Mita kuuluu?? Any Finns out there?
Jan 17th 2005, 8:52 pm
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Mita kuuluu?? Any Finns out there?
Any Finns out there in the LA area? Just curious since my other half is from Finland. What about any other Brits who's spouse/girlfreind etc is Finnish?
Jan 17th 2005, 9:25 pm
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Re: Mita kuuluu?? Any Finns out there?
No help to you at all but there's a shed load of Finns where I live, well actually in Pigeon Cove which is part of Rockport. Half my inlaw family are Finnish.
Jan 17th 2005, 9:29 pm
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Re: Mita kuuluu?? Any Finns out there?
Originally Posted by sibsie
No help to you at all but there's a shed load of Finns where I live, well actually in Pigeon Cove which is part of Rockport. Half my inlaw family are Finnish.
Are they Finns or Finnish-Americans?
Jan 17th 2005, 9:34 pm
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Re: Mita kuuluu?? Any Finns out there?
Syllk...his missus if Finnish I believe...and in LA, I believe...
Jan 17th 2005, 9:39 pm
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Originally Posted by Bob
Syllk...his missus if Finnish I believe...and in LA, I believe...
Jan 17th 2005, 10:07 pm
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Originally Posted by tomelina
Thanks Bob. I'll PM him.
Jan 17th 2005, 10:37 pm
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Originally Posted by tomelina
Is that why you have the horsemeat thing at the bottom of your name?
Are they Finns or Finnish-Americans?
Are they Finns or Finnish-Americans?
My grandmother in law is off the boat Finnish and it runs down from there.
Jan 17th 2005, 10:40 pm
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Originally Posted by sibsie
I have the horsemeat thing because I run a very small non profit horse rescue..
My grandmother in law is off the boat Finnish and it runs down from there.
My grandmother in law is off the boat Finnish and it runs down from there.
Jan 17th 2005, 11:14 pm
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Originally Posted by tomelina
Oh right, where from in Finland? Elina was born in Turkuu but raised in Soumenlinna, the little fortress island just off Helsinki.
Turkuu is the city the Finns make jokes about, if you are from Turkuu you are mocked as hillbilly. The rest of the time they hate the swedes, which is strange as their independence day is from the Russians and not the Swedes. The big thing on their independance day is to watch the President eat?
I love Finland, it is most definatly europes best kept secret.
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Jan 17th 2005, 11:28 pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick
Moi,
Turkuu is the city the Finns make jokes about, if you are from Turkuu you are mocked as hillbilly. The rest of the time they hate the swedes, which is strange as their independence day is from the Russians and not the Swedes. The big thing on their independance day is to watch the President eat?
I love Finland, it is most definatly europes best kept secret.
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Turkuu is the city the Finns make jokes about, if you are from Turkuu you are mocked as hillbilly. The rest of the time they hate the swedes, which is strange as their independence day is from the Russians and not the Swedes. The big thing on their independance day is to watch the President eat?
I love Finland, it is most definatly europes best kept secret.
Moi Moi
Patrick
I think the Swedish thing is like the English/Irish thing, a love/hate relationship.
They also drink vodka like the Russians, freeze to death on their way home in a drunken stupor or stab each other .
There was a piece on the CBS show '60 minutes' approx. 5 years ago about the Finnish tango and how shy the Finns are. She is still trying to live that down.
