Have a good Independence Day Finland

[Dowly]

Have a good one everybody. :salute:

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Good Independece Day to everyone! :salute:

[Takeda Shingen]

Happy Independence Day to our Finnish friends!

[Herr-Berbunch]

Well done for getting rid of the Red blighters. :salute: Happy independence day, Finland. :woot:

[Jimbuna]

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[Schroeder]

But you aren't independent.... you're in the bloody EU.:O:

Have a good one.:rock:

[Jimbuna]

But you aren't independent.... you're in the bloody EU.:O:

Have a good one.:rock:

LOL :)

[August]

Happy Independence Day Finland. May you always have reason to celebrate it. :salute:

[mookiemookie]

Happy Independance Day!

[Sailor Steve]

:rock: :()1:

[AVGWarhawk]

:yeah:

[Lionclaw]

:salute:

[Betonov]

There was a time in Victoria 2 I took away your celebration :O:

Happy independence :woot:

[Jimbuna]

There was a time in Victoria 2 I took away your celebration :O:

Happy independence :woot:

Victoria 2 :hmmm:

[Dowly]

Victoria 2 :hmmm:

http://www.victoria2.com/

[Onkel Neal]

Happy Indepedence day, Finland!

[Jimbuna]

My mistook...never heard of it :oops:

[u crank]

Happy Independence Day Finland.

:salute: :salute: :salute:

[TarJak]

But you aren't independent.... you're in the bloody EU.:O:

Have a good one.:rock:

So its happy interdependence day then?:hmmm:

Have a good one either way.:woot:

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

But you aren't independent.... you're in the bloody EU.:O:

Have a good one.:rock:As long as they don't threaten our access to Koskenkorva and sauna I don't see major issues. :D

If they do... :stare:

[Jimbuna]

As long as they don't threaten our access to Koskenkorva and sauna I don't see major issues. :D

If they do... :stare:

SINK EM ALL!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[Cybermat47]

Are you referring to the sci-fi movie starring Jeff Goldblum, or is this the anniversary of the Fins kicking the bums of 23,000,000,000 Soviets armed only with a Frying Pan?

[Dowly]

Are you referring to the sci-fi movie starring Jeff Goldblum, or is this the anniversary of the Fins kicking the bums of 23,000,000,000 Soviets armed only with a Frying Pan?

It was 23,000,000,001 Soviets. :O:

BTW, the movie "Talvisota" (=Winter War) theatrical version is on youtube with english subtitles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXaSPn7JBfM

Very good movie if you ask me, realistic and no silly romantic stuff. :salute:

Love the music in the title sequence. :rock:

[Cybermat47]

no silly romantic stuff.

From the look of your sig, you quite like this 'romantic stuff' :D

Oh, and I think I'll watch that movie.

[Hottentot]

BTW, the movie "Talvisota" (=Winter War) theatrical version is on youtube with english subtitles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXaSPn7JBfM

So is the (less common) 1985 version of The Unknown Soldier (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39U4-y6QMgk). The 1955 version has been uploaded too, but it doesn't have subtitles.

As far as movies go, I haven't ever really understood why on every independence day we show on TV the 1955 version of a movie depicting the Continuation War and not a movie depicting the Winter War.

If we absolutely have to show a movie of either, I mean: another thing I have never understood is why the independence day seems to be an exclusive war commemoration day, as if there wasn't anything else to talk about in the history of independent Finland. And why it has to be so stupidly gloomy too? We are celebrating independence by remembering all the things that sucked in our history? I'm all for respecting the veterans and remembering the wars (the collective myths related to them not so much) but can't we do something else too?

(And no, following the president's party and gossiping about the clothes of the guests doesn't count. :O:)

[TarJak]

Are you referring to the sci-fi movie starring Jeff Goldblum, or is this the anniversary of the Fins kicking the bums of 23,000,000,000 Soviets armed only with a Frying Pan?

It was actually a frying pan in one hand an an empty viina bottle in the other.

[Hottentot]

It was actually a frying pan in one hand an an empty viina bottle in the other.

Hate to rain on your parade, guys, but it was the French and the Brits (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-British_plans_for_intervention_in_the_Winter_War#F urther_Allied_proposals_and_their_effect_on_peace_ negotiations).

[HunterICX]

Have a good one :woot:

HunterICX