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Op dinsdag 8 mei 2007 08:34 schreef Bosbeetle het volgende:
fotos van 5 mei te posten

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Op woensdag 9 mei 2007 20:50 schreef Bosbeetle het volgende:
Mooi icoon SW

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2007 09:54 schreef Bosbeetle het volgende:

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Goed idee wat is het woord van vandaag ?

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I'm sure if you asked a hundred people in Finland "What makes the Finns so special?", at least half of them would mention a thing called sisu.
Sisu is something Finns are really proud of. They have even named a car brand and a brand of throat pastilles after it. Sisu is a key word of the Finnish language. It's really difficult to translate: stamina, balls, putting-up with something, toughness, gritting your teeth... Something along those lines, maybe.
Sisu is magcal, it's a force that takes over and empowers its carrier with the ability to perform beyond human capabilities.
It's a non-aggressive, rather passive, introvert thing: Finns don't usually invade other countries (unless they're really drunk, of course), but they are the fiercest imaginable defenders.
Ask a hundred- year- old Finn how he or she's done it and they'll say "with sisu". Ask how Finland managed to get out of WW II relatively unscathed, and they'll mention sisu (maybe it was also because they managed to swap sides shortly before the war ended...). Ask them why anyone would voluntarily ski 50 kilometres on a Sunday afternoon in minus thirty degrees - it's the sisu that makes them do it.
Sisu is spending your entire summer in the forest in pouring rain, loving every second of it. Sisu is paying five euros for a domestic cucumber because it was grown in extreme conditions, providing jobs for your people above the arctic circle. Sisu is falling on your face during a 10 000 m Olympic final and finishing with a new world record. Sisu is to stay in the sauna just a little bit longer than all the others and maintain a relaxed facial expression even if it's just for oneself. (...)
Sisu is much like a turbo charger that kicks in when the going gets tough: In order to evoke it, you have to put the Finns against the wall, corner them, put them in a hopeless situation. First they'll go all white and silent, then they'll pump themselves up with that mythological force that enables them to endure the unendurable and tolerate the intolerable.
If you have an aggressive personality, give yourself a practical demonstration of sisu. I suggest a weekend night. Pick a fight with a Finn and beat him up for hours - chances are he won't budge, he won't move, he will just stare at you with a grim smile. And finally, when you're knuckles are sore and you can't lift your tired fists anymore, he'll say: "Gotcha!"
That's sisu.

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2007 12:16 schreef Zwansen het volgende:
Weber, die vlag...

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2007 12:54 schreef SuperWeber het volgende:

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Wat is er mis mee??

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2007 12:57 schreef Zwansen het volgende:

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Niks, maar wat is er mis met de NL'se vlag?

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2007 15:13 schreef Bosbeetle het volgende:

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heb je die al gedownload weber !

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2007 11:50 schreef Bosbeetle het volgende:
Weber wat is het woord van vandaag ?

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(...) Even the kids have interiorized the fact that alcohol is an existential part of the Finnish culture, like the aurora borealis, the sauna, and icehockey. Getting drunk is the national way of relaxing, every Finn's God given right and duty, every man's and every woman's. Raskas elämä, raskaat huvit - Heavy lifestyle, heavy fun.
Drinking with Finns is always an experience. While you just get drunk - first a little tipsy, then blurred, then tired - your Finnish friends' personalities change completely. It's Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde after just half a bottle of luke-warm Koskenkorva, Finlands's most popular vodka brand.
The shy engineer turns aggressive asshole, the uptight school snurse naughty nymphomaniac, the macho bodybuilder senntimetal sob, staining your shirt with his tears...
Don't you just love the effect alcohol has on them? They really know how to have a good time. And the next morning they'll all infallibly tell you that they don't remember a thing. That's part of the game. Like Catholics confess their sins and are cleansed, the Finns pay for their sins with a horrible day after, and thus regain a sublime state of original innocence. Or as Simo Frangen, a famous TV-comedian puts it: "We Finns don't drink because we want to get drunk, we drink because we enjoy a good hangover."

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2007 13:52 schreef Zwansen het volgende:
Fins lijkt toch veel op Hongaars? Ik dacht dat het soort van verwante talen waren...

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2007 14:01 schreef Cynic het volgende:

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Je kan ze wel samen studeren, het is Finoegrische talen.

