women...

The version I'm familiar with is a cover... trying to think whose though... Tim Finn perhaps?

Edit: No! It was "Mental as Anything" on the album "Liar Liar Pants on Fire". Doesn't seem to be on teh interwebs though.

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A "Jeremy Shada" tag would be good, since it's him, the voice of Finn on Adventure Time.

My Spanish is close to non-existent, but to paraphrase it says something along the lines of:

Watch the 60m final between two athletes of more than 90 years of age.

[something about being a good example to us all, and what an emotive contest this was between the two Nonagenarians] in the 60 metre dash in the final of the European Athletics Championships: The Finn Ilmari Koppinen, 95 years of age, against Belgian Emiel Pauwels, 94, who took the victory.

The European Veterans Athletics Championships in San Sebastian ran between March 19 to March 24. On the left, the Belgian Emiel Pauwels, 94. On the right, the Finnish Ilmari Koppinen, 95.

Ready, Set, Go!!!

The Finn takes advantage in the first meters and appears to be prevailing. However, the Belgian mid-career recovers and manages to cross the finish line first with his arms raised.

In reality, the two men both won, with the two solo contests of different categories of the 60 meter dash in the same race: Pauwels, of over 90 years, and Koppinen the age of 95.

The Belgian achieved a time of 17.70, while the Finn crossed the finish line with a time of 17.89.

Go Finns!

>> ^brycewi19:

That's an absolute thing of mechanical beauty.
Too bad it seems limited to just the multiplication function.


It can very obviously do addition. Every crank adds the number on the side to the number on the top, so just by changing the side between cranks, you've got an adding machine.

Less obvious is subtraction, not shown here. The hand crank on top pops up for subtraction. There's a red or silver ring on the crank that's exposed to make it obvious which mode you're in. Doing this engages an alternate gear set causing the number on the side to be subtracted from the total rather than added.

Multiplication, as demonstrated, is just adding repeatedly.

Division can be done by clever use of multiplication and subtraction. See http://www.isi.edu/~finn/curta/curta.html.

See the following video for a demonstration (but with no real explanation) of finding a square root:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haaCoVrGd6k

>> ^bareboards2:

Plays for me...
I wonder what is up?
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I think my video froze half way through.



Twas a joke about there not actually being a video.

...a bad one at that lol

Plays for me...

I wonder what is up?
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I think my video froze half way through.

>> ^nach0s:

The end part (conversation with an old woman) played during/after the credits on S2/E5 of his show Louie. It was awesome--she played an absent-minded relative who he took his daughters to visit. She kept casually saying really racist things and was generally daft and awkward. It was great to see the actress's real personality in the credits. Props to Louie for including it.


She was the most interesting old lady I really liked that Louie included that because I could've listened to her all day. Sometimes the best part of a Louie episode to me is watching that last bit after I've watched the episode, Louie is really doing everything right with his show, and I'm so grateful we have it and will continue to have it.

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>> ^shole:

A Finn here too. \o/
There's a few tiny nitpicks in the video;
-There's no standardized testing at all.
Only test one could call standard would be the entry exams to universities, and other higher tier schools.
It's one exam (per field of study) you do and put a list of schools you want to get into, in order of preference.
Which brings me to an important omission;
-All universities and vocational schools and others are free.
It's kind of implied by 'public', but just to make it clear.
Pass the entry tests and you're good. (lower level graduation required)
This brings a lot of foreign students in too.
There's also a set amount of financial support in exchange for course credits, well enough for several degrees.
It's always mindblowing to think that families save up for tuition.


The matriculation examination at the end of gymnasium (i.e. the high school equivalent we have) is definitely a standardized test, since it's the same for every school and graded on a national level. Just because you can pick and choose the subjects you want to do doesn't change that fact.

A Finn here too. \o/
There's a few tiny nitpicks in the video;
-There's no standardized testing at all.
Only test one could call standard would be the entry exams to universities, and other higher tier schools.
It's one exam (per field of study) you do and put a list of schools you want to get into, in order of preference.

Which brings me to an important omission;
-All universities and vocational schools and others are free.
It's kind of implied by 'public', but just to make it clear.
Pass the entry tests and you're good. (lower level graduation required)
This brings a lot of foreign students in too.
There's also a set amount of financial support in exchange for course credits, well enough for several degrees.
It's always mindblowing to think that families save up for tuition.

>> ^jubuttib:

>> ^Deano:
Also Finland has the best racing drivers. Dunno why.

No endless straight roads, a lot of distance between places, lots of unpaved roads if you want to get a feel for rallying, pretty harsh requirements for a driving license, and a culture that's enthusiastic about racing.
Frankly what astonishes me is that for a population of under 6 million, Finns have won a medal or some sort of championship in just about everything at some point, and without relying on cultural diversity or immigrants (say what you will, in many sports like running there are huge racial differences). Everything on skis/snowboards, just about everything with an engine, most track and field events (though interestingly not sprint events, nothing below 400m at least), boats (F1 boats, sailing, rowing), shooting, many team sports (though we royally suck at soccer, still many individual Finns have ranked among the top players of the world, Jari Litmanen being a prime example), boxing, wrestling and other fight sports, weight lifting, the list goes on.
Must be something in the water of the so called "million lakes".


Damn vikings.

>> ^Deano:

Also Finland has the best racing drivers. Dunno why.


No endless straight roads, a lot of distance between places, lots of unpaved roads if you want to get a feel for rallying, pretty harsh requirements for a driving license, and a culture that's enthusiastic about racing.

Frankly what astonishes me is that for a population of under 6 million, Finns have won a medal or some sort of championship in just about everything at some point, and without relying on cultural diversity or immigrants (say what you will, in many sports like running there are huge racial differences). Everything on skis/snowboards, just about everything with an engine, most track and field events (though interestingly not sprint events, nothing below 400m at least), boats (F1 boats, sailing, rowing), shooting, many team sports (though we royally suck at soccer, still many individual Finns have ranked among the top players of the world, Jari Litmanen being a prime example), boxing, wrestling and other fight sports, weight lifting, the list goes on.

Must be something in the water of the so called "million lakes".