Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

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+15 °C, Spanish wear caps, gloves and winter coats, Finns are sunbathing.
+10 °C, French desperately try to get their central heating on. Finns plant flowers.
+5 °C, Italian cars won't start. Finns drive with convertibles.
0 °C, Pure water freezes. Water in river Vantaa thickens a bit.
−5 °C, First people are found frozen in California. Finnish midsummer festival ends.
−10 °C, Scottish turn the heat on in their houses. Finns start to use long-sleeve shirts.
−20 °C, Swedes stay indoors. Finns are having last barbeque before winter.
−30 °C, Half of the Greek people have frozen to death. Finns start to dry their laundry indoors.
−50 °C, Polar bears evacuate North Pole. Finnish army starts it's winter training.
−70 °C, Siberian people are moving to Moscow. Finns are furious since the Koskenkorva booze can't be stored outdoors anymore.
−273 °C, Absolute zero. Finns admit that it is quite cold outside.
−300 °C, Hell freezes over. Finland wins the football World Cup.

My wife (pre-married state) was like the french. Now she is somewhere between the scots and the swedes. If I can get here to winter training, we'll be good.


Hyvää Itsenäisyyspäivää - Happy Independence day

On December 6th Finns celebrate their Declaration of Independence. In 1917 they took advantage of the events of WWI and the Russian revolution to break away from the Russian Empire. Just in case you are ever asked.

 

You do know it's from an old, swedish porno from the 60's right?

 

By the way, who needs hot running water anyway.
Not us Finns!

 

Fin : "Fookin Insane Numpties". LOL

in the interest of the thread:

 

I think the woolly mammoths are pretty safe

I like the highly technical definition of an atlatl

For those who wish to have a go at making their own atlatl and darts....check out the .pdf file at the following web address:

http://cdn.makezine.com/make/12/MAKE12_Atlatl.pdf

the website has a number of interesting instructibles for a broad range of projects.