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Op zondag 25 maart 2007 13:26 schreef StonedKinG het volgende:
Paarse_paashaas en nog zo;'n compagnon van hem, iets met bessen of fruit ofzo Of het was een kloon van hem

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Perkele is a name from Finnish mythology, a name imported from the Baltic for the high god Ukko that through the Christian church's influence acquired the meaning of devil [1]. Perkele is probably the most well-known Finnish swearword outside of Finland. When used for expressing one's miscontent or frustration, perkele often suggests that the sayer is determined to solve the problem, even if it will be difficult. An often used replacement word, and a slightly milder version for it is perhana. Some other, less popular variations include perkules, perskuta or perskuta rallaa. Perkele is probably best know outside Finland from the term Management by perkele, originally Swedish term describing Finnish business management style.

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Management by perkele is originally a Swedish expression for a Finnish leadership approach that, according to its proponents, takes required actions in a quick and swift way, instead of a prolonged pondering of all possible alternative approaches and points of view before actually getting anything done. This is specifically contrasted to the Swedish consensus decision-making, where the manager makes sure that everyone involved has been heard before decisions are taken.

The name is derived from the well-known Finnish swear word Perkele.

Contrary to its original meaning, the expression is also occasionally used when describing old Finnish Army-style authoritarian leadership (which leaves no leeway for dissidence or deviant opinions and requires blind obedience). It implies that any deviant opinions are countered with an argumentum ad baculum by management. The flip side of this management approach is that it creates an atmosphere of efficiency and straightforwardness; everyone knows what he or she is supposed to do. Tasks and goals can be achieved more swiftly and efficiently than in a non-authoritarian atmosphere, and any problematic situations can simply be handled without first discussing them.

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Op maandag 14 mei 2007 11:31 schreef Bosbeetle het volgende:

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*ochtend

alleen voor fruit kom ik eruit

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Op dinsdag 15 mei 2007 09:10 schreef Bosbeetle het volgende:
Ik zat vandaag zowaar naast SM in de bus gezellig. Hij was naar Keith Caputo geweest.

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Lappi in Finnish and Sami, Lappland in Swedish) is one of the Provinces of Finland. The municipalities in the province cooperate in a Regional Council, which also makes it the Region of Lapland. It borders the Province of Oulu and the Region of North Ostrobothnia in the south. It also borders to the Gulf of Bothnia, Norrbotten County in Sweden, Finnmark County in Norway and to Murmansk Oblast in Russia. In some parts of the world, particularly Britain and Finland itself, it is considered the traditional home of Santa Claus. Province of Lapland is also the only region in northern Europe whose official English name is "Lapland". (...)

Population:
Lapland is home only to about 3.6% of the Finnish population, and is by far the least densely populated area in the country. The biggest towns in the Finnish Lapland are Rovaniemi (the provincial capital), Kemi, and Tornio. Of the more than 185 000 inhabitants, less than 5% are Sami people.

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In Finland, wild reindeer were hunted for centuries. Eventually, animals were taken into captivity for breeding, and reindeer became semi-domesticated livestock. Nowadays, the only surviving original species of wild reindeer in Europe are found in Norway.

The Finnish reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) has been semi-domesticated from the wild mountain reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus), a subspecies of the wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus). Another subspecies of the wild reindeer is the wild forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus). It was common throughout Finland until the end of 19th century, when it became extinct, probably because of uncontrolled hunting. New small populations reappeared in the 1950s, when some wild forest reindeer moved to Finland across the border from the then Soviet Union.

Since the semi-domesticated reindeer are allowed to graze freely outdoors, wild reindeer are prone to mix with them. Various measures have been taken in order to prevent crossbreeding and preserve the genetic identity of the wild reindeer. These measures include the building of deer fences and setting up protected areas, among other things.

In Finland, reindeer herding used to be an important mean of livelihood, especially among the indigenous Sámi people of Finnish Lapland. However, nowadays it hardly ever is the main income to the reindeer owners.

Unlike in other countries where it is practised, reindeer herding in Finland is not a right exclusive to the Sámi only. According to the Reindeer Husbandry Act, any citizen of a country belonging to the European Economic Area residing permanently in a reindeer husbandry area may own reindeer.

The total amount of reindeer is strictly regulated by the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, because there is only a limited amount of grazing areas especially reserved for reindeer herding.

In Finland, the reindeer gain most of their feed in the wild, and may therefore be regarded as semi-domesticated animals. Although the herds move freely, they are still guarded from a distance with the help of reindeer dogs and snowmobiles and protected against predators like the wolverine, bear, wolf and lynx.

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Op woensdag 16 mei 2007 19:43 schreef Nouk het volgende:
Ik ben er weer!