Land of thousands of lakes...

[marviner]

Well


I've been promoting Finland as much as I can (and there's nobody to deny that fact so I decided to start up a new thread for pretty much that reason only. Therefore that leaves nobody to rant about it, am I right And I promise to stay within this thread, at least when it comes to promoting Finland


I, personally, of course hope that you fellow americans (and other nationalities as well) join me in discussion and give me some insights and thoughts. I always love to hear about what you think about my puny videos etc

To be perfectly honest, I guess I've been pretty much a jerk and driving you all mad by pushing my national pride all over you....
But hey, Finland is such a small country so I hope you understand. All we he have is our national pride. We are small all right, I got it, but you know what? We also have some good things going! Really? Oh yea we do!

Let's look for some of those....

 

[marviner]

Here's a longer and more evident explanation, why Finnish education system is (at least at the moment) best in the world. We were never aiming for that, but I guess sometimes it just happens - as Pasi explains:

 

[marviner]

Some Finnish rock. Those guys used to gig with mötley crew in the 80's

 

[marviner]

Finland won the 2011 ice hockey world championship gold medal. Along the way we met Russia in the semi-finals. The goal which broke the mighty Team Russia's back was this - performed by Mikael Granlund (Plays nowadays in NHL Minnesota Wild):

 

[marviner]

Here's some Finnish landscape in summertime, accompanied with one of the most famous Finnish modern pieces of music....

 

[marviner]

We Finnish people are quite familiar with musical instruments. We are very musical. I myself play guitar - or have been playing 22 years now. Almost everybody I know play some instrument or sing. It's part of our education. Anyways, here is some amateur music from Finland (Actually quite nice - I must say):

 

[marviner]

Here's my contribution

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[marviner]

More of Finnish summertime landscape, with Irish music performed by Finnish band called Nightwish:

 

[marviner]

Metal from Finland. Incoming:

 

[marviner]

And here's some more angry Finnish metal. Some of the lyrics go like - "I do not always know what I like, but I sure as hell - know what I hate"

 

[Bovinia]

I enjoy your videos and your Finnish pride Marv!

 

[sabre66]

I used to work with a Finnish girl she had the right amount of attitude brains and looks ...........................................................................Whoa gotta stop day dreaming. I love Finnish metal. One day I would like to visit your fine country.

 

[mistinthewoods]

I've seen a couple crazy Finnish movies lately that I enjoyed (Strange Exports and Troll Hunter). At least I think I enjoyed them, pretty strange.
Totally don't get the fascination with bad metal though. No offense intended, I've just never understood the attraction.

 

[marviner]

Mist, I think the movie you are referring to is the one called "Rare Exports" am I right? The weird Christmas story? If so, I agree - it's a pretty strange one, although quite funny also

When it comes to heavy metal music, well it's one of those things what you either love or hate. There's usually no middle ground. But that's all right, I don't mind

Btw, not everyone in Finland is a truly devoted metal head. Many of them just take it as a part of our culture, even thou statistically we have a fairly big audience who's really going for it. I guess it helps to appreciate and/or like metal music if one has been constantly influenced by it over the years - like me for instance I dunno... potatoes,potatos...big deal

 

[marviner]

Anthony Bourdain visits Finland (and takes it to extreme level).

[Viewer Discretion Is Advised]

 

[marviner]

To make sure, that people don't get wrong ideas....For those, who think that Finnish sauna experience always includes that "sucking out of bad blood" thing, I have pleasant news - it doesn't. It really does not. It's very rare indeed. To my knowledge, there are only couple of places in Finland where that kind of activity is even an option - and btw it's always an option (duh ) - so no need to worry.

So I guess Anthony is just doing it for the sake of the good TV-show, or whatever. I, personally, haven't seen such a sauna with that option in my whole life - so far. And I'm 40 yrs old...

 

[Bovinia]

Hey Marv!! I love his show but I don't get the Travel Channel anymore.

 

[marviner]

Hi Bov,

That's too bad, but no worries - we can watch those from youtube (or related sources )whenever we like Doesn't beat live shows, but better than nothing, ay?

 

[marviner]

That Anthony Bourdain's Finland visit gives an impression that most of the native Finns are drunk all the time. Well, not exactly true (as you might have guessed already)

The thing is, that this country could not possibly be amongst the top performing countries in education and technology if we were wasted all the time.

Well, to be honest. We like to work hard and party hard. When it's time to work, we work - and when it's time to party...you know the deal That's how we roll. And in these freezing conditions - who wouldn't?

 

[Wharf Rat]

Not to worry Marv, Bourdain likes to drink heavily and finds others like him Every country he visits Does make good TV