Is Finland the greatest country ever?

There's lots of great Finnish design: Marimekko, Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, etc.

can't mess with 20th century finnish classical

My order of Alamaailman Vasarat's Käärmelautakunta arrived today and destroyed me. I am in awe.

Those little speckles of biography, along with the songs, screams to me that they must have been superstars; I expect the reality is not quite so exciting as what I'm imagining, but I'm interested nonetheless.

Also I was told there that the Russians took a lot of their land in the North part of the country and still hold it today. Kind of a sore spot.

Knowing the people here, I'd say they're more interested in good mainstream rap than boring undie like Murmur. Though I didn't think much of Kapasiteettiyksikkö either, until I heard their latest LP, which is really dope.

"I'm from fucking FINLAND."

only finnish person i've ever "met."

http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/aqkorhon/tuulipukujuhla11.jpg

It has to be, it hosts dog game shows like this and the golden retriever is a hero:

http://jezebel.com/we-are-all-this-glden-retriever-spectacularly-bombing-a-1660886189/

answer = yes.

that said, bh used to get so embarrassed by gubbins like this.

the wife throwing competition that used to get media attention every year, and other such things, used to make the country look so very different to her homeland that she missed.

whereas from my 13 months of living there, these selected insights are often pretty spot on.

i firmly believe that no other country could produce a band/act quite like leningrad cowboys.

are Demilich from Finland? they're great.......

also, Aransi Pazuzu (sp?)... they're pretty good too......

the helsinki airport is so dope yall. there's a reading room and book exchange that is totally empty where u can just post up for say 7 or 8 hours and chill out.

last time we were in helstinki airport, was just as they re-opened it had been closed for a week after the big icelandic volcano chaos a few years back.

me and my gang were amongst the first people in hoping to catch a plane back to england having had many flights cancelled etc.

an empty airport is a weird thing.

explain yourself, tuomas

http://gawker.com/helsinki-cathedral-under-siege-by-1-000-life-size-cutou-1710357891

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYNmGHhIJ8k

https://brightside.me/wonder-curiosities/finland-will-become-the-first-country-in-the-world-to-get-rid-of-all-school-subjects-259910/

Instead of individual subjects, students will study events and phenomena in an interdisciplinary format. For example, the Second World War will be examined from the perspective of history, geography, and math. And by taking the course ”Working in a Cafe," students will absorb a whole body of knowledge about the English language, economics, and communication skills.