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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."