[PeeDster]

Originally Posted by Maxwell

The only experience i have of Finland was we had this Finnish kid in school who would always get this liquorice sent over called '****** Lickers'. Cant find any evidence of them existing online though.

edit: and yes, that is the N-word in the astrex's.

they do exist i think... i recall a similar experience.

[PeeDster]

Originally Posted by deadkidsean

My grandma gave me an heirloom yesterday. A Romanian cigarette box from 1950 (with cigarettes in it!) and it's gorgeous.

that is awesome! can you take a photo of it? i'd love to see it.

[kafe]

Originally Posted by Alex Djaferis

Yeah it isn't in the same language "tree" you're absolutely right, I was being more geographical. I think Finnish is from an Uralic background (siberia/lapland) and Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic etc is North Germanic.

Correct! Wish I knew some of the sami language, my grandma is 1/2 sami (I blame my paleness on that side of the family).

Originally Posted by Maxwell

The only experience i have of Finland was we had this Finnish kid in school who would always get this liquorice sent over called '****** Lickers'. Cant find any evidence of them existing online though.

edit: and yes, that is the N-word in the astrex's.

Finnish people are so weird.

[PeeDster]

Originally Posted by kafe

Correct! Wish I knew some of the sami language, my grandma is 1/2 sami (I blame my paleness on that side of the family).



Finnish people are so weird.

There is so much truth in that it's freaky. I would usually never dare to say that about a people in general...but Finnish people are incredibly odd most of the time.

[kafe]

Originally Posted by deadkidsean

How much time would I have to spend in Sweden to have Jens' accent? I want to sound like he does when he speaks English!

You might be able to fake an accent like that after maybe 2 years. I probably sound like him when I speak English...

[kafe]

Originally Posted by Alex Djaferis

There is so much truth in that it's freaky. I would usually never dare to say that about a people in general...but Finnish people are incredibly odd most of the time.

I know! I try not to do that either, but they are weird. We had a guy from Finland in our class for like 2 weeks, I caught him sitting alone in a classroom listening and singing along to this song:

They're basically slaughtering the Swedish language!

[Maxwell]

Originally Posted by kafe

You might be able to fake an accent like that after maybe 2 years. I probably sound like him when I speak English...

you do have quite a deep voice actually.

[PeeDster]

Originally Posted by kafe

I know! I try not to do that either, but they are weird. We had a guy from Finland in our class for like 2 weeks, I caught him sitting alone in a classroom listening and singing along to this song:

They're basically slaughtering the Swedish language!

lolll

[kafe]

Originally Posted by deadkidsean

Two years in Sweden sounds like a dream come true. I'll have to save my money for quite awhile, though -- your standard of living is crazy. And yes, I know you probably do, and I probably would enjoy that greatly!

Hahaha I know, being abroad is awesome, everything is so cheap. I know you would, but I honestly get so insecure about it, wish I had a really cool British accent.

Originally Posted by Maxwell

you do have quite a deep voice actually.

Too mean.

[mps]

That Tom Gabel thing is kinda weird...

[Kyle Huntington]

Against Me guy's news is great, never been a fan of the band or listened much at all but good for him. Must be a great weight off his life to finally come out and say that/do that. More power to the love he and his wife have too, must be huge.

Originally Posted by Deadbolt23

Eurokids, if you could become instantly fluent in one extra language, which would you pick?

Definitely Spanish or Japanese. I wish I knew more languages, I just don't have enough self-discipline to teach myself at this stage.

Originally Posted by deadkidsean

My grandma gave me an heirloom yesterday. A Romanian cigarette box from 1950 (with cigarettes in it!) and it's gorgeous.

This sounds amazing, also want to see pictures.

[luckykaruba]

I want to get conpletely fluent in Spanish. Plus since I don't use it everyday I feel like I'm slowly losing it which makes me really sad.

[mps]

Originally Posted by Kyle Huntington

Against Me guy's news is great, never been a fan of the band or listened much at all but good for him. Must be a great weight off his life to finally come out and say that/do that. More power to the love he and his wife have too, must be huge.

Yeah, agree. But still, just was a bit bizarre seeing a story like that come up in my news feed. Stranger things have happened I suppose...

[allelish]

Originally Posted by lew_1987

Good stuff man. Bit of both, definitely a lads' holiday, but want to make sure we do some more cultural/historical type things as we didn't on our last trip.

Got any tips/advice/recommendations?

Sorry for the lateness, how did it go? Did you go to Auschwitz/Birkenau?

[Kyle Huntington]

I'm taking over the "Thursday Discussion" on the homepage tomorrow from Jason with a topic, so if all of you guys could get in there when it goes up and add your thoughts/choices on the subject I'd really appreciate it otherwise it could fall totally on its face.

<3