So in other words, Finns have always been getting f*d...This lends great deal of credibility to Finns being kind of "pioneers" who were first ones to try to get away from their neighbours for more space (some things never change eh?). Had Finns trudged through already established settlements, genetic heritage would have changed on the journey. Instead it has remained distinctly separate.
Will I feel good in Finland?
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Re: Will I feel good in Finland?
"By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes."
Something wicked this way comes."
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Or wanted to get rid of noisy neighbours. Or tax collectors.Pursuivant wrote:So in other words, Finns have always been getting f*d...This lends great deal of credibility to Finns being kind of "pioneers" who were first ones to try to get away from their neighbours for more space (some things never change eh?). Had Finns trudged through already established settlements, genetic heritage would have changed on the journey. Instead it has remained distinctly separate.
Legend has it, that my own family ended up around my homeplace because they kept moving away little ahead tax collectors. I guess eventually they started seeing them coming from other direction as well and decided to settle in permanently.
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Too bad a lot of you have lost your sense of humor.Tiwaz wrote:Or wanted to get rid of noisy neighbours. Or tax collectors.Pursuivant wrote:So in other words, Finns have always been getting f*d...This lends great deal of credibility to Finns being kind of "pioneers" who were first ones to try to get away from their neighbours for more space (some things never change eh?). Had Finns trudged through already established settlements, genetic heritage would have changed on the journey. Instead it has remained distinctly separate.
Legend has it, that my own family ended up around my homeplace because they kept moving away little ahead tax collectors. I guess eventually they started seeing them coming from other direction as well and decided to settle in permanently.

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Re: Will I feel good in Finland?
I am really sorry , how would you describe a situation like that? A Lutheran and a Jew both of a Finnish persuasion committed a crime? Or two true Finns did that?Rip wrote:and who is supposed to have said that?Adrian42 wrote: When a Finnish Lutheran and a Finnish Jew committed a crime together and someone speaks about "a Finn and a Jew"
Coming back to the original post.
In the pre revolutionary Russia a Jew could only be Jewish, in case one converted , one stopped being a Jew, restrictions applied to jewish communities were lifted for that person , but at the same time he was ejected from his native community and kagal system. There is number of converts who became very very prominent in the society - Ilya Repin etc. So in my list it did not matter what to say : Jew or Jewish .. The person was neither ...
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According to the official view they ll were one true new entity - new soviet nation . But of course people who were part of it new they were Russian, Ukrainians, Tatars , Finns , Belorussians , Latvians etc.......Propaganda always tried to point the little " differences" ( funny Ukrainian accent or a piece of national dress. Etc.), while cultivating the union which supposed to exist.Pursuivant wrote:IIRC there was an Ukranian contingent that got decimated, and was quite conveniently "forgotten" in the propaganda it ever had existed.Thus (to a certain extent, of course) it is not correct to use the term "Russians" when applied to the Red Army during the Winter war for example.
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Oh, we have great sense of humor my good chap.masao wrote: Too bad a lot of you have lost your sense of humor.![]()
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You just need refined taste to understand it.
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Nope. Most don't have your kind. Off goes a good sense of humor along with heavy tax burden.Tiwaz wrote:Oh, we have great sense of humor my good chap.masao wrote: Too bad a lot of you have lost your sense of humor.![]()
t, masao
You just need refined taste to understand it.
Even Putous was getting dull this year, except for a few sketches including TVoF parody, which was a killer.
You should join the team of writers.

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No kidding. With all due respect or lack there off, if you found any incarnation of Putous funny, I think you ought to be more worried about your sense of humor rather than that of the greater public. Well time to put myself out on the limb, but what I do find mostly funny is deadpan delivery of Pirjo Heikkilä in YLE leaks.masao wrote:
Nope. Most don't have your kind. Off goes a good sense of humor along with heavy tax burden.
Even Putous was getting dull this year, except for a few sketches including TVoF parody, which was a killer.
You should join the team of writers.![]()
t, masao
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Probably one or the other (without the word 'true', what ever you mean with that), depending on if the religion would seem to be relevant.foca wrote:I am really sorry , how would you describe a situation like that? A Lutheran and a Jew both of a Finnish persuasion committed a crime? Or two true Finns did that?Rip wrote:and who is supposed to have said that?Adrian42 wrote: When a Finnish Lutheran and a Finnish Jew committed a crime together and someone speaks about "a Finn and a Jew"
I was just trying to get Adrian42 tell where was this supposed statement regarding a "Finnish Lutheran and a Finnish Jew" originally made.
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My question was also meant for Adrian42Rip wrote:
I was just trying to get Adrian42 tell where was this supposed statement regarding a "Finnish Lutheran and a Finnish Jew" originally made.
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Easier to understand if you quote the right person..foca wrote:My question was also meant for Adrian42Rip wrote:
I was just trying to get Adrian42 tell where was this supposed statement regarding a "Finnish Lutheran and a Finnish Jew" originally made.
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That is a slightly more obvious example of the pattern inRip wrote:and who is supposed to have said that?Adrian42 wrote: When a Finnish Lutheran and a Finnish Jew committed a crime together and someone speaks about "a Finn and a Jew"
foca wrote:One of my grandfathers was convicted by " troika" , consisting of:
1. Nurminen Arvo ( obviously Finn)
2. Socelovatis Ingvar ( Latvian??)
3. Marmelstein Iosif ( Jewish)
Should I harbor hatred towards Finns, Latvians and Jews as peoples?
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"Two Finns" committed the crime.foca wrote:I am really sorry , how would you describe a situation like that? A Lutheran and a Jew both of a Finnish persuasion committed a crime?Rip wrote:and who is supposed to have said that?Adrian42 wrote: When a Finnish Lutheran and a Finnish Jew committed a crime together and someone speaks about "a Finn and a Jew"
Or if it happened in Finland "two men", since there is usually neither a reason for mentioning the nationality nor the religion in that case.
Only when the religion is relevant in the crime (e.g. if a Christian burned down a mosque) it is reasonable to mention the religion of the offender.
That would blame a specific political party. Unless that party was involved in the crime that would be wrong.foca wrote:Or two true Finns did that?
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No, it is straw man when the original almost certainly was a group of Soviet citizens with various ethnicities.Adrian42 wrote: That is a slightly more obvious example of the pattern in
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Categorized by what was at the time the practice in the Soviet Union.Rip wrote:No, it is straw man when the original almost certainly was a group of Soviet citizens with various ethnicities.Adrian42 wrote: That is a slightly more obvious example of the pattern in
"By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes."
Something wicked this way comes."